2015
SLIS Assistant Professor/Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise Bedford, Ph.D., Lecturer Nancy Lensenmayer and alumna Jennifer Kunkler Donley, M.S. ’13, are collaborating on a paper for Advances in Librarianship. Their work, titled “The Role of Librarians in a Knowledge Society: Valuing Our Intellectual Capital Assets,” was one of only eight to be accepted for inclusion in Advances for Librarianship vol. 39. The collaboration began as a workshop they gave at the Ohio Library Council conference in 2013.
SLIS Assistant Professor Belinda Boon, Ph.D., will be awarded the 2015 University Teaching Council's Faculty Recognition Award. Posted on Oct. 6, 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Belinda Boon, Ph.D., has been named to a one-year term on Kent State’s Center for College Teaching and Learning Advisory Board, which plays a critical role in advising and guiding the Center’s practices and programs. Posted on Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Belinda Boon, Ph.D., has been named to a three-year term on the Library Paraprofessional Degree Program Advisory Board at Belmont College. Belmont’s Library Paraprofessional degree program is recognized by the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA). Posted on Sept. 8, 2015.
Assistant Professor Belinda Boon, Ph.D., presented “Active Online Teaching Strategies: Sharing Best Practices” in a Round Table Session at the Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching and Learning in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 6.
Assistant Professor Belinda Boon, Ph.D., was quoted in an article titled “Profs seek student input to improve online courses” on the homepage of the Kent State website.
At its March 2015 meeting, the university’s Board of Trustees approved emeritus status for retired Professor Carolyn S. Brodie, Ph.D.
An article by adjunct instructor Catherine Closet-Crane, Ph.D., "Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the Museum," was published in the Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy: Vol. 1, Article 9. Available from http://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol1/iss1/9/
Adjunct instructor Catherine Closet-Crane, Ph.D., gave a presentation titled "Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World" at the DOCAM 2014 conference in Kent Ohio on August 7, 2014. Exhibited as part of the MuseLab Documents Instantiation was her painting illustrating the topic of the presentation.
Adjunct instructor Magda El-Sherbini is the recipient of the 2015 Margaret Mann Citation, which will be presented at the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Awards Ceremony at the American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco on June 27, 2015. The award recognizes outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification and includes a $2,000 scholarship, which El-Sherbini chose to split between two school libraries: the Catholic University of America’s Department of Library and Information Science and SLIS.
Assistant Professor Leisa Gibbons, Ph.D., has received the merit-based Australian Council of Professors and Heads of School in Information Systems (ACPHIS) Ph.D. Medal for her doctoral thesis titled “Culture in the continuum – You Tube, Small stories and Memory making.” Posted Nov. 3, 2015
Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., presented “Participatory knowledge representation and organization systems” at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) SIG/CR Workshop, Conceptual Crowbars and Classification at the Crossroads: The Impact and Future of Classification Research, in St. Louis, Mo., in November 2015. Posted Dec. 10, 2015.
Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., has been named secretary/treasurer of the ASIST Special Interest Group on Classification Research (SIG/CR). Posted Dec. 3, 2015.
Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., co-presented (with W. Buente) “Social media kaleidoscope” at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR): Internet Research 16.0: Digital Imaginaries, in Phoenix, Ariz., in October 2015. Posted Oct. 29, 2015.
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., (co-authored with E.K. Jacob), titled “Factors Influencing user-generated vocabularies: How basic are basic level terms?” has been published in Knowledge Organization, 42(2), 102-112. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., (with W. Buente) presented “The colors of digital world” at the iConference Workshop on Exploring Gender, Race, and Sexuality with Social Media in March 2015 in Newport Beach, Calif.
