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Faculty Activities - 2007/08

Professor Lois Chan spent the week of the spring break, March 10-15, at the University of Can Tho (Can Tho, Vietnam), as a speaker at the Dewey Decimal Classification Workshop, attended by more than 70 librarians and library educators from various parts of Vietnam.
A 2008 report by the publisher Wiley-Blackwell identifies an article by authors affiliated with UK-SLIS as among the top 20 highest-cited papers for the journal JASIST during the period of 1999-2007. Ranked 12th in the list is an article written by SLIS Professor Donald O. Case and 1999 SLIS graduate Georgeanne M. Higgins: Case, D. & Higgins, G. (2000). How can we investigate citation behavior? A study of reasons for citing literature in Communication. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51 (7), 635-645.
Professor Sujin Kim has published:
- Kim, S. and Chung, DS. (2007). Cluster analysis of Cancer blog user. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 94 (4):445-450.
- Kim, S. and Gilbertson J. (2007). Information requirements of cancer center researchers focusing on human biological samples and associated data. Information Processing & Management, 43 (5): 1383-1401.
- Chung, DS and Kim, S. (2008). Blogging Activity Among Cancer Patients and Their Companions: Uses, Gratifications and Predictors of Outcomes, Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology. 59(2)1-11.
Professor Sujin Kim has been invited to speak in the Annual meeting of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories: A Division of the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP), held in Singapore between May 31 and June 2, 2007 to present her collaborative work experience with a National Korean Human Biological Specimen Bank Network.
Professor Reynolds presented to the Northern Kentucky Children’s and Young Adult Services Librarians at their KDLA regional meeting. The presentation is entitled Bibliocognition and Collection Development on November 16th.
Professor Reynolds attended the 2007 ALAN Workshop, Helping Teens Discover a Sense of "Place" and "Self" through Young Adult Literature , (NCTE Post Conference) in New York City, November 19–20th.
Professor Case has been elected ASIST “President-Elect” as of October 24, 2007. His term as ASIST President begins in November 2008.
Professor Jackie White has been given the Carol J Parris Mentoring Award from the Kentucky Library Association at their fall conference in recognition of her work with school library media specialists across the state.
Professor Case presented a paper, "Do genealogists collect family medical histories?" at the 12th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR), in Sheffield, England, July 18-20, 2007.
Dr. Case participated in a panel on health and technology at the 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies, held at Michigan State U., in June, 2007.
Lois Mai Chan has published, Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction. 3rd edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Professor Kwan Yi presented a research paper, "A Pilot Study of Enhancing Subject Discovery of Textual Web Resources," at the 35th Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS), Montreal, May 12, 2007.
In press publications by Professor Kwan Yi:
- "Automated Text Classification Using Library Classification Schemes: Trends, Issues, and Challenges" Journal of International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control, 36(4), October - December 2007.
- "Hyperlink Analysis for the Visibility of Canadian LIS School Websites" Online Information Review.

Faculty Events and Activities - 2005/06:

Professor Kwan Yi presented a paper, "Boosting for Text Classification with Subject Headings," at the Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS), Toronto, Canada, June 1-3, 2006.
Dr. Donald Case has written a chapter entitled "Information Behavior" for the Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, volume 40, edited by Blaise Cronin.
On April 3, 2006, Professor Donald Case delivered the Annual Alice Smith Lecture at the University of South Florida School of Library and Information Science, in Tampa, Florida.
Professor Donald Case will present a paper, "'Trust in e-Commerce versus F2F markets," at the 2006 Congress of the Americas, Lima, Peru, August 3-5, 2006.
The Annual Meeting of the ASIST, in Austin, Texas, this November, features a panel on the information seeking of hobbyists; Dr. Donald Case will be one of the presenters.
Professor Joseph Miller has published "The Internet has changed like, everything" in Kentucky Libraries Spring 2006 Vol 70, no. 2: 4-9.
Professor Sharon McQueen has presented a paper “May Massee: Pioneering Editor of Youth Literature,” at the annual conference of the Children’s Literature Association.
Professor Sharon McQueen presented her dissertation research for the Multnomah County Public Library youth services librarians in Oregon, the Enoch Pratt Free Library youth services librarians in Baltimore, the Maryland Library Association, the Rabbit Hill Festival of Literature in Connecticut, and the 2006 McConnell Conference in Lexington. She presented her program “Picture Books for Teens” at the 2006 Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival at the University of Southern Mississippi and will present her work on editor May Massee at the 2006 ALA annual conference in New Orleans.
Professor Sharon McQueen served on ALA President Michael Gorman’s Library Education Initiative.
The Scarecrow Press published Professor Sharon McQueen's monograph, "In-House Bookbinding and Repair." This illustrated manual covers various aspects of book repair and conservation.
Professor Sharon McQueen has presented a research paper at the conference "Library History Seminar XI: Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change." The Library History Seminars are sponsored by ALA's Library History Round Table (LHRT). The seminar was hosted by UI at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Sharon McQueen has presented a paper at the annual conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
Professor Lois Chan made a series of presentations on “Library of Congress Subject Headings and Controlled Vocabulary in Library Catalogs,” sponsored by the Latvian National Library, in Riga, Latvia.
Professor Lois Chan delivered a lecture on "Recent Developments and Trends in Library and Information Science Education in the United States" at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and presented a paper on "Metadata Interoperability" at the Third China-US Library Conference in Shanghai, PRC.
Professor Joseph Miller presented “The Internet and Libraries" at the KLA Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, September 16, 2005.
Associate Professor Joseph Miller has been elected to the University Senate.

