Dr. Caroline Haythornthwaite, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Institute 
of Education, University of London (2009-10) and Professor, Graduate 
School of Library and Information Science(GSLIS), University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign has been appointed Director of the School of 
Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British 
Columbia. Dr. Haythornthwaite’s five-year term as Director will begin in 
August, 2010.

Caroline Haythornthwaite is an outstanding scholar with an international 
reputation in multiple research fields: Internet research, 
computer-mediated communication, e-learning, social network analysis and 
social informatics. She was among the first to apply social network 
analysis to the study of online communities and online learning, and she 
has produced seminal work in these areas. She has authored more than 
fifty highly cited book chapters and scholarly articles and has 
co-edited three books. Major publications include The Internet in 
Everyday Life (Blackwell, 2002, with Barry Wellman); Learning, Culture 
and Community in Online Education: Research and Practice (Peter Lang, 
2004, with Michelle M. Kazmer), and the Handbook of E-Learning Research 
(Sage, 2007, with Richard Andrews).

Dr. Haythornthwaite received a B.Sc. in Psychology from Trent 
University, and an M.A. in Psychology, a Masters in Information Systems 
and a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Toronto. She 
is currently at the University of London as the 2009/2010 Leverhulme 
Trust Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy, where 
she is researching, writing, and presenting on /Learning Networks, 
/which encompasses overlapping themes of social networks, computer 
networks, and learning.
A faculty member at GSLIS at the University of Illinois since 1996, Dr. 
Haythornthwaite brings administrative experience and an excellent 
teaching record to SLAIS. She has served as Coordinator of the GSLIS 
undergraduate Minor in Information Technology Studies, Interim Associate 
Dean, Chair of the Doctoral Studies program, and Co-Director of the 
Community Informatics Initiative Research Center.

UBC’s Dean of Arts Dr. Nancy Gallini expressed her confidence in Dr. 
Haythornthwaite’s ability “to strengthen the School by continuing to 
build upon its excellence in research, service, teaching, and graduate 
supervision.” The Dean would like to express her appreciation to Terence 
Eastwood, Professor Emeritus at SLAIS, who will continue to serve as 
Interim Director until August, a position he has filled since July 2009 
when Edie Rasmussen, the former Director, completed her term.

-- 
Luanne Freund
Assistant Professor
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS)
University of British Columbia
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Suite 470- 1961 East Mall, Rm 485
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
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