Barbara Fister (born 1954) is an American author, blogger, librarian, best known for her writing about libraries and the role they play in student learning.

[1][2] She is a frequent contributor to Library Babel Fish for Inside Higher Ed as well as ACRLog, a blog by and for academic and research librarians.

Fister was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1954 to Bruce and Rosemary Westley.

in English Literature from Minnesota State University, Mankato in 1992.

She is a Project Information Literacy[3] Scholar in Residence.