Kirsten Hostetler – Project Information Literacy

PIL Research Analyst and Contributing Writer, PIL Provocation Series
Associate Director, PIL/BLC Research Academy
Instruction and Outreach Faculty, Central Oregon Community College

Kirsten Hostetler is a researcher with PIL and the Associate Director of the PIL/Boston Library Consortium Research Academy. She is also the Instruction and Outreach Librarian at Central Oregon Community College. Kirsten is the author of the 2021 PIL Provocation Series essay, “The iSchool Equation,” a long-form essay that incisively explores whether iSchools are producing graduates who possess the teaching skills to tackle the growing misinformation problem that many expect them to fix.

Kirsten began working at PIL in 2013 as a research intern while pursuing her MLIS at the University of Washington’s iSchool. Since then, Kirsten has completed her Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Technology at Old Dominion University and joined the PIL research team. She has worked on data visualizations of PIL’s findings for the learning space study and freshmen research study and interviewed participants and created infographics for the lifelong learning study. Kirsten also serves as the web administrator for the PIL site. Kirsten has served in several PIL leadership positions, specifically as the Survey Administrator on PIL’s 2018 news consumption study and the Associate Director for PIL’s 2016 learning spaces study.