Bin Li
Associate Professor of Teaching
888-497-8754 ext. 707
313-577-7563 (fax)
Office Hours
Tuesdays 7:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Office Location
302 Kresge
Bin Li
Dr. Bin Li taught at an Information Management Program at Beijing Foreign Studies University in China before she came to the US for her doctoral studies. After she got her PhD and taught as a teaching fellow in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she joined the faculty at School of Information Sciences of Wayne State University. She currently teaches courses in information science area, such as Human Information Behavior, Database Design and SQL, Information Technology, and Project Management. She does research in social aspects of technology implementation, and information seeking.
Degrees and Certifications
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D., Information and Library Science, 2005
Beijing Foreign Studies University, MA, English Language and Literature, 1996
Beijing Foreign Studies University, BA, English Program for Information Management, 1993
Awards and Honors
Beta Phi Mu, International Honor Society for Library and Information Science, 2006
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2004
Lester Asheim Scholarship, 2000-2002, 2005
Margaret Ellen Kalp Fellowship, 1999, 2004
Sheila Suen Lai Scholarship of Library and Information Science, ALA, 2000
Academic Interests
Social Aspect of Computing; Social Informatics; Human Information Interactions; Information Technology for Development
Recent Publications
Li, B. (2008). American Libraries and the Internet: The Social Construction of Web Appropriation and Use. NY: Cambria Press Inc.
Courses taught by Bin Li
Winter Term 2025 (future)
- INF6080 - Fundamentals of Information Technology
- INF6415 - Project Management
- INF6460 - Database Design and SQL
Fall Term 2024 (current)
Winter Term 2024
- INF6080 - Fundamentals of Information Technology
- INF6415 - Project Management
- INF6460 - Database Design and SQL
Fall Term 2023
Winter Term 2023
- INF6080 - Fundamentals of Information Technology
- INF6415 - Information Technology Project Management
- INF6460 - Introduction to Database Design
Fall Term 2022
- INF6080 - Fundamentals of Information Technology
- INF6460 - Introduction to Database Design
- INF7500 - Information Behavior