Faculty News – Full Listing

Posted April 24, 2009

Noriko Hara, Chairperson of the School of Library and Information Science Curriculum Steering Committee recently announced faculty approval for revisions to the Digital Libraries Specializations within the Master of Library Science and Master of Information Science degrees. The updated curriculum will become effective Fall 2009.

Posted April 17, 2009

The Indiana State Library - Career Expo was hosted at SLIS Indianapolis on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Information on careers and education in library and information science was provided by SLIS, the America Library Association, and a number of organizations. Marcia Smith-Woodard (Indiana State Library) and Marilyn Irwin (Associate Dean, SLIS Indianapolis) were key organizers of the event.

Posted April 7, 2009

"The advent of robust data sources for citation analysis and computational tools for social network analysis in recent years has reawakened an old question in the sociometrics of science: how socially connected are citers to those that they cite? Research Trends talks to those in the know" - which included SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin.

Posted April 2, 2009

Rachel Applegate, SLIS faculty member, presented two papers at the Association of College & Research Libraries Conference in Seattle, Washington. The Conference was held March 12-15, 2009 with a theme Pushing the Edge: Explore, Engage, Extend.
The program provides abstracts and details from the Conference.

Posted April 2, 2009

There are many ways to evaluate the impact of research on a field. One way is to review how often an article or work is cited in another publication. Reviewing how writers connect through their research is an important clue to the process of scholarship.

Indiana University continues to be ranked as a "High-Impact U.S. Institution" in the field of Library and Information Science. Indiana University was ranked #3 (following Columbia and Harvard) in Thomson Reuters Sci-Bytes: What's New in Research for the week of April 20, 2008.

Posted March 27, 2009

Associate Professor Elin Jacob will receive the 2009 Trustees Teaching Award from the School of Library and Information Science.

This past year, Dr. Jacob has taught courses in the MLS program, co-taught a Doctoral seminar, and sponsored many independent studies. She taught a core class, Representation and Organization, and an advanced elective, Metadata. Core classes can be difficult to teach, however, Dr. Jacob's student evaluations are consistently good and she receives high rankings for being responsive to her students' attitudes and reactions in class and for making herself available for consultation and advising outside of class.

Posted March 26, 2009

SLIS Professor Jean Preer has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Greenwood Publishing Group Award for the Best Book in Library Literature for her book Library Ethics. The award will be presented in July at the American Library Association (ALA) Conference in Chicago.

Posted March 25, 2009

SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin continues a long history of editorial writing with his most recent editorial in the March 2009 - 60(3) issue of JASIST - Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. The full-text is available through WileyInterScience.

Posted March 19, 2009

The IU School of Library and Information Science - Indianapolis Campus, the Kids Ink Children's Bookstore, and the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library, co-hosted the Indianapolis Youth Literature Conference on Saturday, January 31, 2009. The event was held from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the University Library, IUPUI.

Posted March 10, 2009

SLIS faculty members are regularly invited to give talks both in the U.S. and globally. On March 3, 2009, SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin presented "Twenty-first Century Invisible Colleges" at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. And, on February 27, 2009 - SLIS Associate Dean Howard Rosenbaum gave the talk "Technology, Organization, and Objects: Reflections on the Problem of Agency" at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, New York.

Posted March 4, 2009

Seed Magazine invited Katy Börner and Elisha Hardy (from SLIS) for talks and meetings at their office in New York City on Tuesday, February 24, 2009.

Posted Feb. 27, 2009

"Annotations have been part of scholarly life for centuries. Annotations have the possibility of taking on new functions in the digital world. Annotation software abounds. How can these new tools be used in digital humanities?"

Posted Feb. 19, 2009

SLIS professor Susan Herring, and IU doctoral Telecommunications student Asta Zelenkauskaite (Ph.D. Telecommunications student doing minors in SLIS and Linguistics at Indiana University), co-authored an article for Written Communication, January 2009. The full-text article is available through Sage Publications. The press release below from Indiana University Communications offers insights into their research.

Posted Feb. 12, 2009

The iSchools Caucus presents the 4th Annual iConference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from February 8-11, 2009. iSociety: Research, Education, Engagement is this year's theme. SLIS faculty members Ron Day, Pnina Shachaf, Howard Rosenbaum, Elin Jacob - and, SLIS doctoral students Lai Ma, Nicolas George, Lijiang Guo will either present research, or have research presented. SLIS is a member of the iSchools Caucus.

Posted Feb. 4, 2009

SLIS faculty member Rachel Applegate presented a paper at the 2009 ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Conference. The Conference was held January 20-23, 2009 in Denver, Colorado.

Posted Feb. 4, 2009

SLIS Professor Susan Herring, and Asta Zelenkauskaite (Ph.D. Telecommunications student doing minors in SLIS and Linguistics at Indiana University), co-authored an article for Written Communication, Volume 26, Number 1, January 2009, pages 5-31.

Posted Feb. 3, 2009

SLIS was well represented at the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42). The conference was held January 5-8, 2009 in the Waikoloa Village Resort, Big Island, Hawaii. SLIS faculty members Susan Herring and John Paolillo, SLIS doctoral students Daniel Kutz, Courtenay Honeycutt, HyunSeung Koh, and IU doctoral students (doing SLIS minors) Asta Zelenkauskaite and Amaury de Siqueira contributed the papers below.

Posted Jan. 29, 2009

The San Jose Convention Center in California was the site of the Conference on on Visualization and Data Analysis 2009 (EI108). The Conference (held January 19-20, 2009) was a part of IS&T/SPIE's International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2009. It was co-sponsored by Hewlett-Packard.

Posted Jan. 22, 2009

SLIS faculty member Katy Börner is an invited speaker for the SAP Media X 2009 Winter Quarter Seminar Series. She will present a talk "Communicating the Structure and Evolution of Science" at Stanford University, California on Wednesday, January 21, 2009. The talk will be in Y2E2 Room 292 A, the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building from 9:00-10:00 a.m.

Posted Jan. 20, 2009

SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin is the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Below are excerpts from his inaugural editorial "Introduction: Changing of the Guard", JASIST, 60(1), 2009, 1-2.

Posted Jan. 15, 2009

"Internet information and communication behavior during a political moment: The Iraq War, March 2003" is the title of an article by SLIS faculty member Alice Robbin and SLIS doctoral student Wayne Buente. The article was published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Volume 59, Number 14, pages 2210-2231. The full text article is available through Wiley InterScience. More>

Posted Jan. 12, 2009

"Verna L. Pungitore, of Bloomington, died Saturday, December 20, 2008. She was 67 years old. Born April 30, 1941 in Clarion, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Dominic and Carmella (Enos) Pungitore..." [Herald Times Newspaper - Bloomington, IN - December 21, 2008]

• "Verna's research focused on how public libraries respond to the need for change and innovation."
• "She cared a great deal about her students."

Posted Dec. 22, 2008

SLIS professor Susan Herring became the Editor-in-Chief of Langauge@Internet in January 2008. She recently announced a new issue of this online scholarly journal. Volume 5 is a special issue guest edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos and Michael Beißwenger.

Posted Dec. 12, 2008

SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner gave an invited talk for the 3rd Annual iFQ Conference held in Bonn, Germany. The Conference theme was "Foresight - Between Science and Fiction." The Conference was held on December 11-12, 2008 at the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (Caesar).

Posted Dec. 11, 2008

"We need a powerful tool to reveal patterns, trends, and outliers in the streams of data flooding us, a tool to help us gain insight into the data."

In an interview for the web science magazine Seed, SLIS faculty member Katy Börner talks about the need of a macroscope in the field of network science and data visualization. The article by T.J. Kelleher (page 51) is in the December 2008 issue.

Posted Dec. 8, 2008

Katy Börner, SLIS faculty member and Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, recently issued a Call for Maps for the 5th Iteration of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit. The 5th Iteration is on "Science Maps for Science Policy Makers". Each initial entry must be submitted by January 9, 2009.

• Submission Details.

Posted Dec. 8, 2008

Jean Preer's new book Library Ethics has been published (October 2008) by Libraries Unlimited, a member of the Greenwood Publishing Group. The book addresses issues of professionalism, identify, values, confidentiality, access, services, and conflicts of interest.

Posted Dec. 8, 2008

SLIS faculty member Jingfeng Xia recently published his paper “A Comparison of Institutional and Subject Repositories in Self-Archiving Practices” in the Journal of Academic Librarianship (vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 489-495).

Posted Dec. 8, 2008

Howard Rosenbaum, SLIS Associate Dean, will be a Keynote Speaker at an international symposium on the "Social Aspects of Digital Libraries and Information Seeking." It will be held at the National Taiwan University, Department of Library and Information Science in Taipei, on December 11-12, 2008.

Posted Dec. 5, 2008

John Walsh, SLIS faculty member and Director of the Digital Libraries Specializations, presented research in November: (1) at the TEI Members Meeting and Conference in London, (2) at a SLIS Friday Conversation, and (3) at the IU 19th-Century Studies Forum.

Posted Dec. 4, 2008

SLIS faculty members Pnina Shachaf and Debora Shaw "combined their research expertise in virtual reference and bibliometrics, respectively, to investigate the types of sources that reference librarians use when communicating with patrons online. They studied the logs of two groups of librarians in their research—Wells Library reference librarians at Indiana University, and reference librarians from Question Point, an electronic reference service run by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)—from 2006." [SLIS Network]

Posted Dec. 1, 2008

SLIS alumnus Chris Long and SLIS faculty member Rachel Applegate recently published an article in Library Administration and Management 22.4 (Fall 2008): 172-182. Long is the Catalog Librarian at the Ruth Lilly Law Library, IU School of Law - Indianapolis. He is also in the SLIS post-master's Specialist in Library and Information Science degree program. He noted that "the idea for the article came from my own efforts to keep my skills current. I received my MLS in the pre-Internet age (1988), and realized I couldn't keep faking my library technology illiteracy for another 25 years."

