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Dr. June Abbas serves as Professor and Director of the School of Library and Information Studies within the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. She also holds the position of Co-Director of the Data Scholarship Program and the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship, awarded in 2023. Abbas earned her Ph.D. in information science from the University of North Texas in 1998, Master of Library Science from Emporia State University, and Bachelor of Arts in General Studies with an emphasis in Social Sciences from Saint Mary College, Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1996. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Studies at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, from 2001 to 2008.

Abbas's research interests include youth and the socio-cognitive factors associated with use of information technology, the role of libraries as transformative organizations, and human-centered design and knowledge organization within various contexts. She is Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Library and Information Science Research. Among her honors are the 2016 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology from LITA/OCLC. Abbas has published over 100 articles since 2008, authored and edited two books including Teens, Libraries, and Social Networking: What Librarians Need to Know (2011), and produced 10 book chapters along with research and technical reports. She has secured more than $1,600,000 in grant funding across 23 projects, including a $1,000,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for The Digital Latin Library: Implementation in 2015 and a $414,545 Institute of Museum and Library Services grant for Partnering to Build a 21st Century Community of Oklahoma Academic Librarians (2009-2013). Her scholarship has accumulated over 2,000 citations on Google Scholar, exerting influence in information science fields such as digital libraries, youth information behavior, online privacy, and makerspaces.