AFRICA S. HANDS, PH.D.
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Committed to service to the profession, Dr. Hands is immediate past chair of the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) of ALA and served as an elected board member of the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) . She has previously served as:

* Chair of the ALSC Children and Libraries Editorial Advisory Committee
* Chair of the ALSC Library Service to Special Population Children and their
  Caregivers Committee
* Co-chair of the ALSC Advocacy and Legislation Committee

Dr. Hands also serves as a peer reviewer for academic journals.

Dr. Africa S. Hands is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science at University at Buffalo. Dr. Hands graduated from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia; she was in the 2014 cohort of the San Jose State University Gateway PhD program. She holds an MLIS degree from San Jose State University and an MS in Applied Counseling Psychology from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

Dr. Hands is the Principal Investigator for Project CLiA, an IMLS-funded project examining public libraries as an information resource to college bound patrons. This research is based on her experiences working in both higher education (admissions and academic advising) and public libraries. Her work also explores the experiences of first-generation students - both as users of academic libraries and students and professionals in the LIS field.

She is the author of Successfully Serving the College Bound (ALA Editions, 2015) and has published articles in the Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, Education for Information, Public Library Quarterly, and Information and Learning Sciences.

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 Email: africaha@buffalo.edu                                 Twitter: @africahands
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