Posted Dec. 1, 2008

SLIS students and faculty participated in GIS Day at Indiana University on Wednesday, November 19, 2008. The event was held in the Main Lobby of the Herman B Wells Library, Bloomington Campus. This was the "10th Anniversary for GIS Day. More than 80 countries participated in local events. GIS Day is principally sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, The Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and ESRI."

Posted Nov. 20, 2008

Katy Börner, Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, and the Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at SLIS recently gave a talk and a workshop at the University of Michigan. The presentations were a part of the Faculty Research Seminar Series held on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 in the Atkins Conference Room, School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Posted Nov. 19, 2008

Taemin Kim Park, East Asian Cataloger for the Indiana University Libraries, is a SLIS advisor for cataloging, technical services, and academic librarianship. She is also a regular adjunct faculty member for SLIS cataloging courses.

Posted Nov. 19, 2008

"An Emergent Mosaic of Wikipedian Activity" is the title of a Science Map by Bruce W. Herr, II, Todd M. Holloway, and Katy Börner. The map is a part of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science project with Börner's Information Visualization Lab and Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center.

Posted Nov. 13, 2008

SLIS Network (the SLIS Alumni Magazine), Vol.46, No.2, Fall 2008

*Editor's Note: Faculty news covers the period of January, 2008 to the week of May 12, 2008.

Posted Nov. 13, 2008

Kathy Chiang, of Cornell University Libraries (Ithaca, New York), was selected as the 20th recipient of the Ans van Tienhoven Award, given annually to a Mann (Library) librarian for travel and professional development. This year, the award will be used to investigate information visualization and visual analytics.

Posted Nov. 6, 2008

"Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place" is the sub-title of Noriko Hara's new book "Communities of Practice." The book is Volume 13 of the series Information Science and Knowledge Management, and is available through Springer.

Posted Nov. 6, 2008

The October 9, 2008 issue of NATURE (Volume 455) included information on research by SLIS faculty member Katy Börner and her colleagues. Börner is the director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, and the Information Visualization Lab.

Posted Oct. 22, 2008

SLIS faculty member Katy Börner will give an invited talk at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) main campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Her presentation is a part of the Science of Science Management Meeting (October 2-3, 2008) organized by the NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI). Börner's talk will be a part of the session on "Knowledge Discovery/Management" on Friday, October 3rd.

Posted Oct. 1, 2008

The American Psychological Association's fourth annual Science Leadership Conference (SciLC) will be held in Tempe, Arizona on October 2-4, 2008. "This conference series, which is sponsored by APA's Science Directorate and Board of Scientific Affairs, brings together leading experts in psychological science and other fields to address major research and policy issues in psychology.

Posted Sept. 30, 2008

This year's American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting will feature a number of SLIS faculty and alumni speaking on topics related to the correlation between information and people. The meeting, with the theme of "People Transforming Information – Information Transforming People," will be held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Columbus, Ohio from October 24-29, 2008.

Posted Sept. 30, 2008

Can the field of Information Science help find new solutions in the field of Plant Science? Yes - and, one example of efforts in this interdisciplinary quest is the iPlant Collaborative Workshop held September 30 to October 3, 2008 at Biosphere 2. The facilities themselves are remarkable at Biosphere 2 located near Oracle, Arizona.

Posted Sept. 30, 2008

SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner, is the Regional Program Chair for North America for the 12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2009). The conference is scheduled for July 28-31, 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Posted Sept. 30, 2008

SLIS faculty member, Katherine Schilling, has been recently appointed as the Associate Editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA). Published since 1911, first as the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, and as the Journal of the Medical Library Association since 2002, the Journal has a large international readership, and is recognized for its emphasis on scholarship and research.

Posted Sept. 29, 2008

Volume 43 of the Annual Review for Information Science and Technology (ARIST), edited by SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin, is set to launch at the next American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) meeting. The meeting will be held from October 24-29, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio. Dean Cronin has been the editor of ARIST since 2000 (Volume 43 is the 8th Volume edited); and SLIS faculty member Debora Shaw has been the associate editor.

Posted Sept. 26, 2008

SLIS Associate Dean Howard Rosenbaum and colleague Kalpana Shankar (IU School of Informatics) are the co-organizers of the 4^th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium. They will also be giving the welcoming address.

Posted Sept. 26, 2008

SLIS faculty member Rachel Applegate presented at the September 2008 meeting of the IUPUI Librarians Association, Indianapolis. She structured her talk as a conversation, seeking input from the IUPUI Librarians about the path of people into academic library careers. Applegate's talk was titled, "Will They Make Us Look Good?-A Conversation." Discussion questions included: What do academic librarians want in incoming colleagues? What are the qualities, knowledge and skills that new librarians need that will benefit academic libraries, library users, and fellow librarians?

Posted Sept. 24, 2008

SLIS faculty member Ying Ding will speak on Wednesday October 1, 2008 at the Digital Library Brown Bag Talk Series. The talk will be held from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in the Wells Library, Room E174 Media Showing Room.

Posted Sept. 24, 2008

In addition to his extensive scholarly writings, SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin has authored three books (2006, 2007, and 2008) about life and work in the town of Bloomington, Indiana. All three are available through AuthorHouse (links below).

Posted Sept. 23, 2008

On Monday September 29, 2008, SLIS faculty member Ying Ding will speak at the Networks and Complex Systems Talk Series. The talk will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in SLIS, Wells Library, Room 001. Ying Ding’s talk is entitled "Semantic Web Application: Music Retrieval".

Posted Sept. 19, 2008

The setting for this forward-looking digital conference is a university celebrating 800 years of scholarly history. The University of Cambridge began in the year 1209 when "groups of scholars congregated at the ancient Roman trading post of Cambridge for the purpose of study."

John Walsh, SLIS faculty member and Director of the SLIS Digital Libraries Specialization, is participating in the Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) Conference at the University of Cambridge, UK (September 14-17, 2008). He is presenting a paper, and is a panel speaker.

Posted Sept. 11, 2008

Katy Börner will attend/present at three scientific events in early September 2008 on research related to mapping science and science information.

Posted Sept. 11, 2008

"CRICS8 is the 8th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information to be held from September 16-19, 2008, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With the main theme scientific information and knowledge for innovation in health, the CRICS8 will host the meetings of the VHL (Virtual Health Library), SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) and others regional and global networks from 14th to 16th." [website]

Posted Sept. 11, 2008

The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit has been on display at different locations of the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The exhibit schedule is:

• May 17-June 30, 2008 - Beijing, China
• July 15-August 15, 2008 - LanZhou, China
• September 1-October 1, 2008 - ChengDu, China
• October 15-November 15, 2008 - WuHan, China

Posted Sept. 2, 2008

Katy Börner (SLIS Faculty Member) and colleague Luís M. A. Bettencourt (Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory), received a grant from the National Science Foundation for $104,197 (January 2009 to December 2010). The grant is a SGER/Collaborative Research award, and the project is titled: "Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Sustainability Science Research."

Posted Aug. 28, 2008

Noriko Hara presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) held August 20-23, 2008 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Pnina Shachaf co-authored the paper titled "Collaborative Mass Knowledge Production Online: Cross-Cultural Comparison of Variation in the Communities of Wikipedians."

Posted Aug. 21, 2008

JASIST, 59(11) includes articles by SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin, faculty members Lokman Meho and Alice Robbin, visiting scholar Yvonne Rogers, and Ph.D. student Wayne Buente. Article abstracts are below, and full text articles are available through Wiley InterScience. More>

Posted Aug. 21, 2008

Rachel Applegate (SLIS faculty member) recently published an article in Public Library Quarterly titled "Gender Differences in Patrons of a Public Library." The survey for the article was done at the Carmel Clay Public Library located in Carmel, Indiana (just north of Indianapolis).

Posted Aug. 19, 2008

How do you determine the success or failure? SLIS faculty members Noriko Hara and Howard Rosenbaum examine this question as it relates to computerization movements in The Information Society (2008), Volume 24, Number 4, pages 229-245.

Posted Aug. 14, 2008

SLIS faculty member, John Walsh, presented three papers this summer at the International Digital Humanities Conference (IDHC). The conference was held in Oulu, Finland from June 25-29, 2008, and was hosted by the University of Oulu. "It was a joint conference between the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Society for Digital Humanities." [conference website]

Posted Aug. 14, 2008

"This is a fabulous opening for Indiana libraries to become more diverse," said Dr. Marilyn Irwin, Associate Dean, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Indianapolis. "This grant creates great opportunities for members of diverse communities who have been historically underrepresented in the profession." [see below]

Posted Aug. 6, 2008

My teaching philosophy is to teach students on how to learn in order to make them to know how to think; to combine theory and practice together and use practice to better understand theory; to integrate teaching and research together to achieve joint benefits.

Dr. Ying Ding joined the SLIS Faculty on August 1, 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Information Science. She comes to SLIS from a position as a Senior Researcher (Unit Leader) in the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Ding received her Ph.D. in Information Science in 2001 from the Information Studies Division, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She also has a Masters Information Science from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China that she received in 1996.

Posted Aug. 6, 2008

"Information & Communication Behavior at a Political Moment: The Iraq War, March 2003" was the title of a talk given by SLIS faculty member, Alice Robbin, in Paris, France this summer. Robbin reported on research she carried out with SLIS doctoral student Wayne Buente. The research seminar presentation was given at the Institut Francilien d'Ingénierie des Services (IFIS) — Val d'Europe — of the Université Paris-Est (Marne-la-Vallée). Discussions were also held with the director of IFIS about future cooperation in teaching and research of social informatics.

