Dr. Colette Drouillard
Associate Professor
- Ph.D. Library and Information Studies
Florida State University (2009) - M.S. Library and Information Studies
Florida State University (2000) - M.Ed. Occupational Training Management/Instructional Design
Idaho State University (1993) - B.S. Elementary Education
Oakland University (1988)
Teaching Fields: Children’s Literature, Multicultural Literature for Youth, Young Adult Literature, Fiction Genres for Adults, Library Programming for Children and Teens, Foundations of Libraries and Information Science, Capstone
Colette Drouillard, an Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Studies at 茄子视频 in Valdosta Georgia teaches courses on children’s and young adult literature, and youth library programming. Her research interests include reading interests and reader response of young readers, multicultural literature for children and teens, programming for children and young adults, and technology in youth services.
Recent Publications or Presentations:
Choi, Y. & Drouillard, C.L. (forthcoming presentation). Insights from Reader Responses to Multicultural Youth Books, Georgia Libraries Conference, October 8-10, 2025, Athens, GA.
Choi, Y. & Drouillard, C.L. (2024). Exploring the link between reader sentiments and ratings of children’s multicultural literature, Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2024 Annual Conference, October 14-17, 2024, Portland, OR.
Most, L. R., Drouillard, C. L., (May 17, 2019) Integrating Orientation Content to Support Online Student Success, Advancing Graduate Education in Georgia - Georgia Council of Graduate Schools, Georgia Council of Graduate Schools Spring 2019 Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Drouillard, C., (June 23, 2018) Integrating Ready to Code (RtC) & Computational Thinking in an Online LIS Class, ALA Annual Conference, American Library Association, New Orleans, LA.
Subramaniam, M., Hong, H., Visser, M., Johnston, M. P., Drouillard, C.L., Long-Murphy, S., (March 27, 2018) Computational Thinking (CT) at the iSchools: Why Bother?, iConference 2018: Transforming Digital Worlds, The iSchools Organization, Sheffield, UK.