An article by Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D. (co-authored with E.K. Jacob), titled “Factors Influencing user-generated vocabularies: How basic are basic level terms?” has been published in Knowledge Organization, 42(2), 102-112. Posted June 29, 2015
Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “Basic-level concepts and the assessment of subject relevance: Are they really relevant?” at the Fifth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2015), in Los Angeles, June 2015. Posted June 29, 2015
An article co-authored by SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., and Liz Deskins, titled “Using action research to assess and advocate for innovative school library design,” has been published in the November/December 2015 issue of Knowledge Quest: Journal of the American Association of School Librarians. Posted Dec. 3, 2015.
An article by SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., was published in Ohio Educational Library Media Association’s (OELMA) Spectrum, where she writes about how to evaluate the collaborative efforts of school librarians and teachers. Posted Oct. 29, 2015.
SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., has been named to a two-year term on the American Association for School Librarians (AASL) Standards and Guidelines Implementation Committee. The charge of the committee is to implement the comprehensive plan created to ensure a shared national vision for the 21st-century learner. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., was appointed as the Kent State University SLIS liaison on the Ohio Educational Library Media Association’s (OELMA) board. In this role, Harper will work to strengthen the connection between SLIS students pursuing library media licensure and their professional association, and share knowledge about best practices in school librarianship and professional development.
Assistant Professor Frank Lambert, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Meghan Harper, Ph.D., and doctoral student and alumna Shelley Blundell, M.L.I.S. ‘09, presented a poster titled “Conceptualizing and Implementing Dispositional Assessments for Students At the Kent State University (KSU) School of Library and Information Science (SLIS)” at the Works in Progress poster session of the ALISE 2015 Annual Conference in Chicago on Jan. 27. Lambert’s trip was partially funded by the University Teaching Council Travel Grant at the maximum amount ($500).
SLIS Associate Professor Karen Gracy, Ph.D., attended the Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) at the University of Maryland campus in College Park, Md., from July 13-17, 2015, where she led a workshop on developing audiovisual archives curriculum and presented a paper titled “Developing a Pedagogical Framework to Prepare Archives Professionals for Effective Management of Audiovisual Archives.” Posted on Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Associate Professor Karen Gracy, Ph.D., and SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., served as delegates at the Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums (LODLAM) Summit from June 29-30, 2015, in Sydney, Australia. Posted on Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Associate Professor Karen Gracy, Ph.D., and SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng Ph.D., presented a research poster titled “Creating Linked Data within Archival Description: Tools for Extracting, Validating, and Encoding Access Points for Finding Aids,” at DH 2015, International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) Sydney, Australia, in July 2015. Posted on Sept. 8, 2015.
Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., presented his paper titled “Evolution of Digital Repertoires of Action in Iran” at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) in Washington D.C., on Oct. 31, 2015. Posted on Nov. 24, 2015.
Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., attended and delivered the closing keynote speech at the ASIS&T Special Interest Group (SIG) Social Informatics (SI) 11th annual meeting Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Impacts of Social Informatics Research in St. Louis on Nov. 7, 2015. Posted on Nov. 24, 2015.
Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., was appointed the Secretary for ASIS&T Special Interest Group (SIG) Social Informatics (SI) for the second year and represented SIG SI in the ASIS&T SIG cabinet this year. Posted on Nov. 24, 2015.
Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., presented a lecture titled “Mapping Digital Divide: Spatial Analysis of Information Access and Socio-Demographic Variables in the City of Philadelphia” at the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative in Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 12, 2015. Posted Nov. 24, 2015.
Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., gave a presentation titled “Epistemic Objects and Embeddedness: Knowledge Construction in Research Networks of Practice” at the Northern Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NORASIST) on Nov. 19, 2015, at Kent State SLIS. Posted on Nov. 24, 2015.
Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph. D., presented “Mapping Digital Divide: Spatial Analysis of Information Access and Socio-Demographic Variables in the City of Philadelphia” at the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative in Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 13, 2015. Posted Nov. 19, 2015
Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., taught a session titled “Introduction to Basic Social Media and Social Network Analysis” at the “Internet Policy in the MENA Region: Research Methods for Advocates” workshop for journalists, researchers and activists on Sept. 3, 2015, in Istanbul, Turkey. Hosted by Kadir Has University in Istanbul, the workshop was organized by the Internet Policy Observatory project at the Center for Global Communication Studies at Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Posted Oct. 20, 2015.
