Stacy L. Creel, Ph.D.

 As a SLIS Associate Professor, I teach online synchronous & asynchronous courses pertaining to school libraries, youth services, literature, reference, and public/academic libraries for graduates and undergraduates. In February 2013, I received the Exemplary Online Course Award for LIS 501 presented by Southern Miss’ Learning Enhancement Center, and in April 2014 I was awarded the Inaugural College of Education and Psychology’s Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.

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My research agenda has two main components: online education and youth—teens and children. When looking at online education, my areas of interest focus on both their preparedness for the field of librarianship and their sense of community in the online environment. The area of teens and children includes their information-seeking skills, censorship of youth library materials, their reading habits, and their reading lists. I have published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and have done presentations at international and national scholarly conferences.

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I serve on a variety of university, college, and school committees—including serving as chair in several instances. I have served on six juries and multiple committees for the American Library Association, served as a reviewer for IMLS and journals, and have served on the MAGNOLIA: Mississippi’s Children Choice Award as both a reviewer of elected titles and on the Executive Board. I am co-editor of the juried online, open-access journal SLIS Connecting (http://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/).