Simmons College

Professor Kimball, who began at GSLIS in Spring 2009, received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she also got her M.S. degree in Library and Information Science. Her primary area of research is in youth services in public libraries, literature for youth, and the history of public libraries as social and cultural institutions. Kimball has published articles in Library Trends, Public Libraries, and Teacher-Librarian, among others.