Dr. Eric Meyers

Biography

Eric M. Meyers is an Associate Professor and Acting Director at the School of Information, University of British Columbia. He conducts research on information practices of young people within various everyday contexts. His academic endeavors are focused at the intersection of information science, learning sciences, and new media studies, with a commitment to collaborative information use and meaning-making in social situations. Meyers has extensive experience as a K-12 teacher and school librarian technologist, consulting for a diverse range of institutions on information services, youth programming, and technology-enriched curricula. He has published extensively in the areas of information behavior, school library programs, and research methods pertaining to young people. His current research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), examines how early adolescents make decisions involving information in their daily lives. Recognized for his scholarship, Meyers was named to the inaugural cohort of HASTAC Scholars in Digital Humanities in 2008-09 and received the Jesse H. Shera Award for Library Research from the American Library Association in 2008. His distinguished dissertation on information problem-solving in middle school science classrooms earned the 2012 ALISE/Eugene Garfield Dissertation Prize.

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