Director-at-Large, Deborah Barreau
Deborah Barreau is Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park in 1997 and taught at Catholic University in Washington, DC before coming to UNC. Her research interests include personal information management, organizational behavior, and changing roles for information professionals. She teaches courses in human information interaction and organizational behavior at UNC, and enjoys interacting with students at all levels. She won the ASIST/ISI Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 2002.
Deborah has been a member of the association since 1988, joining while she was a systems analyst with Aspen Systems Corporation, and was active in the Potomac Valley Chapter. She is past-chair of SIG-DL and of the Leadership Committee. She has served on juries for the Cretsos Award, the Doctoral Dissertation Award, and chaired the jury for the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 2007. She has reviewed papers and panels, and helped to organize panels, for ASIS&T annual meetings for more than ten years.