Professor of Library and Information Science Denise E. Agosto has been elected president-elect of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
Professor of Library and Information Science Denise Agosto has been elected president-elect of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). She currently serves on the ALISE Board of Directors as secretary/treasurer and will assume the president-elect role at the conclusion of the ALISE Annual Business Meeting on Nov. 18 during the 2026 ALISE Annual Conference in Buffalo, New York.
As she prepares to take on the leadership role, Agosto said the position offers an opportunity to advance the association's mission and highlight the importance of library and information science education at a time of rapid change in the information landscape.
"I will focus my term on promoting innovative ways of teaching students and the public about the vital contributions information professionals make to society. Now that more than half of global web traffic is generated by bots, the human side of information and librarianship is more important than ever. ALISE brings together librarians, archivists, and other information professionals dedicated to teaching people how to find, create, evaluate, share, and preserve information."
A longtime ALISE member, Agosto has held a range of leadership roles in the organization. In her candidate statement, she wrote that she believes strongly in ALISE’s ability to “promote impactful LIS teaching and learning ideas, conversations, and research.”
At SC&I, Agosto studies young people’s use of information and information technologies, the role of social context in shaping youths’ information practices, and public library services. She uses qualitative research methods with young people in public libraries and other informal and formal educational settings to learn about their information behaviors and preferences.
Her work is grounded in a youth-centered approach that positions young people as the experts of their own behaviors and preferences, and in the belief that power and privilege underlie human information practices and the information systems people design to support them.
Agosto has received numerous awards for her teaching and research, including the 2011 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence in the Field of Library and Information Science Education and the 2015 ASIS&T Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher of the Year Award. She was named an ASIS&T Distinguished Member in 2023 and received the ASIS&T SIG-USE Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award in 2018.
Learn more about Denise Agosto and SC&I's Department of Library and Information Science.
