Advisory Board Member

Troy A. Swanson is Teaching & Learning Librarian and Library Department Chair at Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois. Troy is the author or editor of several books and articles including Knowledge as a Feeling: How Neuroscience and Psychology Impact Human Information Behavior and co-editor of Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think About Information which received the Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award from ARCL’s Instruction Section. His Ph.D. research focused on the management of technology policy in higher education. He served on ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Task Force which issued the Framework for Information Literacy. Over his tenure as a librarian and educator, Troy has won his campuses Master Teacher and Innovation of the Year awards, as well as the Proquest Innovation in College Librarianship award from ACRL. Additionally, he serves as an adjunct faculty member at Dominican University’s School of Information Studies.

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