Michelle M. Kazmer is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies within the College of Communication & Information at Florida State University. She also holds a courtesy faculty appointment at the Florida State University College of Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the co-editor, with Dr. Kathleen Burnett, of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science.

Her Ph.D. is from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her MLS is from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University. She has worked as a rare book cataloger, as an academic engineering librarian, and as a technical information specialist for an American automotive manufacturer.

Her research focuses on participants in distributed social worlds, and in particular the processes of knowledge creation and sharing that those participants enact. One stream of her research explores how people disengage when they are preparing to depart from those worlds. She is especially interested in how knowledge is transferred between people who have left a social world and whatever parts of that world they left behind. She is also interested in the interaction between online and local settings for participants in distributed social worlds.

Dr. Kazmer teaches in the areas of information organization, information needs, information sources and services, and theory development.

Office Address: 242A Louis Shores Building, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100

Email: mkazmer [at] fsuDOTedu | URL: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~mkazmer

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