Joyce Latham

Joyce Latham, PhD, came to LIS education after an extended career in libraries. She has previously held positions as the head of automated services at Southern Maryland Regional Library and the head of information technology at Chicago Public Library. After her PhD studies at the University of Illinois, she returned to public libraries as library system director in upstate New York. Now at University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, she specializes in public libraries, intellectual freedom, and library history.