Executive Director, Research
OCLC Research
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., is the Executive Director, Research at OCLC. She is the co-author of the 6th (2017) and 7th (2021) editions of Research Methods in Library and Information Science with Marie L. Radford. Lynn also was the co-author of the 4th (2004) and 5th (2010) editions of Research Methods for Librarians. She was the Chair of the ALA ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Committee and was the President for 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 and her collaborators have won numerous awards for their research projects and methodologies. She 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 the Vice-President of Research and Library Systems at NetLibrary, the 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 the University of Missouri, Columbia. Learn more about Dr. Connaway on the OCLC Research website.
Saturday, January 28, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM