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Michelle Baldini, School of Library and Information Science Grant Coordinator, is one of 54 women recognized by Kent State's Women's Center as a "Mother, Mentor or Muse." Women are nominated based on being identified as having been, or continuing to be, significantly instrumental in the lives of students and colleagues and as someone who exemplifies the role of mother, mentor or muse.
A paper by Assistant Professor Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management, has been published in the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (Volume 11, Issue 3,http://www.ejkm.com/issue/current.html). The title of the paper is “A Case Study in Knowledge Management Education: Historical Challenges and Future Opportunities.”
An article by Assistant Professor Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management, on “Knowledge Management Education and Training in Academic Institutions in 2012” was accepted for publication in Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2013).
Two papers by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., have been accepted for presentation at the National Academies of Science Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting, to be held Jan. 12-16, 2014, in Washington, D.C.: “Ten Facets of Knowledge Management” and “Topology of Knowledge Management and Information in the Transportation Sector.”
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., was quoted in “Kent State Conference Tackles Knowledge Economy” in August in the Youngstown Business Journal.
A paper by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., has been selected for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning (ICICKM) 2013, scheduled for Oct. 24 through Oct. 26 in Washington, D.C. The paper, titled "Business Capability Modeling as a Foundation for Determining the Value of Intellectual Capital Assets," describes business capability modeling as a technique that enables an organization to concisely represent what it does and to align that view with strategic goals and objectives – in a way that speaks to business leaders, analysts, talent managers, economists, solutions developers and technologists – and supports heat mapping of capabilities to discover business criticality. This paper presents a methodology for business capability modeling and a framework for identifying and auditing knowledge and intellectual capital assets vis a vis those business criticalities. It also suggests a methodology for identifying business critical capabilities and for assigning value to business critical knowledge assets.
A peer reviewed paper by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., titled “Knowledge Management Education and Training in Academic Institutions in 2012” has been accepted for presentation and publication for the 2013 International Conference on Knowledge Management in Montreal, Canada, Nov. 1 and 2.
An article by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., “Creating New Roles for Academic – Public Sector Partnerships” has been published in the Fall 2013 issue of The Public Manager.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D.; Robert Walker, Ph.D., director of the Kent State School of Digital Sciences; Richard Mortell, Ph.D.; Doug Walcutt; and David McGinness will participate in a panel discussion titled “Where to Start in Building an Enterprise Architecture” at the 2013 Enterprise Architecture Conference on Oct. 29 in Washington, D.C.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., and Marion Georgieff, CKO for U.S. Secret Service, will present “Encouraging Knowledge-Sharing Behaviors” at KM World 2013, Nov. 6-8 in Washington, D.C.
A peer reviewed paper by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., titled “Knowledge Management Education and Training in Academic Institutions in 2012” has been accepted for presentation and publication for the 2013 International Conference on Knowledge Management in Montreal, Canada, on Nov. 1 and 2.
A paper by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., has been selected for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning (ICICKM) 2013, scheduled for Oct. 24 through Oct. 26 in Washington, D.C. The paper, titled "Business Capability Modeling as a Foundation for Determining the Value of Intellectual Capital Assets," describes business capability modeling as a technique that enables an organization to concisely represent what it does and to align that view with strategic goals and objectives -- in a way that speaks to business leaders, analysts, talent managers, economists, solutions developers and technologists -- and supports heat mapping of capabilities to discover business criticality. This paper presents a methodology for business capability modeling and a framework for identifying and auditing knowledge and intellectual capital assets vis a vis those business criticalities. It also suggests a methodology for identifying business critical capabilities and for assigning value to business critical knowledge assets.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., will present a paper titled “Encouraging Knowledge Sharing Behaviors” (with Marion Georgieff, Chief Knowledge Officer, U.S. Secret Service) at the KMWorld 2013 conference in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6, 2013.
KM student Charles (Cory) Platt will present a paper titled “Mathematical Languages – Barriers to Knowledge Transfer and Consumption” at the Information Policies in Science international seminar on Sept. 16, 2013, in Rome, Italy. The conference theme is “Scientific Information Policies in the Digital Age: Enabling Factors and Barriers to Knowledge Sharing and Transfer.” The paper was co-authored by SLIS Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise Bedford, Ph.D., has been named to the editorial board of the Journal of Knowledge Management, a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to the exchange of the latest academic research and practical information on all aspects of managing knowledge in organizations. The journal publishes original research and case studies by academic, business and government contributors on strategies, tools, techniques and technologies for knowledge management. The focus of this journal is on the identification of innovative KM strategies and the application of theoretical concepts to real-world situations.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., has been invited to join the Department of Defense Knowledge Management Working Group as an external Subject Matter Expert. The Working Group’s task is to develop an agency-wide taxonomy that will support the Office of Secretary of Defense as well as all branches of the Department of Defense.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., was invited to give a presentation titled “Applications of text and social media analytics” at the Government Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2013.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., D. Daly, L. Gawdyda, L. Marshall and S. Turner presented “Unlocking the knowledge in historical records” at the FOSE 2013 Conference in Washington, D.C., in May 2013.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., has been invited to give a presentation titled “Developing and applying taxonomies for organizational records” at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in San Diego, Calif., in June 2013.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., has been invited to give a presentation titled “Finding the knowledge assets in your contract eEnironment” at the National Contract Management Association World Congress in Nashville, Tenn., in July 2013.
An article by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., titled “New roles for academic-public sector partnerships,” was accepted for publication in The Public Manager.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., will give a presentation titled “Novel approach to evaluating classification schema and classification decisions leveraging traditional principles and measures” at the 5th International Conference Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries in June 2013.
A paper by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., and L. Loyo titled “Development of an Information Topology of the Transportation Sector” was accepted for publication in the conference proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) 2013 in Kaunas, Luthuania.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., wrote a chapter titled “Bringing Order to Chaos: Knowledge Architecture that Sustain Knowledge Practice” in the recently published book Making it Real: Sustaining Knowledge Management-Adapting for Success in the Knowledge Based Economy, edited by Annie Green and published by Academic Conferences and Publishing. The book contains stories from knowledge management (KM), intellectual capital (IC) and organizational learning (OL) researchers and practitioners. Green is a part-time KM faculty member at Kent State, as are two other chapter contributors, Iouri Bairatchnyi and Madelyn Blair. Their stories provide invaluable insights, practices and lessons learned for future implementations of these new approaches to business management.http://www.academic-bookshop.com/ourshop/prod_2584930-Making-it-Real-Sustaining-Knowledge-Management-Adapting-for-Success-in-the-Knowledge-Based-Economy.html
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., gave a presentation titled “Smart and semantic: Stop asking people to manage information and start teaching machines to do it” at the AIIM 2013 in New Orleans, La., in March 2013.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., B. DeVille and R. LaValley presented “A tale of two SAS technologies: Generating maps of topical coverage and linkages in SAS user conference papers” at the April 2013 SAS Global Forum, in San Francisco, Calif. The paper was accepted for publication in the conference proceedings. http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings13/102-2013.pdf
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., has been invited to speak on "Librarians in the Knowledge Society: Valuing Our Intellectual Capital" at the 2013 Ohio Library Council conference at Kalahari Resort in Sandusky in October.
A paper by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., has been selected for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning (ICICKM) 2013, scheduled for Oct. 24 and 25 in Washington, D.C. The paper, titled "Business Capability Modeling as a Foundation for Determining the Value of Intellectual Capital Assets," describes business capability modeling as a technique that enables an organization to concisely represent what it does and to align that view with strategic goals and objectives -- in a way that speaks to business leaders, analysts, talent managers, economists, solutions developers and technologists -- and supports heat mapping of capabilities to discover business criticality. This paper presents a methodology for business capability modeling and a framework for identifying and auditing knowledge and intellectual capital assets vis a vis those business criticalities. It also suggests a methodology for identifying business critical capabilities and for assigning value to business critical knowledge assets.
An article by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., titled “A case study in knowledge management education: Historical challenges and future opportunities” was published in the March 2013 issue of Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, 11(2).
An article by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., and SLIS Assistant Professor Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., titled “Leveraging semantic analysis technologies to increase effectiveness and efficiency of access to information” was published in the March 2013 issue of QQML, 2, 23-36.
An article by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., titled “Comparative evaluation of three types of semantic distance metrics-Implications for use in semantic search” was published in the March 2013 issue of QQML, 2.
An article by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise Bedford, Ph.D., titled “Expanding the Definition and Measurement of Knowledge Economy: Integrating Triple Bottom Line Factors into Knowledge Economy Index Models and Methodologies” was published in the February 2013 issue of the Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise Bedford, Ph.D., presented two papers at the 19th Annual International Deming Research Seminar on Feb. 25 and 26, 2013, in New York City: “Semantic Representation of W. Edward Deming’s Leadership Qualities for Self Evaluation of Leadership Competence” and “Cities as Knowledge Systems: Application of W. Edward Deming’s Systems Thinking.”
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise Bedford, Ph.D.,presented a session on “Looking Under the Hood of an Autoclassification Engine” at a Joint ARMA NOVA/NCC-AIIM Seminar titled “Attorneys & Algorithms: The Case for Technology-Assisted Review and Categorization,” held on Feb. 27, 2013 at George Mason University in Arlington, Va.
A paper by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise Bedford, Ph.D., titled “Embedding Knowledge Management in Public Sector Procurement – Redesigning for the Knowledge Economy” has been accepted for presentation at the ECKM 2013 conference to be held Sept. 5 and 6 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
SLIS Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise Bedford, Ph.D., delivered a workshop titled “Knowing What We Know Knowledge Audits Workshop No. 184” at the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences 92nd Annual Meeting Washington, D.C., in January 2013.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., gave a presentation titled “Competencies and components that support innovation” at Session 457 of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences 92nd annual meeting in Washington, D.C. ,in January 2013.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., gave a presentation titled, “Visioning the knowledge future: Unlearning in synthetic worlds” at the Government Analytics and Information Summit in Washington, D.C., in November 2012.
An article by Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., titled “Visual exploration of the semantic marker of faith” was published in the annual publication of Advances in the Study of Information and Religion (ASIR) 2012.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise Bedford, Ph.D., and Professor Marcia Zeng, Ph.D., were among the co-organizers of a recent NKOS/CENDI Workshop, "Magnet for the Needle in a Search Haystack," held at the U.S. Department of Transportation Media Center on Dec. 6, 2012. More than 70 professionals and researchers attended the workshop. Bedford delivered a presentation titled "The 11 Views of Semantic Search." Two of IAKM students, Jake Spiegler and Thomas Burdick, co-authored a presentation titled "When is Semantic Search Really Semantic Search?" Spiegler was also the master of the WebEx on that day when he managed the recording of the whole day event.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D. and Assistant Professor Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., published “Leveraging Semantic Analysis Technologies to Increase Effectiveness and Efficiency of Access to Information,”Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries 1 (July 2012): 13-26.
Three faculty members received Faculty Recognition Awards at the annual College Teaching Conference on Oct. 24 and 25, including Assistant Professor Belinda Boon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Belinda Boon, Ph.D., has been accepted into the Teaching Scholars program at Kent State University. “The Teaching Scholars for the Early Career Faculty Program is a faculty learning community that promotes shared scholarly inquiry about learning and teaching. Through collaborative relationships with student associates, faculty mentors, and teaching scholar peers, participants conduct a scholarly examination of significant issues within an identified course in an effort to enhance student learning. The goal of the program is to support the development of scholarly projects that investigate and identify significant learning environments.” Find more information.
