Author: Sandy Hirsh

Dr. Sandra Hirsh is Associate Dean for Academics in the College of Information, Data and Society at San José State University (SJSU). She previously served as Professor and Director of the SJSU School of Information for ten years. Prior to joining the iSchool, she worked in Silicon Valley for more than a decade at major technology companies: Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. She holds both a bachelor's degree and Ph.D. from UCLA and an MLIS degree from the University of Michigan. She is Past President of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). She is Chair Elect of the American Library Association International Relations Round Table. The third edition of Information Services Today: An Introduction was published in March 2022. In November 2019, she published Blockchain as book 3 in the ALA Library Futures Series. Her latest book is Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries, which was published by Rowman and Littlefield in March 2024.

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