Heather Lea Moulaison 

is currently a doctoral student in Library and Information Science at Rutgers University.  For the 2008-2009 academic year, Heather has been named a traditional Fulbright Scholar grantee, and will be teaching at the Ecole des Sciences de l'Information in Rabat, Morocco.  During the summer of 2008, Heather is interning at OCLC in Programs and Research with Lynn Connaway.

Before undertaking full time study, Heather worked in libraries as Cataloging/Modern Languages Librarian at The College of New Jersey (2005-2007) and as Cataloging Librarian at Missouri State University (2002-2005).  Heather has been teaching in LIS programs (both at Rutgers and through a cooperative program with the University of Missouri-Columbia) since 2003.  Before earning her MSLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Heather also earned a MA in French from the same institution.  She has spent a total of four years studying and teaching in France, and speaks French fluently. 

Heather’s scholarly interests include the globalization of digital information, international librarianship, and Library 2.0.  In December 2007, Heather published an article on Web 2.0 in France in The French Review and in October 2007 presented as part of a panel on communities in social tagging at the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Conference in Milwaukee.  Her current research includes the study of social tagging and blogging, especially in France, author-generated indexing on the Web, next generation OPACs, user-centered design, and citation analyses of French negritude writers.  Her article on transaction log analysis will apper in  vol. 52 of LRTS (2008)  and her co-authored article about community aspects of social tagging appeared in the January 2008 volume of Ariadne.

Heather has presented at numerous local, state, national, and international conferences.  In 2007, she co-presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 13th  Annual Conference on the topic of library RSS feeds, gave a talk on Library 2.0 at the Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (enssib) in Lyons, France, presented one of ten selected posters at the Association for Libraries and Technical Services (ALCTS) 50th Anniversary Conference in Washington, D.C., reporting on a study of search logs from a college library, and was able to participate in other local and regional conferences and events over the course of the year as well. 

In 2008, Heather participated in the iSchool's iConference 2008 at UCLA in February/March, and co-presented at EDUCAUSE's NERCOMP (North East Regional Computing Program) 2008 Annual Conference in Providence, RI in March and at the Joint ASTED/CBPQ Conference in Montreal in May.  She will be co-presenting at the Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC08) conference in Nimes, France in June, and at the 10th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) conference in Montreal in August.