Heidi Julien (she/her)

My research and teaching interests focus on digital literacy and information behavior/information practices. I have also taught research methods, management, and marketing. I am a past editor of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, and served on the editorial board of Library & Information Science Research and Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Currently I serve on the editorial boards for the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, Open Information Science, the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, the Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries, and the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. I also serve on the editorial advisory board for Information and Learning Sciences. I am a past President of the Canadian Association for Information Science, and am active in the Association for Information Science & Technology where I served as chair of SIG USE. I am also Past-President of the Association for Library & Information Science Education.

• PhD, University of Western Ontario, London ON, Canada (1997)
• MLIS, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada (1994)
• BEd (with distinction), University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada (1983)

• Canadian Association for Information Science Career Achievement Award; Canadian Association for Information Science; 2023-06-06;
• UB Exceptional Scholar - Sustained Achievement; University at Buffalo; 2023-05-30;
• SIG Publication of the Year; Association for Information Science & Technology; 2022-10-30;
• Distinguished Member; Association for Information Science & Technology; 2021-11-02;
• 2020 Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award; Association for Information Science and Technology, SIG-USE; 2020-10-24;

• Julien, H., Gross, M., & Latham, D. (2022). Teaching and its discontents: How academic librarians are negotiating a complicated role. Journal of Information Literacy, 16(2), 41-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.11645/16.2.3189
• VanScoy, A., Julien, H., & Harding, A. (2022). “Like putting broccoli in a quiche:” Instructors talk about incorporating theory into reference courses. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 63(3), 321-334.
• VanScoy, A., Julien, H., Buckley, A., & Goodell, J. (2022). Theory usage in empirical research in ISIC conference papers (1996-2020). In Proceedings of ISIC: the information behaviour conference, Berlin, Germany, 26-29 September, 2022. Information Research, 27(Special issue), isic2227. https://doi.org/10.47989/irisic2227
• Gross, M., Julien, H., & Latham, D. (2022). Librarian views of the ACRL Framework and the impact of COVID-19 on information literacy instruction in community colleges. Library and Information Science Research 44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101151
• Julien, H., Gerstle, D., Detlor, B., La Rose, T., & Serenko, A. (2022). Digital literacy training in Canada: Defining and measuring success. Library Quarterly 92(1). https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/717233

• Information is power: Digital literacy and misinformation. Keynote address to Information Without Borders Conference. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, February 9.;

• Julien, H., Gross, M., & Latham, D. (2021). Instruction from the margins: Giving voice to community college librarians. Presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, June [online]. Refereed.;
• VanScoy, A., Julien, H., & Harding, A. (2021). Integration of information behavior theory, models and concepts into basic reference courses: A survey. Presented as a juried paper to the annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, Milwaukee, WI, September 21-23 [online]. Refereed;
• Latham, D., Gross, M., & Julien, H. (2020). Information literacy in transition: Self-perceptions of community college students. Presented as a juried paper to the annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, Pittsburgh, PA, October 21-23. [moved online];
• Latham, D., Gross, M., & Julien, H. (2021). “Just the most useful thing ever”: Community college students talk about their information literacy needs. Paper prsented at the Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, March 26, 2021 [online].;

• Conceptions of Expertise Among Librarians through a Gender Lens; Local; UB Gender Institute; Continuing; (01/01/2022-12/31/2023)
• Precarity and Information Marginalization: Exploring How Academic Casualization Complicates Workplace Information Practices; Federal; Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant; Continuing; (07/15/2021-05/31/2024)

• Chair, Steering Committee for the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference
  10/15/2018-09/25/2020
• President, Association for Library and Information Science Education
  02/08/2018-09/26/2019
• Co-chaired Association for Library and Information Science Education Council of Deans, Directors, and Chairs
  06/01/2016-05/31/2017
• Chair, Award of Merit Jury, Association for Information Science and Technology
  06/01/2016-10/31/2016
• President, Canadian Association for Information Science
  06/01/2015-06/03/2016

• Editorial Board; Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
  05/01/2022-04/30/2025
• Editorial Board; Public Library Quarterly
  08/24/2020-08/25/2025
• Editorial Board; Journal of Education for Library and Information Science
  01/01/2020-12/31/2022
• Editorial Board; Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology
  01/01/2020-12/01/2025
• Editorial Advisory Board; Information and Learning Sciences
  01/01/2018-12/01/2025