Diane Mizrachi

Diane Mizrachi headshot wearing blue top
Librarian for Jewish Studies, Israel Studies & Information Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion and Sociology
  • User Engagement
  • International and Area Studies

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  • 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).