01/13/2026 12:07:36 PMObituaryobituaryWilliam “Bill” Moen, 75, Denton, retired UNT faculty member and administrator who received national recognition for his work in information science, died Nov. 22, 2025. In 1996, he joined the UNT faculty in what was then the School of Library and Information Sciences and later assisted with the merging of programs to form today’s College of Information. He also served as director of research and associate dean for research in the college, helped develop and direct the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge, interned in the Provost’s Office and served as director of the McNair Scholars Program. He attended Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota before completing a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1987 at the University of Montana, Missoula. He became interested in information science as a bookstore owner in Butte, Montana, when he served on the state’s library services advisory council and saw the challenges ahead as libraries navigated the digital environment. He earned a master's degree in library science from Louisiana State University and served as an intern at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where he was part of the early efforts to make its bibliographic databases accessible online. His work on the international Z39.50 protocol as a standard for searching and retrieving library information took him throughout Europe, and he earned a Ph.D. in information studies at Syracuse University in New York before joining UNT. In addition to technical standards development and implementation to improve the ways library systems communicate, his areas of teaching and research included information organization and retrieval, metadata, digital repositories and information policy. He received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology in 2005 from the American Library Association. The award honored his significant research in the field of library and information technology, and particularly its impact on the publication, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information. Moen enjoyed spending summers with his children, taking them to the mountains and home to the family farm. After retiring from UNT in 2020, he became a Master Gardener.