Sharon Weiner
W. Wayne Booker Endowed Chair in Information Literacy
Dr. Weiner is Professor of Library Science and holds the position of W. Wayne Booker Chair in Information Literacy. She is Vice-President of the National Forum on Information Literacy. She is a member of the board of the journals, Practical Academic Librarianship and the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research, and is editor of the column, “Information Literacy Beyond the Library” for the journal, College & Undergraduate Libraries. She has a doctorate in higher education leadership and policy studies from the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University and a Masters in Library Science from the University at Buffalo.
She has been the Dean of Library Services at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Director of Vanderbilt’s Peabody Library, and department head and faculty member in the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library. She was Co-Chair of Vanderbilt University’s annual Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute. Weiner was the principal investigator for a project funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Resources and Services Administration, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and the National Association of County and City Health Officials, “Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals.” That project was awarded $49,994 to train staff in eighteen county health departments to use the Internet to find information pertinent to public health professionals’ work. She was the principal architect of a grant proposal that was awarded $90,000 by the Institute for Museum and Library Services entitled, “Academic Library Leadership Institute Scholarships for Librarians from Underrepresented Groups.” This program provided scholarships to 30 librarians to attend the Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute. She was the Database Coordinator and member of the Advisory Board for the Center for International Rehabilitation Research and Information Exchange, which was funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Dr. Weiner's research interests focus on information literacy and particularly, the organizational and policy aspects.
