2014
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., has been invited to become a member of the Advisory Committee for the Enterprise Architecture Models for Education project, which was founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She attended the kick-off meeting in Charlotte, N.C., in January 2014.
Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management Denise A.D. Bedford, Ph.D., presented two papers at the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting, which took place in January 2014 in Washington, D.C. The first paper, “The Ten Facets of Knowledge Management,” was used in the State Departments of Transportation knowledge strategies and will be used as a foundation for knowledge management work within the international transportation community. The second paper, “Topology of Transportation Information Sources and Systems,” was the result of joint research conducted with Lisa Loyo, Manager, Information Services, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences.
Adjunct instructor Magda El-Sherbini was awarded the 2014 Outstanding Publication Award by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), for her book RDA: Strategies for Implementation. The award is given annually to honor an author or authors of the year’s most outstanding monograph, article, or original paper in the field of technical services. El-Sherbini’s award includes a citation and $250, sponsored by ALCTS, which she will receive during the ALCTS Awards Ceremony June 28 at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nev. El-Sherbini has served as chair of several ALCTS committees, as a member of the ALA RDA Advisory Board and as the Vice Chair/Chair Elect of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging's Policy Committee. She has published and presented in the areas of cataloging and technical services management.
Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., is one of only 50 researchers invited to participate in the American Association for School Librarians’ research summit on April 11 and 12 in Chicago. The summit on “Causality: School Libraries and Student Success (CLASS),” funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, will bring together school library and educational researchers to create a national focus and agenda on causal research and provide empirical evidence that school libraries make positive contributions to student achievement.
Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., co-led a session at the American Alliance of Museums annual meeting titled “Re-imagining visitor encounters with objects.” For more on the session, please visit http://www.aam-us.org/events/annual-meeting/program/sessions-and-events?ID=2437.
Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., gave a Pecha Kucha talk titled “And now for something completely different …” at the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) 2014 Annual Conference in Seattle, Wash., on May 16. Her talk discussed her work with SLIS’ MuseLab, which opened as a component of the Museum Studies specialization in SLIS. Latham also began her tenure as the Regional Midwest representative for the AAMG board at the conference.
Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., was invited to give a presentation titled, “What if we build programs around emotions and senses?” at the Take 5 group event, on May 9, 2014. For more information on Latham’s talk or the Take 5 group, please visit http://library.ohio.gov/youth-services/take5.
Professor Tomas A. Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., was invited to guest blog and speak about copyright for the American Library Association during “Copyright Week,” Jan. 13-18, 2014. http://www.districtdispatch.org/2014/01/you-bought-it-you-own-it-copyright-policy-should-foster-freedom/
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., has published a book review in the latest newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., was the featured blogger on the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) website on March 3, writing about Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) compliance on websites for young readers. http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., was co-organizer of a pre-conference workshop at the iConference in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, March 4. The title of the workshop is "Digital Youth: Towards a New Multidisciplinary Research"; co-organizers included an international group of colleagues from the Royal Library School in Copenhagen, University of Technology, Sydney, University of Michigan and the University of Washington. Read more about the workshop here: http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/workshops/#workshop10. Martens also moderated a panel on digital youth at the same conference.
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented a short paper titled “Toward a New Paradigm of (Children’s) Publishing” as part of the Youth Services SIG Panel at the ALISE Preliminary Conference in Philadelphia in January 2014.
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented a short paper titled “Online Community Building” as part of the High-touch Training Through Tech: Approaches to Online Education in Youth Services panel at the ALISE preliminary conference in Philadelphia in January 2014.
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., received the 2013-14 Ezra Jack Keats/Janina Domanska Research Fellowship, for which her project (“Oral History of Children’s Publishing”) was unanimously selected. She will visit the De Grummond Children’s Literature Collection to conduct research in conjunction with presenting her research at the annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival in April 2014.
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., gave a critique in VCD Assistant Professor Doug Goldsmith's Character Development and Design class. The students had previously visited the Marantz Picturebook Collection in SLIS to work on representations of character, using examples from Piracy and American Folklore and legend, from Paul Bunyan to Annie Oakley.
Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., gave a talk on Nov. 22 in conjunction with Kent State's International Education Week. Her presentation, "International Children's Literature and Librarianship," was simultaneously broadcast as a webinar (with 75 people registered) to promote the eponymous course she is teaching in summer 2014, which will go to Denmark.
Assistant Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., was quoted in a June 6, 2014, Columbus Dispatch article about the changing role of libraries and librarians.
Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., presented a poster at the 2014 Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Health IT Summit, held June 22-24, 2014, in Baltimore, Md. Meehan’s poster, titled “Use of Electronic Health Records in LTPAC: Qualitative Case Study of Early Adopter Facility,” represented Meehan’s qualitative analysis of a long-term post-acute care center, which adopted a new system technology, the electronic health record, for maintaining residents’ health and medical records. Meehan’s poster can be viewed on the conference website athttp://www.ahima.org/events/2014june-ltpac.
Associate Professor David Robins, Ph.D., presented “Eating Our Own Dog Food: Architecting the Kent State User Experience Design” at the World Information Architecture Day in New York City on Feb. 15, 2014.
Assistant Professor Daniel Roland, Ph.D., and (William) Bryan Harris,M.L.I.S. ’13, have co-authored an article that was published in the Journal of Religious and Theological Information, 13(1-2), titled “Information needs of church worship leaders.”
An article written by Assistant Professor Daniel Roland, Ph.D., has made the list of most read articles at the Journal of Religious and Theological Information website. The article is titled “The Response of Mainline Protestant Clergy Members to the Moral Panic Regarding Harry Potter."
Associate Professor Athena Salaba, Ph.D,has been elected to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) Review Group as the only representative from a U.S. university. Members of the Review Group are elected by members of the Cataloguing Section Standing Committee. One of the major purposes of the FRBR Review Group is to consolidate the three parts of the FRBR conceptual models into one comprehensive reference model, the FRBR family of models.
John Simmons, an adjunct faculty member who teaches in the museum studies specialization in SLIS, has published a book titled Fluid Preservation: A Comprehensive Reference (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014).
Associate Professor Don A. Wicks, Ph.D., will assume the role of Coordinator of Doctoral Education for the College of Communication and Information following the retirement of current coordinator, George Cheney, Ph.D., at the end of June. Wicks led the School of Library and Information Science as interim director for more than two years, and co-founded the Center for the Study of Information and Religion, which sponsors an academic journal and annual conferences and symposia. Wicks has also served on the doctoral studies committee for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Associate Professor Don Wicks, Ph.D., presented a paper at the Conference of the International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research (IOSSBR) in Atlantic City, N.J., on April 11. The paper, co-authored by CCI doctoral student Omer Farooq, M.L.I.S. ’12, is titled “Preaching Beyond the Pulpit: How Churches Disseminate Their Message.” It examines how churches use the Internet and social media to extend their outreach.
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., is featured as "Scholar of the Month" for February on the home page of the Kent State University website.
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., has been elected inaugural chair of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Advisory Board. The international board consists of 66 members representing nearly 20 countries. DCMI is an open organization that supports shared innovation in metadata design and best practices across a broad range of purposes and business models.
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., is co-author, with Joan S. Mitchell and alumna Maja Zumer, M.L.S. ’93, of "Modeling Classification Systems in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts," published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 52(1): 90-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2013.845620
Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., is co-author, with Jin Zhang, of “A New Similarity Measure for Subject Hierarchical Structures,” published in Journal of Documentation.