Professor Carolyn Brodie, Ph.D., represented the Association of Library Service for Children (ALSC) at the American Library Association’s National Library Legislative Day in Washington, D.C., speaking before the White House Domestic Policy Council and Office of Public Engagement on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. As president of ALSC, Brodie addressed the public library role in early childhood education.
Professor Carolyn Brodie, Ph.D., was invited to provide the welcome speech for the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture in Rochester, N.Y., on May 16, 2013. The honor lectureship is tied to several other significant events for librarians and readers of children’s and young adult literature during Children’s Book Week and kicks off the 38th annual New York Library Association Youth Services Section’s Spring Conference. The lecture series was established in 1969 by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), for which Brodie serves as president.
Professor Carolyn S. Brodie, Ph.D., has published an article on “Connecting to Special Collections of Children’s Literature” in School Library Monthly, Vol. 29, No. 5, February 2013.
Assistant Professor Karl Fast, Ph.D., was listed in "Midwest UX 2013, Placing Through Design" on Sept. 26 in Rapid Growth, a weekly e-magazine featuring stories about art, entrepreneurship, innovation, development and the people and businesses that are pushing Michigan forward.
Assistant Professor Karl Fast, Ph.D., was an invited speaker at World Information Architecture Day. The event was held in 15 cities around the world on Feb. 9, including four cities in North America: Los Angeles, New York, Nashville and Ann Arbor. Fast spoke at the Ann Arbor event, which attracted over 200 people. His presentation was titled "The third wave of information architecture.”
Assistant Professor Karl Fast, Ph.D., was an invited speaker at the IA Summit held April 3-7, 2013, in Baltimore, Md. Fast's presentation, titled "The Big Challenges of Small Data,” explored the idea that although everyone is talking about big data, big data is a big challenge only for organizations. When it comes to everyday people and their everyday lives, the big challenge is small data -- at the office, on our phones, in our kitchens and so on.
Academic Coordinator Rhonda Filipan, M.A., M.L.S., presented a paper at the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) annual conference in Cincinnati as part of a doctoral-student panel on feminist hybrid methodologies. The title of her presentation was “Unavoidable Collisions: Interpretive Authority in Feminist Oral History Research.” She received a travel grant from KSU Graduate Student Senate to attend.
Doctoral candidate Darin Freeburg, of the Center for the Study of Information and Religion (CSIR) in Kent State’s School of Library and Information Science, participated on a discussion panel titled “Faith on the Web: Transformations in Religious Experience” on March 28, 2013, at the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland. He and the other professionals and researchers who are exploring these phenomena discussed what this all may mean for the future of religion and religious culture.
A paper by Assistant Professors Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., and Frank Lambert, Ph.D., have been accepted for publication in the Spring/Summer 2014 issue of American Archivist: "Who’s Ready to Surf The Next Wave? A Study of Perceived Challenges to Implementing New and Revised Standards for Archival Description.” They will continue this work in 2014 by launching a qualitative investigation into how archivists are dealing with the new standards in their daily activities.
Assistant Professors Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D, and Frank Lambert, Ph.D., will be reporting on the results of their survey of archivists at the 2013 Research Forum of the Society of American Archivists Annual Conference in New Orleans in August. The survey examined recent changes in descriptive standards and was titled "Who’s Ready to Surf The Next Wave? A Study of Perceived Challenges to Implementing New and Revised Standards for Archival Description."
Assistant Professor Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D, will be presenting a poster titled "Archival Description and Linked Data: A Preliminary Study of Opportunities and Implementation Challenges," at the 2013 Research Forum of the Society of American Archivists Annual Conference in New Orleans in August.
Assistant Professor Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., has several publications forthcoming: “Ambition and Ambivalence: A Study of Professional Attitudes Toward Digital Distribution of Archival Moving Images,” American Archivist, 76, no. 2 (in press, 2013); “The Evolution and Integration of Moving Image Preservation Work in Cultural Heritage Institutions,” Information & Culture 48, no. 3 (in press, 2013); “Exploring Methods to Improve Access to Music by Connecting Library Data to Linked Data: A Report of Methodologies and Preliminary Findings,” with SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and alumnus Laurence T. Skirvin, M.L.I.S. ’11, JASIST (in press, 2013). She also is author of a forthcoming book chapter: “Preservation in a Time of Transition: Redefining Stewardship of Time-Based Media in the Digital Age,” in Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age, ed. Michèle V. Cloonan. New York: Neal-Schuman (forthcoming, 2013).
Alumnus and adjunct instructor Brian C. Gray, M.L.I.S. ’04, was an invited webinar speaker for Serials Solutions: Relationship building leads to research success on Feb. 28, 2013.
Alumnus and adjunct instructor Brian C. Gray, M.L.I.S. ’04, was an invited panelist at ALA Midwinter 2013, on the Summon Customer Panel titled “Web-scale discovery leads to new efficiencies.”
Alumnus and adjunct instructor Brian C. Gray, M.L.I.S. ’04, contributed a chapter titled “Using Google Voice and Chat for Reference at the Kelvin Smith Library” in Designing and implementing virtual reference services: A LITA guide, ed. B.C. Thomsett-Scott (Chicago: American Library Association, 2013).
Alumnus and adjunct instructor Brian C. Gray, M.L.I.S. ’04, was interviewed for and contributed to a case study for “Serials Solutions, web-scale discovery leads to new efficiencies.” The case study is available at http://www.serialssolutions.com/assets/resources/Case_Study_Case_Western.pdf. SLIS alumnus and adjunct instructor Brian C. Gray, M.L.I.S. ’04, was the keynote speaker at the Spring 2013 Indiana Online Users Group event, “The Many Faces of Technology,” held May 3, 2013. His speech was titled “A New Service Model through Technology."
