2016
Kendra Albright, Ph.D.
A book co-edited by SLIS Director Kendra Albright, Ph.D., AIDS in the End Zone, was discussed in an article titled “Graphic Novels Surge in the Educational Market” in Publishers Weekly (Aug. 22, 2016) (Co-editor: Karen Gavigan, University of South Carolina.)
Michelle Baldini, m.l.s
An article by Michelle R. Baldini, M.L.I.S., titled “Research Opportunities Abound at the Reinberger Children’s Library Center: A Collection of Special Collections,” was published in the online School Library Connection on Dec. 1, 2016.
Michelle Baldini, M.L.S., & Marianne Martens, Ph.D.
Michelle Baldini, M.L.S., and Marianne Martens, Ph.D., are co-authors of an article titled “Out of the Box and Into the Book: Innovative Library Partnerships to Close the 30 Million Word Gap” published in the spring 2016 issue of Children and Libraries, the official journal of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). Baldini is coordinator of the Reinberger Children’s Library Center in SLIS, and Martens is an assistant professor.
Belinda Boon, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Belinda Boon, Ph.D., received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received. Boon has received this award twice before.
Leisa Gibbons, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Leisa Gibbons, Ph.D., has received the Monash University Faculty of Information Technology 2015 Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence in recognition of her outstanding doctoral thesis, “Culture in the continuum: YouTube, small stories and memory-making.” According to the notification letter from Monash, the commendation “seeks to acknowledge and reward … doctoral students for both the quality of their thesis and the quality of their research. The awards are among the highest academic honors the University bestows, and mark the recipients as researchers of the highest order.”
Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., is author of an article titled “Students’ viewpoint: What constitutes presence in an online classroom?” published in Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly. (Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/01639374.2016.1241972)
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., was co-organizer of a panel titled “Crowdsourcing approaches for knowledge organization systems: Crowd collaboration or crowd work” on Oct. 18, 2016, at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Co-organizers and presenters: Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Timothy Bowman, University of Turku, Finland; Juho Hamari, University of Tampere, Finland; Julia Bullard, The University of Texas at Austin; Barbara H. Kwasnik, Syracuse University.)
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., co-authored a poster titled “Representation of Kanaka Maoli (Hawai’ian) Culture: A case of Hula Dance,” which was presented on Oct. 17, 2016, at the President’s Reception and Poster Session of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Co-authors: W. Buente; L. Quiroga; S. Valeho-Novikoff.)
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “From individual contributions to collective intelligence: A case of cultural heritage institutions” at the Computer Supportive Collaborative Work (CSCW) Workshop, CSCW and the 'Sharing Economy': The Future of Platforms as Sites of Work, Collaboration and Trust, in San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 27, 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., is lead author (co-author, E.K. Jacob) of an article titled “User-generated tagging vocabularies: An investigation of the levels of abstraction of tags across three resource genres,” published in Information Processing & Management. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2016.05.005 (Available online, 24 May 2016). Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457316301364.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., received a fellowship (about $2,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST), to attend the Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems, June 27–July 1, 2016, Stevenson, Wash.
A presentation by SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D. -- "Participatory Knowledge Representation and Organization Systems" at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) SIG/CR Workshop -- received media coverage in the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (February/March, 2016). https://www.asist.org/publications/bulletin/februarymarch-2016/sig-cr-workshop/.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., was elected to serve as a member of the Kent State University Citation and Recognition Committee in 2016-2019 AY.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., was invited to become an associate member of the Caucasus Research Resource Centers’ Network of Researchers in Social Sciences (http://www.crrccenters.org).
MEGHAN HARPER, PH.D.
SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., presented a session titled “Helping Students Who Hurt in the School Library” on Oct. 13, 2016, at the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) annual conference in Columbus.
SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., traveled to Tokyo for the “45th Annual International Conference incorporating 20th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship,” which took place in August 2016. Her presentation (on Aug. 23), “Designing an Innovative School Library Environment to Facilitate 21st Century Literacy Skills,” focused on school librarians’ opportunities to “assume an instructional leadership role and create a facility that promotes instructional collaboration, inquiry and collaborative learning … [and provides] a vital connection to student acquisition of 21st-century literacy skills.
A peer-reviewed article by SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., titled “Using literature to help students who hurt,” has been published in Ohio Media Spectrum – Journal of the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA), 68(1), 45-57.
CHRISTINE HUDAK, PH.D.
SLIS Professor Christine A. Hudak, Ph.D., RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, has been named assistant editor of the Online Learning Consortium’s premier journal, Online Learning (OLJ).
SLIS Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D., has been accepted as a contributing author to the book (tentatively) titled The Handbook of Continuing Professional Development for the Health IT Professional, to be published by HIMSS in 2017. Her chapter, “The Many Facets of Continuing Education,” will appear in the section on “The Importance of Lifelong Learning.”
SLIS Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D., gave an invited presentation titled “Action Research: What is it and how do I do it?” at the 12th Annual Nursing Research Conference sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic in April 2016.
