Dr. Denice Adkins is professor and director of the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri. She earned her MLS in 1994 and her Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of Arizona. Her research interests include public libraries, services to the Latinx community and other underserved populations, reader advisory research, and youth services.

Prior to her academic career, Dr. Adkins was a public librarian serving diverse communities in the southwestern United States. Her additional past experiences include a Fulbright Scholarship to Honduras and a Fulbright Specialist to India, as well as serving as president and treasurer of REFORMA (The National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking), executive board for ALISE, councilor-at-large for the American Library Association, co-editor for the Journal of Education for Library & Information Science, and board member for Missouri Library Association.

Affiliations

Public Libraries Leadership Fellows Program

Areas of Expertise

• Genre Fiction Readers and Their Motivations
• Public Library Outreach to Underserved Populations
• Latino/Hispanic Literacy Practices