One of SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten Latham’s research “places,” at Little Round Top at Gettysburg Battlefield, Pa., was featured in the Faces, Places and Spaces of Research section in eInside on July 27, 2015. Posted on Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., gave a presentation, “Shannon Goes to the Museum: Drawing Lines Across Boundaries,” in Sydney, Australia, at DOCAM on July 21, 2015. Posted on Sept. 8, 2015.
Museum Education Monitor named Objects of Experience: Transforming Visitor-Object Encounters in Museums by Assistant Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., and Indiana University museum studies program director Elee Wood, Ph.D., the “Best Museum Education Book of 2014.”
Assistant Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., was interviewed on “The Museum Life” program on VoiceAmerica internet radio for her book titled Objects of Experience: Transforming Visitor-Object Encounters in Museums, co-authored with Indiana University museum studies director Elee Wood, Ph.D. The book was named “Best Museum Education Book of 2014” by Museum Education Monitor.
An article titled “What is ‘the real thing’ in the museum? An interpretative phenomenological study,” by Assistant Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., was published in Museum Management and Curatorship. The article describes a study of the different ways museum visitors understand their experience of “the real thing” (TRT) in the museum context.
Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham’s research on spiritual or numinous experiences with museum objects was the subject of a blog post on the Museum Questions website: “When is art viewing a spiritual activity?” The blog writer referred specifically to Latham’s article, “Numinous Experiences With Museum Objects,” published in Visitor Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2013, as well as an interview in the same publication in which people reflected on her article and on their own numinous experiences.
Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham’s, Ph.D., article on “Lumping, Splitting and the Integration of Museum Studies with LIS” was published in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science Vol 56, No 2 Spring (2015).
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented a talk (in Spanish) at the International Board on Books for Young People: Congreso Internacional de Lectura conference in Havana, Cuba, on Oct. 29, 2015. Her presentation was titled "Conocer las fuerzas y aprovecharlas: Literatura internacional para niños e intercambio cultural subversivo" ("Knowing the forces and harnessing them: International children’s literature and subversive cultural exchange"). Posted Nov. 3, 2015
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., led a panel titled “Publishing International Books in the United States: A Wonderland of Opportunity” on Oct. 17, 2015, at the International Board of Books for Young People in New York City. Presenters included Martens; Heather Lennon, Managing Director, NorthSouth Books USA; Lisbeth Zwerger, illustrator, Austria; Rashin Kheiriyeh, illustrator, Iran. Posted Oct. 20, 2015.
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., has been appointed as chair of the 2016 Notable Children’s Recordings Committee by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). ALSC is the world’s largest association dedicated to the support and enhancement of library service to children. Posted Oct. 13, 2015.
