Trudi E. Jacobson, M.L.S., joined the University at Albany library faculty in 1990, and is currently Librarian and Head of User Education Programs for the University Libraries. Ms. Jacobson is known nationally for her seminal scholarship in the field of information literacy instruction. Her nine books and many journal articles serve as a history of the transformation of librarians as agents for the development of critical thinking, research, and lifelong learning skills. Her valuable contributions to that movement are among her most important achievements because of their transformative impact on how academic librarianship is practiced today. Ms. Jacobson is the 2009 recipient of the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian of the Year, the highest honor conferred by the Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. In addition to her research, Ms. Jacobson is a valued instructor and colleague at the University at Albany.

Ms. Jacobson is the co-author, with Lijuan Xu, of Motivating Students in Information Literacy Classes (Neal-Schuman, 2004), co-editor of Teaching Information Literacy Online (Neal-Schuman, 2011, with Thomas Mackey), Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments: Strategies for Evaluating Teaching and Learning (Neal-Schuman, 2009, with Thomas Mackey), and Information Literacy Collaborations that Work (Neal-Schuman, 2007, with Thomas Mackey), and author of Teaching the New Library to Today’s Users (Neal-Schuman, 2000) and Teaching Information Literacy Concepts: Activities and Frameworks from the Field (Library Instruction Publications, 2001). She is the editor of Critical Thinking and the Web: Teaching Users to Evaluate Internet Resources (Library Instruction Publications, 2000). She has published articles in a number of journals, including The Journal of General Education, College & Research Libraries, portal, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Research Strategies, College Teaching, and The Teaching Professor. She is the editor of Public Services Quarterly. She may be contacted by e-mail at tjacobson@uamail.albany.edu.