Faculty Events and Activities - 2004/05:

In May 2005, Professor Lois Chan delivered a series of lectures on “Controlled Vocabulary, Thesaurus Construction, and Indexing Policies and Practice” at the National and University Library of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Professor Lois Mai Chan has published Library of Congress Subject Headings: Principles and Application. 4th edition. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, May 2005.
Assistant Professor Jackie White has been named the 2005 SLIS Alumna of the Year
Professor Donald Case has been elected a Director of ASIST and served as a member of the Conference Planning Committees for ASIST 2004 and ALISE 2005.
Professor Donald Case has recently published or submitted:
- Johnson, J. D., Andrews, J. E., Case, D.O., & Allard, S.L. (2005). Genomics: The perfect information seeking research problem. Journal of Health Communication, 10 (3), (in press).
- Case, D., Johnson, J.D., Andrews, J.E., & Allard, S.L. (2005). Avoiding versus seeking: The relationship of information seeking to avoidance, blunting, coping, dissonance and related concepts. Journal of the Medical Libraries Association,(in press).
- Johnson, J.D., Case, D., Andrews, J.E., Allard, S.L. & Johnson, N.E. (2005). Fields and pathways: contrasting or complementary views of information seeking. Info. Processing & Management,(in press).
Professor Lois Chan delivered the Lazerow Lecture at the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons College, Boston, in October.
Professor Jackie White presented professional development sessions to the Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference, the Kentucky Parent Teacher Association Conference, the Kentucky School Media Association Summer Refresher and the Kentucky Library Association Conference during spring through fall 2004.

Highlights of faculty activities for the 2003/04 academic year:

Projessor Jackie presented Multimedia and Copyright Issues for the KET professional development conference, July 18, 19, 2004.
Professor Lois Chan presented a paper on Library Education in the United States, The 2004 KIT/CLIR (Kanazawa Institute of Technology/Council on Library and Information Resources) International Roundtable for Library and Information Science, Kanazawa, Japan, July 2004.
Professor Lois Chan presented a paper on Interoperability among Knowledge Organization Schemes, ALA Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, June 2004
Professor Lois Chan was the keynote speaker at the International Seminar on Subject Access to Information, Helsinki, Finland, April 2004
Recent publications by Professor Lois Chan: Dewey Decimal Classification: Principles and Application, 3rd ed., published by OCLC; and, “Trends and Issues in Establishing Interoperability among Knowledge Organization Systems,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55(5) (March 2004).
Professor Case's book, Looking for Information, will be published in Korean. Inquries have been made to the publisher about translating it into Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese & Spanish, as well.
J. David Johnson, Donald O. Case, and James E. Andrews of UK's CCIS, along with former UK-SLIS student
Suzanne L. Allard (now teaching at UT), published an article entitled "Genomics: The perfect information seeking research problem," in the Journal of Health Communication .
January, 2004: Assistant Professor Jackie White has been appointed to the AASL Teaching for Learning Committee and the State Advisory Council for Libraries, KDLA.
Associate Professor Joseph Miller published "PC Security in a Networked World" in Kentucky Libraries volume 67 number 4, 18-22.
Donald Case accepted the 2003 ASIST Best Information Science Book Award for his work "Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior" (MIT Press) at the ASIST 2003 Annual meeting held in Long Beach, CA October 19 -22, 2003.
Assistant Professor Jackie White presented a Curriculum Connections session (with Barby Hardy and Blenda Fields) at AASL Exploratorium in Kansas City in October 2003.
Donald Case, David Johnson,James Andrews, Suzanne Allard, and Kimberly Kelly, had an article accepted in a special issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, "From Two-Step Flow to the Internet: The Changing Array of Sources for Genetics Information Seeking." Case and Andrews are professors in the SLIS, Johnson is Dean of the College of Communications and Information Studies, Allard is a professor at the University of Tennessee, and Kelly is a Fellow in the UK College of Medicine.
Director Timothy Sineath has been elected to a three year term on the Board of Directors of Beta Phi Mu, the international library and information science honorary.