Several SLIS faculty (full- and part-time) were heavily involved in the 10th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning (ICICKM 2013) in September 2013. Adjunct instructor Annie Green, Ph.D., who teaches IAKM 60310 Intellectual Capital, was the conference program chair. Adjunct instructor John Lewis, Ph.D., who teaches IAKM 60307 Organizational Learning, chaired a mini-track on "The Role of Organizational Learning in Successful Knowledge Management Initiatives" and presented a paper titled “The ADIIEA Cycle: Creating an Integrated Framework for Business Processes and Organizational Learning.” Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., presented a paper on “Business Capability Modeling as a Foundation for Intellectual Capital Audits” and was invited to participate in a thought leader panel on “Creating an International Professional Society for the Advancement of Knowledge and Innovation Management. Is it Necessary? Is it Time?” Bedford also hosted a round table discussion with Annie Green on “Are Current KM Programs Aligning with KM Competencies Needed in Industry?” The conference concluded with an open knowledge café featuring five Kent State KM faculty and instructors discussing their individual chapters in the recently published book Making it Real: Sustaining Knowledge Management - Adapting for Success in the Knowledge Based Economy. In addition, a Kent State KM master’s students, Alexandra Winkler, Branch Chief, Air Force Lessons Learned and Solutions Architect, was a member of the program team and actively participated in the conference.
Alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, presented a four-part new directors’ training series for The State Library of Missouri in 2013.
Alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, presented “Communicate with Confidence: One Year to Success” at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference held in Chicago, Ill., on June 27-July 2.
Alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, presented “Build a Great Team: One Year to Success” at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference held in Anaheim, Calif., on June 21-26.
Alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, led a two-day training program, “The Leaders’ Toolbox,” at the 2012 Summer Library Institute: Management & Administration on June 13 and 14.
Alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, presented a five-part webinar on “Hiring a Quality Library Director” that was delivered to state library associations around the country in 2012.
Alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, presented “Be a Great Boss: One Year to Success” at the pre-conference of the 2013 Texas Library Association Annual Conference on April 24, 2013.
Alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, presented a DEMCO Webinar titled “Marketing for Everyone” on May 15, 2013.
Alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, gave two presentations at the Winnetka-Northfield Public Library: “The Perfect Recipe (for The Care and Feeding of a Healthy Culture)” and “Be A Great Boss: One Year to Success Managers’ Retreat” in 2012.
SLIS alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, presented a DEMCO Webinar titled “Tomorrow…From the Beginning: A Time Management Webinar” in 2012.
A new book by SLIS alumna and adjunct instructor Catherine Hakala-Ausperk, M.L.S. ’91, Build a Great Team: One Year to Success, has just been published by ALA Editions (2013). She also recently published a chapter titled “Grant Applications” in Library Management 101: A Practical Guide, ed. Diane L. Velasquez, (ALA Editions, 2013). Her previous publications include Be A Great Boss: One Year to Success (ALA Editions, 2011); “Reaching Little Heights,” book chapter in Children’s Services: Partnerships for Success, ed. Betsy Diamant-Cohen (ALA Editions, 2010); and “Burgers, Baby Showers and Hot Nosh! Success Stories of Community/Library Connections,” book chapter in Partnerships and Collaborations in Public Library Communities: Resources and Solutions, ed. Karen Ellis (IGI Global, 2011).
An article by SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., “Savvy School Library Design to Facilitate 21st Century Literacy Skills and the Common Core,” was published in Ohio Media Spectrum, Fall 2013, Vol. 65 No. 1. Ohio Media Spectrum is an online publication for the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA).
An article by SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., and Jennifer Schwelik was published in the Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, Knowledge Quest,September/October 2013 issue, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 24-28. The article is titled “School Library Challenge: Changing perceptions, creating supporters, and gaining advocates with library advisory committees.”
An article by SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., “School Library Challenge: Changing perceptions, creating supporters, and gaining advocates with library advisory committees,” has been published in Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, Knowledge Quest, September/October 2013 issue, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 24-28
An article by SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., titled “Other Ways of Knowing: How school librarians can take a leadership role in addressing multi-literacies across the curriculum in the school library,” has been published in the proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) that took place in Doha, Qatar, in November 2012. SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., has received the 2013 Presidential Award from the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA). The Presidential Award honors individuals in the library field for their service to school libraries. According to OELMA president Susan Yutzey, "Dr. Harper’s dedication to school libraries is evident in so many ways. As a school librarian in Cleveland City Schools and as a Coordinator of Libraries and Technology at Wooster City Schools, she has brought her years of experience to the classroom as she teaches and advises graduate students who seek the school library media specialization at Kent State University. Her publications, books, book chapters, journal articles, presentations and reviews provide professionals in the field with the information they need to be innovative thinkers. Her service to the national associations, American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and to American Library Association (ALA) Council, affects all practicing school librarians."
SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., was nominated by a member of the Ohio Board of Regents to serve on an Ohio Department of Education committee that will review the Ohio Assessments for Educators (OAE) licensure program, a new series of tests that will replace the ETS Praxis tests for initial licensure.
SLIS Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D., CPHIMS, coordinator for IAKM’s health informatics concentration, was quoted on Tuesday, October 8, 2013, in a Crain’s Cleveland Business article about the growth of the health care IT field. http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20131006/SUB1/310069981#
IAKM Health Informatics Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D., will become president-elect of the Northern Ohio chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (NOHIMSS), taking office in June 2013.
IAKM Health Informatics Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D., has been elected to the United Kingdom Council for Health Informatics Professions (UKCHIP).
IAKM Health Informatics Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D., was elected to membership in the National Institutes of Health Informatics Canada.
IAKM Health Informatics Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D.,was elected to membership in Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland.
