Forrest Foster is the Assistant Dean of Library Services at North Carolina A&T State University. He was previously the Director of Library Services at Fayetteville State University, in Fayetteville, NC. Foster has been a contributor and innovator in the field for more than 20 years.  Many of his career highlights has focused on leadership, outreach, teaching information and digital literacy to the university community and beyond.

 

Mr. Foster earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from East Carolina University and a Masters of Library Science degree from North Carolina Central University. His librarianship experience includes work at East Carolina University’s J.Y. Joyner library; North Carolina A&T State University’s Bluford Library; and Winston-Salem State University’s C. G. O’Kelly Library. He has presented at numerous workshops, conferences and has also been published by Journal of Learning Spaces, Computers in Libraries, Diverse Issues in Higher Education and EDUCAUSE Review. 

 

His research interests include value of libraries on student success, experiential learning using digital and information literacy concepts and mitigating the digital divide.