An article by Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., “Gaming the Reading Experience: Book-related Social Spaces for Young Children,” was published in the special issue of Digital Youth 2(4), p. 29-40, in September 2015. The idea for this peer-reviewed, special issue on Digital Youth came out of the Digital Youth Research Network, which has held pre-conference workshops at the iConference over the last three years. This publication was organized by professors at the Royal Library School in Copenhagen, Denmark. Posted Oct. 13, 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., gave a presentation titled “Vitello Has a Knife: Examining Social Constructions on Childhood and Ensuing Cultural Creations in Denmark and the United States” at the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Conference in Worcester, UK, in August 2015. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
A peer reviewed article by SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., titled “Childhood and Culture Reflected Through the Lens of LIS Education: Embedded Practice in Danish Library and Information Science Education” has been published in the summer 2015 issues of The Journal of Education in Library and Information Science (Special issue on International Perspectives in LIS Education), 56(1). Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented an accepted paper titled “Longevity through participation, reformatting, and remix: Pop-culture regeneration in Pretty Little Liars” as part of a panel called “Literary Culture Live and Online: Understanding Contemporary Modes of Reader Engagement” at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) conference in Montreal on July 8, 2015. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., VCD Associate Professor Gretchen Rinnert and VCD Assistant Professor Aoife Mooney have received a $10,000 College of Communication and Information (CCI) Seed Grant to develop a collaborative children’s app tentatively titled “Animated Alphabet App.” Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., was the co-organizer of Digital Youth Preconference held at the 2015 iConference in Newport Beach, Calif., where she presented a full-day workshop, “Digital Youth Research Network: Defining The Field, Building Connections, and Exploring Collaborations.” Co-organizers included colleagues from University of Copenhagen, University of British Columbia, University of Washington and Rutgers University. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens’ class on Art and Story: The Study of Children’s Picturebooks hosted a presentation by VCD Assistant Professor Doug Goldsmith during a face-to-face class meeting on Saturday, April 11. Goldsmith presented “Visual Communication and Illustration” and provided visual samples of characters from various children’s books as well as illustrated pages and spreads from children’s books, allowing him to elaborate on how character development, composition, color, space, and several other essential design elements were used to establish mood, meaning and engaging the eye. Posted June 29, 2015
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented a poster titled “Through the Looking Glass: How Danish LIS Education Reflects Mandates on Culture” at the Works in Progress poster session of the ALISE 2015 Annual Conference in Chicago on Jan. 27.
A peer-reviewed article by Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., “Reading and ‘Gamification:’ Joining guilds, earning badges, and leveling up,” was published in the Winter 2015 issue of Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). Children & Libraries is the official peer-reviewed journal of ALSC, which is “the world’s largest organization dedicated to the support and enhancement of library service to children.”
In February 2015, Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented a talk on international children’s literature at Akron Public Library. Shannon Schilling and Sophia Louise Van Der Schyf, students who previously attended her International Children’s Literature and Librarianship course, organized the afternoon and participated in the talk.
Along with colleagues from the University of Washington, the University of British Columbia, Rutgers, and the University of Copenhagen, Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., was co-organizer of a day-long, pre-conference workshop at the iConference in Newport Beach, Calif., in March 2015. The event was called “Digital Youth Research Network: Defining the Field, Building Connections, and Exploring Collaborations.” She also served as a reviewer ahead of the conference.
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., published a blog post titled “Evolving the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children’s Video” on the ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children, on April 11, 2015.
At the 2015 Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth held in April at Kent State University, Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D.; Shannon Schilling, M.L.I.S. ’07, and Sophia Van Der Schyf, M.L.I.S. ’14, gave a presentation titled “From Children’s Books to Global Citizenship: The Power of Books from Around the World.”
An article titled “From good to great managers: The case for a structured continuing education program in library management” by Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., and alumni Susan Musser, M.L.I.S. ’14, and Elizabeth Allen, M.L.I.S. ’14, was published in Library Management, Vol. 36. The paper examines the perceptions of librarians toward continuing education in library management.
Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., received tenure and has been promoted to associate professor.
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., titled “Electronic Health Records in Long-Term Care: Staff Perspectives,” was published on PubMed.gov, on Oct. 12, 2015. Her study utilized one-on-one interviews of direct care nurses in a Midwest United States long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) setting to describes patterns of use and areas to improve. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26464335 Posted Oct. 29, 2015
Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., co-authored a conference presentation with Hiram College's Robin Shura, Ph.D., titled "Residents' Perspectives on Living with Vision Impairment in Long Term Care" at the roundtable discussion at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Chicago in August 2015. Posted Oct. 6, 2015.