Posted Aug. 6, 2008

SLIS faculty member Alice Robbin gave a keynote address at the ICTs and Society Network Launch Meeting - University of Salzburg (Austria) held June 20-21, 2008. Excerpts are included below. Robbin is also the Director of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University.

Information Science as a professional discipline has some definable roots. "2008 is the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in the UK, and many of the ideas of the earlier information scientists are not only still valid today, but became the foundations upon which later generations have built. Consequently, feeling that it might be worth the effort to capture some insights into advances made in the last 50 years, a number of pre-eminent information scientists were commissioned to write articles on a range of topics reflecting many facets of information science." [by Alan Gilchrist, Editorial, Journal of Information Science, 34(4)2008]

Posted July 17, 2008

SLIS is fortunate to have a globally diverse faculty. Not only do the faculty present at conferences around the world, many were born in other countries and are bi-lingual. SLIS faculty members are from Japan, Israel, Germany, Lebanon, Korea, Ireland, and Iran.

Hamid Ekbia returned to Iran this summer to teach a Doctoral Seminar in Cognitive Science at the Computer Science Department, School of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, July 5-17, 2008. He gave details in an email interview:

Posted July 17, 2008

Marilyn Irwin, Associate Dean - SLIS Indianapolis, was the mentor for one of the American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leaders Teams - Team X. The team's project was to "assist ASCLA in planning and promoting the release of an 'accessibility toolkit' of fifteen pamphlets that provide information on different aspects of accessibility as well as an Electronic Accessibility Checklist. The subjects of the pamphlets included developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, service animals, vision, mental illness, physical disabilities, and more."

Posted July 14, 2008

SLIS faculty member Katy Börner is a contributor to "Calling on a Million Minds for Community Annotation in WikiProteins" (Genome Biology 2008, 9:R62). The article was published on April 21, 2008, and is available online. It is the first project of WikiProfessional ("Creating the Concept Web by Collaborative Intelligence) - of which Börner is both a contributing and a research partner.

Posted July 10, 2008

"This study evaluates the level to which virtual (e-mail) reference services adhere to professional guidelines. These professional guidelines are set up as standards to assure service quality. However, studies of virtual reference effectiveness rarely utilize these standards to measure reference success. This study evaluates and compares the level of adherence to two sets of professional guidelines published by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and the American Library Association (ALA) Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). Analysis of 324 transactions from 54 libraries showed: 1) low levels of adherence to both sets of guidelines; 2) varied levels of adherence based on request types and user names on both sets of guidelines; 3) variation in institutional rank according to different sets of guidelines; 4) no correlation between user satisfaction and adherence to either set of guidelines. This study has implications for future research and practice because it provides a systematic way to analyze transactions in light of the ideal professional standards. It also provides an empirical benchmark for evaluating virtual reference services." [Abstract]

Posted July 10, 2008

SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner, showcased her work at the IT Strategic Plan (ITSP) celebration held on May 20, 2008. This event was a joint effort between many different organizations within the campus community. Börner, director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center and the Information Visualization Lab, collaborates with many colleagues on campus on related research.

Posted July 7, 2008

"Minds and Societies - 2008" is the name of the 2nd Summer School of Social Cognition, Institute of Cognitive Services (ISC), Université du Québec à Montréal. It will be held from June 28 to July 6, 2008. As a part of the program, SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner, will present a talk on "Cognitive Cartography" at the The Science of Science lecture - see abstract below. She will also present all four iterations of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science poster exhibit. Each of the iterations has 10 maps. This is the first time for all 40 maps to include a French translation.

Posted July 7, 2008

SLIS faculty member Kiduk Yang gave an invited presentation, Impact of Google Scholar on Citation Analysis, at the Citation Tracking and Analysis session of Special Libraries Association's Annual Conference, June 16, 2008 in Seattle, WA. The session was standing room only. It included two presentations from researchers and three from vendors (Web of Science, Scopus, Eigenfactor).

Posted July 7, 2008

Blaise Cronin has been selected to be the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), effective January 1, 2009, the 60th year of its publication. Dr. Cronin is Rudy Professor of Information Science and Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University and has been Editor of ASIS&T's Annual Review of Information Science and Technology since 2001.

Posted June 19, 2008

In science and scholarship, discoveries and new ideas are rarely the work of one individual. All too often we focus on the big names and the major findings. As a result, many meaningful, sometimes essential, contributions to the advancement of science are overlooked. SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin will be a keynote speaker at the USE-2008: From Information Provision to Knowledge Production conference, University of Oulu in Finland on June 25, 2008, and his talk "Toward a Rhopography of Scholarly Communication" will explore the nature and significance of the mundane in the conduct of science.

Posted June 19, 2008

Professor of Information Science, Susan Herring, presented on "The Global Internet" as part of the Supersession: The Many Uses of the Internet: Approaches to Research in Communication and English Composition on May 24, 2008 at the 13^th Rhetorical Society of America (RSA) Conference. This biennial conference took place May 23-26 in Seattle, Washington and its focus was on the Responsibilities of Rhetoric.

Posted June 19, 2008

"The use of the Internet for civic engagement by the general public is becoming increasingly prevalent, yet research in this area is still sparse.

More studies are particularly needed in the area of cross-cultural comparisons of online social movements or online peace movement organizations (PMOs). While it is possible that PMOs in diverse cultures differ in their collective action frames, it is unclear whether PMOs use collective action frames and, if so, how differently they are used.

Posted June 12, 2008

SLIS faculty member Susan Herring gave a colloquium presentation titled, "Perversely Conversational: Convergent Media Computer-Mediated Communication," on Wednesday May 28, 2008 at the University of Washington, Seattle from 3:30-5:00 p.m. In this talk, Professor Herring gave a comparative overview of convergent media computer-mediated communication—textual interaction enabled as a secondary function of convergent media such as YouTube, Flickr, social network sites, multiparticipant online games, interactive newssites, and interactive television—"focusing on interactional coherence, or how people are using these media to 'converse' more or less coherently with one another, despite the technological obstacles and social norms that must be overcome in order to do so."

Posted June 2, 2008

Global connections are important to SLIS faculty. Ron Day recently returned from Estonia, where he taught a seminar course "The Cultural, Social, and Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Management" (May 12-23, 2008).

Posted June 2, 2008

"Tom, regrettably if understandably, has decided to hang up his boots at the end of the spring semester... Tom will have completed twenty years of dedicated service at IU when he departs in summer. He will not be replaced easily and he will be missed by everyone at SLIS." [SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin]

SLIS faculty member and MLS Program Director, Thomas Nisonger, retires on June 1, 2008.

Posted May 14, 2008

Mary Popp, public services librarian and a SLIS ALA Student Chapter advisor at IU Bloomington, is the 2008 recipient of the ALA Machine-Assisted Reference Section Recognition Certificate, also known as the "My Favorite Martian Award."

Posted May 14, 2008

Chatting online is a common way to communicate. The options of where and how one chats in the virtual world are rapidly expanding. SLIS graduates will become creative leaders in information sharing, in part because of the research efforts of SLIS faculty members Susan Herring and John Paolillo.

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Posted May 14, 2008

SLIS faculty member Ron Day will be teaching a course for the Eramus Project in Tallinn, Estonia - May 12-23, 2008. The course is titled: The Cultural, Social, and Theoretical Foundations of Knowledge Management. Excerpts from the syllabus are in the full story.

Posted May 9, 2008

SLIS faculty members Noriko Hara and Lokman Meho recently received tenure and have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. Both have contributed to SLIS with their scholarship, their enthusiasm, and their dedication to the field. They bring to SLIS a global perspective. Noriko Hara is originally from Japan, and Lokman Meho from Lebanon.

Posted May 9, 2008

SLIS Associate Dean Howard Rosenbaum recently participated in a National Science Foundation (NSF) panel that evaluated research proposals submitted to the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Cluster of the Intelligent and Information Systems Division.

Posted May 9, 2008

Neal-Schuman Publishers has recently released a new book by Mary Stanley, associate dean of IUPUI University Library and SLIS adjunct faculty member, entitled Managing Library Employees. It is Number 161 of the "How-To-Do-It Manuals." A free preview of the book is available on the Neal-Schuman website. Stanley has taught SLIS S551 Library Management at SLIS Indianapolis.

Posted May 8, 2008

A book co-written by SLIS adjunct faculty member Sara Laughlin (and colleague Ray Wilson), The Quality Library: A Guide to Self-Improvement, Better Efficiency, and Happier Customers has been published recently by the American Library Association.

SLIS professor Thomas Nisonger and alumnus William Meehan (MLS'05 and Senior Fellow in Rare Books, Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville) have written a forthcoming article, entitled "The Harvard and Yale University Library Rowing Collections: A Checklist Evaluation and Semi-Availability Study," to be published in Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services.

Posted April 24, 2008

"...their research endeavors to promote better information policies and to facilitate social equality."

Man "Judy" Yang is an associate professor at the Journalism and Communication School at Wuhan University in China. She teaches courses on communication theory and online journalism. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University-Bloomington working with SLIS faculty member Alice Robbin. Her research interests include information policy, computer-mediated communication, and information resource management. She has published articles and a monograph on information resource management and information policy.

Posted April 23, 2008

"...the human mind is a special kind of complex system." [see below]

SLIS faculty member Hamid Ekbia's new book, Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence, is now available from Cambridge University Press.

Posted April 23, 2008

Sometimes it seems as if there are as many rankings as there are universities. In any case, the global dominance of US institutions is not in doubt. Remove both Oxford and Cambridge from consideration and the world's top-10 (top-20, I am tempted to say) universities are all American. That is a remarkable statistic; another is Harvard's endowment: roughly $34 billion — more than the annual higher education budget of many nations.

