Emily is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her doctoral degree from the Department of Library and Information Science at the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. Her research interests include intellectual freedom and censorship, the intersection of print culture and reading practices, and information ethics and policy.
She was the Associate Director and Reference Librarian at the St. Mark's (now Keller)Library of the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City for five years before returning to school.
Emily recently wrote a manual on running a small interlibrary loan and document delivery department published by Neal-Schuman.