Laura Saunders is a Professor and Associate Dean at Simmons University School of Library and Information Science as well as the Director of the Simmons Center for Information Literacy. Her teaching and research focus on the areas of information literacy including news/media literacy and mis- and disinformation as well as reference services, and academic libraries. She was part of an expert panel that helped develop the Association of College & Research Libraries’
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and served on an American Library Association’s Public Programs Office project to develop the framework, practitioner’s guide and workshops for
the Media Literacy for Adults in Public Libraries project. Her most recent books include the
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction, 7th edition, co-edited with Melissa Wong and the open access textbook
Instruction in Libraries and Information Settings: An Introduction, co-authored with Melissa Wong. Laura has a PhD and a Master of Library and Information Science, both from Simmons University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Boston University. She is the 2019 recipient of Simmons University’s Provost Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.
