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Dr Dave Lankes

Dave Lankes is the Virginia and Charles Bowden Professor of Librarianship at University of Texas Austin. Dave is a passionate advocate for libraries and their essential role in today’s society earning him the ALA Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award for distinguished contribution to reference librarianship (2021) and the Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship (2016).

He also seeks to understand how information approaches and technologies can be used to transform industries. He has served on advisory boards and study teams in the fields of libraries, telecomm, education, and transportation including at the National Academies. His book, The Atlas of New Librarianship won the 2012 ABC-CLIO/ Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature. Dave's work has been funded by organizations including The MacArthur Foundation, IMLS, NASA, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Defense, The NSF, U.S. State Department, and The American Library Association.