People

Alison J. Head, Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator

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Alison Head is a Research Scientist in University of Washington's Information School and a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Library Innovation Lab (2011-2012). She led the 2007 exploratory information literacy study, which was a forerunner to Project Information Literacy. The study was conducted at Saint Mary's College of California (2007), where Head taught as the Disney Visiting Professor in New Media for 10 years.

Head earned her Ph.D. and MLS from U.C. Berkeley in Library and Information Science and was a Visiting Scholar, studying Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University.

Michael B. Eisenberg, Co-Director and Co-Principal Investigator

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Mike Eisenberg is Dean Emeritus and Professor in the University of Washington's Information School. He is the co-developer of the Big6 Model, the most widely known and widely used approach to teaching information technology skills in the world. Eisenberg conducts research, writes, consults, and lectures frequently on information literacy, information management in learning and teaching, and information and library education.

Eisenberg earned his MLS from SUNY at Albany and his Ph.D. in Information Transfer from the School of Information at Syracuse University.

Advisory Board

Susan Gilroy

Peter Morville

David Nasatir

Karen Schneider

PIL's Advisory Board counts on the expertise of its board members who have generously given their time, support, and ideas:

  • Susan Gilroy is Librarian for Undergraduate Programs for Writing, Lamont and Widener Libraries, Harvard College.
  • Peter Morville is a highly regarded user experience consultant, librarian, and pioneer of information architecture.
  • David Nasatir is a Visiting Professor in U.C. Berkeley's Sociology Department, an experienced statistician, expert in research design, and a senior researcher on the PIL study.
  • Karen Schneider is the Library Director of Cushing Library at Holy Names University, who also writes about the impact of technology on libraries in her blog, Free Range Librarian.