Patricia Iannuzzi Biography

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Patricia Iannuzzi is Dean of Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. An international leader in information literacy, Patricia chaired the multi-association task force sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) that wrote the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. She also co- chaired the ACRL/ American Association of School Libraries (ACRL/AASL) Task Force on the Educational Role of Libraries, which developed a Blueprint for Collaboration between academic and school libraries. Patricia served on the American Library Association (ALA) President's Special Committee on Information Literacy Community Partnerships and on the ALA Task Force for 21st Century Literacies.

She was a member of the Public Policy Roundtable of Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiative for 21st Century Literacies and served as a consultant to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its information literacy projects. Patricia speaks and consults worldwide on the topics of information literacy and research-based learning, information literacy and faculty development, and information literacy and outcomes assessment. While at UC Berkeley, Patricia led two Mellon funded grant projects on restructuring large enrollment courses to focus on research-based learning.

She consults at universities that are implementing information literacy in their undergraduate curriculum. Patricia is the author of several books and articles, including Teaching Information Literacy Skills published by Allyn and Bacon. Patricia has an undergraduate degree from Yale University and an MS in Information Science from Simmons College. She has worked in libraries at the University of California, Berkeley, Florida International University, Tufts University, and Yale University.