Joyce Kasman
Valenza
Associate Teaching Professor of Library and Information Science
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- 215-518-1846
- EMAIL:
- joyce.valenza@rutgers.edu
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Joyce Valenza has been a school, public, reference, and special librarian. For ten years, Joyce was the techlife@school columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She writes the NeverEndingSearch blog for School Library Journal, contributes to a variety of edtech journals, speaks internationally about issues relating to libraries and thoughtful use of technology. Joyce is active in ISTE, ALISE, AASL, ALA, YALSA and online communities of practice.
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Education
University of North Texas
Ph.D., Information Science
Villanova University
M.L.S., School Library Specialization and Educational Supervision
Queens College CUNY
M.L.S., Academic Library Specialty
Binghamton University
B.A., English
Research
Joyce Valenza’s research and teaching interests include digital literacies, technology and learning, digital libraries, school libraries, and youth and social media.
Research Groups
- Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL)
- SC&I Youth Cluster
- Social Media & Society Cluster
Funded Projects
Institute of Museum and Library Services, "Researching Students’ Information Choices: Determining Identity and Judging Credibility in Digital Spaces," IMLS National Leadership Grant, co-PI (with partners University of Florida and OCLC), September 2015
Selected Publications
Valenza, J.K. Partnering for Human-Centered Change. Knowledge Quest. May/June 2024
Valenza, J.K. and Kachel, D.E. (2024) “Future of School Libraries: It’s About Equity.” In Library 2035: Imaging the Next Generation of Libraries. Rowman and Littlefield
Woolls, B., Valenza, J.K, & Dawkins, A. (2023) The School Library Manager: Leading Through Change. ABC-CLIO/Bloomsbury. (Lead author with the retirement of Dr. Woolls) Resources and SchoolLibraryHQ as annex
Valenza, J.K; et al. (2023). We were the glue: Contributions, compromises, and continuing concerns of school librarians during the COVID-19 pandemic. ERIC - ED626437
Valenza, J.K, et al. (2022). “First years' information literacy backpacks: What's already packed or not packed?,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 48, Issue 4. 102566, ISSN 0099-1333
Awards & Recognitions
Joyce Valenza is a Milken Educator and a Library of Congress American Memory Fellow. She was selected as one of Technology and Learning’s 100@30 and was awarded an AASL/Highsmith research grant. Valenza received the 2023 AASL Research Grant Award and the 2023 NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Research Award for her First Years Meet the Frames research. In 2022, she won the NJASL President’s Award.
In 2019, she received the AASL Distinguished Service Award, recognizing “an individual member of the library profession who has, over a significant period of time, made an outstanding national contribution to school librarianship and school library development” Announcement.
In 2017, AASL named her a Social Media Superstar: Leadership Luminary. Valenza received an Edublogs Award for Lifetime Achievement and was named by The Teach 100 as a Top Educator Influencer on Twitter. Her Virtual Library won IASL’s School Library Web Page of the Year Award. She has also won the Pennsylvania School Library Association’s Outstanding Program and Outstanding Contributor Awards. She wrote the Neverending Search Blog for School Library Journal from 2007—2022 and authored the techlife@school Column, for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1996—2007.