Rate My Professor Mary Bolin

At San Jose State University, Dr. Bolin teaches courses including Beginning Cataloging and Classification (INFO 248) and Metadata (INFO 281), and supervises PhD students on topics such as academic library governance, discovery of library resources, and user experience. Her research focuses on academic library organization, administration, governance, librarian faculty status, discourse analysis of library documents, and cataloging and metadata. She founded and edited the peer-reviewed electronic journal Library Philosophy and Practice. Notable publications include chapters in The 21st Century Academic Library: Global Patterns of Organization and Discourse such as "Academic Library Organization" (2018), "The Collegial Environment and the Functional Organization" (2021), and "Discourse Analysis Model and Data" (2023); "Academic Libraries and Writing Centers: Collaborations at US Public Research Universities" (2022); "Open Access Web Resources for Library Continuing Education and Training" (2014); and "The Language of Academic Librarianship: The Discourse of Promotion and Tenure" (2014). She has delivered presentations, chaired UNL libraries faculty in 2018, served on Faculty Senate, and advocates for d/Deaf accessibility in LIS through ASL study and inclusive practices.