Barbara Fister

Barbara Fister is an academic librarian who spent several decades at Gustavus Adolphus College, a small liberal arts college, where she coordinated the instruction program and worked on digital projects, as well as other projects. She also spent a year as a scholar-in-residence with Project Information Literacy. Her research interests include how students learn to do research, where publishing is going, what’s going on with algorithmic information systems, and how social issues are represented in crime fiction.