Executive Director, Research
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Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., is OCLC Executive Director, Research. She is co-author of the 6th (2017) and 7th (2021) editions of Research Methods in Library and Information Science with Marie L. Radford. Lynn also co-authored the 4th (2004) and 5th (2010) editions of Research Methods for Librarians. She was Chair of the ALA ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Committee and was President of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Lynn received the 2020 Distinguished Alumna Award of the Information School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 2019 ASIS&T Watson Davis Award for Service, and the 2016 ALISE Service Award. She also was awarded the Chair of Excellence position at the Departmento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and collaborated with the faculty on user-centered research. Lynn has received research funding from the IMLS in the US and Jisc and the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK. Prior to joining OCLC Research, she was Vice-President of Research and Library Systems at NetLibrary, Director of the Library and Information Services Department at the University of Denver, and on the faculty of the Library and Informational Science program at University of Missouri, Columbia.
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