Heidi Julien

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)

• Allen Smith Visiting Professor; Simmons University; 2024-02-26;
• 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;
• 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;

• Cattlin, J., Given, L. M., & Julien, H. (2026). CoLIS as ‘community of practice’: A study of papers presented at Conceptions of Library and Information Science conferences, 1991-2022. Information Research, 31(1), 169-187.
• Willson, R., Stewart-Robertson, O., Julien, H., & Given, L. (2026). Academic casualisation and precarity: A scoping review. Higher Education Research & Development, 1-23.
• VanScoy, A., Julien, H., & Harding, A. (2024). Information behavior in RIS professional education: Survey and project synthesis. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 65(2), 163-181. https://doi.org/10.3138/jelis-2023-0012
• Latham, D., Gross, M., Julien, H., Warren, F., & Moses, L. (2022). Community college students’ perceptions of their information literacy needs. College & Research Libraries 83(4), 593-609.

• Julien, H. (2025). The impact and legacy of the ISP and Seeking Meaning. In Seeking meaning: A process approach to library and information services, C. C. Kuhlthau. ABC-CLIO. (Invited).

• Julien, H. (2026). Reflections on moving towards a digitally enlightened society. Keynote talk to the iConference, Edinburgh, UK, March 31.;

• Precarity and Information Marginalization: Exploring How Academic Casualization Complicates Workplace Information Practices; Federal Government; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Awarded; (05/01/2021-03/31/2025)

• President, Association for Library and Information Science Education
  Feb 2018-Sep 2019
• Chair, Award of Merit Jury, Association for Information Science and Technology
  Jun 2016-Oct 2016
• President, Canadian Association for Information Science
  Jun 2015-Jun 2016