Janet Freedman is dean of library services and professor emerita of education at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Her research and teaching interests include women’s studies and feminist theory, as well as library management and educational administration. She has won grants and awards from the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Freedman is the co-author, with Harold Bantly, of Information Searching: A Handbook for Designing and Creating Instructional Programs.