Elizabeth Turner is an information technology project manager utilizing knowledge management capabilities at a private equity firm in Fort Worth, Texas. She has led software development, training, and implementation projects for teams and systems of all sizes. She currently is orchestrating a firmwide service management expansion including knowledge delivery to ~1400 users. 

Mrs. Turner is a 2010 alumna of Texas Woman’s University where she received her master’s degree in library science (MLS). She also holds a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington in information systems technology with a project management concentration (MIS). Her research interests include all aspects of knowledge management and corporate librarianship and she has been speaking publicly on KM research since the 2006 PMI Global Congress in Seattle.

Elizabeth is the Smithsonian Libraries’ appointee to the International Federation of Library Associations KM Section Standing Committee and chaired its 2017 Open Session in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2014, she presented a case study of a financial services firm’s decision making process regarding knowledge management solutions to the IFLA KM Section Satellite Conference in Lyon. The case study was later selected for publication in IFLA’s KM anthology: Knowledge Management in Libraries and Organizations.