Denise Agosto

Biography

 Education  May 2001 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick School of Information, Communication & Library Studies Ph.D. Dissertation: Sound, Color, and Action:    Bounded Rationality and Satisficing in Young People's Evaluation of World Wide Web Resources December 1993 The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library & Information Science M.L.I.S. Major area studied:  Hispanic and Latin American librarianship May 1991 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. B.S., magna cum laude Double major:    linguistics and Portuguese Academic Appointments September 2016 Director, Master’s of Library & Information Science Program -present College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University September 2015 Professor -present College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University May 2016 – Visiting Scholar June 2016 School of Information Management Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) September 2007- Associate Professor June 2015 College of Information Science & Technology Drexel University September 2001- Assistant Professor June 2007 College of Information Science & Technology Drexel University 2 Selected Awards and Honors ï‚· 2016-2017 Drexel Teaching and Learning Conference Travel Award ï‚· 2016 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award for Agosto, D. E., Magee, R. M., Dickard, M., & Forte, A. “Teens, Technology, and Libraries: An Uncertain Relationship.” ï‚· Agosto, D. E. “ The True Story of Teens and Social Media:    Using Teen-Centered Research to Break Down Pervasive Stereotypes,” 2016 Gryphon Lecture, Center for Children’s Books, Champaign, IL, March 11, 2016. Audio recording available online at: http://media.lis.illinois.edu/dl/events/gryphonaudio_march11_2016.mp4. ï‚· 2015 ASIS&T Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher of the Year Award ï‚· Honorable Mention Award for: Forte, A., Dickard, M., Magee, R. M. & Agosto, D. E. “What do teens ask their online social networks? Social search practices among high school students,” refereed paper at The 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2014), Baltimore, MD, February 18, 2014 (pp. 28-37). ï‚· Invited keynote address at the SirsiDynix Northeast Regional Group 2013 Conference, Cabrini College, Radnor, PA, June 10, 2013. ï‚· 2011 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence in the Field of Library and Information Science Education ï‚· ASIS&T SIG USE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award for: Agosto, D. E., & Abbas, J. (2010.) High school seniors’ social network and other ICT preferences and concerns. Proceedings of the 2010 American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting (ASIS&T), in Pittsburgh, PA, October 22-27, 2010, 47(1), 1-10. ï‚· 2010 ALISE Best Paper Award for: Gunawardena, S., Weber, R., & Agosto, D. E. (2010). Finding that Special Someone: Modeling Collaboration in an Academic Context. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 51, 210-221. ï‚· 2007 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award.  ï‚· Drexel University 2007 Outstanding Contribution to Online Learning Award  ï‚· Guest scholar and doctoral student mentor, University of Texas at Austin School of Information, May 9, 2007  ï‚· Guest scholar and doctoral student mentor, Indiana University's Summer Research Seminar Indiana, June 17, 2005  ï‚· Doctoral Students to ALISE Award, 2001  ï‚· Beta Phi Mu ï‚· Phi Beta Kappa  ï‚· Phi Kappa Phi 

Research Interest

 Project Ethnographer for: Making Space for Young Adults in Public Libraries. Project sponsor: The Institute for Museum & Library Studies. Funding period: December 2010 - November 2013. PI: Anthony Bernier. 2009 Drexel University Intra-College Administrative Apprenticeship. Funded by the Drexel University Provost’s Office. Abels, E., Agosto, D. E., Mon, L., & Holland, M. A Virtual Learning Laboratory for Digital Reference: Transforming the Internet Public Library. Project sponsor: The Institute for Museum & Library Studies, $613,478. Funding period: July 2007 - June 2010. Abels, E., Agosto, D. E., & Mon, L. Remote Reference in Practice and in the Classroom. ALISE Research Grant Competition, 2007. Agosto, D. E., & Hughes-Hassell, S. Everyday Life Information Seeking Behavior of Urban Young Adults. Project sponsor: The Institute for Museum & Library Studies, $233,056. Funding period: October 2002- September 2005. Project researcher for Leading Young Women to the Sciences and Technology, Part II. PI: Ellen Mappen, Douglass Project, Rutgers. Project sponsor: Toyota Foundation, USA, $185,000. Funding period: 1999-2002. 4 Beta Phi Mu Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001