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The School of Information Sciences was well-represented
at The First Conference of the i-School Community: Bridging
Disciplines to Confront Grand Challenges. This
conference, held in September at the Pennsylvania
State University, was designed to celebrate the i-School
community, to explore and develop the essentials
of the Information field, address challenges facing
i-Schools, and to discuss the i-School identity.
This conference was hosted by a consortium of information
schools (i-Schools), part of their long-term strategy
to build brand identity and foster collaborative efforts
among “i-Schools” across the country. SIS,
as one of the founding members of the consortium, encouraged
faculty, staff and students to attend this seminal
conference.
Many of the SIS faculty & staff prepared papers
to present at the conference including:
Anthony Debons, Essentials for an Educational
Program in Information Science and Technology
Peter Brusilovsky, From Information Retrieval
to Information Access: A User-
Centered View and an Agenda for I-Schools
Toni Carbo, Information Ethics: A Fundamental
Building Block of the Field of Information
Ellen Gay Detlefsen, Understanding the Anatomy
of I-School and Medical School Cooperation: A concept
paper for The First i-Conference of the i-School
Community
Stephen Hirtle, I-dentity: Is it the i-forest
or the i-trees?
Terrance R. Kizina, Grand Challenges Facing Enrollments
Dean Ronald L. Larsen, Centripetal or Centrifugal
Forces at Play? Challenges in the Education of Information
Professionals
Glenn L. Ray, Web Services in the i-School Curriculum
Ken Sochats, Who Are We?
Richard Thompson, Telecommunications as an I-School
Discipline
In addition, Dean Larsen acted as a “Grand
Rapporteur” for the conference, gathering insights
and collating observations from the conference participants
and attendees.
Students from SIS featured in the Graduate Student
Poster Session:
Julian Aiken, “Framing a Digital Community:
The Creation and Publication of Digital Watch”
Mary Jo Dorsey “Investigating Information Seeking
Behaviors of Primary Care Physicians Who Take Care
of Older Depressed Patients and their Family Caregivers”
Div Sharma, “Whirlpool: Efficient Querying
Wireless Sensor Networks for Non-Intrusive Structural
Monitoring”
Also attending:
Roger Flynn, Daqing He, and Martin Weiss. |
