Diane Mizrachi

- User Engagement
- International and Area Studies
Ask Me About
- Antisemitism
- Information Studies
- Israel History
- Israel Studies
- Jewish History, Religion and Culture
- Jewish Studies
- Library Anxiety
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Provenance
- Religion
- Sociology
- Students' Reading Format Preferences
- Undergraduate Library Behaviors
- Zionism
Biography
Diane received her B.A. in History at the University of Utah, her M.L.I.S. from Bar Ilan University in Israel and her Ph.D. in Information Studies at UCLA.
Languages: Hebrew
Publications
Selected publications since 2018:
“The Recovery of Nazi Looted Books in the University of California Los Angeles Library: From Prague to L.A. and Back Again,” (with I. Kohout and M. Bušek). Judaica Librarianship, 22 January):5–19. https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/705
“Discovery and Recovery: Uncovering Nazi Looted Books in the UCLA Library and Repatriation Efforts,” College and Research Libraries (with M. Bušek). Nov. 2023
“Bookending ARFIS: The Development, Final Results, and Current State of the Academic Reading Format International Study.” In European Conference on Information Literacy (pp. 675-687). Springer, Cham. (with A.M. Salaz).
“Reading Format Attitudes in the Time of COVID.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acal...
“The Mindfulness Framework for Implementing Mindfulness into Information Literacy Instruction.” The Reference Librarian, 63(1-2): 43-61, DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2022.2030273 (S. Aytac lead author).
“The Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS): final results of a comparative survey analysis of 21,265 students in 33 countries.” Reference Services Review. 49(3/4): 250-266. https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-04-2021-0012 (with Salaz, A. M., Kurbanoglu, S., & Boustany, J.)*
“A proposed reading event analysis model (REAM) for determining likely reading format preferences. Journal of Documentation. 78(2): 190-206. (A. Salaz lead author).
“Beyond the surveys: qualitative analysis from the academic reading format international study (ARFIS).” College & Research Libraries, 81(5), 808, (with A. Salaz).
“Academic reading format preferences and behaviors among university students worldwide: A comparative survey analysis,” PLOS One, 13(5), e0197444 (with Salaz, A. M., Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., & the ARFIS Research Group).