Heather Moulaison-Sandy

Heather Moulaison-Sandy is Associate Professor at the iSchool at the University of Missouri and Editor in Chief of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Her research focuses on helping users access information, including through the use of library metadata. She focuses in particular on inclusive description and the ways users seek, interpret, and use information, with recent work being funded by the US IMLS. Heather Moulaison-Sandy has published extensively, with more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in venues including JASIST, JDOC, ASIST, and others. She has been invited to give keynotes, lectures, and presentations at conferences and institutions in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. She is author or co-author/editor for several books in information science, including AI and Authorship in Scholarly Communication (2025). Heather Moulaison-Sandy has served as president of the International Society for Knowledge Organization–Canada/United States and chair of ASIST’s SIG Classification and Metadata Research, as well as having served as co-chair for the iConference full papers, iPRES papers, and others. She has received numerous writing awards as well as the NDSA’s Innovation Award, Educator, and the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Science. Heather earned her MSLIS at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her PhD at Rutgers.