Dr. Carol Collier Kuhlthau
Senior Research Consultant

Professor in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Dr. Kuhlthau is internationally recognized for her ground-breaking research on the Information Search Process, published in her book: Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services (Greenwood Press, 1993).

Her work is among conceptualizations most often employed by library and information science researchers and highly cited by library and information science faculty and professionals.

Her research interests center around inquiry learning and the information age school, school reform, the cognitive and affective aspects of information seeking and use, and zones of intervention for library and information services.

Professor Kuhlthau is a recipient of a number of prestigious awards, including:

• American Society of Information Science and Technology, SIG USE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research, 2006.
• Association for Library and Information Science Education Award for Professional Contribution to Library and Information Science Education, 2004.
• NJASL has honored Professor Kuhlthau for her contribution to school librarianship in NJ with lifetime membership
• Professor Kuhlthau is currently finalizing her new book Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century, together with Leslie Maniotes and Ann Caspari. The book will be published by Libraries Unlimited 2007.
• Professor Kuhlthau will give the Lazerow Lecture at the University of Kentucky on April 2, 2007.

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Dr. Ross J. Todd
Director

Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Dr. Todd brings CISSL extensive international experience. His primary teaching and research interests focus on adolescent information seeking and use. The research is multi-faceted, and includes:

Cognitive information utilization and knowledge construction
How school libraries and librarians more effectively empower student learning
Information and critical literacies with emphasis on digital environments
Building schools as effective information sharing communities
He has published more than 100 papers and book chapters and has been an invited speaker at many international conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Association of School Librarianship journal School Libraries Worldwide.

• Excellence in Teaching, University of Technology, Sydney (1993)
• Apple Teaching Fellow (1995)
• John Hirst Award of the Australian School Library association (1999)

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Dr. Carol Gordon
Co-Director

Joining the faculty at Rutgers' Department of Library and Information Science in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies is coming home, again, for Dr Carol Gordon. She is a native New Yorker who grew up on Staten Island. After earning a BA at Notre Dame College, St. John's University, Dr. Gordon taught English, Social Studies, and Adult Education at the high school from which she graduated. During this time she received a Masters degree in Comparative Literature and Secondary Education at Richmond College, The City University of New York and became the mother of two children.

When she moved to Michigan with her family, she worked as a "roving teacher" in a high school completion program for homebound adults. After earning a Masters in Library Science from Western Michigan she became a secondary school li brary media specialist. Her first homecoming to the Northeast found her on Cape Cod, where she was a library media specialist for the town of Barnstable. When her children left for college in Michigan, she moved to Frankfurt, Germany where she served as Director of Libraries and Information Services at the Frankfurt International School and participated in an exchange with the American School in London before going on to earn a doctorate in Education from Boston University. Returning from Europe for her second homecoming, she became the Head of the Pickering Educational Resources Library at Boston University and was appointed to the faculty of the School of Education as an Associate Professor. During the last few years of her tenure at the university she worked as the Head Librarian at Barnstable High School, where she acquired lots of experience applying research to practice.

Dr. Gordon maintains a research agenda and an international speaking and consulting program. She has consulted in the areas of learning in school libraries, information technology, and curriculum in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Caribbean. She is the author of two books: Information Literacy in Action and Privacy in the 21st Century, and numerous journal articles. She has served on the Executive Board and the Executive Committee of the American Association of School Librarians and is past-President of the New England Educational Media Association. Her research interests include information literacy instruction, the searching behavior of adolescents, library management and program evaluation, action research, and the role of the school librarian.

She is happy to be home, again, where, in quieter moments out of Rutgers, she is looking forward to pursuing her interests in opera, art, and travel.

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