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The School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri is pleased to announce new faculty members! Dr. Sean Goggins The School of Information Science and Learning technologies announces the appointment of Sean P. Goggins, PhD to a tenure track Assistant Professor position starting in Fall, 2013. Dr. Goggins will also have an appointment as core faculty at the MU Informatics Institute. Dr. Goggins comes to Mizzou from Drexel University, where he built a social media and learning analytics research program resulting in 35 peer reviewed publications and over a million dollars in funding from the National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research. While at Drexel, Goggins also helped design a new Bachelor of Science in Informatics Degree, and developed a number of data science and learning analytics focused undergraduate and graduate courses. Dr. Goggins is an active member of an NSF Research Coordination network on digital societies, and has led large workshops on socio-technical systems research and "Big Social Data" at the iConference for five consecutive years. [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Dr. Beth Brendler The School of Information Science & Learning Technologies is pleased to announce the appointment of a new tenure-track faculty member, Beth Brendler to the Library & Information Science Program. Beth will begin Fall 2013 semester. Beth Brendler earned her doctorate at the University of Minnesota, in literacy education with a specialization in children’s and adolescent literature and a secondary program in sociocultural theory. She received her master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin. Before entering her doctoral program, she was a practicing librarian for nine years and headed the youth services department at a public library in Wisconsin. Her teaching interests include youth services in libraries, literacy education, children’s literature, adolescent literature, folklore and fairytales, culturally diverse literature, the history of children’s literature, censorship and intellectual freedom, gender and literacy, race and literacy, sociocultural theory, and critical theory. Her research interests include youth services in libraries, children’s literature, adolescent literature, reader response theory, social media and response to literature, literacy as a social act, literacy in relation to gender, race, and culture, the role of communities of practice in literary response, and the use of critical discourse analysis and conversational analysis to investigate the literary experience. [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>