The LIS Advisory Board provides strategic insight and expert guidance as part of the department's systematic efforts to continuously develop and improve our MSLIS program. The membership of the Board includes representatives from each of our constituency groups – LIS professionals for a wide range of libraries, archives, and information organizations, alumni, current students, adjunct faculty, and full-time faculty – and reflects our diverse and ever-evolving community.
Board Charge
The overarching purpose of the Advisory Board is to:
- Provide the Department of Information Sciences with input on the current and future needs of and trends in the library and information science profession to ensure the MSLIS program remains not only responsive but also proactive.
- Identify opportunities for the department to meet the current and future educational an training goals through its for-credit, non-credit, and extracurricular offerings.
- Recommend new initiatives and degree offerings, to continually improve, refresh, expand, or enhance the program and its educational quality.
- Engage in long-term strategic planning by providing input and advice to library and information science faculty related to its strategic planning initiatives.
- Provide advice, as appropriate, to the department regarding key administrative areas, most notably enrollment, recruitment, program promotion, funding, and technology resources and support.
- Understand the history of library and information science at The Catholic University of America and advise the department on its efforts to advance its mission and the mission of the University.
- Advocate, as appropriate, for the program and its students and faculty in a public capacity.
- Serve as a representative and liaison between the department and the constituent groups represented by indiividaul group members.
Board Recruitment
Interested in being considered for a seat on the LIS Advisory Board? If so, please email us a paragraph-length statement about you and what you'd bring to the board.
Board Members
- Keren Dali, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Inforamtion Sciences
- Nicholas Alexander Brown, Assistant Cheif of the Music Division, Library of Congress
- Steve Connaghan, University Librarian, CUA Libraries
- Trevor Riley, Head, Public Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Sharad Shah, Collection Management Librarian, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
- Julia Taylor, Assistant Director of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
- Barry Trott, Adult Services Consultant, Library Development and Networking Division Library of Virginia