Amelia Gibson

Associate Professor & Co-Director, Master of Library and Information Science
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Amelia Gibson is an Associate Professor at University of Maryland at College Park. Gibson works to make communities healthier and safer by building more supportive, empowering, and inclusive information systems. Her research focuses on maternal health, education, and libraries as sociotechnical information systems.
She is currently co-director of the MLIS program and director of the Community, Equity, Data & Information lab at the University of Maryland College of Information.
Her doctoral mentees and advisees work primarily on topics related to health and clinical information/informatics, communities and place, libraries, privacy, and youth information.
Selected Publication
Laura Clark Hunt, Jennifer Steele, Jennifer Moore, Rita Soulen, Amelia Gibson
Oct 2024 • Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference
Jihye Kim Scroggins, Amelia Gibson, Alison Stuebe, Karen Sheffield-Abdullah, Kristin Tully
Jan 2024 • The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, 10.1097
Feb 2024 • The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 707(1), 256-265
Darchelle Excellent, Bonnie Jones-Hepler, Amelia Gibson, Megan von Isenburg, Kristin Tully, Debra Brandon
Aug 2024 • Health Equity 8 (1), 554-557 • Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Kimberly Harper, Nkechi Charles, Amelia Gibson, Kristin Tully
Feb 2024 • The Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health, 379
Amelia Gibson, Kimberly Harper, Erin McClain, M Kathryn Menard, Kristin Tully
Jan 2024 • International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 99, 103529
Amelia Gibson, Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Jul 2023 • The Library Quarterly 93(3), 277-293
Kristin Tully, Amelia Gibson, Marina Pearsall, Kelly Umstead, Carolina Gill, Alion Stuebe
Dec 2022 • Health Equity 6(1), 887-897 • Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
A Critical Quasi-systematic Review
Amelia Gibson and Rua Williams
Mar 2022 • Just Tech. Social Science Research Council • Social Science Research Council
Social geographies of risk and safety in teens and tweens of color information seeking
Amelia Gibson, Sandra Hughes-Hassell, Kristen Bowen
Nov 2021 • Information, Communication & Society
A Critical Quasi-systematic Review
Amelia Gibson, Kristen Bowen, Dana Hanson
Feb 2021 • In the Library with the Lead Pipe
Modality, Readability, and Format Control for Autistic Information Seekers Online
Amelia Gibson and Dana Hanson
Mar 2019 • International Journal on Innovations in Online Education
Information Marginalization and Parents of Individuals with Disabilities
Amelia Gibson and John D. Martin III
Feb 2019 • Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology 70(3)
Amplifying Marginalized Voices in LIS Education and Research
Amelia Gibson and Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Oct 2017 • Library Quarterly 87(4):317-329
Media Appearance
Mar 2023 • UCL Information Studies
Aug 2020 • MIT Technology Review
Jul 2020 • The Guardian