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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, 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."

Faculty Activities - 2006/07:

  • The second edition of Professor Donald Case's award-winning book, Looking for information: A survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior,  was published by Elsevier in October of 2006.
  • Professor Lisa O'Connor presented "Hey, You in the Back, Wake Up!" as a featured speaker of the Library Instruction Roundtable at the Kentucky Library Association conference in Louisille in September of 2006.
  • Professor Jackie White continues as the higher education liaison on the KSMA Board of Directors and presented professional development sessions at the Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference in March, at the LMS Summer Refresher in July, at KLA/KSMA in September.
  • Professor White presented professional development sessions for the Jefferson County and Clark County library media specialists in the fall of 2006.
  • On August 4, 2006, Professor Donald Case presented a paper, "'Trust in e-Commerce versus F2F markets," at the 2006 Congress of the Americas, in Lima, Peru.
  • Professor Kwan Yi presented a paper, "Challenges in Automated Classification using Library Classification Schemes," at the 72nd General Conference of International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Seoul, Rep. of Korea, August 20-24, 2006.
  • Professor Kwan Yi has published: “User Search Behavior of Domain-Specific Information Retrieval systems: An Analysis of the Query Logs From PsycINFO and ABC-Clio’s Historical Abstracts/America: History and Life” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(9), July 2006.
  • Professor Jackie White was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure as of July 1, 2006.

 

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