In June 2015, SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., presented “User Experience of Health Information Exchange in Long Term Post-Acute Care” at the International Symposium on Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR): Health Informatics for Enhancing Health and Well-Being in York, England. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., participated in an “invitation only” conference of 67 people titled, “Designing Electronic Health Record Usability to Improve Patient Safety” in June 2015 at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, D.C. Kent State SLIS was one of 10 academic institutions represented. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., is co-author (with S. Grogan-Johnson, K. McCormick and N. Miller) of an article titled “Results of a National Survey of Pre-Service Telepractice Training in Graduate Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Programs,” which was published in Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, Volume 42, pp. 122-137. Meehan collaborated on this research project as a co-investigator with the Kent State University Speech Pathology and Audiology program in the School of Health Sciences. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., presented “Usability Improvements to Electronic Health Records: Finding Realistic Paths to Success” at the International Conference on Health Informatics in Lisbon, Portugal, in January. The paper will be published in the conference proceedings, pages 514-518, ISBN: 978-989-758-068-0, SCITEPRESS. At the same conference, she was session chair for “Current Research in Health Informatics.”
Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., co-presented a webinar as part of the Health Informatics “HI Pulse” series on Feb. 19. Meehan presented Introduction to HL-7 and the HER Functional Model with John Gachago, Ph.D., e-Health Consultant at JWG Global Ltd in Gainesville, Fla., and John Ritter, expert at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., gave a refereed presentation, “The Evolving Role of Applied Social Scientists in Health Informatics,” on March 26, 2015, at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., is co-author (with S. Grogan-Johnson, K. McCormick and N. Miller) of an article titled “Results of a National Survey of Pre-Service Telepractice Training in Graduate Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Programs,” which was published in Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, Volume 42, pp. 122-137. Meehan collaborated on this research project as a co-investigator with the Kent State University Speech Pathology and Audiology program in the School of Health Sciences. Posted June 29, 2015
Associate Professor David Robins, Ph.D., gave the keynote presentation on “A visual orientation system for e-learning: To use the visual to improve student experience” in March 2015 at the Customer Experience 2015 Conference on UX and Service Design in Copenhagen, Denmark. His presentation described his latest research on how the use of images, icons and symbols helps users navigate and quickly complete otherwise complex tasks on the Internet.
Associate Professor David Robins, Ph.D., has been named the first-ever Director of Education on the Board of Directors for the Information Architecture Institute, a global organization that supports individuals and organizations specializing in the design and construction of shared information environments.
SLIS Assistant Professor Paul Sherman, Ph.D., delivered a workshop on “Embedding UX into Ideation, Design, Development and Release” and a presentation titled “Decision Insurance: Iterative Prototyping to Reduce Business Risk” at UX Strategies Summit in San Francisco in June. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
Assistant Professor Paul Sherman, Ph.D., presented “Ethnography at the Speed of Business” at the User Experience Akron Meetup Group on Feb. 18, 2015, in Akron.
Assistant Professor Paul Sherman, Ph.D., delivered a workshop on “Embedding UX into Ideation, Design, Development and Release” and a presentation titled “Decision Insurance: Iterative Prototyping to Reduce Business Risk” at UX Strategies Summit in San Francisco in June. Posted June 29, 2015
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph. D., and SLIS alumna Maja Zumer, M.L.S '93, gave an invited presentation titled “Application of FRBR and FRSAD to Classification Systems” at the 5th International UDC Seminar: Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery in Lisbon, Portugal, on Oct. 29 and 30, 2015. Posted Nov. 19, 2015
An article co-authored by SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph. D., and Shu-jiun Chen, “Alignment of Conceptual Structures in Controlled Vocabularies in the Domain of Chinese Art: A Discussion of Issues and Patterns,” was published in the International Journal on Digital Libraries, and September 2015. Posted Nov. 19, 2015
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., gave a presentation titled “Libraries in the Semantic Web” at the Australia National University Library to the invited librarians of the academic and government libraries and professional associations in the Canberra area on June 24, 2015. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., were invited by the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) to present a webinar on “Introducing Cultural Heritage Informatics into the Curriculum of LIS Education” in April 2015. The 44 individuals who participated in the live presentation represented 14 countries (Canada, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States). ASIS&T members can continue to view the recorded webinar on the association’s website. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was invited by Jane Greenberg, director of the Metadata Research Center (MRC) of College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University, for a visit and scholarly exchange at the MRC on May 18, 2015. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was invited to give a presentation at the metadata session of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) 2015 Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia, May 15-18, 2015. The session, titled “Dealing with Metadata: Content, Distribution, and Availability,” was moderated by Michael Friedman, American Meteorological Society. Other speakers on the panel were Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO); Marjorie Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc.; Matt Stratton, Technical Lead, IT Operations, AIP Publishing. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., gave a presentation titled “Smart [big] data,” at the Chengdu Documentation and Information Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences on July 10, 2015, in Chengdu, China. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., gave lectures titled “Digital humanities – what is happening,” “Introducing the International Image Interoperability Framework,” and “Linked Data and Open Data, a hands-on experience,” at the 12th Advanced Digital Library Seminar & Lib 2.15 Forum on July 6-8, 2015, in Xiamen, China. Posted Sept. 8, 2015.
