People

Alison J. Head, Director and Principal Investigator

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Alison Head, Ph.D., is Project Information Literacy's Executive Director and Lead Researcher. She is also a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the University of Washington's Information School. She led the 2007 exploratory information literacy study, which was a forerunner to Project Information Literacy. The study was conducted at Saint Mary's College of California (2007), where Head taught as the Disney Visiting Professor in New Media for 10 years.

Head earned her Ph.D. and MLS from U.C. Berkeley in Library and Information Science and was a Visiting Scholar, studying Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University. From 2008 through July 2012, she co-directed PIL with Michael B. Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus and Professor in the University of Washington's Information School.

Board of Trustees

PIL counts on the expertise of its board members who have generously given their time, support, suggestions, and inspiration.

Susan Gilroy is Librarian for Undergraduate Programs for Writing, Lamont and Widener Libraries, Harvard College.

Peter Morville is a highly regarded user experience consultant, librarian, and pioneer of information architecture.

David Nasatir is a Visiting Professor in U.C. Berkeley's Sociology Department, an experienced statistician, expert in research design, and a senior researcher on the PIL study.

Karen Schneider is the University Librarian at Holy Names University, who also writes about the impact of technology on libraries in her blog, Free Range Librarian.

Lee Rainie is the Founder and Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, an ongoing research study since 2000 about the impact of the Internet on society.