Emad Khazraee, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., was interviewed for and quoted in this article published by Harvard’s NiemanLab about the use of messaging apps to circumvent censorship: http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/02/how-bbc-persian-is-using-instagram-and…
“Turkey’s Internet Policy after the Coup Attempt,” co-authored by SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., has been published by the Internet Policy Observatory and Annenberg School for Communication. http://globalnetpolicy.org/…/uploa…/2017/02/Turkey1_v6-1.pdf
A paper co-authored by SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., (with James Losey) titled "Evolving repertoires: Digital media use in the contentious politics," was published in the online journal Communication and the Public. 1(1), 39–55.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., co-authored a paper titled "A Networked Reaction to the 2015 Ankara Attack in the Turkish Twittersphere" with colleagues from the Ohio State University School of Communication; the paper was presented by Aysenur Dal, an OSU doctoral student, at the Political Networks Conference (POLNET) on June 24, 2016, in St. Louis, Mo.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., is first author on a paper titled "Evolving Repertoires: Digital Media Use in Contentious Politics," which was presented by co-author James Losey in International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan, on June 10, 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., organized and supervised a team of international scholars to travel to Afghanistan (April 13 - May 4, 2016) to train the staff of the National Archive of Afghanistan in preservation and cataloging of manuscripts. The project was funded by The Islamic Manuscript Association at University of Cambridge, UK, and Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at University of Maryland.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., delivered a lecture titled "Basic concepts from Actor-Network Theory & Controversy Mapping" in a workshop introducing sociotechnical theories at the iConference in Philadelphia in March 2016.
Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., coauthored the paper “Exploring Fixity,” which was published in Proceedings from the Document Academy in Vol. 3, Issue 2, in December 2016. (Coauthor: Jodi Kearns.)
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., published a paper titled “The Curious Case of Floating Fixity (and its Relationship to Authenticity)” in Proceedings from the Document Academy in Vol. 3, Issue 2, in December 2016.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., coauthored the paper “A Discussion on Document Conceptualization,” which was published in Proceedings from the Document Academy in Vol. 3, Issue 2, in December 2016. (Coauthors: Niels W. Lund and Tim Gorichanaz.)
SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., is co-author (with Jodi Kearns, Ph.D., University of Akron) of an article titled “Shannon Goes to the Museum: Drawing Lines Across Boundaries,” that was published in the 2015 DOCAM Proceedings, Vol. 2.
A paper by SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., titled "Psychological Flow and the Numinous Museum Experience," was published in the University of Michigan Working Papers in Museum Studies: Number 11 (2016).
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., titled "OKF-Ref: Using the Object Knowledge Framework to Understand the Reference Experience," was published in Reference Reviews, Vol. 30, Iss: 2.
Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., has received tenure and promotion to associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University, where she has developed and teaches the specialization in museum studies from an LIS perspective.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “Visitor perceptions of 'The Real Thing' in museums” at a new conference, organized by the Liebniz Research Alliance, “Historical Authenticity,” on exploring authenticity in museums: “Museums- Places of Authenticity?” The conference took place in Mainz, Germany, in March 2016.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., gave a keynote address titled “All Museums Are Fake (and why that might not be such a bad thing)” at the Historical Administration Program Association annual symposium on April 9, 2016, at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill. The symposium theme was “Museum Authenticity in the Age of Participation.”
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., has been named to the board of the International Committee on Training of Personnel (ICTOP) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). ICTOP addresses the professional development of museums and heritage and the educational preparation of professionals working around the world.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., served on a panel (with I. Vamanu, T. Gorichinaz, and A. Suorsa) titled "Phenomenology in Library and Information science: Studying information experiences" at the Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS), in June 2016 in Uppsala, Sweden.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., published a paper titled "Jungles, Rabbit Holes, and Wonderlands: Comparing conceptions of museality and document" in the Special Issue of the Proceedings of the Document Academy: Vol 3(1) (2016). Latham also co-edited the special issue.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., is co-author (with Tim Gorichanaz, Drexel University) of an article titled “Document phenomenology: a framework for holistic analysis,” published in the Journal of Documentation (2016), 72:6 , 1114-1133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2016-0007
Nancy Lensenmayer, A.M.L.S.
SLIS Associate Lecturer Nancy Lensenmayer, A.M.L.S., received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received.
SLIS lecturer Nancy Lensenmayer, A.M.L.S., has been named to the 2016 class of Kent State University’s “Mothers, Mentors, Muses” by the university's Women’s Center. The award recognizes those "who have made a significant difference in the life of a student or colleague."
John Lewis, Ph.D.
SLIS Adjunct Instructor John Lewis, Ph.D., spoke on “Organizational Learning: The Deeper Purpose of Knowledge Management” at the Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Knowledge Management Association meetup on Friday, March 18.
Marianne Martens, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., published a guest post titled “Media Mentorship, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Screen Time Symposium” on Oct. 10, 2016, on the Association for Library Service for Children (ALSC) blog. Her post describes her experience attending and presenting at the Screen Time Symposium on Sept. 9, 2016, in Chicago.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “Subversively addressing information poverty: Alma Flor Ada, social justice, and the quest for bilingual books in America 1970-2014” as part of a panel called “Dismantling information poverty in cultural production for young people,” on Oct. 17, 2016, at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Other panel members: Nicole Cooke, Ph.D., Graduate School of Information Science at the University of Illinois, and Beth Juncker, Ph.D., Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen.)
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., is author of a post titled "Notable Children’s Recordings Nominees — Summer 2016" published on June 16, 2016, on the ALSC Blog.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., has published a book titled Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement (Palgrave McMillan, 2016). According to the book blurb, "This book demonstrates how the roles of 'author,' 'marketer,' and 'reviewer' are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love."
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., was quoted in a Kent Wired article on March 3, 2016, about the University Bookstore’s celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday and Read Across America event. Martens said, “I like [Dr. Seuss] because I think he’s really a subversive figure in children’s literature. … Children’s literature has enormous power to convey all kinds of messages to children and Seuss’ is a very fun message and a very important message as well, and I also really like what he did for the early readers books.”
