Advisory Board

The School of Information Studies (SOIS) advisory board meets four times a year to review possibilities about program expansion and review of existing projects.

Carolyn Anthony

Public Library Consultant

Chris Barzookis

Director of Content Management Services, Allied Vaughn

Fred Barnhart

Dean, University Libraries, Northern Illinois University

Dee Brennan

Executive Director, Reaching Across Illinois Library System

Alice Calabrese Berry

Trustee, River Forest Public Library

Karen Danczak Lyons

Library Director, Evanston Public Library

Diane Foote

Executive Director, Illinois Library Association

Carla Funk

Executive Director, Retired, Medical Library Association

Kate Marek

Ex-Officio, Director and Professor, Dominican University School of Information Studies



Mary Ellen Messner

Acting Commissioner, Chicago Public Library

Heidi Nickisch Duggan

Library Director, American Dental Association

Sarah Pritchard

Dean of Libraries, Northwestern University

Bernie Reilly

Past President, Center for Research Libraries

Marcia Walker-McWilliams

Executive Director, Black Metropolis Research Consortium

Conrad Zadlo

Cyber Security Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory