Dr. Amanda Hovious is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, a Master of Science in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of North Dakota, and a PhD in Information Science from the University of North Texas. Extensive professional experience in public and academic libraries has resulted in subject expertise in areas that include reference librarianship, instructional librarianship, learning design, information and cognition, and multiliteracies pedagogy. Her research interests also extend to novel applications of information theory in documentation, information, and communication studies. Her work has been published in journals that include the Journal of Documentation, Library Trends, Information Technology and Libraries, and Technology, Knowledge and Learning.