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., is author of an invited chapter titled “Reading the readers: Tracking visible online reading audiences” in P. M. Rothbauer, K.I. Skjerdingstad, L.E.F. McKechnie, and K. Oterholm (Eds.), Plotting the reading experience: Theory/practice/politics. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented "The Language of Betrayal: Ownership, Power, and Control of J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website" at the Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing (SHARP) conference in Paris in July 2016. (See Twitter #sharp16 for pictures and discussion generated.) Her paper was part of a three-person panel organized by Dr. Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Centre for Publishing, University College London. The panel also included a paper by Alexis Weedon, Head of Journalism & Communications & UNESCO Chair holder at the University of Bedfordshire, and editor of Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., chaired the 2017 Notable Children's Recordings Committee for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC).
School of Library and Information Science Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., and Visual Communication Design Associate Professor Gretchen Rinnert, MGD, gave presentations on “The Energetic Alpha App: Infusing Quality Using Co-Design and a Focus on Inclusion” at the Screen Time Symposium at the Developmental Media Lab (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago), on Sept. 9, 2016. Martens discussed the subject as part of a panel, while Rinnart led a related presentation and workshop. The symposium, a joint effort between the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Erikson Institute, focused on the time children and youth spend with screens, whether watching, playing, or learning.
Miriam Matteson, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., led a roundtable discussion on “Search expertise in student library workers: Making complex information systems more useable” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 28, 2016.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., presented a LibChat titled “A new kind of MLIS?” at the Ohio Library Council annual conference on Sept. 29, 2016, in Sandusky, Ohio.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., served as a panelist for a presentation titled “Evaluations and Annual Reviews” at the Ohio Library Council annual conference on Sept. 29, 2016, in Sandusky, Ohio.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., co-presented (Kara Reuter) “Real world assessment: Using data to evaluate library products and services” at the Ohio Library Council annual conference on Sept. 29, 2016, in Sandusky, Ohio.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., presented “A Conversation on Critical Librarianship and Privilege” at the Ohio Library Council annual conference on Sept. 29, 2016, in Sandusky, Ohio.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., co-presented a session titled “Promoting Neutrality or Privilege? Academic Libraries and Critical Librarianship” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 28, 2016. (Co-presenters: James Castrillo, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater; Paul Campbell, Ohio University.)
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., is coauthor (with Lorien Anderson and SLIS alumna Cynthia Boyden, M.L.I.S. ‘13) of an article titled “Soft Skills: A Phrase in Search of Meaning,” published in Libraries and the Academy.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., has been named the “Future Voices in Public Service” column editor for Public Services Quarterly. She will work with graduate students in library and information science programs around the world to produce the quarterly column.
Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., and Jennifer Staley, M.L.I.S. ‘04, Avon, Ohio, a College of Communication and Information doctoral student, coauthored a paper titled “Facilitating Long Term Care Participation in ACOs through HIE,” which has been accepted for publication for in the summer 2017 issue of Perspectives in Health Information Management.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., has published an article titled “Improving Continuity of Care in Long Term Care: Impact of Health Information Exchange” in the fall 2015 issue of Journal of Health Information Management (JHIM).
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., presented “New Frontiers: Improving Long Term Care through Health Information Exchange" at the International Conference on Health Informatics, as part of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies in Rome, Italy, on February 22, 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., is lead author (coauthor, R. Shura) of an article titled “Residents’ perspectives on living with vision impairment in long-term care: an unseen factor in quality of life and appropriateness of care, published in Journal of Nursing Home Research. Vol. 2, p. 34-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.14283/jnhrs.2016.5.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., presented a poster titled “Considerations of Health Information Exchange Use for Long Term Care Participation in Accountable Care Organizations,” at the American Health and Information Management Association LTPAC Summit, in Reston , Va., in June 2016. Posted September 8, 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., and alumna Julaine Clunis, M.L.I.S. ’16, are coauthors (with J. Kawalec, B. Caldwell, D. Putnam) of a poster titled “EHR Preparedness Among New Podiatric Residents: National Survey of Podiatric Residency Directors,” presented to the American Podiatric Medical Association, in Philadelphia, Pa., in July 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca A. Meehan, Ph.D., is lead author on an article titled “Increasing EHR System Usability Through Standards: Conformance Criteria in the HL7 EHR-System Functional Model,” published online in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Aug. 24, 2016). DOI information: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.015. Co-authors include D. Mon, K. Kelly, M. Rocca, G. Dickinson, J. Ritter, and C. Johnson.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., delivered a poster presentation titled “Developing Standards for Usability in Electronic Health Records: Challenges and Opportunities” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) annual meeting in Chicago on Nov. 15, 2016. (Authors: Mitra A. Rocca, Rebecca Meehan, John Ritter, Gary Dickinson, Kandace Kelly, Lauralee Barrett, Ethan Budreau, Constance Johnson)
Mary Ann Nichols, M.L.S.
SLIS Senior Lecturer Mary Anne Nichols, M.L.S., presented a session titled “Trendspotting: What’s Trending in Teen Literature” on Oct. 14, 2016, at the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) annual conference in Columbus.
David Roll, B.S./M.A.
SLIS Assistant Professor David Roll received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received.
Athena Salaba, Ph.D.
SLIS Associate Professor Athena Salaba, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “Testing of Prototype Systems in Two Different Environments: Preliminary Results” at the 18thInternational Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, December 7-9, 2016. (Coauthors: Tanja Merčun and SLIS alumna Maja Žumer, M.L.S. ’93.)
SLIS Associate Professor Athena Salaba, Ph.D., is coauthor of “User Testing of Prototype Systems in Two Different Environments: Preliminary Results,” published in A. Morishima et al. (Eds.), Digital Libraries: Knowledge, Information, and Data in an Open Access Society, 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, December 7-9, 2016 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. Publication appears in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10075. Chapter DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-49304-6_14 (Coauthors: Tanja Merčun and SLIS alumna Maja Žumer, M.L.S. ’93).
SLIS Associate Professor Athena Salaba, Ph.D., has co-authored and updated the 4th edition of Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction, which was previously authored by Lois Mai Chan. The new fourth edition (2016) conforms to the Library of Congress’ new standard for cataloging systems, Resource Description and Access (RDA).
Paul Sherman, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Paul Sherman, Ph.D., delivered a presentation titled "The Unicorn is dead: Soft skills trump coding skills" on June 16, 2016, at the EvolveUX Conference in San Francisco.
SLIS Assistant Professor Paul Sherman, Ph.D., delivered a presentation titled "User Onboarding: Patterns and Anti-Patterns Explored" at the June 23 UXPA Cleveland meeting.
John E. Simmons
SLIS adjunct instructor John E. Simmons is author of Museums: A History, published by Rowman & Littlefield (2016). Posted September 8, 2016.
Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., published an article titled, “Privacy and trust attitudes in the intent to volunteer for data-tracking research,” which was published in Information Research, Vol. 24, No. 4.
SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., led a roundtable discussion on “Search expertise in student library workers: Making complex information systems more useable” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 28, 2016.
An article titled “Investigating the role of semantic priming in query expression: a framework and two experiments,” by SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., was published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology in September 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., is author of an article titled “Domain-independent search expertise: A description of procedural knowledge gained during guided instruction,” published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(7), 1305-1322.
Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., is co-author of a paper titled “Exploring the Use of Query Auto Completion: Search Behavior and Query Entry Profile,” presented at the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval in Chapel Hill, N.C., in March 2016 and published in the Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Co-authors are Jacek Gwizdka and Henry Field.
Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., presented a paper titled "Process-learning as a Factor in Evaluation" at the 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE) in Chapel Hill, N.C., in March 2016.
Ben Woods, M.S.
SLIS lecturer Ben Woods, M.S., delivered a keynote address on “Designing the Future of Libraries with UX” at a preconference workshop of the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 27, 2016.
Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., served as moderator of a session titled “Linked Data for Data Integration and Curation,” Session 3, on Oct. 14, 2016, at the DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., co-presented (with Jian Qin, Ph.D., Syracuse University) a paper titled “Linking Bioinformatics Research data and Publications Through Metadata and Knowledge Organization Systems,” on Oct. 15, 2016, at the 16th European Networked Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was co-presenter and facilitator of a half-day workshop titled “Building Curriculum for Linked Data Education” on Oct. 15, 2016, at the DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Co-presenters and facilitators: Thomas Baker, DCMI, Germany; Michael Crandall, University of Washington, Seattle ; Marjorie M.K. Hlava, Access Innovations/Data Harmony, Albuquerque, N.M.; Stuart A. Sutton, DCMI and University of Washington, Seattle.)
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., has been named to the Advisory Board of the newly announced Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) $495,600 granted project for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies (SOIS): “National Leadership Grant to Develop Digital Library Design Guidelines for Blind and Visually Impaired Users.” Zeng and 11 other members of the Advisory Board will provide feedback on products generated in all stages, offer general guidance on project activities, and assist the research team in implementation and promotion of guidelines. As the only academic representatives on the board, Zeng was selected on the basis of her experience with the International Federation of Library Association’s (IFLA) Digital Library Guidelines Working Group and the Association for Information Science and Technology Standards Committee, as well as her expertise in linked data, metadata and digital humanities.
The second edition of Metadata, co-authored by SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and Jian Qin, has been released by ALA Neal Schuman Publishers and by Facet Publishing in London. The first edition was published in 2008. It has been called the “definitive text on metadata.”
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., presented “If You Build It, Will They Come? A Discussion of Use Cases and Barriers of Using the Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) Available as Linked Open Data (LOD),” at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Nov. 6-10, 2015, in St. Louis, Mo.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., coedited (with Robert B. Allen and Jane Hunter) and published Digital Libraries: Providing Quality Information, 17th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2015, Seoul, Korea, December 9-12, 2015. Proceedings (Springer).
SLIS professors Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and Yin Zhang, Ph.D., presented (with Hongshan Li and Serhiy Polyakov) “Exploring Smart Data approaches to the History of Innovation and Invention at Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University,” on a Digital Humanities Panel at the 2015 Asian Digital Library conference in December in Seoul, Korea.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and SLIS student Julaine Clunis (with Vladimir Alexiev) presented “Innovative Use of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) that are Published as Linked Open Data (LOD)” at the first Asian Networked Knowledge Systems Workshop. The workshop took place during the 2015 Asian Digital Library conference in December in Seoul, Korea.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was the invited keynote speaker at the 104th Academic Year Union Conference of the Academic Library Directors held on May 5 and 6 at National United University at Miaoli, Taiwan.
2016
Kendra Albright, Ph.D.
A book co-edited by SLIS Director Kendra Albright, Ph.D., AIDS in the End Zone, was discussed in an article titled “Graphic Novels Surge in the Educational Market” in Publishers Weekly (Aug. 22, 2016) (Co-editor: Karen Gavigan, University of South Carolina.)
Michelle Baldini, m.l.s
An article by Michelle R. Baldini, M.L.I.S., titled “Research Opportunities Abound at the Reinberger Children’s Library Center: A Collection of Special Collections,” was published in the online School Library Connection on Dec. 1, 2016.
