Erik Mitchell, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. In addition to studying information technology adoption and use in libraries, Erik examines metadata issues and professional development in library and information science. Before joining the University of Maryland Erik served as the Assistant Director for Technology Services in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University where he worked for twelve years. During this time he coordinated the development, implementation and management of a number of library systems and most recently was responsible for the migration of the ZSR library IT services to cloud-based platforms. Erik is a columnist for the Journal of Web Librarianship and has published and presented on library IT, metadata use and pedagogical approaches. He holds a PhD in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Masters in Library Science from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Lenoir-Rhyne College