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was an invited panelist on the session “A new paradigm shift called Digital Art History” for the International Conference on Chen Cheng-po and Modern East Asian Art History, held at the National Palace of Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 16 and 17, 2015. She was also participating in the research projects and training at the Academia Sinica Digital Center during her visit in Taipei in January.
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was selected to receive a 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. scholar grant to Taiwan.
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., Associate Professor Karen Gracy, Ph.D., and alumna Maja Zumer, M.L.S. ’93, have published an article titled “Using Semantic Analysis Tool to Generate Subject Access Points -- A Study Using Panofsky’s Theory and Two Research Samples” inKnowledge Organization, 41(5): 440-451.
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was invited to give a presentation at the metadata session of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) 2015 Annual Meeting held in Philadelphia, May 15-18, 2015. The session, titled “Dealing with Metadata: Content, Distribution, and Availability,” was moderated by Michael Friedman, American Meteorological Society. Other speakers on the panel were Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO); Marjorie Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc.; Matt Stratton, Technical Lead, IT Operations, AIP Publishing. Posted June 29, 2015
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was invited by Jane Greenberg, Director of the Metadata Research Center (MRC) of College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University, for a visit and scholarly exchange at the MRC on May 18, 2015. Posted June 29, 2015
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., were invited by the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) to present a webinar on “Introducing Cultural Heritage Informatics into the Curriculum of LIS Education” in April 2015. The 44 individuals who participated in the live presentation represented 14 countries (Canada, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States). ASIS&T members can continue to view the recorded webinar on the association’s website. Posted June 29, 2015
Professor Yin Zhang, Ph.D., is coauthor (with S. Deng) of "Social Q&A versus library virtual reference: Evaluation and comparison from the users’ perspective," published in Information Research, 19(4), paper650. Available: http://InformationR.net/ir/19-4/paper650.html
Professor Yin Zhang, Ph.D., is coauthor (with H.L. Chen) of "Functionality Analysis of an Open Source Repository System: Current Practices and Implications," published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 40(6), 558-564.
Professor Yin Zhang, Ph.D., is coauthor (with S. Deng and L. Yang) of "Social Q&As or Library Virtual Reference Service: What is Behind the Choices of Chinese Information Seekers?" published in Libri - International Journal of Libraries and Information Services, 64(4), 327-340. DOI: 10.1515/libri-2014-0026.
Professor Yin Zhang, Ph.D., is coauthor (with C. Urbano) of "Patron-Driven Acquisitions of e-books: New life for the library catalog? A conference paper for BOBCATSS 2014 Annual Symposium." In BOBCATSSS 2014 Proceedings.
Professor Yin Zhang, Ph.D., is coauthor (with K. Downey, C. Urbano, and T. Klingler) of "An Evaluation of Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA) for eBooks at KSU Library," published in Computers in Libraries, 34(1), 10-13.