A Study of State-Funded Community Networks in Indiana:

Final Report

Background of the researchers

Howard Rosenbaum joined the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science in 1993. His research interests include the history and development of electronic networking, with a focus on the emerging National Information Infrastructure and its implications for the information professions, the "public digital library," electronic commerce, electronic publishing and copyright, community networking, computer mediated communication, the study of managers and information, and organizations, and the intersection of theoretical approaches in library and information science and sociology. Rosenbaum has been a co-author on two national research studies, Managing Information Technologies: Transforming County Governments in the 1990s (1992), and The National Research and Education Network: Research and Policy and Perspectives (1991). He has presented his work at American Society for Information Science midyear and national meetings, the International Communications Association, the Canadian Association for Information Science, and the American Sociological Association.

He has had extensive experience using qualitative methods in a variety of settings to investigate a range of research problems in library and information science. Rosenbaum teaches in the areas of information networking, electronic commerce, intellectual freedom, information organizations, and social science information and offers continuing education workshops for librarians and information professionals in HTML, web page design, and the use of the internet.

Kim Gregson is a doctoral student in School of Library and Information Science. She has an extensive background in computers and information networking and has worked as a web programmer and programmer. Her research interests include community networking and political participation, and she has presenting work on this topic at the National Meetings of the American Society for Information Science in fall 1997. She has compiled an online bibliography on the topic of community networking and teledemocracy and will be co-teaching a course on community networks this fall.

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