Emily in front of the Amsterdam Public Library Emily is a doctoral candidate in 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 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.