Faculty activities for the 2002/03 academic year:

Professor Chan presentation entitled "Metadata and Subject Access" at the ALA Conference in Toronto in June, 2003.
Professor Donald Case presented two papers at the Annual meeting of the Int'l Communication Association in San Diego in May, 2003. , "Five roadblocks on the way to a definition of information" and "Genomics: The perfect information seeking problem." The latter paper was a joint effort with David Johnson, Jim Andrews, and Suzie Allard.
Assistant Professor Gerry Benoit presented the paper "Weighted Markov Chains and Graphic State Nodes for Information Retrieval" at the American Society for Information Science's annual meeting in Philadelphia PA, November 18-21, 2002.
November 2002 - Assistant Professor Jim Andrews presented a poster, co-authored with Assistant Professor Gerry Benoit, titled "A markov chain model for evidence-adaptive clinical decision support systems" at the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, San Antonio, TX in November 2002.
October 2002 - Assistant Professor Benoit published "Towards a Critical Theoretic Perspective in Information Systems" in the October issue of Library Quarterly.
October 2002 - Assistant Professor Jim Andrews to be a Co-PI with the Dept. of Family Medicine on an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) grant, "Informatics Enhancement for the Kentucky Ambulatory Network".
October 2002 -Assistant Professor Jim Andrews, with Dean David Johnson, doctoral student Suzie Allard, and Professor Donald Case, submitted a grant proposal to the National Cancer Institute to study cancer genetics information seeking.
September 2002 - Assistant Professor Gerry Benoit presented a paper, "Properties-based tailoring of information seeking contexts" at ISIC (4th International Conference on Information Seeking in Context) in Lisbon, Port.
August 2002 - Assistant Professor Jim Andrews participated in a Centers of Excellence for Cancer Communication Research (CECCR) center application to the National Cancer Inst. J. David Johnson, PI. Collaboration with the Markey Cancer Center, Penn State, and Michigan State. The UK CECCR will be a center for developing innovative cancer communication research for impacting rural underserved populations.
August 2002 - Assistant Professor Jim Andrews worked with Nancy Harrington, Gretchen Norling and Leola McClure, from the Dept. of Comm., and with the College of Pharmacy on a Center for Disease Control grant to impact medication outcomes.
July 2002 - Assistant Professor Gerry Benoit published "Data discretization for novel relationship discovery in information retrieval" in JASIS.
July 2002 - Assistant Professor Jim Andrews presented a paper co-authored with Professor Gerry Benoit at ICA in Seoul. "Applying communicative action to inter-group reconciliation" for the Philosophy of Communication Division.
July, 2002 - Manuscript on "Avoiding information," by Prof. Donald Case, Dean J. David Johnson, Asst Prof. Jim Andrews and doctoral student Suzie Allard, was selected as a "Top Three" paper at the International Communication Association conference in Seoul, Korea.

Highlights from the 2001/02 Academic Year

June 2002 - Assistant Professor Jim Andrews and doctoral student Suzie Allard have been working closely with Dean J. David Johnson on grant proposal for the National Institutes of Health.
May 31, 2002 - Professor Chan presented "An LCSH-Based Controlled Vocabulary for Networked Resources," at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
May 2002 - Assistant Professor Jim Andrews has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of the Medical Library Association; elected as secretary/Treasurer/Webmaster for the MLA Medical Library Education Section.
April, 2002 - Professor Ling Hwey Jeng was elected to the ALA Council
April, 2002 - Professor Donald Case's new book "Looking for Information: A survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior" was released.
April, 2002 - Director Tim Sineath participated in re-accreditation effort at University of Iowa.
March 2002 - Professor Chan presented a series of lectures on "Library of Congress Classification" at the University of Hong Kong, March 13-18, 2002, Hong Kong, China.
November 2001 - Professor Lois Chan won the College of Communications and Information Studies Excellence in Teaching award.
Fall, 2001 - Professor Chan published "Classificazione Decimale Dewey: Guida pratica (Italian translation of Dewey Decimal Classification: A Practical Guide. 2nd ed.)"
Fall 2001 - Professor Chan published "Exploiting LCSH, LCC, and DDC to Retrieve Networked Resources: Issues and Challenges," in the Proceedings of the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenges of Networked Resources and the Web, edited by Ann M. Sandberg-Fox (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2001).
October 10, 2001 - Professor Chan presented a paper on "Subject Data in Metadata Schemes" at the Seminar on Bibliographic Control, Sponsored by the Royal Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden.