About

Wade Bishop is a Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. At the College of Communication and Information, he serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development. He is also the School of Information Sciences Director of Graduate Studies and the Research Data Management Certificate Coordinator. In addition, he serves as a Research Security Ambassador for the Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development. His research focus is on Research Data Management, Data Discovery, Geographic Information Science, as well as the study of data occupations, education, and training. He has other research expertise that includes physical access for users to U.S. public libraries (using Geographic information Systems (GIS)) and the evaluation of many other services and resources in academic and public libraries. Bishop has an M.L.I.S. from the University of South Florida School of Information and a Ph.D. from Florida State University's School of Information. He serves as Associate Editor for Telematics and Informatics and on several other editorial boards.

Faculty News

School of Information Sciences Faculty and Incoming Student Present at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Diego

SIS Professor working to detect research misconduct on a global scale

Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award

AI and new standards promise to make scientific data more useful by making it reusable and accessible

CALL Summit

New Students Join CALL

Collaborative Analysis Liaison Librarians (CALL)

Belmont Forum Human Dimensions Champion

Student News

MSIS Student Navigates Alaska, Homeschooling, and Online School (July 25, 2023)

Claire Jordan: SIS Alum and Library of Congress Research Librarian (November 3, 2022)

Two SIS Grads Lead the Newly Relocated World Data System (August 23, 2022)

Kelsey Badger names Volunteer of Distinction (April 1, 2022)

Kristina Larsen becomes Rare Map Librarian (April 8, 2022)

Matt Cowan, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) company (September 16, 2021)

Charlie Mix, GIS Director, UT-Chattanooga (April 8, 2021)

Will Biggs: Veteran, Purple Heart Recipient, MSIS Student (November 9, 2019)

Alum Rebecca Howard Uses History and MSIS Degrees to Archive the Past (October 2, 2019)

Clancy Anderson, Libraries and Veterans National Forum (September 13, 2019)

Sharra Rosichan, Nashivlle Public Library (December 11, 2018)

Taylor Hixson, Librarian for Geospatial Services at New York University Abu Dhabi (September 25, 2018)