Candice Benjes-Small

Candice Benjes-Small began her career at the University of Southern California and is currently the head of research services at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. Previously, she was head of information literacy and outreach and university coordinator of information literacy for the general education curriculum at Radford University. Under her leadership, the library instruction program was recognized as an Exemplary Information Literacy program in numerous categories by the ACRL. She received her BA in history from Haverford College in 1995 and her MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. She has served as president of the Virginia chapter of ACRL (VLACRL) and has been active on numerous ALA, ACRL, and VLACRL committees. She and Rebecca Miller Waltz founded The Innovative Library Classroom, a very popular regional information literacy conference that won the 2016 Beta Phi Mu Conference Support Award. She has written numerous publications on information literacy and was lead author on an article about cognitive development and web evaluation which was selected as a Top 20 article by the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT). She has served as an adjunct professor for the library science graduate programs at Syracuse University and Old Dominion University.