Drexel College of Computing & Informatics Associate Professor Denise Agosto Earns OCLC/ALISE Award

 

PHILADELPHIA (January 24, 2014) – Denise E. Agosto, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Computing & Informatics at Drexel University, is the recipient of the 2014 OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant award for her project titled “A New Role for Libraries: Promoting Teens' Safety and Security in the Digital Age.” Agosto was recognized at an awards reception held at the 2014 ALISE Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pa. on Jan. 23.

 

The award, sponsored by OCLC Research and ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education), is offered in recognition of the importance of research to the advancement of librarianship and information science.

 

The grant program’s goal is to promote independent research, particularly in helping to integrate new technologies that offer innovative approaches, and research that contributes to a better understanding of the information environment and user expectations and behaviors. Grant awards range up to $15,000 and support one-year research projects.

 

Agosto’s current research focuses on youths’ use of social media and the implications for public and school library services. She has published more than 100 articles, book chapters, and other scholarly items based on her research, as well as two books. 

 

Agosto has also won numerous teaching and research awards. Most recently, she was the recipient of the 2011 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence in the Field of Library & Information Science, and the 2010 ASIS&T SIG USE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper, jointly with June Abbas, associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

 

She is the editor of YALSA’s Journal of Research on Libraries & Young Adults and the recipient of several federal and association grants to support her work, including a 2011-2014 research grant entitled “Libraries and the Social Web: Developing the Next Generation of Youth Information Services,” funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

 

Agosto holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers’ School of Information, Communication & library Studies and an MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin’s Graduate School of Library & Information Science.

 

View a list of previous recipients and read their final papers and presentations at: www.oclc.org/research/grants/awarded.htm.

 

About the College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University

Drexel University’s new College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), founded in 2013, serves as a hub for multi-disciplinary computing and informatics activities by uniting the faculty, professional staff, and students from Drexel’s former College of Information Science and Technology (the iSchool), the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and the Department of Computing and Security Technology in Goodwin College of Professional Studies. CCI comprises 80 faculty members, including 11 recipients of prestigious CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation, and approximately 2,200 students in graduate and undergraduate programs. U.S.News & World Report’s 2014 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” ranked Drexel No. 1 in health librarianship, No. 3 in information systems, and No. 6 in digital librarianship. The College is the home to the National Science Foundation’s Center for Visual and Decision Informatics, and is the only NSF center focused on big data analytics. For more information, please visit http://www.drexel.edu/cci.

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