Joshua is the Team Leader for Access Services and Assessment at the Wheaton College Library and Associate Professor of Library Science. He studied at the University of Cincinnati, Miami University, and the University at Albany, State University of New York.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Librarian, a scholarly journal exploring issues relevant to academic libraries and librarianship. He has served on committees for the Illinois Library Association, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), and was elected to the executive committee for LIBRAS, a consortium of private college and university libraries in the Chicago metropolitan area. Joshua is a founding member of the Roundtable for Value-Driven Information Literacy.

His interests as a researcher and speaker include library assessment, virtue in libraries, library outreach, information literacy, open access (OA), integrated library systems, social media, library management, human computer interaction (HCI), religion and information, and folksonomies. You can visit his Google Scholar Profile or ORCID Profile (ORCID: 0000-0002-6945-2457) to learn more about his research and writing agenda.

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