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The School of Information Sciences welcomes two new
faculty members: Assistant Professor Sherry Koshman and
Assistant Professor Judith Jablonski. Both will be teaching
courses in the Library and Information Science Department.
Dr. Koshman was awarded her bachelor’s degree
from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master of
Library and Information Studies from McGill University.
In 1997, she received her Ph.D. from the University of
Pittsburgh’s
School of Information Sciences, where she served as
a Visiting Lecturer during 2004-2005. Dr. Koshman also
worked as an information retrieval and software testing
consultant for quality assurance and large-scale product
implementation projects in the telecommunications and
health insurance industries for several years. Her
research interests include information visualization
systems usability testing, web retrieval and search
analysis, visualization interface development, and
human-computer interaction. Her teaching interests
cover Web information retrieval, information visualization,
information architecture, digital library services,
information technology foundations, and user-focused
system design. She will be teaching courses on Information
Architecture (LIS 2635) and Introduction to Information
Technologies (LIS 2600) to students seeking their MLIS
degree.
Koshman’s “Testing User Interaction with
a Prototype Visualization-based Information Retrieval
System” was recently published in the Journal of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Her “Web-based Visualization Interface Testing:
Similarity Judgments” was published in the Journal
of Web Engineering in 2004. Dr. Koshman presented on
Information Visualization: the Information Architecture
Connection at the Information Architecture Summit in
Montreal in 2005. She will be making a presentation on “Repeat
Visits to Vivisimo.com: Implications for Successive Web
searching” at the ASIS&T (American Society
for Information Science & Technology) 2005 Conference
in November.
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Dr. Judith Jablonski |
Dr. Judith Jablonski joins the SIS faculty upon completion
of her Ph.D. studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s
School of Library and Information Studies. She will be
awarded her doctorate in Fall of 2005; her dissertation
subject is “ Conceptualizing the Field of Library
and Information Studies: The Perspective of LIS Faculty
and LIS Practitioners in the United States.” Dr.
Jablonski holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature
as well as two master’s degrees: one in English from
the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and one
in Library and Information Science from The Catholic University
of America in Washington, D.C.
Jablonski teaches in two areas: Information Organization, which includes
courses in subject analysis and indexing, thesaurus construction, information
design, the visual presentation of knowledge, and web design and navigation;
and the Sociology of Knowledge, which includes courses in adult reading, genre
fiction, the graphic novel, manuscript and print culture, and the technology
of writing. In 2005-2006, she will be teaching “Organizing Information” (LIS
2001) and “Indexing and Abstracting” (LIS 2452) in both the on-campus
and on-line classes for master’s students in the Library and Information
Science Department. Dr. Jablonski has extensive professional experience in
book, periodical, and database indexing, thesaurus construction and maintenance,
in academic library reference, and in professional writing education. Her research
interests include professional jurisdiction and disciplinarity, information
organization in public and private contexts, communications media, research
methods, and the visual structure and presentation of knowledge.
Dr. Jablonski has served as a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
The Catholic University of America ( Washington, D.C.), the University of Illinois
at Champaign-Urbana, and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. She presented
a preliminary report on her doctoral research at the Association for Library
and Information Science Education’s Annual Conference in 2003. In 2000,
she spoke on “The World Wide Web and the Education of the ‘New Indexer’” at
the German-Dutch University Conference: INFORMATION SPECIALISTS FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY.
To contact Dr. Koshman, please call 412-624-9441 or e-mail her at skoshman@mail.sis.pitt.edu.
To reach Dr. Jablonski, e-mail her at
judithj@mail.sis.pitt.edu or call 412-624-9459.
For more information about the School of Information Sciences, please visit www.sis.pitt.edu. |
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