Kent State's School of Library and Information Science was well represented at the national conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) held recently in Pittsburgh. Click on the headline for the complete list of SLIS/IAKM faculty presentations.

Dr. Denise Bedford, Goodyear Professor in Knowledge Management
Knowledge Organization: Evaluating Foundation and Function in the Information Ecosystem (panel)

Role of Online Communities in Recent Responses to Disasters - Tsunami, China, Haiti, and Katrina (panel)

Dr. Thomas Froehlich, Professor, and Program Director, Information Architecture and Knowledge Management (IAKM)
Intercultural Information Ethics in the Global Information Ecosystem: Opportunities and Challenges (SIG III) (workshop)

Dr. Kiersten Latham, Assistant Professor
Repositioning Information Science (panel)

Dr. Athena Salaba, Assistant Professor
FRBR Implementation and User Research (panel)

Dr. Catherine Smith, Assistant Professor
Developing a detailed view of query reformulation: One step in an incremental approach (long paper)

Dr. Marcia Zeng, Professor
FRBR Implementation and User Research (panel)

Linked Data -- Enabling Standards and Other Approaches (panel)

Dr. Yin Zhang, Professor
FRBR Implementation and User Research (panel)