Biography
Associate professor Alex H. Poole studies history, archives and records management, information practices and information behavior, digital curation, and digital humanities. Poole has received the ALISE/Bohdan H. Wynar Research Paper Award, the Donald G. Davis Award (American Library Association), the Justin Winsor Prize (ALA), the Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research (ALA), the Bob Williams Research Paper Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), the Arline Custer Memorial Award for Best Article from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), and the Theodore Calvin Pease Award from the Society of American Archivists (SAA). His work has also been recognized at the iConference (runner-up, Best Short Paper) and at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting (Best Long Paper).
Poole’s articles have been published in The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Library & Information Science Research, The Journal of Documentation, The Library Quarterly, Digital Humanities Quarterly, The American Archivist, Archival Science, The International Journal of Information Management, and Information & Culture. Poole serves on the editorial boards of The Library Quarterly, Information & Culture, the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, and The Electronic Library. His work has been supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Drexel University Provost’s Office.
Poole was educated at Williams College (BA, Highest Honors in History), Brown University (MA), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MSLS [Beta Phi Mu] and PhD).
Research Areas
- Data Science
- Library & Information Science
Research Interests
History, archives and records management, information practices and information behavior, digital curation, and digital humanities
Academic Distinctions
- PhD, Library and Information Science (dissertation title: “Forging Our Cultural Commonwealth: the Importance of Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities”), University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
- MS, Library Science (Beta Phi Mu), UNC at Chapel Hill
- MA, History, Brown University
- BA, History (with highest honors), Williams College