Michelle Baldini, M.L.S., & Marianne Martens, Ph.D.
Michelle Baldini, M.L.S., and Marianne Martens, Ph.D., are co-authors of an article titled “Out of the Box and Into the Book: Innovative Library Partnerships to Close the 30 Million Word Gap” published in the spring 2016 issue of Children and Libraries, the official journal of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). Baldini is coordinator of the Reinberger Children’s Library Center in SLIS, and Martens is an assistant professor.
Belinda Boon, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Belinda Boon, Ph.D., received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received. Boon has received this award twice before.
Leisa Gibbons, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Leisa Gibbons, Ph.D., has received the Monash University Faculty of Information Technology 2015 Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence in recognition of her outstanding doctoral thesis, “Culture in the continuum: YouTube, small stories and memory-making.” According to the notification letter from Monash, the commendation “seeks to acknowledge and reward … doctoral students for both the quality of their thesis and the quality of their research. The awards are among the highest academic honors the University bestows, and mark the recipients as researchers of the highest order.”
Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., is author of an article titled “Students’ viewpoint: What constitutes presence in an online classroom?” published in Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly. (Advance online publication. doi:10.1080/01639374.2016.1241972)
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., was co-organizer of a panel titled “Crowdsourcing approaches for knowledge organization systems: Crowd collaboration or crowd work” on Oct. 18, 2016, at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Co-organizers and presenters: Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Timothy Bowman, University of Turku, Finland; Juho Hamari, University of Tampere, Finland; Julia Bullard, The University of Texas at Austin; Barbara H. Kwasnik, Syracuse University.)
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., co-authored a poster titled “Representation of Kanaka Maoli (Hawai’ian) Culture: A case of Hula Dance,” which was presented on Oct. 17, 2016, at the President’s Reception and Poster Session of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Co-authors: W. Buente; L. Quiroga; S. Valeho-Novikoff.)
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “From individual contributions to collective intelligence: A case of cultural heritage institutions” at the Computer Supportive Collaborative Work (CSCW) Workshop, CSCW and the 'Sharing Economy': The Future of Platforms as Sites of Work, Collaboration and Trust, in San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 27, 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., is lead author (co-author, E.K. Jacob) of an article titled “User-generated tagging vocabularies: An investigation of the levels of abstraction of tags across three resource genres,” published in Information Processing & Management. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2016.05.005 (Available online, 24 May 2016). Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457316301364.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., received a fellowship (about $2,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST), to attend the Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems, June 27–July 1, 2016, Stevenson, Wash.
A presentation by SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D. -- "Participatory Knowledge Representation and Organization Systems" at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) SIG/CR Workshop -- received media coverage in the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (February/March, 2016). https://www.asist.org/publications/bulletin/februarymarch-2016/sig-cr-workshop/.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., was elected to serve as a member of the Kent State University Citation and Recognition Committee in 2016-2019 AY.
SLIS Assistant Professor Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D., was invited to become an associate member of the Caucasus Research Resource Centers’ Network of Researchers in Social Sciences (http://www.crrccenters.org).
MEGHAN HARPER, PH.D.
SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., presented a session titled “Helping Students Who Hurt in the School Library” on Oct. 13, 2016, at the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) annual conference in Columbus.
SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., traveled to Tokyo for the “45th Annual International Conference incorporating 20th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship,” which took place in August 2016. Her presentation (on Aug. 23), “Designing an Innovative School Library Environment to Facilitate 21st Century Literacy Skills,” focused on school librarians’ opportunities to “assume an instructional leadership role and create a facility that promotes instructional collaboration, inquiry and collaborative learning … [and provides] a vital connection to student acquisition of 21st-century literacy skills.
A peer-reviewed article by SLIS Associate Professor Meghan Harper, Ph.D., titled “Using literature to help students who hurt,” has been published in Ohio Media Spectrum – Journal of the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA), 68(1), 45-57.
CHRISTINE HUDAK, PH.D.
SLIS Professor Christine A. Hudak, Ph.D., RN-BC, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, has been named assistant editor of the Online Learning Consortium’s premier journal, Online Learning (OLJ).
SLIS Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D., has been accepted as a contributing author to the book (tentatively) titled The Handbook of Continuing Professional Development for the Health IT Professional, to be published by HIMSS in 2017. Her chapter, “The Many Facets of Continuing Education,” will appear in the section on “The Importance of Lifelong Learning.”
SLIS Professor Christine Hudak, Ph.D., gave an invited presentation titled “Action Research: What is it and how do I do it?” at the 12th Annual Nursing Research Conference sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic in April 2016.
Emad Khazraee, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., was interviewed for and quoted in this article published by Harvard’s NiemanLab about the use of messaging apps to circumvent censorship: http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/02/how-bbc-persian-is-using-instagram-and…
“Turkey’s Internet Policy after the Coup Attempt,” co-authored by SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., has been published by the Internet Policy Observatory and Annenberg School for Communication. http://globalnetpolicy.org/…/uploa…/2017/02/Turkey1_v6-1.pdf
A paper co-authored by SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., (with James Losey) titled "Evolving repertoires: Digital media use in the contentious politics," was published in the online journal Communication and the Public. 1(1), 39–55.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., co-authored a paper titled "A Networked Reaction to the 2015 Ankara Attack in the Turkish Twittersphere" with colleagues from the Ohio State University School of Communication; the paper was presented by Aysenur Dal, an OSU doctoral student, at the Political Networks Conference (POLNET) on June 24, 2016, in St. Louis, Mo.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., is first author on a paper titled "Evolving Repertoires: Digital Media Use in Contentious Politics," which was presented by co-author James Losey in International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference in Fukuoka, Japan, on June 10, 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., organized and supervised a team of international scholars to travel to Afghanistan (April 13 - May 4, 2016) to train the staff of the National Archive of Afghanistan in preservation and cataloging of manuscripts. The project was funded by The Islamic Manuscript Association at University of Cambridge, UK, and Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at University of Maryland.
