Virginia M. Tucker is assistant professor at the School of Information, San José State University, San Jose, California, USA. Her research and teaching interests are in information retrieval system design, advanced search, and information architecture. Tucker was previously product architect and training manager at Dialog/Thomson (now ProQuest), the physics librarian at Stanford University, and a public law librarian. She has a PhD in information systems from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; MLS from University of California at Berkeley; and a BA in music from Stanford University.