PhD, Drexel

Office: Room 4117F Hornbake Bldg, South Wing
Tel: (301) 405-2047
Fax: (301) 314-9145
: thahn@umd.edu

Research Interests:
History of information science and technology; information policy; information literacy and assessment of learning.

Before joining the College of Information Studies, Trudi Bellardo Hahn was the Executive Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) since 2004.  Earlier she was at the University of Maryland Libraries, the Maryland State Dept. of Education, the Special Libraries Association, Catholic University of America, and the University of Kentucky.  She has taught as an adjunct professor at the College since 1995.  Her numerous publications and presentations have been on the topics of history of information systems, online retrieval, indexing, databases, information literacy, education and training for the information profession, and others.  Her book, A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976, co-authored with Charles P. Bourne, was the winner of the ASIST Best Information Science Book Award for 2003.

She has been active in the American Society for Information Science & Technology and served as ASIST President in 2003.  In 2002, she was named a Fellow of the University of Maryland Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.  Dr. Hahn earned a BA in Linguistics and an MSLS at the University of Kentucky and a Ph.D. in Information Systems at Drexel University.