SLIS Assistant Professor Emad Khazraee, Ph.D., delivered a lecture titled "Basic concepts from Actor-Network Theory & Controversy Mapping" in a workshop introducing sociotechnical theories at the iConference in Philadelphia in March 2016.
Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., coauthored the paper “Exploring Fixity,” which was published in Proceedings from the Document Academy in Vol. 3, Issue 2, in December 2016. (Coauthor: Jodi Kearns.)
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., published a paper titled “The Curious Case of Floating Fixity (and its Relationship to Authenticity)” in Proceedings from the Document Academy in Vol. 3, Issue 2, in December 2016.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten Latham, Ph.D., coauthored the paper “A Discussion on Document Conceptualization,” which was published in Proceedings from the Document Academy in Vol. 3, Issue 2, in December 2016. (Coauthors: Niels W. Lund and Tim Gorichanaz.)
SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., is co-author (with Jodi Kearns, Ph.D., University of Akron) of an article titled “Shannon Goes to the Museum: Drawing Lines Across Boundaries,” that was published in the 2015 DOCAM Proceedings, Vol. 2.
A paper by SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., titled "Psychological Flow and the Numinous Museum Experience," was published in the University of Michigan Working Papers in Museum Studies: Number 11 (2016).
An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., titled "OKF-Ref: Using the Object Knowledge Framework to Understand the Reference Experience," was published in Reference Reviews, Vol. 30, Iss: 2.
Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., has received tenure and promotion to associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University, where she has developed and teaches the specialization in museum studies from an LIS perspective.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “Visitor perceptions of 'The Real Thing' in museums” at a new conference, organized by the Liebniz Research Alliance, “Historical Authenticity,” on exploring authenticity in museums: “Museums- Places of Authenticity?” The conference took place in Mainz, Germany, in March 2016.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., gave a keynote address titled “All Museums Are Fake (and why that might not be such a bad thing)” at the Historical Administration Program Association annual symposium on April 9, 2016, at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill. The symposium theme was “Museum Authenticity in the Age of Participation.”
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., has been named to the board of the International Committee on Training of Personnel (ICTOP) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). ICTOP addresses the professional development of museums and heritage and the educational preparation of professionals working around the world.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., served on a panel (with I. Vamanu, T. Gorichinaz, and A. Suorsa) titled "Phenomenology in Library and Information science: Studying information experiences" at the Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS), in June 2016 in Uppsala, Sweden.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., published a paper titled "Jungles, Rabbit Holes, and Wonderlands: Comparing conceptions of museality and document" in the Special Issue of the Proceedings of the Document Academy: Vol 3(1) (2016). Latham also co-edited the special issue.
SLIS Associate Professor Kiersten F. Latham, Ph.D., is co-author (with Tim Gorichanaz, Drexel University) of an article titled “Document phenomenology: a framework for holistic analysis,” published in the Journal of Documentation (2016), 72:6 , 1114-1133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2016-0007
Nancy Lensenmayer, A.M.L.S.
SLIS Associate Lecturer Nancy Lensenmayer, A.M.L.S., received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received.
SLIS lecturer Nancy Lensenmayer, A.M.L.S., has been named to the 2016 class of Kent State University’s “Mothers, Mentors, Muses” by the university's Women’s Center. The award recognizes those "who have made a significant difference in the life of a student or colleague."
John Lewis, Ph.D.
SLIS Adjunct Instructor John Lewis, Ph.D., spoke on “Organizational Learning: The Deeper Purpose of Knowledge Management” at the Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Knowledge Management Association meetup on Friday, March 18.
Marianne Martens, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., published a guest post titled “Media Mentorship, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Screen Time Symposium” on Oct. 10, 2016, on the Association for Library Service for Children (ALSC) blog. Her post describes her experience attending and presenting at the Screen Time Symposium on Sept. 9, 2016, in Chicago.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “Subversively addressing information poverty: Alma Flor Ada, social justice, and the quest for bilingual books in America 1970-2014” as part of a panel called “Dismantling information poverty in cultural production for young people,” on Oct. 17, 2016, at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Other panel members: Nicole Cooke, Ph.D., Graduate School of Information Science at the University of Illinois, and Beth Juncker, Ph.D., Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen.)
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., is author of a post titled "Notable Children’s Recordings Nominees — Summer 2016" published on June 16, 2016, on the ALSC Blog.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., has published a book titled Publishers, Readers, and Digital Engagement (Palgrave McMillan, 2016). According to the book blurb, "This book demonstrates how the roles of 'author,' 'marketer,' and 'reviewer' are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love."
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., was quoted in a Kent Wired article on March 3, 2016, about the University Bookstore’s celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday and Read Across America event. Martens said, “I like [Dr. Seuss] because I think he’s really a subversive figure in children’s literature. … Children’s literature has enormous power to convey all kinds of messages to children and Seuss’ is a very fun message and a very important message as well, and I also really like what he did for the early readers books.”