Posted April 17, 2008

SLIS faculty member Hamid Ekbia chaired a panel called "Geographies of Information Society" on April 15, 2008, at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also the co-organizer of the panel along with Nadine Schuurman, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

Posted April 17, 2008

Assistant Professor Pnina Shachaf will receive the 2008 Trustees Teaching Award from the School of Library and Information Science. Dr. Shachaf is a dedicated teacher who works hard to make her courses relevant to her students. She has been teaching multiple sections of a core library management class in the Master of Library Science program, a class that has large enrollments every semester. Core classes can be difficult to teach, however, Dr. Shachaf's student evaluations are consistently good and she receives high rankings for respecting her students and for being responsive to their attitudes and reactions in class. For example, one of her standard practices is to ask students during the first class session to share with her their expectations of the course. She then makes an effort to integrate new topics, or elaborate on issues of interest to the students in that particular class.

Posted April 17, 2008

SLIS faculty member Jingfeng Xia recently presented "Open Access for Archaeological Literature: A Manager's Perspective" at the Society of American Archaeology's annual meeting held in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 26-30, 2008.

Posted April 17, 2008

"Scholarly Communication in East Asia: Modernization and Traditions" was presented by SLIS faculty member Jingfeng Xia at the Council for East Asian Librarians (CEAL) in Atlanta, Georgia, held April 1ܔ3, 2008. The presentation comes a little more than a month after the publication of the book Communication in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, edited by Xia.

Posted April 15, 2008

The National Institutes of Health has given $1.2 million to Indiana University researchers to build the ultimate international epidemic research tool.

Principle investigators Katy Börner, Steven J. Sherman, and Alessandro Vespignani will oversee the project, EpiC, which they hope will make the sharing and re-using of epidemics datasets and algorithms as easy as sharing videos via YouTube . The three researchers come from three distinct areas of the campus — the School of Library and Information Science, the College's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and the School of Informatics, respectively. Additional members of the evolving team are Duygu Balcan, Weixia Huang, and Bruce W. Herr.

Posted April 11, 2008

SLIS professor Susan Herring and doctoral student Lois Ann Scheidt have been quoted in a Boston Globe article called "A window into their lives: For teenage girls, writing about their lives online is another way to stay connected with friends." Written by Irene Sege, the article appeared in the April 4, 2008, issue.

Posted April 9, 2008

"In the decade of the 1680s, Isaac Newton composed a remarkable alchemical reference work, which he called the Index Chemicus (or 'Chemical Index'). Newton left behind multiple versions of the Index. In its final form, the work acquired features both of an alchemical dictionary and thesaurus, and of an annotated bibliography to the literature of early modern alchemy.

Posted April 9, 2008

On March 31, 2008, SLIS faculty member Katy Börner participated in the Expert Panel Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure in Behavioral Medicine, and displayed the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit.

Posted April 8, 2008

A paper written by SLIS faculty member John Walsh and SLIS alumna Michelle Dalmau (MLS/MIS 2004), digital projects and usability librarian at IU, was presented by Walsh at the Symposium on Text Encoding in the Humanities at the National University of Ireland, Galway, on April 2, 2008.

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Posted April 4, 2008

SLIS faculty member John Walsh and SLIS alumna Michelle Dalmau (MLS/MIS 2004), digital projects and usability librarian at IU, have received the Herbert White Collaborative Award from IU Libraries. "The $2,500 award will support the integration of topic maps and topic-map-driven interfaces into digital scholarly editions," Walsh says.

Posted April 4, 2008

SLIS faculty member Noriko Hara will present a paper entitled "The Internet and Election Campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Korea" at the Midwestern Political Science Association Annual National Conference in Chicago, Illinois, April 3-6, 2008.

Posted April 3, 2008

SLIS faculty member and Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center Director Katy Börner is co-organizing the second NSF Workshop on Knowledge Management and Visualization Tools in Support of Discovery, held at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, April 7-8, 2008. Other co-organizers include Luis M. A. Bettencourt of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mark Gerstein of Yale University, and Stephen Miles Uzzo of the New York Hall of Science.

Posted April 3, 2008

A paper written by SLIS faculty member Debora Shaw and Liwen Vaughan of the University of Western Ontario entitled "A new look at evidence of scholarly citation in citation indexes from web sources" has been published in the February 2008 issue of the journal Scientometrics.

Posted April 3, 2008

Two of SLIS faculty member Susan Herring's papers that have been accepted for the Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC) 2008 conference, to be held this summer in Nmes, France, are now available online as preprints. In line with the theme of this year's conference, "ICTs bridging cultures? Theories, obstacles and best practices," the two papers investigate the ways in which communication is shaped by its cultural surroundings.

Posted March 28, 2008

SLIS faculty member Katy Börner displayed her "Places and Spaces: Mapping Science" exhibit and gave a presentation at "Designing Cyberinfrastructure to Enable US–China Collaboration in Tobacco Research," a conference held in Beijing, China, March 27-29, 2008.

Posted March 26, 2008

In an article for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin examines the role of place in co-authored writings. He looks at his own publication history, and that of Rob Kling (1945-2003), former SLIS faculty member. The full-text of the article is available online through Wiley InterScience.

Posted March 25, 2008

Hamid Ekbia, SLIS faculty member, will present The Integration of GIS and Agent-Based Modeling on Monday, 3/31/08 from 6:00-7:00 p.m. in the Wells Library, SLIS Room 001. This presentation is a part of the Networks and Complex Systems Talk Series.

Posted March 25, 2008

SLIS faculty member, Pnina Shachaf, was recently invited by the School of Information at the University of Michigan to give a talk about her research project on electronic service equality/discrimination. Shachaf commented: "The talk [March 10, 2008] reported on a series of studies that focused on online discriminatory behaviors of virtual reference services. Specifically I discussed the mixed findings from a pilot study (that indicate discriminatory behaviors towards Arabs and African-Americans users) and from two follow-up studies (that indicate equality of services based on gender and ethnicity) in academic and public libraries." The talk abstract is below.

Posted March 25, 2008

"Modern organizations face many significant challenges because of turbulent environments and a competitive global economy. Among these challenges are the use of information and communication technology (ICT), a multicultural workforce, and organizational designs that involve global virtual teams. Ad hoc teams create both opportunities and challenges for organizations and many organizations are trying to understand how the virtual environment affects team effectiveness. This study focused on the effects of cultural diversity and ICT on team effectiveness. Interviews with 41 team members from nine countries employed by a Fortune 500 corporation were analyzed. Results suggested that cultural diversity had a positive influence on decision-making and a negative influence on communication. ICT mitigated the negative impact on intercultural communication and supported the positive impact on decision making. Effective technologies for intercultural communication included e-mail, teleconferencing combined with e-Meetings, and team rooms. Cultural diversity influenced selection of the communication media." [article abstract]

Posted March 19, 2008

Recently appointed SLIS faculty member Jingfeng Xia has edited a new book, Scholarly Communication in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, published in late February 2008. The book is the first to address this topic, according to its Oxford-based publisher, Chandos Publishing.

Posted March 12, 2008

SLIS faculty member Jean Preer is bringing her background in strategic planning to her service on the Indianapolis–Marion County Public Library (IMCPL) Strategic Planning Committee, which began its meetings on February 23, 2008.

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Posted March 12, 2008

Katy Börner and Weixia (Bonnie) Huang are two of the co-organizers for the National Science Foundation Workshop on Knowledge Management & Visualization Tools in Support of Discovery. Other co-organizers are Mark Gerstein (Yale University), Luis M.A. Bettencourt (Los Alamos National Laboratory), and Stephen Miles Uzzo (New York Hall of Science). In addition to being a SLIS faculty member, Börner is the director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center. Huang is a Senior System Architect for the Center.

Posted March 5, 2008

iFutures: Systems, Selves, and Society was the theme of the iConference 2008 held from February 27 to March 1 in Los Angeles, California. Howard Rosenbaum, SLIS Associate Dean and MIS Program Director, was an active contributor to the conference.

Posted Feb. 27, 2008

Volume 59, Issue 4 (February 15, 2008) of the Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology includes an article co-authored by SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin and SLIS faculty member Lokman Meho. The full text of the article is available online through Wiley InterScience.

Posted Feb. 26, 2008

"Promoting Citizenship: How Librarians Helped Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election" by SLIS faculty member Jean Preer was awarded the Justin Winsor Prize for Library History Essay in 2007. "The prize, named in honor of the distinguished 19th century librarian, historian, and bibliographer who was also ALA's first president, consists of a $500 cash award. It includes an invitation to have the winner's paper considered for publication in Libraries & the Cultural Record." [ALA website]

Posted Feb. 26, 2008

On February 29, 2008, at noon, SLIS faculty member Katy Börner will present a seminar entitled "Studying and Communicating the Structure and Evolution of Science" at the National Science Foundation-sponsored National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) at Duke University. The talk will focus on work for the Places and Spaces: Mapping Science project that Börner has conducted as director of the IU Information Visualization Lab and the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center.

Posted Feb. 25, 2008

SLIS faculty member Rachel Applegate has been contracted to be an external 'evaluator' for the American Library Association Library Support Staff Certification Project (ALA-LSSCP).

Posted Feb. 21, 2008

Thomas Nisonger has published an article in Library Resources & Technical Services 52 (January 2008): 4-17, entitled "Use of the Checklist Method for Content Evaluation of Full Text Databases: An Investigation of Two Databases Based on Citations from Two Journals." An abstract of the article appears below. Nisonger is the Master of Library Science Program Director, and has regularly taught courses on Collection Development (S502) and Evaluation of Resources and Services (S505).

