Faculty Profiles

Joshua is the Team Leader for Access Services and Assessment at the Wheaton College Library and Associate Professor of Library Science. He studied at the University of Cincinnati, Miami University, and the University at Albany, State University of New York.

He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Librarian, a scholarly journal exploring issues of academic libraries and librarianship. He has served on committees for the Illinois Library Association, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), and was elected to the executive committee for LIBRAS, a consortium of private college and university libraries located in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is a founding member of the Roundtable for Value-Driven Information Literacy.

His interests as a researcher and speaker include issues of virtue, religion and information, library assessment, information literacy, open access, integrated library systems, social media, library management, human computer interaction (HCI), and folksonomies. You can visit his Google Scholar Profile or ORCID Profile (ORCID: 0000-0002-6945-2457) to learn more about his research and writing agenda.

University at Albany, State University of New York - Albany, NY
M.S., Information Science

Miami University - Oxford, OH
M.A., History

University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, History

• American Library Association
• Association of College and Research Libraries
• Association of Christian Librarians
• Beta Phi Mu
• Illinois Library Association

Book Chapters
Avery, Joshua M., and Cathy Troupos. “Wheaton College: Equipping Lifelong Learners” in Gardner, Carolyn Caffrey, Elizabeth Galoozis, and Rebecca Halpern, eds. Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs: Structures, Practices, and Contexts. Chicago: Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2020.

Articles
Avery, Joshua M. “Information Hospitality, Academic Libraries, and Open Access.” Theological Librarianship 16, no 2 (October 26, 2023): 17-20. https://doi.org/10.31046/tl.v16i2.3316

Avery, Joshua M. “The Open Access Availability of Articles from Highly Ranked Religious Studies Journals: A Study of Ten Journals.” Theological Librarianship 11, no. 1 (April 5, 2018): 12–17. https://doi.org/10.31046/tl.v11i1.465

Avery, Joshua M. “Implementing an Open Source Integrated Library System (ILS) in a Special Focus Institution.” Digital Library Perspectives 32, no. 4 (January 1, 2016): 287–98. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-02-2016-0003

Yuan, Xiaojun, Chaomei Chen, Xiangmin Zhang, Josh Avery, and Tao Xu. “Effects of Domain Knowledge on User Performance and Perception in a Knowledge Domain Visualization System.” In Design, User Experience, and Usability. Web, Mobile, and Product Design, edited by Aaron Marcus, 601–10. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39253-5_67

Yuan, Xiaojun, Xiangman Zhang, Chaomei Chen, and Joshua M. Avery. “Seeking Information with an Information Visualization System: A Study of Cognitive Styles.” Information Research 16, no. 4 (2011). https://informationr.net/ir/16-4/paper499.html