School of Library and Information Science Academics

Faculty Activities - 2008/09

Professor Lois Chan presented a series of lectures on the Library of Congress Classification at the United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, U.A.E., in May, 2009.
Professor Jeffrey Huber has published Jackson D.G, Hamilton P., Hutchinson S., Huber J.T. "The Effect of Patients' Race on Provider Treatment Choices in Coronary Care: A Literature Review for Model Development." Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice, 10(1)40-63,2009.
Professor Lisa O'Connor has been appointed Editor of the Information Literacy column in the Reference and User Services Quarterly journal. Her first column, which she will author, will appear in the Fall 2009 issue of RUSQ.
Professor Lisa O'Connor has published: O'Connor, L. (2009). Information literacy as professional legitimation: The Quest for professional jurisdiction. Library Review, 58(4), 272 - 289.
Professor Donald Case has received an award from the College Research Activities fund for a project entitled, “Survey of Citation Motivations among Scholars in Informatics.”
Professor Joseph Miller's book Internet Technologies and Information Services was released by Libraries Unlimited in January 2009. He is also co-recipient with Professor Case of an award from the College Research Activities fund for a project entitled, “Survey of Citation Motivations among Scholars in Informatics.”
Professor Timothy Sineath has been named to the IMLS Overview Panel for the Laura Bush 21st Century Library Grant Program.
Professor Stephanie Reynolds gave a speech at ALISE during the Youth Services SIG Panel Presention on January 23, 2009 entitled "Transforming Visions of Youth for LIS Education in the 21st Century.
Professor Jeff Huber has published: Stafford T.B., Myers M.A., Young A., Foster J.G., Huber J.T. (2008). Working in an eICU Unit: Life in the Box. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 20(4), 441-450.
Professor Lisa O'Connor has published:
- O’Connor, Lisa. (2007). The Diffusion of Information Literacy in Academic Business Literature. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 13(2), 105 - 125.
- O’Connor, Lisa & Stacey Marien. (2008). Demand and Supply of Business Information Professionals: A Study of the Market from 2001- 2005. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 13(3), 189 – 100.
- O’Connor, Lisa. (2009). Information Literacy as Professional Legitimation: A Critical Analysis of Early Association Documents. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 47(2). In Press.
- O’Connor, Lisa. (2007). Nice Shoes: Library Education at a Crossroads. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 4(1), 4-7. (Invited)
Professor Miller Banner attended the 5th biennial "Sofia" conference, entitled "Globalization and the Management of Information Resources," which was held 12-14 November in Sofia, Bulgaria. Dr. Miller Banner was one of four organizers for this international conference that brought together over 225 LIS specialists from around the world. More information about the conference can be found at: http://slim.emporia.edu/globenet/Sofia2008/Index.htm.
Professor Stephanie Reynolds reports:
- She is coordinating with the School's new student group Library C.A.T.S. (Children's and Teen Services) to begin a community outreach project: a story time/book club for young members of the Lexington Pralltown community.
- She attended the Bluegrass Award Luncheon and Kentucky Reading Association annual conference in Louisville on October 3.
- Along with a group of SLIS students she attended the inaugural YALSA Symposium in Nashville, November 7-9.
- She attended the annual ALAN Workshop in San Antonio, November 21-25 where she chaired a panel of young-adult authors presenting a program entitled "Love and Other Four Letters Words: Negotiating Young Adult Relationships in Fiction."
Professor Melissa Gardner presented a session titled, "Concept Mapping as an Aid in High School Research Assignments" at the 2008 KLA/KSMA/SELA/NDLC Conference in Louisville on October 4.
Professor Melissa Gardner has been selected to serve as President-Elect of the Kentucky School Media Association. She will begin her term as President in October, 2009.
Professor Kwan Yi will deliver a poster titled "A Conceptual Framework for Improving Information Retrieval in Folksonomy using Library of Congress Subject Headings", at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting to be held at Columbus, OH, October 24-29, 2008.
Professor Kwan Yi has published: Yi, Kwan, & J. Beheshti. A Hidden Markov Model-based text classification of medical documents, Journal of Information Science (In press).
Professor Kwan Yi has a forthcoming book: Hidden Markov Model for Text Classification using Library of Congress Classification: Framework, Design, and Application. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM - Verlag.
Professor Kwan Yi will present a research paper: Mining a Web 2.0 service for the Discovery of Semantically Similar Terms: A Case Study with Del.icio.us. at the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), 02-05 December 2008, Bali, Indonesia.
Professor Lois Mai Chan presented “The Future of Subject Access in the 21st Century: Thoughts on the Future of LCSH,” at the 101st AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) Annual Meeting & Conference, July 14, 2008 in Portland, OR.
Professors Kwan Yi and Lois Mai Chan presented “A Visualization Software Tool for Library of Congress Subject Headings,” at the ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) Conference on August 7, 2008 at Montreal, Canada.
Professor Jeff Huber has published: Huber J.T & B. Varman. Project St. Hope: An AIDS Community Information Outreach Project, Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet (in press).
Professor Sujin Kim was awarded an IMLS grant "to create a standardized metadata framework for pathologic images so that a set of well-described, integrated biomedical imaging information can be efficiently stored, managed, retrieved, and shared." Abstract.
A book chapter by Dr. Case has appeared in print, and two articles of his will appear in 2009:
Case, D. (2008). Information-seeking behaviors, in B. Sheldon & K. Haycock (Eds.) The Portable MLIS: Insights from the experts. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

Case, D. (2009). Collection of family health histories: The link between genealogy and public health. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 60, in press.

Case, D. (2009). Serial collecting as leisure, and coin collecting in particular. Library Trends, 58(1), in press.

See the Highlights archive for past activities.