Posted Feb. 21, 2008

Phil Bantin, director of the Indiana University Archives, (and director of the SLIS Archives and Records Management Specialization), has recently published a new book, Understanding Data and Information Systems for Recordkeeping. He provided a statement about the audience and issues of the book:

Posted Feb. 20, 2008

The newest issue of Ecology and Society includes an article by SLIS faculty member Hamid Ekbia and University of Redlands faculty member Thomas E.J. Leuteritz entitled "Not All Roads Lead to Resilience: a Complex Systems Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Tortoises in Arid Ecosystems."

Posted Feb. 20, 2008

SLIS faculty member Rachel Applegate and David Lewis (Dean of the University Library, IUPUI) co-authored a chapter in the newly released book Our New Public, a Changing Clientele: Bewildering Issues or New Challenges for Managing Libraries?

Posted Feb. 19, 2008

Can e-service help people have more equal access to information? Do people with names reflecting different heritages (such as Mary or Latoya) receive the same level of service from the library? SLIS faculty member Pnina Shachaf, SLIS doctoral student Shannon Oltmann, and recent SLIS graduate Sarah Horowitz (MLS'07) co-authored a study that addresses similar questions. The article Service Equality in Virtual Reference was published Volume 59, Number 4 issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (with full text available through Wiley InterScience).

Posted Feb. 15, 2008

As part of the Desert Tortoise Project, the Redlands Institute has launched an initiative to develop a knowledge repository for the development of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS). This project involves the development of an ontology that would include the concepts, processes, and techniques that are generic in different disciplines and domains.

Posted Feb. 13, 2008

SLIS has long had a connection with The Information Society (TIS) journal. Rob Kling (SLIS Professor) was the Editor-in-Chief of the TIS from 1995 till his death in 2003. He was also the Director of the Indiana University (Rob Kling) Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI), which was renamed in his honor.

Posted Feb. 12, 2008

SLIS faculty member, Mary Alice Ball, was the Keynote Speaker at the Indiana Online Users Group (IOLUG) Fall 2007 meeting. The program was held on November 2 at the Plainfield-Guildford Township Public Library in Plainfield, Indiana. Her talk "Learning about Library 2.0 or Thinking Differently" addressed how to take advantage of new technologies that can enhance library services by creating a safe learning environment for students and staff. Wikis, blogs, and podcasts provide a low barrier of entry for people who otherwise might be intimidated by technology. By destabilizing the traditional classroom and turning it into a laboratory where students are given permission to fail, the instructor encourages students to collaborate with one another and to experiment with creating content in new forms. As students reflect on their experiences they gain a deeper understanding of the impact that technology has on the world of libraries and information, as well as some insights into how library patrons experience changing library institutions.

Posted Feb. 12, 2008

Pasenda, California is the location of Practical Semantic Astronomy, a workshop to be held at Caltech from February 18-21, 2008. SLIS faculty member Katy Börner will be presenting "The Science of Science" on February 20 as a part of the workshop:

Posted Feb. 6, 2008

The Journal of Information Science (Vol.34, No.1) includes an article by SLIS faculty members Hamid Ekbia and Noriko Hara exploring issues in Knowledge Management. The abstract is included in the full story.

Posted Feb. 6, 2008

Chapter 14 "Eros Unbound: Pornography and the Internet" of a new book The Internet and American Business, was written by SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin. The book is due to be released by MIT Press, and is co-edited by William Aspray (IU School of Informatics) and Paul Ceruzzi (National Air and Space Museum). Below is the book abstract from the MIT Press website.

Posted Feb. 6, 2008

John Walsh, SLIS faculty member and Director of the SLIS Digital Libraries Specializations, has been selected as a recipient of an Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities fellowship. The formal announcement is below.

Posted Feb. 6, 2008

On January 1, 2008, Jingfeng Xia began his appointment as an Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) on the Indianapolis campus. He earned a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Archeology from Peking University in Beijing and a Ph.D. in Anthropology and an M.L.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona. Upon completion of his MLS, he worked as a Digital Metadata Projects Librarian at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and he has most recently served as a Reference/Instruction Librarian in the social sciences at the John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.

Posted Jan. 28, 2008

SLIS Associate Dean Marilyn Irwin has long been involved in research to "enhance information access, particularly for people with disabilities. Accessible information technology (e.g., websites, hardware, software, multimedia) continues as a particular interest." She was the Director of the Center for Disability Information and Referral (CEDIR), Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University from 1984 to 2006, and continues to be active in professional associations that focus on this area.

Posted Jan. 25, 2008

As the use of geographic information systems (GIS) and related technologies — which make car GPS devices, Google maps, and even chipping your pet possible — have become widespread, researchers such as SLIS faculty member Hamid Ekbia have been studying their impact on what we know, how we know it, and how this affects our culture.

Posted Jan. 23, 2008

The SUNBELT XXVIII (International Sunbelt Social Network Conference) was held at the Tradewinds Island Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida from January 22 to 27, 2008. It was the annual conference for the INSNA (International Network for Social Network Analysis).

SLIS was well-represented at the conference with presentations by SLIS and Informatics faculty member John Paolillo, and by Russell Duhon (Senior Software Developer, InfoVis Lab) on behalf of SLIS faculty member Katy Börner's Network Workbench Project. Bruce Herr (Senior Software Developer) and Weixia Huang (Senior System Archictect) with Bö'rner's Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center were co-contributors along with colleague Ann McCranie on the Network Workbench Project presentation.

Posted Jan. 23, 2008

January 2008 international meetings for SLIS faculty member Katy Börner include presentations in the Netherlands and Germany. She will present at Scopus, the Heraeus Foundation, the Rathenau Institute, and at the Virtual Knowledge Studio.

Posted Jan. 15, 2008

On January 3, 2008, SLIS faculty member Katy Börner presented "Science from Above," a talk and tour at the American Museum of Science and Energy in conjunction with the display of her "Places and Spaces: Mapping Science" exhibit. The museum, located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, housed the exhibit from September 7, 2007, until January 7, 2008.

Posted Jan. 10, 2008

On January 1, 2008, SLIS faculty member and computer-mediated communication scholar Susan Herring assumed editorship of Language@Internet, a scholarly electronic journal "that publishes original research on language and language use mediated by the Internet, the World Wide Web, and mobile technologies."

Posted Jan. 10, 2008

Katherine Schilling, SLIS faculty member, contributed "Health Sciences Handbooks and Manuals" to the 5th Edition (2008) of Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences (IRHS). This work is published by Neal-Schuman for their "Essential Tools for Information Professionals", and is edited by Jo Anne Boorkman, Jeffrey T. Huber and Jean Blackwell.

Posted Jan. 3, 2008

Katy Börner's Information Visualization (InfoVis) Laboratory was featured on the Research at Indiana University website for December 2007. The website is sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and promotes: Ingenuity - Insight - Inquiry - Integrity - Involvement - Innovation - and - Inspiration. In particular, the article features information visualization research about Wikipedia.

Posted Dec. 20, 2007

Indiana University continues to be a leader in the field of Library and Information Science research and statistics. Thomson Scientific's website Sci-Bytes: What's New in Research featured the "Library & Information Science: Most Prolific U.S. Institutions, 2002-06" on November 26, 2007 [see excerpts below]. Indiana University was ranked as #2.

"Of U.S. institutions, those below contributed the greatest number of papers to the field of library & information science over a recent five-year period. This is based on each institution's percentage of the 8,995 papers published in Thomson Scientific-indexed library-science journals between 2002 and 2006."

Posted Dec. 12, 2007

Noriko Hara (SLIS faculty member) and Khe Foon Hew (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) have co-authored an article in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (available through Wiley InterScience).

Posted Dec. 11, 2007

With the New Year comes change — and, at SLIS, we will have a new look for our website, and we will have a change of Associate Dean.

Associate Dean and Professor Debora (Ralf) Shaw, after 12 years of administrative service, will move back into a full-time faculty role. Her contributions at SLIS have been significant, and will continue to make a difference at the school in new ways.

Posted Dec. 11, 2007

In a recent article, SLIS faculty member Pnina Shachaf addressed issues of virtual reference and the role of professional and ethical standards. The article is in the Bulletin of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, and is available online.

Posted Dec. 11, 2007

Indiana University has awarded a Digital Arts and Humanities Institute fellowship to SLIS faculty member John Walsh, Director of the school's Digital Libraries Specialization for the Master of Library Science and Master of Information Science programs.

Posted Dec. 7, 2007

SLIS Professor Susan Herring and colleague James Marken (Darden College of Education, Old Dominion University) have had an article accepted for publication in the journal Women's Studies (see abstract below).

Posted Dec. 5, 2007

SLIS had a strong presence at the Indiana Library Federation Conference held November 13-15, 2007 in Indianapolis. In addition to the SLIS Alumni Reception where the Distinguished Alumni Award was given to Merri Beth Lavagnino (MLS'89), faculty from SLIS Indianapolis gave a number of presentations. Many SLIS alumni have settled in Indiana, hold leadership positions in the state, and also presented at the conference.

Posted Dec. 5, 2007

Scholars tackle the ways mobile phone users employ intentionally "missed calls," how instant messaging is affecting workers' ability to get things done, Creative Commons licensing, and more in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC). Edited by SLIS faculty member Susan Herring, this issue of JCMC also includes a collection of research articles covering social network sites. SLIS and Informatics faculty member John Paolillo served as associate editor.

Posted Nov. 16, 2007

Interested in a digital library job? Knowing about TEI will help. The acronym stands for Text Encoding Initiative. SLIS faculty member John Walsh has been involved with the initiative for a number of years, and he teaches TEI in the SLIS-652 Digital Libraries class. Walsh is the director for the SLIS Digital Libraries Specializations within the MIS and MLS degrees.

Posted Nov. 9, 2007

The second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science was held October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University. The event was jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. The theme was "Exploring the scholarly query potential of high quality text and image archives in a collaborative environment."

Posted Nov. 5, 2007

There is a lot of talk in the profession about technology changes and how they impact libraries. What is the role of Wikipedia, Flickr, Google Maps, blogs, MySpace in information sharing? How can libraries help? How do libraries respond and use new technologies to assist patrons? These are some of the issues addressed in the trend labeled "Library 2.0".

Posted Nov. 2, 2007

SLIS faculty members Lokman Meho and Kiduk Yang recently published research on citation analysis of library and information science faculty. Their article was published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). A full text version of the article is available on the JASIST website.

Posted Oct. 30, 2007

SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin has helped extend the school's international connections with two recent appointments. Effective October 2007, and for a three year period, he has been appointed Visiting Professor at both the University of Brighton, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences and at the Department of Information Science, City University, London, England, positions he will hold concurrently with his deanship at Indiana University.

Posted Oct. 30, 2007

SLIS faculty member Susan Herring and doctoral students Courtenay Honeycutt (SLIS), Anupam Das (Linguistics), and Asta Zelenkauskaite (Telecommunications) will present "Computer-Mediated Communication in Convergent Media" as part of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics 2007 Speaker Series.

Posted Oct. 29, 2007

The word informatics (variously informatika, l'informatique) came to us from Europe, as did the term "social informatics," which was, I believe, coined by a Norwegian sociologist.

"Social informatics" was first used programmatically in this country right here in SLIS, when the late Rob Kling joined the faculty and swiftly established the Center for Social Informatics.

Posted Oct. 29, 2007

Katy Börner was an invited panelist at the Third International Conference on e-Social Science. The conference was held October 7-9, 2007 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Posted Oct. 29, 2007

Timelines of creativity: A study of intellectual innovators in information science was recently published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Volume 58, Issue 13, Pages 1948-1959). Blaise Cronin (SLIS Dean) and Lokman Meho (SLIS faculty) co-authored the article. The article will be available through Wiley InterScience.

Posted Oct. 25, 2007

Internet Research 8.0 (the annual conference for the Association for Internet Researchers) was held in Vancouver, Canada, October 17-20, 2007. SLIS professor Susan Herring was the co-author on two papers presented at the conference.

Posted Oct. 24, 2007

"Communities, Knowledge Sharing, and Nurses" are the "Keywords" listed for a recent article by SLIS faculty member Noriko Hara and colleague Khe Foon Hew. The article continues Hara's research interests in community of practice and knowledge management.

Posted Oct. 24, 2007

Volume 42 (2008) of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology has been released. SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin is the editor. SLIS Associate Dean Debora Shaw is the associate editor. As noted in the Introduction, "Volume 42 includes several chapters on topics of longstanding interest to the field. Regular ARIST readers will not be surprised to see a section devoted to information seeking and retrieval, or chapters reviewing developments in knowledge management and education for information science. Coverage of syndromic surveillance systems and education informatics takes us in somewhat newer directions, as does the section on academic disciplines..."

Posted Oct. 17, 2007

SLIS faculty members Noriko Hara and Hamid Ekbia will join Kalpana Shankar (School of Informatics) in leading this informational gathering, which is the first session in the Fall 2007 Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series. Light refreshments will be provided. Friday November 2, from 2:00-3:00pm in room 001.

Posted Oct. 17, 2007

Susan Herring, professor of information science at SLIS, co-organized a National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored invitational workshop, "Toward Gender Equitable Outcomes in IT Higher Education: Beyond Computer Science," held at Indiana University September 28-30, 2007 at the Indiana Memorial Union.

Posted Sept. 26, 2007

Information professionals from across the nation will converge October 19-24 for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), where several SLIS faculty members, students and alumni will present their research and contribute to panel discussions.

Posted Sept. 26, 2007

The National Science Foundation has invited Katy Börner to participate in a conference workshop in Washington, D.C. on September 27-28, 2007. The workshop topic (Enabling Science Discoveries Through Visual Exploration) is an area of ongoing research for Börner. Her Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit (which has been shown around the world) illustrates some of the applications of this research.

Posted Sept. 26, 2007

SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin gave a talk in Ireland at the University College Dublin's School of Information and Library Studies on Future Directions and Contexts for LIS Education.

Posted Sept. 25, 2007

Katy Börner's article Making Sense of Mankind's Scholarly Knowledge and Expertise was recently published online in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design (Volume 34, Issue 5, pages 808-825).

Posted Sept. 24, 2007

From September 7, 2007, through January 7, 2008, the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is housing Places & Spaces: Mapping Science. The exhibit explores the potential for greater understanding of developments in science when they are traced and charted on maps, diagrams, and globes.

Posted Sept. 24, 2007

Tom Nisonger recently published a review of the book ALPSP Survey of Librarians on Factors in Journal Cancellation, by Mark Ware in Serials Librarian 53, nos. 1-2 (2007):246-48. Throughout most of his professional career, he has been actively involved with book reviewing in a variety of capacities. This is the 64th book or journal review he has published since 1982 in 19 different serials including Technical Services Quarterly, Library Quarterly, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Journal of Documentation, Library and Information Science Research, and The Information Society.

Posted Sept. 20, 2007

What are solutions to accessing masses of information? Can such solutions lead to new scientific discoveries? The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded a grant to SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner, to explore such questions. The grant will support a NSF Workshop run by Börner.

Posted Sept. 13, 2007

"Blaise Cronin is one of the most widely published individuals in the field of information science. Cronin is author/editor of more than 300 books, reports, peer reviewed articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and other materials. As a researcher, Cronin has produced a formidable body of work on scholarly communication. In the field of information science, it is hard to think of any other individual who has made so many sustained and varied contributions to both the academy and the profession over the last two decades." [This excerpt was from the nomination for the ASIS&T National Award of Merit which Blaise Cronin received in 2006.]

Posted Sept. 11, 2007

John Walsh, SLIS faculty member, will be in London and the U.K. September 7-17, 2007. He will be presenting two papers at the Digital Resources for the Humanities & Arts (DRHA) Conference at Dartington College of the Arts. Dartington is located in South Devon, on the coast of England. In London, he will be involved in meetings and research for the Chymistry of Isaac Newton and Swinburne digital library projects.

Posted Sept. 7, 2007

A $50,000 supplement to TSEEN (National Science Foundation "NSF" grant) has been awarded to SLIS faculty member Katy Börner and SLIS systems architect Weixia (Bonnie) Huang. TSEEN stands for the Tobacco Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Evaluation Network.

Posted Sept. 4, 2007

Katy Börner, Weixia (Bonnie) Huang and the members of Börner's Information Visualization Lab and Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center have been busy. Collectively they have conducted and implemented extensive research in "mapping science". Their research is supported by a number of grants, and the results of their research have been presented all over the world. The Places & Spaces Exhibit has been a popular way to showcase the science maps.

SLIS faculty member Ronald E. Day and colleague Claire R. McInerney co-edited a book Rethinking Knowledge Management: From Knowledge Objects to Knowledge Processes. The book was published in June 2007 by Springer, and is a part of the "Information Science and Knowledge Management" series. Ronald Day contributed a chapter, as did SLIS Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Davenport (see chapter abstracts below).

Posted Aug. 29, 2007

Susan Herring, SLIS Professor, and colleague Brenda Danet have co-authored a chapter Multilingualism on the Internet in Volume 9 of the Handbook of Applied Linguistics.

Posted Aug. 22, 2007

The National Science Foundation located in North Arlington, Virginia was the site of Collaborative Expedition #64 on Tuesday, August 14, 2007. SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner presented a talk on her lab's mapping science research. Her Places and Spaces Exhibit was also highlighted. Brner's talk slides are on the Collaborative Expedition #64 website - look for the 10:45 a.m. session. An audio file of the talk will be available on the workshop website shortly.

Posted Aug. 20, 2007

SLIS faculty members Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Shachaf presented a paper at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) held in Keystone, Colorado from August 9-12, 2007. The paper was co-authored with JP Allen (University of San Francisco). Allen, Rosenbaum and Shachaf are the co-chairs of a conference minitrack "Social Theory in Information System Research." The paper entitled "Web 2.0: A Social Informatics View" discusses the importance of empirical research on Web 2.0 and uses Wikipedia as an example.

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Posted Aug. 9, 2007

"One this is clear: Our late colleague was a well-grounded cosmopolite, a hyper-connected individual who appreciated richly the intellectual value of warm bodies." [Cronin and Shaw, TIS, v.23, no.4, p. 232]

There are people who are visionaries - who look ahead and imagine new things. There are people who are connectors - who find ways to engage others. There are people who are remembered - who leave legacies that continue to grow. Rob Kling was such a person.

Posted Aug. 9, 2007

As computer-mediated communication increases, challenging questions arise. What is ethical in this environment? Should there be any constraints on images - particularly of violence? Are there special concerns involving adolescents?

Posted Aug. 8, 2007

SLIS faculty member John Walsh participated in the Comic-Con International Conference in San Diego, California from July 26-29. Walsh presented a paper entitled "High Stroke Low Culture: The Fine Arts in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol."

Posted July 26, 2007

Introduction to Research (S506/S706) is a valuable course for both library and information science students because it helps us become better "information detectives."

SLIS faculty member Alice Robin will teach the course this Fall 2007, which focuses on the characteristics and approaches of various methodologies. She provided information about the course in a recent email interview. Questions included: What are examples of student projects? Why is the course important?

Posted July 18, 2007

"Victor H. Yngve exemplifies interdisciplinary work, the very essence of information science."

Soon another baton will be passed. Effective fall 2007, Dean Blaise Cronin has appointed Dr. Katy Börner the Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science, succeeding Javed Mostafa, who was the first recipient of the professorship. Charles H. Davis and Debora Shaw established the professorship in 1998 to honor Dr. Yngve's extensive contributions to the field of information science.

Posted July 18, 2007

SLIS professor Thomas Nisonger, and SLIS alumnus William Meehan (MLS'05 and Senior Fellow in Rare Books, Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville) recently published an article entitled, "The Rowing Collection in the Free Library of Philadelphia OPAC: A Checklist Evaluation" in Collection Management 30, no. 4. More>

Posted July 12, 2007

SLIS professor Susan Herring recently gave a plenary lecture entitled, "The Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication: Prospectus for an Emerging Research Agenda" on Wednesday, July 11 at the 10^th International Pragmatics Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference, sponsored by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), was held from July 8-13, 2007. The theme of the conference was "Language data, corpora, and computational pragmatics."

Posted July 11, 2007

The 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies was held June 28-30, 2007 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. SLIS had an active presence.

Posted July 6, 2007

SLIS faculty member Katy Börner will be attending the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007 from July 15-17. The summit will be held at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington and aims to "bring together more than 400 thought leaders from academia, government, and Microsoft to discuss both the maturing of the computing disciplines and the range of open opportunities for research and development." [Microsoft website]

Posted July 6, 2007

SLIS faculty member Noriko Hara traveled to the United Kingdom from June 10-15, 2007 to give two related talks. The first titled "The Internet Use for Political Mobilization: A Case Study of MoveOn.Org during the 2004 US Presidential Campaign" was held at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Posted June 27, 2007

The chief function of NINES is to protect, sustain, and enhance digital scholarship and criticism in 'the long 19th century.'

NINES is a Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship, a scholarly organization in British and American nineteenth- century studies supported by a software development group assembling a suite of critical and editorial tools for digital scholarship. [NINES website]

Posted June 20, 2007

[We] need to balance validity and interpretability of established methods with responsiveness to new data and research questions.
- Susan Herring

SLIS professor Susan Herring gave a talk at Cornell University on June 11, 2007. Her presentation, titled "Content Analysis for New Media: Rethinking the Paradigm," was hosted by the Department of Communication and the School of Information Science.

Posted June 20, 2007

"... to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas." [IMLS mission, see below]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services Awards Almost $28 Million in Librarian Recruitment and Education Grants

Posted June 20, 2007

SLIS faculty member Katy Börner and her students are scheduled to give a series of related talks in Madrid, Amsterdam, and Zrich at the end of June and in early July. The talks are related to their cyberinfrastructure design efforts and ambitions to map science on a large scale. See details on the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibition which uses maps, diagrams, and globes to create a navigable landscape tracing and charting developments in science.

Posted June 20, 2007

"The information society... a universe at the intersection of... geographical space, social space, and informational space."

SLIS faculty member Hamid Ekbia and colleague Nadine Schuurman (Simon Fraser University, British Columbia) will be the guest editors of a Special Issue of The Information Society (TIS). They have issued a "Call for Papers", and invite abstracts to be submitted by September 1, 2007 (see details below).

Posted June 20, 2007

The First International Workshop on Knowledge-based User Interface (KUI 2007) was held in Athens, Greece from June 19-25, 2007. SLIS faculty member Hamid R. Ekbia presented a paper "Transpiring Interfaces: Turning Transparency on Its Head." (see abstract below). The Workshop is a part of the ICAS 2007 Conference (International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems).

Posted June 19, 2007

SLIS professor Thomas Nisonger recently published an article titled "Journals in the Core Collection: Definition, Identification, and Applications" in Serials Librarian 51, nos. 3-4 (2007): 51-73.

Posted June 8, 2007

SLIS professor Susan Herring's article "Interaction, facilitation, and deep learning in cross-cultural chat: A case study" has been published in the journal The Internet and Higher Education. The article was co-authored with Gihan Osman from IU's School of Education.

Posted June 6, 2007

1. "Digital Humanities Tools in The Chymistry of Isaac Newton" is the title of a collaborative research grant project by SLIS faculty member John Walsh. It was recently funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which launched a "Digital Humanities Initiative" in 2006. The award is for $200,000 for the duration of three years. Walsh's chief collaborator on the project is William R. Newman, Ruth Halls Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and General Editor of the Chymistry of Isaac Newton The project will focus on the development of reference, annotation, and visualization tools for the Chymistry of Isaac Newton. The tools will also be tested with the Swinburne Project and other resources to ensure that the tools are generalized and not dependent on a specific resource or data set.

Posted June 6, 2007

The Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center was recently awarded a grant of $198,812 by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) will fund a unique collaboration among artists and scientists with the goal to develop, implement, and validate novel metaphors and approaches to access, manage, and communicate scholarly datasets. The project, entitled "Creative Metaphors to Stimulate New Approaches to Visualizing, Understanding, and Rethinking Large Repositories of Scholarly Data," is under the direction of SLIS faculty member Katy Börner.

Posted May 31, 2007

Dean Blaise Cronin has been invited by the Nordic Research Board (NordForsk) to participate in a midterm evaluation of five joint Nordic research schools in the humanities and the social sciences, which receive financial support from NordForsk. The research schools were established in 2004. The objective of the program is to increase mobility in the Nordic countries, strengthen research training, and develop models to improve research training in each country and the region as a whole.

Posted May 30, 2007

How do you keep track of the bubbling mass of information that is Wikipedia? It's a mind-boggling task. [New Scientist]

SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner announced the publication of a mosiac that illustrates editing trends in Wikipedia by two members of the SLIS Information Visualization Lab: Bruce Herr and Todd Holloway. Herr is the Senior Software Developer and Visualization Researcher, and Holloway is an I.U. Ph.D. student in Computer Science. Börner is the Director of the Information Visualization Lab.

Posted May 24, 2007

SLIS faculty member Pnina Shachaf, along with SLIS alumna Mary Snyder (MLS '06), have published "The relationship between cultural diversity and user needs in virtual reference services" in latest issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship.

Posted May 23, 2007

In June 2007 SLIS faculty member Hamid Ekbia will publish a chapter titled "Managing Network Organizations in the Knowledge Economy: Learning from Success and Failure" in Managing in the Information Economy: Current Research Issues edited by Uday Apte and Uday Kamarkar. This chapter examines the network model of organization in management theory and includes a case study of Enron, which has been a focus of Ekbia's recent research.

Posted May 17, 2007

"How does our collective scholarly knowledge grow over time? What major areas of science exist and how are they interlinked"

Katy Börner, SLIS faculty member, recently gave two presentations on mapping science in Washington, D.C. - one at the National Science Foundation and one at the National Geographic Society.

Posted May 17, 2007

As one of the co-organizers, SLIS faculty member Katy Börner has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to hold the "Visualizing Network Dynamics" Competition at the International Conference on Network Science 2007 (NetSci 07). The competition invites researchers, practitioners, and educators from diverse disciplines to submit the "best-of visualizations of evolving networks, activity patterns over networks or combinations of the two."

Posted May 10, 2007

Jean Preer, SLIS Indianapolis faculty member, has been notified that the Justin Winsor Prize committee of the American Library Association (ALA), Library History Round Table (LHRT) has awarded her essay "Promoting Citizenship: Librarians Help Get Out the Vote in the 1952 Presidential Election" as the 2007 winner. The presentation of the award will be at the ALA conference on June 24th (see LHRT Press Release below).

Posted May 10, 2007

SLIS Professor Susan Herring was recently quoted in The Washington Post concerning the issue of sexual harassment and female bloggers. Herring is a respected researcher on issues concerning gender and online communication.

Posted May 10, 2007

SLIS Professor Susan Herring has announced the recent publication of the latest issue (vol. 12, issue 3) of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC). JCMC is a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal with a "focus on social science research on computer-mediated communication via the Internet, the World Wide Web, and wireless technologies" [JCMC website]. Herring has been the editor of the journal since 2004. SLIS and Informatics associate professor John Paolillo serves as associate editor.

On April 18, SLIS faculty member Elin Jacob and SLIS doctoral student Nicolas George presented "JiTTDL and Cognitive Work Analysis: Empirical Analysis and Evaluation of a Metadata Scheme for Representation of Pedagogical Resources in a Digital Library for Educators," as part of the Spring 2007 - Digital Library Program (DLP) Brown Bag talk series.

Posted May 4, 2007

Brenda Danet (Professor Emerita, Hebrew University of Jerusalum) and Susan Herring (Professor, SLIS) have published The Multilingual Internet:

The Oxford University Press describes the book as follows:

"Two thirds of global Internet users are non-English speakers. Despite this, most scholarly literature on the Internet and computer-mediated-communication (CMC) focuses exclusively on English. This is the first book devoted to analyzing Internet related CMC in languages other than English.

Posted May 3, 2007

On April 15-16, SLIS faculty member Hamid Ekbia participated at the workshop on Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems (pdf) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His position paper – "Bridging the Gulf between ABM and CSS: A Three-Tiered Approach" – examines the "gulf between the agent-based modeling (ABM) and complex spatial systems (CSS) communities."

Posted April 30, 2007

Berlin was the site of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Technical Council Meeting from April 23-30, 2007. SLIS faculty member John Walsh was actively involved. As part of the meeting, Walsh chaired the session on "Linguistic Annotations" and participated in "Text-based Projects" panel session. The TEI Technical Council oversees the development of the TEI Guidelines, a widely-used scholarly text-encoding standard.

Posted April 30, 2007

The winner of the 2007 Beta Phi Mu Chi Chapter Service Award is Patricia Steele (MLS '81), the Lilly Interim Dean of University Libraries. Pat has been with the Indiana University Libraries since 1975, serving in a variety of capacities including Head of the SLIS Library. She is a member of the Indiana State Library and Historical Board (2000-2007) and has twice been President of the Indiana Library Federation. She is a member of the Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, and served as its past President.