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., is author of an invited chapter titled “Reading the readers: Tracking visible online reading audiences” in P. M. Rothbauer, K.I. Skjerdingstad, L.E.F. McKechnie, and K. Oterholm (Eds.), Plotting the reading experience: Theory/practice/politics. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., presented "The Language of Betrayal: Ownership, Power, and Control of J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website" at the Society for the History of Authorship Reading and Publishing (SHARP) conference in Paris in July 2016. (See Twitter #sharp16 for pictures and discussion generated.) Her paper was part of a three-person panel organized by Dr. Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Centre for Publishing, University College London. The panel also included a paper by Alexis Weedon, Head of Journalism & Communications & UNESCO Chair holder at the University of Bedfordshire, and editor of Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
SLIS Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., chaired the 2017 Notable Children's Recordings Committee for the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC).
School of Library and Information Science Assistant Professor Marianne Martens, Ph.D., and Visual Communication Design Associate Professor Gretchen Rinnert, MGD, gave presentations on “The Energetic Alpha App: Infusing Quality Using Co-Design and a Focus on Inclusion” at the Screen Time Symposium at the Developmental Media Lab (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago), on Sept. 9, 2016. Martens discussed the subject as part of a panel, while Rinnart led a related presentation and workshop. The symposium, a joint effort between the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Erikson Institute, focused on the time children and youth spend with screens, whether watching, playing, or learning.
Miriam Matteson, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., led a roundtable discussion on “Search expertise in student library workers: Making complex information systems more useable” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 28, 2016.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., presented a LibChat titled “A new kind of MLIS?” at the Ohio Library Council annual conference on Sept. 29, 2016, in Sandusky, Ohio.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., served as a panelist for a presentation titled “Evaluations and Annual Reviews” at the Ohio Library Council annual conference on Sept. 29, 2016, in Sandusky, Ohio.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., co-presented (Kara Reuter) “Real world assessment: Using data to evaluate library products and services” at the Ohio Library Council annual conference on Sept. 29, 2016, in Sandusky, Ohio.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., presented “A Conversation on Critical Librarianship and Privilege” at the Ohio Library Council annual conference on Sept. 29, 2016, in Sandusky, Ohio.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., co-presented a session titled “Promoting Neutrality or Privilege? Academic Libraries and Critical Librarianship” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 28, 2016. (Co-presenters: James Castrillo, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater; Paul Campbell, Ohio University.)
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., is coauthor (with Lorien Anderson and SLIS alumna Cynthia Boyden, M.L.I.S. ‘13) of an article titled “Soft Skills: A Phrase in Search of Meaning,” published in Libraries and the Academy.
SLIS Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., has been named the “Future Voices in Public Service” column editor for Public Services Quarterly. She will work with graduate students in library and information science programs around the world to produce the quarterly column.
Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., and Jennifer Staley, M.L.I.S. ‘04, Avon, Ohio, a College of Communication and Information doctoral student, coauthored a paper titled “Facilitating Long Term Care Participation in ACOs through HIE,” which has been accepted for publication for in the summer 2017 issue of Perspectives in Health Information Management.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., has published an article titled “Improving Continuity of Care in Long Term Care: Impact of Health Information Exchange” in the fall 2015 issue of Journal of Health Information Management (JHIM).
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., presented “New Frontiers: Improving Long Term Care through Health Information Exchange" at the International Conference on Health Informatics, as part of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies in Rome, Italy, on February 22, 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., is lead author (coauthor, R. Shura) of an article titled “Residents’ perspectives on living with vision impairment in long-term care: an unseen factor in quality of life and appropriateness of care, published in Journal of Nursing Home Research. Vol. 2, p. 34-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.14283/jnhrs.2016.5.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., presented a poster titled “Considerations of Health Information Exchange Use for Long Term Care Participation in Accountable Care Organizations,” at the American Health and Information Management Association LTPAC Summit, in Reston , Va., in June 2016. Posted September 8, 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., and alumna Julaine Clunis, M.L.I.S. ’16, are coauthors (with J. Kawalec, B. Caldwell, D. Putnam) of a poster titled “EHR Preparedness Among New Podiatric Residents: National Survey of Podiatric Residency Directors,” presented to the American Podiatric Medical Association, in Philadelphia, Pa., in July 2016.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca A. Meehan, Ph.D., is lead author on an article titled “Increasing EHR System Usability Through Standards: Conformance Criteria in the HL7 EHR-System Functional Model,” published online in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Aug. 24, 2016). DOI information: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.015. Co-authors include D. Mon, K. Kelly, M. Rocca, G. Dickinson, J. Ritter, and C. Johnson.
SLIS Assistant Professor Rebecca Meehan, Ph.D., delivered a poster presentation titled “Developing Standards for Usability in Electronic Health Records: Challenges and Opportunities” at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) annual meeting in Chicago on Nov. 15, 2016. (Authors: Mitra A. Rocca, Rebecca Meehan, John Ritter, Gary Dickinson, Kandace Kelly, Lauralee Barrett, Ethan Budreau, Constance Johnson)
Mary Ann Nichols, M.L.S.
SLIS Senior Lecturer Mary Anne Nichols, M.L.S., presented a session titled “Trendspotting: What’s Trending in Teen Literature” on Oct. 14, 2016, at the Ohio Educational Library Media Association (OELMA) annual conference in Columbus.
David Roll, B.S./M.A.
SLIS Assistant Professor David Roll received a 2016-2017 Faculty Recognition Award, awarded by the Kent State University Teaching Council (UTC). UTC invites students to nominate faculty members who “motivated [them] to gain unique knowledge and insight or helped [them] to become engaged and responsible” university students; more than 200 nominations were received.
Athena Salaba, Ph.D.
