Deborah Hicks

Deborah Hicks is a doctoral candidate with the Department of Education Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her research interests are focused on the construction of librarians' professional identities, the impact of technological change on the professional identities of librarians, and representations of information seeking practices in popular culture. She has been previously published in The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy and Australian Library...See more

Deborah Hicks is a doctoral candidate with the Department of Education Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her research interests are focused on the construction of librarians' professional identities, the impact of technological change on the professional identities of librarians, and representations of information seeking practices in popular culture. She has been previously published in The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy and Australian Library Journal and has presented her work at the annual conferences of the Canadian Association of Information Science, the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, and Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association. Deborah graduated from York University in Toronto, Canada, with a Master's of Arts and from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with a Master's of Library and Information Studies. She has worked as a librarian at the University of Alberta. See less