Michael LaMagna

Information Literacy Program & Library Services Coordinator; Professor of Library Services

Delaware County Community College

Dr. Michael LaMagna is the Information Literacy Program & Library Services Coordinator and Professor of Library Services at Delaware County Community College in Pennsylvania and previously served as the Coordinator of Electronic Resources at a small liberal arts college. His work applies strategic foresight methodologies to anticipate and examine how emerging technologies and learner expectations are reshaping higher education and academic libraries. This futures-oriented lens grounds his research on information access including collection development and open educational resources, and on the design of scalable, equitable information literacy programs, with particular emphasis on digital badges, microcredentials, and synchronous instruction models. More recently his focus is on integrating AI literacy into existing information literacy instruction. Michael is a host on the New Books in Library Science podcast channel on the New Books Network.