IAKM Health Informatics Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D., has been appointed to the national Certified Professional in Health Information Management Systems (CPHIMS) Technical Committee of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The CPHIMS credential is recognized throughout the industry as the international standard of healthcare IT knowledge. The CPHIMS Technical Committee governs the CPHIMS program, oversees performance of the exam, reviews and refines test items, develops new editions of the exam, contributes to plans for marketing and promotion of the certification, and provides consultation for maintenance of a quality program with the guidance of our psychometric consultants.
An article co-authored by SLIS Assistant Professor Frank Lambert, Ph.D., and CCI doctoral candidate Shelley Blundell, M.L.I.S. ’09,titled “Information anxiety from the undergraduate student perspective: A pilot study of second-semester freshmen” has been accepted for publication in the June 2014 issue of Journal of Education in Library and Information Science (JELIS).
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Frank Lambert Ph.D., titled “Virtual trace: A framework for applying physical trace research methodology in a virtual electronic context” has been accepted for publication in QQML-Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, an online, international journal.
A collaborative article co-authored by SLIS Assistant Professor Frank Lambert and University Libraries Assistant Professors Roman Panchyshyn and Sevim McCutcheon, both of Technical Services, was accepted for publication in Public Library Quarterly. In his message indicating acceptance of their article, “Resource Description and Access (RDA) and Ohio Public Libraries,” PLQ editor Glen Holt wrote, “Your article is first rate. It is exactly the sort of scholarly case study which the profession does not see often enough. It is especially important because it addresses public library cataloging issues which can only be described as a lacuna in library literature. Because of its topicality and quality, I wanted to publish your article quickly. I moved a few other articles (accepted but not yet scheduled with their authors) out of its way and inserted it as the lead piece in PLQ 32-3.” Holt added that the article “was accepted without recommendations for content or stylistic changes. That acceptance involved no recommendations for editing, the second of only two submissions that received such a high recommendation in the eight years I have been editing PLQ.”
SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., served on a panel on “Open Storage Exhibits for the 21st Century” at the Mountain Plains Museums Association conference in Lincoln, Neb., in October 2013. According to the conference description, “The popularity of programs like ‘Antiques Road Show’ indicates that the public is very interested in artifacts. Museums can show off more stuff, with more information, by revisiting and revising the old open storage concepts.” Other members of the panel included Steve Friesen (chair), Director, Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, Golden, Colo., and Chuck Regier, Curator of Exhibits, Kauffman Museum, North Newton, Kans.
SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., is the co-author (with Elee Wood) of The Objects of Experience: Transforming Visitor-Object Encounters in Museums. The book will be available from Left Coast Press in November 2013, both as an ebook and in print. According to one advance review: "A delight to read. In laying out the theoretical foundations, the Object Knowledge Framework, and the practical strategies, Wood and Latham have given us something brand new to cogitate in the field. I love the blend of scholarship and practical application. The authors have taken some difficult concepts and made them easy to understand. This book could be extremely useful for curators to think about the ways that visitors think about the objects in an easy and intriguing way." - Donna R. Braden, Curator of Public Life, The Henry Ford
A paper by SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., “What is the ‘real thing’ in the museum?” was accepted for presentation at The Document Academy in June 2013 in Tromso, Norway. At the same conference she will co-present a poster with her husband, archaeologist Mark Latham, M.A., RPA, on “Playing Around with Knives,” using an ancient stone tool (called a “white knife” by the modern tribal elders) to see how they can connect their two professional worlds through document studies. The center of the experiment is a unique white biface preform from the Late Prehistoric period in southern Wyoming, unearthed by Mark Latham in 2000.
SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., will chair a session on “Object Knowledge,” highlighting current research about museum objects and visitors, at the Visitor Studies Association Conference (VSA) in July 2013 in Milwaukee, Wis. At that conference she also will give a presentation on findings from her most current research, “Project Real Thing,” a phenomenographic study with adult visitors at various museums investigating their perceptions of “the real thing”—about museum objects and how they are perceived to be different from replicas or representations of objects and the impact on visitor engagement.
SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., is a project consultant on the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Mobile Museums Initiative (MMI), a project created by The Center for Public History + Digital Humanities (CPHDH) and the Ohio Historical Society (OHS) to explore the best technological and interpretive practices associated with mobile interpretation in museums.
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., titled “Numinous Experiences With Museum Objects” was published in the journal Visitor Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2013, pp.3-20. The editor and board have selected this article as the ”free-access” article for this issue of Visitor Studies, which means that people will be able to download copies of the article from April to October as a sample of the journal. In addition, the article will be used as the centerpoint of a reflection from different museum professionals that are then posted on the VSA website. Latham’s article can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10645578.2013.767728.
SLIS was well represented at the 2013 ASIST Conference in Montreal in November: Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., “The Concept Formerly Known as Information” (with Dr. Jenna Hartel, Karen Pollock, and Rebecca Noone, University of Toronto; Dr. Jens-Erik Mai, University of Copenhagen; Dr. Marcia Bates, University of California, Los Angeles); Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., “Maximizing the Usage of Value Vocabularies in the Linked Data Ecosystem” (with Edward T. O’Neill and SLIS alumnus Jeff Mixter, OCLC Research; Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana; Xia Lin, Drexel University); Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., “The Ten Commandments for Knowledge Behavior” (with Heather D. Pfeiffer, Akamai Physics, Inc.); and Professor Yin Zhang, Ph.D., presenting three posters, “Ebooks vs. Print Books: Readers’ Choices and Preferences across Contexts” (with CCI doctoral student Sonali Kudva); “Library Catalog as a Tool for E-Book Discovery and Access in Patron-Driven Acquisition (PDA): A Case Study” (with Cristóbal Urbano, Universitat de Barcelona, visiting scholar from Spain; and Kay Downey and Tom Klingler from KSU Libraries); “Social Q&A vs. Library Virtual Reference: User Choices and Comparisons” (with Shengli Deng, Wuhan University, visiting scholar from China).
