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 Endowed Chair in Information Literacy. She is Vice-President of the National Forum on Information Literacy and Co-Chair of Vanderbilt University’s annual Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute. She is on the editorial board of the journal, Education Libraries 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 from the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University and a Masters in Library Science from the University at Buffalo. Her dissertation examined the contribution of the library to US News & World Report reputational ranking. She is a 2006 Fellow of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Cooperative System Fellows Program and a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.
Past positions include Dean of Library Services at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Director of Vanderbilt’s Peabody Library, and department head and faculty member at the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library. Weiner was the principal investigator for a number of grant-funded projects, including 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. The National Library of Medicine accepted her proposals for three consecutive years to fund the project, “Host Institution for Second-Year Associate Fellow Program.” 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. She has published numerous articles and the book “Health of Native People of North America: A Bibliography and Guide to Resources.”
