Jim Elmborg's research interests focus around libraries as centers for teaching and learning. He works primarily in the area of academic librarianship. Specific interests include information literacy programming, pedagogy, and instructional technology. He chairs the university Virtual Writing University Committee and coordinates the Virtual Writing University Archives. Elmborg is affiliated faculty with the Language Literacy and Culture program in the College of Education, and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI).