Simmons College

Professor Schwartz has held numerous offices in the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), and served as the association's president from 1998-1999. She is the recipient of two ASIST awards, the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award and the Watson Davis Award, given to an ASIST member for outstanding and dedicated service to the society. Her book Sorting Out the Web: Approaches to Subject Access was published in 2001, and she coedited Revisiting Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education (with P. Hernon & R. Dugan), published in 2006. She is also coeditor of the journal Library & Information Science Research. Professor Schwartz consults and gives workshops locally and internationally on social media, indexing, and metadata. She teaches information organization, digital libraries, and subject analysis, and coordinates the doctoral programs at GSLIS. With Peter Hernon, she was co-principal director for the first of two  IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) "Librarians for the 21st Century" grants, which instituted a Ph.D. concentration in managerial leadership.

Courses Taught

LIS 415: Information Organization
LIS 419: Subject Analysis
LIS 462: Digital Libraries

Curriculum Vitae

Candy Schwartz Profile