Education

EdD, Educational Instructional Design, Texas Tech University
MLIS, Texas Woman's University
BMEd, East Texas Baptist University

Specializations

School Librarianship, Instructional Partnerships, Technology-Enabled Learning, Design and Development of Digital Learning Environments, Research Methods in K-12 Settings, Training and Curriculum Design

Biography

Dr. Lucy Santos Green joined SLIS as professor and Director in January 2023. She is the 23-24 President of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) and is passionate about investigating systemic issues in complex structures, instructional partnerships, technology-enabled learning, and the design and development of digital learning environments. She frequently speaks and publishes on a variety of topics including leadership in LIS, LIS research methods, online pedagogy, instructional partnerships, and engaging librarianship practices with a focus on K-12 public school education. Her research is credited by the ALA Publishing Committee as the impetus for the development of ALA's first journal publication ethics policy.

Recent Presentations

• Green, L., Eadon, Y., McEvoy, K., & Young, J. C. (March, 2025). Closing Keynote: What is happening? The rapid pace of political change has shifted the narrative and our foundations. How to regain our footing and stabilize our next steps. Electronic Resources and Libraries National Conference. Austin, TX.
• McEvoy, K., Green, L., Kirkpatrick, N., Vogel, C., & Chrastka, J. (November, 2024). The legislative landscape: The library’s hand in the higher ed game. The Charleston Conference, Charleston SC.
• Romero-Hall, E., Green, L., Fontichiaro, K., & Johnston, M. (October, 2024). Culturally competent design of digital learning for school librarians: An online ready mini-course. Association for Education Communications & Technology, Kansas City, KS.  

Recent Publications

• Green, L. S. (Mar/Apr, 2025). Music+literacy in your library. Knowledge Quest, 53(4).
• Green, L., Dawkins, A., & Byrd-Fort, V. (in press). READCON: A curriculum for library readiness, advocacy, and community empowerment during challenging conditions. Library Quarterly.
• Johnston, M. P., & Green, L. (2024). A school librarian needs assessment on culturally responsive and impactful K-12 online teaching and learning. Journal of Online Learning Research, 10(3), 399-423.
• Green, L. & Chassereau, K. (2023). Modeling guided inquiry and school librarian instructional partnerships to pre-service teachers through digital video production. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 64(2), 185-205. https://doi.org/10.3138/jelis-2022-0015

• Green, L. & Johnston, M. (2022). A contextualization of editorial misconduct in the library and information science academic information ecosystem. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(7), 913-928.  https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24593