Joan Kaplowitz

Consultant

Joan Kaplowitz has a doctorate in Psychology as well as a master's in library science. She has been at UCLA since graduating UCLA's Library and Information Science program in 1984. She began her UCLA career at the Education and Psychology Library and is currently Head of the Research, Instruction and Collection Services (RICS) division at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. She also serves as the Psychology Specialist as well as the liaison to both the School of Medicine and the Psychology Department for the library. Dr. Kaplowitz has been heavily involved in library instruction at the local, state and national levels for her entire career.

Dr. Kaplowitz's numerous presentations and publications have focused on the psychology of learning and cognitive styles, evaluating instruction, computer assisted instruction, teacher peer appraisal, and mentoring within the profession. She has been awarded several research grants from the Librarian's Association of the University of California to support her research and publication efforts. Her book Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice, which she co-authored with Esther Grassian, was published by Neal-Schuman in 2001. Dr. Kaplowitz and Ms. Grassian's have a second book focusing on leadership and management issues in information literacy instruction.