Posted April 23, 2007

"Chart Toppers: An exhibition explores the diverse ways of putting data on the map" is the title of a Science in Culture feature written by Martin Kemp for the January 2007 issue of Nature magazine (Vol. 445, page 368).

Katy Börner and Julie Smith (SLIS, Indiana University) curated the "Places and Spaces" exhibit featured in the article. The exhibit has received extensive recognition. See the exhibit website for samples of the maps, articles, press and more at: www.scimaps.org

Posted April 13, 2007

On April 13 and 14, 2007, SLIS faculty member Ron Day attended a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded workshop at UCLA entitled, "Designing for Forgetting and Exclusion." As part of the workshop, Day presented his position paper - "Modern Subjects and the Technical-Social Horizons of Forgetting and Being Forgotten."

On April 11, 2007, SLIS faculty member Howard Rosenbaum led "Building and Managing Web Teams" workshop at the Museums and the Web 2007 (MW 2007) in San Francisco. The interactive workshop taught participants "how to assemble and manage a web team that takes on the project of designing an organization's web site." [workshop description]

Posted April 12, 2007

The virtual reference study – "Cross-cultural analysis of E-mail Reference" by SLIS faculty members Pnina Shachaf, Lokman Meho, and Noriko Hara – has been published in the latest issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship.

Posted April 12, 2007

On April 11, 2007, SLIS faculty member Javed Mostafa and SLIS doctoral student Weimao Ke presented "Collaborative Classifier Agents: Studying the Impact of Learning in Distributed Document Classification."

Posted April 12, 2007

SLIS Professor Susan Herring was recently quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on the harassment of female bloggers. Herring has conducted numerous studies on weblogs – particularly, concerning gender and genre issues – and gender dynamics in online communication.

Posted April 5, 2007

On March 26, 2007, SLIS faculty member Katy Börner presented "Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Chemistry" at a National Science Foundation Town Hall Meeting at the American Chemical Society (ACM) National Meeting & Exposition in Chicago.

Posted April 5, 2007

One of the science maps commissioned for "The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science" exhibition is featured in a 2-page story in the SEED magazine, online at seedmagazine.com. The article – "Scientific Method: Relationships among Scientific Paradigms" – describes the map as "constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms."

Posted March 23, 2007

Assistant Professors Noriko Hara and Lokman Meho will receive the 2007 Trustees Teaching Award from the School of Library and Information Science in Bloomington. The primary focus of the awards is on classroom teaching, where both have excelled during the past year.

Posted March 20, 2007

SLIS faculty member Pnina Shachaf, along with SLIS alumni Ellen Rubenstein (MLS '06), have published "A Comparative Analysis of Libraries' Approaches to Copyright: Israel, Russia, and the U.S." in the January 2007 issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Using content analysis of online copyright information on library Web sites from each country, Shachaf and Rubenstein examine three main areas - amount of information available, institutional context of the copyright information, and specific activities associated with the library's copyright policy. The study "identifies the differences and similarities in attitudes toward copyright issues among academic libraries in these three countries."

Posted March 8, 2007

An important issue to be considered by librarians and information professionals is access to, and use of, online resources in the area of human sexuality. This, of course, is a sensitive issue, one where private lives, public morals and constitutional law frequently collide.

Posted Feb. 22, 2007

Learn about Suzanne Briet through a recently established website prepared by SLIS faculty member Ron Day, in collaboration with colleagues:

Suzanne Briet, What is Documentation? (Qu'est-ce que la documentation?)
"This site now links to the entire translation of Briet's book (translated by Ronald E. Day (Indiana University) and Laurent Martinet (Paris), with Hermina Anghelescu (Wayne State University)) and to the preface and commentary on that text, as well as to Michael Buckland's biography of Briet and his selected bibliography of her works, as printed in What is Documentation?: English Translation of the Classic French Text (Scarecrow Press, 2006). Thanks to Laurent Martinet and by permission of Briet's heirs, a link to a pdf file of the original French text is now also given."

Posted Feb. 22, 2007

A research article about global virtual teams, conducted by SLIS faculty members Pnina Shachaf and Noriko Hara, has been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Information Science. The study – "Behavioural complexity theory of media selection: A proposed theory for global virtual teams" – proposes a new theory of media choice, the behavioural complexity theory. Interviews with members of global virtual teams were conducted to determine the effects of culture and other contingencies on the type of media used in their communication. As defined in the introduction, global virtual teams are "heterogeneous and internationally dispersed teams that rely mainly on information and communication technology to conduct their shared tasks."

Posted Feb. 15, 2007

The article, "Discovering Implicit Association Between Genes and Hereditary Diseases," authored by SLIS faculty member Javed Mostafa and Kazuhiro Seki (recent SLIS Ph.D. graduate - now working at Kobe University in Japan), has been published in the Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing.

Posted Feb. 8, 2007

On February 12, 2007, SLIS and Informatics faculty member John Paolillo, along with SLIS doctoral student Jonathan Warren and Informatics master's student Breanne Kunz, will give a talk on "Social Network and Genre Emergence in Amateur Flash Multimedia." The event is a part of the Networks and Complex Systems Talk Series.

Posted Feb. 7, 2007

SLIS welcomes back Dr. Elisabeth Davenport as a Visiting Scholar this month. She has been a regular part of the SLIS faculty since 1992. She has worked with a number of SLIS faculty on research projects and articles; and has taught classes. This semester she is teaching SLIS-L597 Computerization Movements: An Introductory Workshop.

Posted Feb. 7, 2007

SLIS Profesor Thomas Nisonger's article "A Review and Analysis of Library Availability Studies" has been published in the January 2007 issue of Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS). In the introduction, Nisonger states:

Posted Jan. 31, 2007

SLIS Professor Susan Herring has announced the recent publication of the latest issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (vol. 12, issue 2). JCMC is a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal with a "focus on social science research on computer-mediated communication via the Internet, the World Wide Web, and wireless technologies" [JCMC website]. Herring has been the editor of the journal since 2004. SLIS and Informatics associate professor John Paolillo serves as associate editor.

SLIS faculty members Lokman Meho and Kiduk Yang recently presented at the 2007 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference, held January 15 -18 in Seattle, Wa.

Posted Jan. 17, 2007

"It's a sobering fact that some 90% of papers that have been published in academic journals are never cited."
—Lokman Meho, 2007

SLIS faculty member Lokman Meho's article – "The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis" – has been published in the January 2007 issue of Physics World.

Posted Jan. 11, 2007

The ID (illuminated diagram) Science Map for the Places and Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit was featured in Nature magazine (Nature. Vol. 444. 21/28. December 2006, page 985).

This science map was commissioned by SLIS faculty member Katy Börner for the Places and Spaces exhibit. The map was created by W. Bradford Paley, Kevin W. Boyack, and Richard Klavans. The data was from Thompson Scientific (formerly known as Thompson ISI).

Posted Jan. 9, 2007

SLIS faculty member Katy Börner will give a talk at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California on January 31, 2007.

Posted Jan. 9, 2007

SLIS faculty and students had an active presence at the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) held from January 3-7, 2007 at the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii.

Posted Jan. 3, 2007

Pnina Shachaf (SLIS faculty member) and Sarah Horowitz (SLIS Master of Library Science student) recently published the following article:

Shachaf, P., & Horowitz, S. (2006). Are virtual reference services color blind? Library & Information Science Research, 28(4), 501-520.

Posted Jan. 3, 2007

Do u txt ur kdz? is the title of a Boston Globe article by Carolyn J. Johnson, Globe Staff, that appeared on December 17, 2006. The article discusses a possible "new way to bridge the generation gap: a cellphone screen." It focuses on "texting - sending brief messages by cellphone" as a new way parents can keep in contact with their teenage children.

Posted Jan. 3, 2007

SLIS professor Susan Herring and three SLIS Ph.D. in Information Science students (Lois Scheidt, Inna Kouper, and Elijah Wright) are authors of a recently published book chapter on blog analysis:

Posted Jan. 3, 2007

The Indiana University Office of Media Relations issued the following press release on December 12, 2006:

IU is No. 1 among publicly supported universities in PC Magazine ranking of Top 20 Wired Campuses

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Another national computing magazine has recognized Indiana University as a leader in providing students and faculty with an advanced technological environment for learning and research.

Posted Dec. 15, 2006

The Indiana University - Fall 2006 - Digital Library Program Brown Bag Series concluded the semester with a talk by SLIS faculty member John A. Walsh.

The presentation was held Wednesday, December 13 from12:00-1:15 p.m. at the Herman B Wells Library, Room E-174.

Posted Dec. 14, 2006

The Indiana University Office of Media Relations issued the following press release. It is also listed on their website, along with other I.U. news items at: http://newsinfo.iu.edu

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana University Bloomington School of Library and Information Science is first in the world in faculty and program citations, according to a new study by Swedish sociologists.

Posted Dec. 7, 2006

On November 27, SLIS faculty member Pnina Shachaf presented a talk about library consortia development at the XIII Coloquio Internacional de Bibliotecarios, one of the academic programs at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico. Shachaf discussed a comparative analysis of nationwide consortia from eight countries.

Posted Nov. 30, 2006

Indiana University's (IU) School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) has been ranked #1 in the world in terms of faculty and program citation counts. Citation counting is well known by scholars to be an objective measure that credits and recognizes the value, impact, quality, or significance of an author's work.

A study by Olle Persson and Fredrik Åström, of the Department of Sociology, Umeå Universitet (Sweden), based on articles from 27 of the top library and information science journals for the period 1990 to April 2005, placed SLIS well above the nearest contender (see links below). Self citations were excluded in the study.

Posted Nov. 30, 2006