Education:

• Ph.D., Florida State University
• M.A., Library and Information Science, University of South Florida
• B.S., Major: Marketing, Minor: English, University of Florida

Expertise:

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Research Data Management
• Data Discovery
• Virtual Reference
• Geographic Information Science
• Public Libraries

Courses taught:

• INSC 201: Foundations of Information Sciences
• INSC 514: Information Technology Foundations
• INSC 516: Introduction to Geospatial Technologies
• INSC 543: Geospatial Data Management
• INSC 590: Science Liaison Librarianship
• INSC 631: Quantitative Communication and Information Research Methods

My favorite thing about working at SIS is:

Learning new things.

Professional memberships:

• American Society for Information Science & Technology
• American Library Association
• Research Data Alliance
• International Digital Curation Centre

Select Publications:

• Bishop, B. W., Orehek, A. M., & Collier, H. R. (2021). Job analyses of earth science data librarians and data managers. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(4), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0163.1
• Bishop, B. W., Nobles, R., & Collier, H. R. (Spring 2021). Research Integrity Officers’ Responsibilities and Perspectives on Data Management Plan Compliance and Evaluation. Journal of Research Administration. LII(2). https://www.srainternational.org/blogs/srai-jra1/2021/03/25/research-integrity-officers-responsibilities-and-p
• Winberry, J. & Bishop, B. W. (2021). Documenting social justice in library and information science research: a literature review. Journal of Documentation, ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2020-0136
• Mandel, L. H., Bishop, B. W., & Orehek, A. M. (2020). A new decade of uses for geographic information systems (GIS) in library research. Library Hi Tech. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-03-2020-0052
• Bishop, B. W. & Borden, R. (2020). Scientists’ Research Data Management Questions: Lessons Learned from Evaluations at a Data Help Desk. portal: Libraries and the Academy. 20(4), 677-692.
• Bishop, B. W., Gunderman, H., Davis, R., Lee, T., Howard, R., Samors, R., Murphy, F., & Ungvari, J. (2020). Data curation profiling to assess data management training needs and practices to inform a toolkit. Data Science Journal, 19(4),1–8. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-004
• Bishop, B. W., Hank, C. F., Webster, J., & Howard, R. A. (2019). Scientists' data discovery and reuse behavior: (Meta)data fitness for use and the FAIR Data Principles. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.4 [Best Paper]