Bobby Smiley

Education:

M.S., Library and Information Science, Pratt Institute
M.A. in Religion, Yale University
B.A., Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bio:

Bobby Smiley is the John Louis Kesler Director of the Divinity Library and College Librarian for Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University, where he oversees all operations for one campus library as well as the liaison team for the largest campus library. Bobby’s research interests include American religious historiography, information literacy within and across disciplines, library leadership and strategic planning, methods in digital humanities, and exploring how data visualization can be leveraged for analysis in academic librarianship. In addition to reviews and encyclopedia entries, Bobby has contributed chapters to Debates in Digital Humanities 2019 (Minnesota), The Grounded Instruction Librarian (ACRL), Personalizing the Pandemic (Atla Open), and AI and Academic Libraries (ACRL, forthcoming); he also edited the volume Information Literacy & Theological Librarianship: Theory & Praxis (Atla Open).