SLIS Director Tomas A. Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., presented his paper “Click Here to Cloud: Issues in Cloud Computing EULAs or TOS Agreements” at the 4th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW2013), Sept. 4-6, 2013, Limerick, Ireland.
SLIS Director Tomas A. Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., and Kathrine Henderson, wrote “Hate Speech” in The Handbook of Intellectual Freedom Concepts (Rory Litwin, editor, forthcoming 2013 or 2014).
SLIS Director Tomas A. Lipinski, Ph.D., has recently published The Librarian’s Legal Companion for Licensing Information Resources and Services (ALA Neal-Schuman, 2013), “a definitive source book for information licensing in libraries, including copyright and contract matters, general contract law concepts, developments in online and information contracting; and the advantages and disadvantages of licensing.”
An article by SLIS Director Tomas A. Lipinski, Ph.D., titled “Law vs. Ethics: Conflict and Contrast in Laws Affecting the Role of Libraries, Schools, and Other Information Intermediaries,” was published in Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 21, No. 2, Fall 2012, pp. 71-103.
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D.,"The Librarian Lion: Constructing Children's Literature Through Connections, Capital, and Criticism,"has been published in the October 2013 issue of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, Volume 54, Number 4.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., is author of a blog posting titled “Digital Content: Training Future Librarians” on the ALSCblog, the official blog of the Association for Library Service to Children:http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2013/09/digital-content-training-future-librarians/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AlscBlog+%28ALSC+Blog%29
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., along with Drs. Cindy Welch, Danilo Baylen, Anthony Bernier, and Joyce Valenza, will serve on the ALISE 2014 Youth Services panel organized by Welch. It’s titled “High-touch Training Through Tech: Approaches to Online Education in Youth Services.” Martens also will give a lightning talk on “Entrepreneurial Trends in Children’s and Young Adult Print and Digital Publishing” at the ALISE’s Youth SIG.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., is the co-organizer of a half-day workshop titled “Digital Youth: Towards A New Multidisciplinary Research Network,” which will be held at the iConference 2014 in Berlin from March 4-7. In addition to Martens, the international team of organizers includes Dr. Beth Junker and Dr. Gitte Balling, Royal Library School in Copenhagen; Dr. Eliza Dresang, Dr. Karen Fisher, Dr. Katie Davis, University of Washington; Dr. Allison Druin, University of Maryland; and Dr. Sarita Yardi, University of Michigan.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., has authored a book chapter, “Reading the Readers: Tracking Visible Online Reading Audiences,” which will be included in the international collection Plotting the Reading Experience Theory/Practice/Politics, scheduled for publication by the University of Toronto and edited by Knut Oterholm and Kjell Ivar Skerdingstad, from the Oslo and Akershus University College for Applied Sciences, Norway; Lynn (E.F.) McKechnie and Paulette M. Rothbauer, from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., has been accepted for the October 2013 issue of The Journal of Education in Library and Information Science. The article is titled “The Librarian Lion: Constructing children’s literature through connections, capital, and criticism.”
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., “Considerations of how children think: Danish children’s response to the International Children’s Digital Library” will be published in 2013 in New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented her paper on “Books, Gamification and the Imagination: Multiplatform Books for Young Readers” at The Child and the Book Conference in Padua, Italy, in March 2013.
A paper by SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., has been accepted for presentation at the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Conference in Maastricht, Belgium, in August 2013. The paper is titled “Marketers, Authors, and Readers: Redefining Roles within Multiple Mediascapes of Children’s Literature.”
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., will present her paper titled “Geographies of the Young Adult Novel: Imagined Communities of Readers” at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference in Philadelphia, Pa., in July 2013.
A paper by SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., “Reading the Readers: Tracking Visible Online Reading Audiences,” has been accepted for presentation at the Researching the Reading Experience Conference in Oslo, Norway, in June 2013.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented “Connecting to Special Collections of Children’s Literature,” with colleagues Carolyn Brodie, Ph.D., SLIS professor, and Meghan Harper, Ph.D., SLIS associate professor, at the “29th Annual Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth” in Kent, Ohio, in April 2013.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., was invited to speak at Rutgers University as part of the Distinguished Alumni Panel in April 2013. Her talk was titled “From Doctoral Student to Assistant Professor: A View from the Field of LIS.” She also served as juror for doctoral students’ interactive practicum displays.
SLIS Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., will present at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) conference on Oct. 25 with SLIS alumna and current Outreach Librarian at the University of Akron, Beate Gersch, Ph.D. (M.L.I.S. ’11). Their talk is titled "Building from the Top: Re-imaging Information Literacy One Administrator at a Time." A paper by SLIS Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., has been accepted for publication in College and Research Libraries. It is titled "The Whole Student: Cognition, Emotion, and Information Literacy."
A paper by SLIS Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., has been accepted for publication in College and Research Libraries. It is titled "The Whole Student: Cognition, Emotion, and Information Literacy."
SLIS Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., will be presenting at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) conference on Oct. 25 with SLIS alumna and current Outreach Librarian at the University of Akron, Beate Gersch, Ph.D. (M.L.I.S. ’11). Their talk is titled "Building from the Top: Re-imaging Information Literacy One Administrator at a Time."
SLIS Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., will be presenting at the Ohio Library Council (OLC) Convention on Oct. 10 with Mary Bennett Brown from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Their talk is titled "Negativity No More: Understanding and Minimizing Negative Attitudes."
SLIS Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., co-authored a peer-reviewed article titled “Continuing education in library management: Challenges and opportunities,” in 2013 in Library Management, 34(3).
SLIS Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., co-presented “Feeling Our Way: Emotional Intelligence and Information Literacy Competency,” at the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference on April 2013 in Indianapolis, Ind. The paper was also published in the conference proceedings.http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2013/papers/MattesonFarooqMease_Feeling.pdf
SLIS Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., co-presented a webinar for OHIONET in February 2013 titled “Emotions at work: Examining emotional labor in librarianship.”
