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Loriene Roy

Loriene Roy is Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, where she joined the faculty in 1987. She received a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MLS from the University of Arizona. She co-edited Library and Information Studies Education in the United States (London, Mansell, 1998) and Getting Libraries the Credit They Deserve: A Festschrift in Honor of Marvin H. Scilken (Lanham, MD, Scarecrow, 2003) and published over 100 articles, chapters, documents, and short stories. She has given over 250 formal presentations in the United States and internationally.

She currently serves on the advisory boards or steering committees for the International Children's Digital Library, WebJunction, the Sequoyah Research Center, the Joint Conference for Librarians of Color 2006, and El Dia de Los Ninos/El Dia de Los Libros.. She is the Director and Founder of "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything," a national reading club for Native Children. She is Principal Investigator for Honoring Generations, a scholarship program for Native students specializing in tribal librarianship, funded through the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. She is currently a Councilor-at-Large for the American Library Association and has served on ALA Committees and ALA Division Committees for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), Public Library Association (PLA), and Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). Dr. Roy is Anishinabe (Ojibwe) and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation (Pembina Band).  She has received a number of honors including her selection by Library Journal as a 2005 "Mover & Shaker."  Dr. Roy is a Candidate for ALA President 2007-2008.

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