SLIM Faculty

Dr. Cecilia Salvatore

Dr. Cecilia L. Salvatore is the coordinator of the SLIM doctoral program. She teaches in the areas of management, organization theory, information transfer in special populations, assessment of a community’s information needs and evaluation of information services, theoretical foundations of service, information transfer and the knowledge society, global information infrastructure, and archival studies. Dr. Salvatore conducts research and publishes in the areas of information-seeking discourse and communicative competence in diverse communities, socio-linguistic interferences in the discourse of management and staff, and archives and preservation in the lives of indigenous communities and as weapons of the powerful. She has a forthcoming publication titled, Community, Identity, and Institution in Information-Seeking Discourse.

Dr. Salvatore received her Bachelor’s Degree from Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, her Master’s Degree in Library Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked as a librarian and director at an academic library, research and special collections library, public library, and archives in New York and Guam. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, she was Territorial Librarian/Archivist for the U.S. Territory of Guam and was a member of the Guam Governor’s Cabinet. She has worked with linguists and linguistic anthropologists, has taught at the University of Guam, and assisted in teaching and research at the University of Texas at Austin at the Graduate School of Business, as well as the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She has received recognition and honor by the Legislature and Municipal Council at her birthplace of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas as the first indigenous woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy.

For a glimpse of Dr. Salvatore’s current research and personal website, go to:

http://slim.emporia.edu/healthy

E-mail: csalvato@emporia.edu