SLIS Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., has held professional positions with the American Library Association and the Ohio Library Council. Matteson was on the Continuing Education Committee from 2011-2013 and co-chair in 2013. Both positions were part of the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA), a division of the American Library Association. Matteson also holds a position with the Ohio Library Council in the Human Resources and Trainer Development Division Council (2012-14).
SLIS was well represented at the Ohio Library Council annual conference and expo on Oct. 9, 10 and 11, 2013: Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., and Mary Bennett-Brown, “Negativity No More: Understanding and Minimizing Negative Attitudes”; Director Tomas A. Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., “Free Speech: Alive and Well” and “Licensing Perils and Pitfalls”; Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., Jennifer Donley, Natalie Henrich, and SLIS lecturer Nancy Lensenmayer, panel discussion on “Librarians in the Knowledge Society: Learning to Value Our Intellectual Capital."
A paper by Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., Associate Professor Athena Salaba, Ph.D., Professor Yin Zhang, Ph.D., and Associate Lecturer Mary Anne Nichols, M.L.S., was accepted for presentation at the ALISE 2014 conference in January. Matteson and Salaba will deliver the paper, "Perceptions of course delivery format: A challenge for excellence."
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca A. Meehan, Ph.D., will present a poster on “Electronic Health Records in Long Term Care: Experience of End Users” at the Gerontological Society of America on Nov. 20 in New Orleans.
An article by SLIS Associate Lecturer Mary Anne Nichols titled “Reality Check: Teaching Future Leaders in Teen Services” was published in VOYA, v. 36 n. 2 (June 2013). Her article was one of a series looking at the creation of a young adult librarian – a teen hoping to be one, the library student working to become one, the LIS instructor, and the administrator hiring one. Each author addressed what s/he aims for in the process.
Cynthia Orr, SLIS adjunct instructor and Library Journal contributing editor, is the editor for “Readers Advisor Online Blog” for ABC-CLIO publishers.
Cynthia Orr, SLIS adjunct instructor and Library Journal contributing editor, has published a new book titled Genreflecting: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (ABC-CLIO).
Cynthia Orr, SLIS adjunct instructor and Library Journal contributing editor, has contributed a chapter on “Readers’ Advisory Services” in the bookReference and Information Services: An Introduction, 3rd edition by Kay Ann Cassell (ALA Neal Schuman Publisher).
M.L.I.S. student Martin Patrick has been awarded the Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship through the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIS). http://www.nasig.org/
SLIS Associate Professor Dave Robins' paper on "The Impact of Findability on Student Perceptions of Online Course Quality and Experience" received the Outstanding Paper Award at the EdMedia 2013 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology conference, sponsored by the AACE/SITE (Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education/Society for IT and Teacher Education). Co-authors of the paper are Bethany Simunich and Valerie Kelly, both of Kent State's Office of Continuing and Distance Education.
A paper by IAKM Associate Professor David Robins, Ph.D., has been accepted for presentation at EdMedia 2013: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology to be held in Victoria, Canada, June 24-28, 2013. http://aace.org/conf/edmedia/ The paper, titled, “The Impact of Findability on Student Perceptions of Online Course Quality and Experience,” is co-authored by Bethany Simunich and Valerie Kelly. This study proposed to investigate whether “findability,” an aspect of usability, is an important component in student perceptions of/satisfaction with online courses and, as such, should be considered more heavily in online course design. Using standard usability testing measures, such as eye-tracking, time-on-task, and think-alouds, participants were asked to find essential course components in either a course with high findability or a modified version of the course with low findability, in order to determine the impact on student perceptions of course quality and experience. Participants rated those courses with high findability as a better overall experience (based on five dimensions). The researchers believe this study to be the first in a series of studies that will eventually lead to determining if findability and/or usability have a direct impact on student learning outcomes and, if so, what are the standards in these areas that should be set forth for online courses.
The July/August 2013 issue of The Sermon Content Review (SCR) is now online. Major sermon topics for this issue include the George Zimmerman trial, racism, and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The SCR is compiled by SLIS Assistant Professor Daniel Roland, Ph.D., in his role as primary researcher in the Center for the Study of Information and Religion (CSIR). Since the launch of SCR in January of this year, it has attracted the attention of several other blogs and websites, including:http://stampstheologicallibrary.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/web-resources-the-center-for-the-study-of-religion-and-information/; http://guides.theology.library.emory.edu/content.php?pid=21255&sid=150785; andhttp://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/journals/. SCR offers a broad overview of sermon message contents. Each bimonthly report covers frequency distributions of scripture texts; references to current issues, events and phenomena; trending words, phrases and concepts used in the sermon texts; citations of information resources and more. SLIS Assistant Professor Daniel Roland, Ph.D., titled “Talking About Marriage and Divorce from the Pulpit.”
M.L.I.S. student Mallory Sajewski gave a presentation titled “Back from the Future: What’s Missing in Music Librarianship Education Today?” at the Music Library Association 2013 Annual Conference held in San Jose, Calif., Feb. 27-March 3. Sajewski will graduate in May 2014.
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine Smith, Ph.D.,"Professional Education in Expert Search: A Content Model" (co-authored with Martha I. Roseberry) has been published in the October 2013 issue of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, Volume 54, Number 4.
SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., was invited to a National Science Foundation-sponsored international workshop on “task-based search” at the University of North Carolina in April 2013.
