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Faculty Activities - 2008/09

  • A book chapter by Dr. Case has just 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."
  • Professor Joseph Miller's book "Internet Technologies and Information Services" will be published by Libraries Unlimited in January 2009.

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, In Press.
  • 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 June2, 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 2009.
  • 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, (in press)
    • "Hyperlink Analysis for the Visibility of Canadian LIS School Websites" Online Information Review, (in press).
  • Professor Joseph Miller has a book contract with Libraries Unlimited for the text "Internet Technologies and Information Services."

 

 

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