Clarence Maybee

2015 – Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AUS
2005 – Master of Library and Information Science, San José State University, San Jose, CA.

2024 – present – Associate Dean for Learning, Professor and W. Wayne Booker Endowed Chair in Information Literacy, Libraries and School of Information Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2021-2023 – Professor and W. Wayne Booker Endowed Chair in Information Literacy, Libraries and School of Information Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2017-2021 – Associate Professor and Information Literacy Specialist, Libraries and School of Information Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2011-2017 – Assistant Professor and Information Literacy Specialist, Libraries and School of Information Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

2020 – Teaching Leadership Award, Purdue University’s Teaching Academy and the Center for Instructional Excellence. Recognizes Purdue faculty who foster excellence and growth in teaching.
2019 – Librarian Recognition Award, American Library Association’s Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT). Recognizes national contribution to the development, advancement, and support of information literacy and instruction.
2019 – Dean’s Award for Sustained and/or Outstanding Contribution, Purdue Libraries.
2019 – Excellence in Research Award, Purdue Libraries. Awarded for the paper: Information literacy supporting student motivation and performance: Course-level analyses published in Library and Information Science Research in 2018 (co-authored with M. Flierl, E. Bonem, and R. Fundator).
2017 – Best Higher Education Research Publication Award, Queensland University of Technology’s Higher Education Research Network (HERN). Awarded for the paper: Designing rich information experiences to shape learning outcomes published in 2017 in Studies in Higher Education (co-authored with C. Bruce, M. Lupton and K. Rebmann).
2015 – Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award from Queensland University of Technology in recognition of the outstanding contribution to the discipline and the standard of excellence demonstrated in higher degree research practice.
2015 – The John H. Moriarty Award for Excellence in Library Service to Purdue University Faculty and Students, Purdue Libraries. Recognizes outstanding contributions in librarianship to the Purdue University Libraries’ primary users.
2015 – Excellence in Research Award, Purdue Libraries. Awarded for the paper: Learning to use information: Informed learning in the higher education classroom published in Library and Information Science Research in 2013 (co-authored with C. Bruce, M. Lupton, and K. Rebmann).
2015 – Dean’s Team Award, Purdue Libraries. Award given to Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT) team members for outstanding contributions that moved the Libraries, Press, and Copyright Office forward during the previous year.
2015 – Bravo Award, Purdue Libraries. Recognizes a significant contribution to the University’s or the Libraries’ mission or goals. Award given for leadership of the Libraries’ programmatic efforts for the August 2014 Boiler Gold Rush (BGR) orientation for new students.
2014 – Best Higher Education Research Publication Award from a Higher Degree Research Student, Queensland University of Technology’s Higher Education Research Network (HERN). Awarded for the paper: Learning to use information: Informed learning in the higher education classroom, 2013, Library and Information Science Research (co-authored with C. Bruce, M. Lupton, and K. Rebmann).

American Library Association (ALA), 2004 – present
Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association (ACRL), 2004 – present
Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 2025 – present
Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 2012 – 2018; 2024 – present
European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), 2021 – 2022

Books
Kaufmann, K. F. & Maybee, C. (2026). The Information literacy handbook: Charting the discipline. London: Facet Publishing.
Maybee, C. (2018). IMPACT learning: Librarians at the forefront of change in higher education. Oxford: Chandos.

Select Journal Articles
Gerrish, T., Fundator, R., Maybee, C., Reiman-Sendi, K. (2025). Informed learning in place: Tales from a field station. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 51(6). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103164
Fundator, R., Flierl, M., Maybee, C., Frasier Riehle, C., Slebodnik, M., & Saha, A. (2025). Librarians as faculty developers: Shaping disciplinary classroom experiences through information literacy. College & Research Libraries, 86(5), 692-704. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.86.5.692
Howard, H., Heyns, E., Hannah, M., Zwicky, D. &, Maybee, C. (2025). Information studies: Library development of an undergraduate curriculum for the information age. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 51(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103044
Maybee, C., Gasson, S., Bruce, C. S., & Somerville, M. (2022). Faces of informed research: Enabling research collaboration. Journal of Information Literacy, 16(1), 91-107. https://doi.org/10.11645/16.1.3101
Flierl, M., Bonem, E., & Maybee, C. (2021). Developing the Informed Learning Scale: Measuring information literacy in higher education. College & Research Libraries, 82(7), 1004-1016. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.7.1004
Gasson, S., Bruce, C. S., & Maybee, C. (2020). Creating collaborative capacity in early career research writers. TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses (Special issue #59: Creating communities: Collaboration within creative writing and research), 24(2). Available at http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue59/Gasson&Bruce&Maybee.pdf
Flierl, M., & Maybee, C. (2020). Refining information literacy practice: Examining the foundations of information literacy theory. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Journal, 46(2), 124-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035219886615
Flierl, M., Fundator, R., Reed, J., McGowan, B, Cai, C. & Maybee, C. (2020). Training the trainer to embed IL into curricula: Results from an action research project. Journal of Information Literacy, 14(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.11645/14.1.2670
Flierl, M., Maybee, C., & Fundator, R. (2019). Academic librarians’ experiences as faculty developers: A phenomenographic study. Communications in Information Literacy, 13(2), 184-204. Available at https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/vol13/iss2/4/
Stonebraker, I., Maybee, C., & Chapman, J. (2019). Undergraduate students’ experience of using information at the career fair: A phenomenographic study conducted by the Libraries and Career Center. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 45(4), 358-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2019.05.002
Maybee, C., Bruce, C. S., Lupton, M., & Pang, M. F. (2019). Informed learning design: Teaching and learning through engagement with information. Higher education research & development, 38(3), 579-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2018.1545748

2024 – Partnering for Algorithmic Literacy. Innovation Hub, Purdue University, Co-principal Investigator, $40,000
2022 – Designing for Data-focused Undergraduate Course Innovation: Integrating Data Science into Undergraduate Courses. Innovation Hub, Purdue University, Principal Investigator, $43,608
2019 – Academic Librarian Curriculum Developers: Building Capacity to Integrate Information Literacy across the University. Institute of Museum & Libraries Services (Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program), Principal Investigator, $249,179
2019 – IMPACT Data Science Education: Preparing Undergraduates to Lead into the Future. Integrative Data Science Initiative, Purdue University, Principal Investigator, $67,807