Suzie Allard

Suzie Allard, Ph.D., is an associate professor and assistant director in the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences. Suzie's interests and teaching include: science information, information retrieval, how scientists use and communicate information, and how these communication processes influence the data preservation process at the point of data creation. She is on the Board of Directors of the Networked Digital Library for Theses and Dissertations, and has served on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is a member of the Leadership Team for DataONE, an NSF funded datanet project building infrastructure for environmental science data and is the PI for the IMLS funded project, ScienceLinks2, which supports doctoral education in science data and information.