About the author

Jannica Heinström is an associate professor in the Department of Information Studies at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. She has a master’s degree in psychology and a PhD in information studies. Her research interests lie in psychological aspects of information interaction, such as personality, motivation and emotion. In 2004 she was a visiting scholar at the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. The visit was funded by grants from the Fulbright Association and the Academy of Finland. Before taking up her current position in 2009, she continued her research at CISSL, with a focus on information literacy and learning processes, for an additional four years. She received the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, Outstanding Paper Award, 2005.

The author may be contacted at: [email protected]. Website: http://users.abo.fi/jheinstr.