Gretchen is a faculty member of Rutgers University’s School of Communication & Information, where her research focuses on long-term management of science data, scholarly communication paradigms, and the social, technical and institutional infrastructures that mediate data curation. Gretchen completed her doctoral studies at the University of Arizona’s School of Information. She also holds a Master of Science degree in Library Science from Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and she previously worked as a documentation specialist for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope project.
Research and teaching interests include:
- Data curation
- Digital libraries
- Sociology of knowledge
- Knowledge organization
- Scholarly communication
- Human information behavior
- Information search and retrieval