SLIS Associate Professor Athena Salaba, Ph.D., presented a paper titled “Testing of Prototype Systems in Two Different Environments: Preliminary Results” at the 18thInternational Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, December 7-9, 2016. (Coauthors: Tanja Merčun and SLIS alumna Maja Žumer, M.L.S. ’93.)
SLIS Associate Professor Athena Salaba, Ph.D., is coauthor of “User Testing of Prototype Systems in Two Different Environments: Preliminary Results,” published in A. Morishima et al. (Eds.), Digital Libraries: Knowledge, Information, and Data in an Open Access Society, 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, December 7-9, 2016 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. Publication appears in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10075. Chapter DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-49304-6_14 (Coauthors: Tanja Merčun and SLIS alumna Maja Žumer, M.L.S. ’93).
SLIS Associate Professor Athena Salaba, Ph.D., has co-authored and updated the 4th edition of Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction, which was previously authored by Lois Mai Chan. The new fourth edition (2016) conforms to the Library of Congress’ new standard for cataloging systems, Resource Description and Access (RDA).
Paul Sherman, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Paul Sherman, Ph.D., delivered a presentation titled "The Unicorn is dead: Soft skills trump coding skills" on June 16, 2016, at the EvolveUX Conference in San Francisco.
SLIS Assistant Professor Paul Sherman, Ph.D., delivered a presentation titled "User Onboarding: Patterns and Anti-Patterns Explored" at the June 23 UXPA Cleveland meeting.
John E. Simmons
SLIS adjunct instructor John E. Simmons is author of Museums: A History, published by Rowman & Littlefield (2016). Posted September 8, 2016.
Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D.
SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., published an article titled, “Privacy and trust attitudes in the intent to volunteer for data-tracking research,” which was published in Information Research, Vol. 24, No. 4.
SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Miriam Matteson, Ph.D., led a roundtable discussion on “Search expertise in student library workers: Making complex information systems more useable” at the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 28, 2016.
An article titled “Investigating the role of semantic priming in query expression: a framework and two experiments,” by SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., was published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology in September 2015.
SLIS Assistant Professor Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., is author of an article titled “Domain-independent search expertise: A description of procedural knowledge gained during guided instruction,” published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(7), 1305-1322.
Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., is co-author of a paper titled “Exploring the Use of Query Auto Completion: Search Behavior and Query Entry Profile,” presented at the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval in Chapel Hill, N.C., in March 2016 and published in the Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Co-authors are Jacek Gwizdka and Henry Field.
Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., presented a paper titled "Process-learning as a Factor in Evaluation" at the 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE) in Chapel Hill, N.C., in March 2016.
Ben Woods, M.S.
SLIS lecturer Ben Woods, M.S., delivered a keynote address on “Designing the Future of Libraries with UX” at a preconference workshop of the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO) annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio, on Oct. 27, 2016.
Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., served as moderator of a session titled “Linked Data for Data Integration and Curation,” Session 3, on Oct. 14, 2016, at the DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., co-presented (with Jian Qin, Ph.D., Syracuse University) a paper titled “Linking Bioinformatics Research data and Publications Through Metadata and Knowledge Organization Systems,” on Oct. 15, 2016, at the 16th European Networked Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was co-presenter and facilitator of a half-day workshop titled “Building Curriculum for Linked Data Education” on Oct. 15, 2016, at the DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Co-presenters and facilitators: Thomas Baker, DCMI, Germany; Michael Crandall, University of Washington, Seattle ; Marjorie M.K. Hlava, Access Innovations/Data Harmony, Albuquerque, N.M.; Stuart A. Sutton, DCMI and University of Washington, Seattle.)
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., has been named to the Advisory Board of the newly announced Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) $495,600 granted project for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies (SOIS): “National Leadership Grant to Develop Digital Library Design Guidelines for Blind and Visually Impaired Users.” Zeng and 11 other members of the Advisory Board will provide feedback on products generated in all stages, offer general guidance on project activities, and assist the research team in implementation and promotion of guidelines. As the only academic representatives on the board, Zeng was selected on the basis of her experience with the International Federation of Library Association’s (IFLA) Digital Library Guidelines Working Group and the Association for Information Science and Technology Standards Committee, as well as her expertise in linked data, metadata and digital humanities.
The second edition of Metadata, co-authored by SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and Jian Qin, has been released by ALA Neal Schuman Publishers and by Facet Publishing in London. The first edition was published in 2008. It has been called the “definitive text on metadata.”
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., presented “If You Build It, Will They Come? A Discussion of Use Cases and Barriers of Using the Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) Available as Linked Open Data (LOD),” at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Nov. 6-10, 2015, in St. Louis, Mo.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., coedited (with Robert B. Allen and Jane Hunter) and published Digital Libraries: Providing Quality Information, 17th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2015, Seoul, Korea, December 9-12, 2015. Proceedings (Springer).
SLIS professors Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and Yin Zhang, Ph.D., presented (with Hongshan Li and Serhiy Polyakov) “Exploring Smart Data approaches to the History of Innovation and Invention at Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University,” on a Digital Humanities Panel at the 2015 Asian Digital Library conference in December in Seoul, Korea.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., and SLIS student Julaine Clunis (with Vladimir Alexiev) presented “Innovative Use of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) that are Published as Linked Open Data (LOD)” at the first Asian Networked Knowledge Systems Workshop. The workshop took place during the 2015 Asian Digital Library conference in December in Seoul, Korea.
SLIS Professor Marcia Lei Zeng, Ph.D., was the invited keynote speaker at the 104th Academic Year Union Conference of the Academic Library Directors held on May 5 and 6 at National United University at Miaoli, Taiwan.