Becky Smith

Becky Smith serves as the STEM Entrepreneurship and Business Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign within the University Library's Grainger Engineering Library. Her primary responsibilities include providing specialized research support and instructional services across Accounting, Business, Corporations, Finance, Insurance, Marketing, Real Estate, and Taxation disciplines.

Her research focuses on advancing information science methodologies in business and STEM entrepreneurship contexts, with emphasis on developing effective information retrieval systems for corporate research, integrating entrepreneurial resources into academic curricula, and optimizing library support structures for engineering entrepreneurship programs. She actively contributes to the evolution of business information management within academic library ecosystems.