Darin Freeburg successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on “Information Culture and Belief Formation in Religious Congregations” on Sept. 12, 2013, before a committee made up of Danielle Coombs, Ph.D., School of Journalism and Mass Communication, dissertation co-chair; Don A. Wicks, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, dissertation co-chair; Daniel Roland, Ph.D., SLIS; and Lynne Guillot-Miller, Ph.D., College of Education, Health and Human Services. George Cheney, Ph.D., School of Communication Studies, served as CCI faculty representative and chair for the defense. Freeburg’s research highlights the social nature of belief formation and the impact of religious tradition, pastoral sermons and external information on these beliefs. It contains important implications for pluralistic communication and the social nature of organizational legitimization. It extends the literature on belief formation and information science by developing mid-range theories about the processes by which individuals in religious communities use information to form beliefs. Freeburg is the first Ph.D. in Communication and Information student to defend his dissertation, having started the program at its inception in fall 2010. He is currently a graduate assistant teaching “Tools for M.L.I.S. Success” in the School of Library and Information Science and working with the Center for the Study of Information and Religion in SLIS. In addition, his paper titled "A community of practice assessment framework" was recently accepted for publication in The Organization Collection.
SLIS Associate Professor Don Wicks, Ph.D., and CCI Ph.D. student Darin Freeburg have published an article (with Doug Goldsmith, Assistant Professor, Visual Communication Design) titled "Depictions of Religion in Children’s Picture Books" in the Journal of Childhood and Religion, Vol. 4, Issue 3 (April 2013), 29 pages.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., and alumnus Laurence Skirvin, M.L.I.S. ’11, have published two articles: “Navigating the Intersection of Library Bibliographic Data and Linked Music Information Sources: A Study in the Identification of Useful Metadata Elements for Interlinking. Journal of Library Metadata. 13(2-3): 254-278.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19386389.2013.827513; and “Exploring Methods To Improve Access to Music Resources by Aligning Library Data With Linked Data: A Report of Methodologies and Preliminary Findings. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T) 64(10):2078–2099. DOI: 10.1002/asi.22914. The latter article was mentioned on the news site, HispanicBusiness.com.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., is coauthor of a paper titled “From modelling to visualization of topic relationships in classification schemes,” which her coauthors (Rebecca Green, assistant editor, Dewey Decimal Classification, OCLC; Diane Vizine-Goetz, research scientist, OCLC; and SLIS alumna Maja Žumer, M.L.S. ’93, professor of information science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) will present at the International UDC Seminar on Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, Oct. 24 and 25, 2013. SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., is coauthor of an article titled “Modeling Classification Systems in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts,” forthcoming from Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Her coauthors are Joan S. Mitchell, chief editor of Dewey Decimal Classification, OCLC, and alumna Maja Žumer, M.L.S. ’93, professor of information science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
SLIS Professor Marcia Zeng, Ph.D., received the College of Communication and Information (CCI) Distinguished Teaching Award, thanks to a nomination from one of her students, Connie Godsey-Bell. “Many times I have sent [this professor] an email on weekends or late at night,” Bell said. “She answers my email within minutes. It’s amazing how accessible she is.… She treats everyone with respect and gives everyone great direction.”
SLIS Professor Marcia Zeng, Ph.D., presented a webinar on Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAM) on Jan. 27. It is one of the six webinars organized and offered by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations through the division of Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS). This series of free webinars introduces the concept of Linked Open Data to the agricultural information management community and are offered in the seven UN languages. Zeng delivered her webinar in Chinese language to more than 50 participants from the United States and China.
The International Standard Organization (ISO) just published a new standard, ISO 25964-2:2013 Information and documentation -- Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies -- Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies. SLIS Professor Marcia Zeng, Ph.D., has served on the 12-member working group that developed the whole standard (including Part 1, published in 2011). Zeng is the only member representing the United States on the Working Group.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., Stella Dextre Clark, Alan Gilchrist, Antoine Isaac, Patric Lambe and Judi Vernau wrote a set of short essays titled “Logic and the Organization of Knowledge-- an appreciation of the book of this title by Martin Fricke,” which has been accepted by the Journal of Information Science and is currently in press. DOI:10.1177/016555150000000
Jin jZhang and SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., have an article titled “A New Similarity Measure for Subject Hierarchical Structures” in press with the Journal of Documentation.
Rebecca Gree, Diane Vizine-Goetz, SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and SLIS alumna Maja Zumer, M.L.S. ’93, presented “From Modeling to Visualization of Topic Relationships in Classification Schemes” at the 2013 International UDC Seminar-Classification & Visualization: interfaces to knowledge, The Hague, on Oct. 24 and 25, 2013.
Marjorie MK Hlava, SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and SLIS alumnaMaja Zumer, M.L.S. ’93, presented their paper titled “A Domain Model for Describing and Accessing KOS resources: Report of Processes in Developing a KOS Description Metadata Application Profile” at the Metadata for Meeting Global Challenges 2012 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, on Sept. 3-7, 2012.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., presented her paper on “Modeling Classification Systems in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts” at the IFLA Satellite Post-Conference: Beyond Libraries-Subject Metadata in the Digital Environment and Semantic Web along with co-presenters, Joan Mitchell and Maja Zumer. The conference was held in Tallinn, Estonia, on Aug. 17 and 18, 2012.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., gave her presentation, “Metadata for Digital Collections,” at the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) in New York City in March 2013.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., presented two lectures, “Library Services in the Semantic Web and Linked Data Universe” and “Metadata and Digital Repository” at the United Nations (UN) Library in New York City on March 22, 2013.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., delivered a presentation titled “Update: The State of KOS in the Linked Data Movement and Some Suggestions to the Getty Vocabulary Program” to the International Terminology Working Group (ITWG) at the 2011 Meeting at the Getty Research Institute in California in January 2013.
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise Bedford, Ph.D., were among the organizers of a workshop titled “Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack,” a one-day NKOS/CENDI Workshop held in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Department of Transportation Media Center on December 6, 2012. Zeng's report of the workshop is published at the D-Lib Magazine March/April 2013 issue at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march13/zeng/03zeng.html.