Associate Professor

Office: 601B IS Building
Phone: 412-624-5138
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:
Director, School Library Certification Program; adult and young adult resources and reading interests; continuing education; school library media center management.

Recent publications:

Biagini, Mary Kay. May/June 2005. A Sense of Pittsburgh. Knowledge Quest 33(5).

Assistant Professor

Office: 620 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-7679
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. McGill University

Research Interests:
Children's and young adult library service; Children's and young adult information behavior; Family literacy/Emergent literacy; Health information and youth/Health information literacy; Information design/Design methodology

Recent publications:

Bowler, L. Dangerous Stories. English Quarterly (Special issue: Children's Stories and Social Issues). (in press).

Bowler, L. Teens and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). (2008). Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second ed., Hershey PA:  IGI Global. 3721-3727.

Bowler, L. (2008). The Metacognitive Knowledge of Adolescent Students During the Information Search Process. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, University of British Columbia, June 5 - 7, 2008. Vancouver, British Columbia: CAIS/ACSI. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/search.asp?year=2008

Bowler, L. & Large, A. (2008). Design-based Research for LIS. Library and Information Science Research, 30(1): 39-46.

Large, A., Bowler, L., Beheshti, J. & Nesset, V. (2007). Bonded Design, Intergenerational Teams and the Zone of Proximal Development: Working with Children as Designers. McGill Journal of Education, 42(1): 61- 82.

Bowler, L., Nesset, V., Large, A. & Beheshti, J., (2004). Using the Web for Canadian History Projects: What Will Children Find? Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science. 28(3): 3 – 24.

Bowler, L., Large, A. & Rejskind, G., (2001). Primary school students, information literacy and the Web, Education for Information, 19, 201-223.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: 612 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-4939
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:
Museum recordkeeping systems, museum archives, history of printing; digitization of research materials

Recent publications:

Callery, Bernadette G. 2007. Document retention: Best practices and lessons learned. In Legal Issues in Museum Administration, 415-423. Philadelphia, American Law Institute, American Bar Association.

Callery, Bernadette G., ed. 2005. Collaborative Access to Virtual Museum Collection Information: Seeing Through the Walls. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press. Also published as Journal of Internet Cataloging, 7(1), 2005.

Callery, Bernadette G. 2005. Patterns of identification of potentially sensitive data in natural history museum online catalogs. Journal of Internet Cataloging, 7(1): 103-115.

Callery, Bernadette G. and Deborah Wythe. 2004. Photographs. In Museum Archives: An Introduction, ed. D. Wythe, 123-140. Chicago: Society of American Archivists.

Professor

Office: 602 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9310
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Drexel University

Research Interests:
National and international information policies; measurement and use of information; education for the information professions; information ethics.

Recent publications:

Carbo, Toni and Martha M. Smith. 2008. (Guest Editors) “Global Information Ethics” Perspectives Section of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. Vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1109-1183.

Carbo, Toni and Martha M. Smith. (May 2008). Global Information Ethics: Intercultural Perspectives on Past and Future Research. JASIST.  Vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1111-1115.

Carbo, Toni, David Perrotta, Jeffrey Neher and Martha M. Smith. Bibliography on Information Ethics. (May 2008). JASIST.  Vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1116-1123

Carbo, Toni. 2008. Ethics Education for Information Professionals. Journal of Library Administration. Vol. 47, no.3-4, pp. 5-25.

Carbo, Toni. (March 2008). Editorial: Them and Us, Or a Bigger and Better Us? The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 99-100.

“Information Rights: Trust and Human Dignity in e-Government” International Review of Information Ethics. vol. 7(September 2007)

With James G. Williams. Foundations of Information Science: A Collection of Papers and Tributes in Honor of Anthony Debons. School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. 2007.

“Information Ethics and Policy Issues for Information Professionals.” In: Carbo, Toni and James G. Williams. Foundations of Information Science: A Collection of Papers and Tributes in Honor of Anthony Debons. School of Information Sciences University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. 2007. pp. 5-19.

“Information Ethics Education.” Presentation on a panel at the 2007 Annual Conference of the American Library Association.  June 23, 2007.  Washington, D.C.

“Reflecting on LIS and William Sullivan’s Three Apprenticeships in Professional Education: A Reflection on Ethical Values in LIS Education.”  Presentation at the 2007 Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.” Plenary Session.  January 17, 2007.  Seattle, Washington.

“Trust, Including Trust in Individuals, Content, Systems, and the Importance of Different Cultural Perspectives.”  Presentation at the 2007 Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.  Information Ethics Special Interest Group Panel.  January 16, 2007.  Seattle, Washington.

Participant on panel on “Undergraduate Programs in LIS Schools: Reflections, Challenges & Opportunities.  2007 Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education.  January 17, 2007.  Seattle, Washington.

Editor, The International Information and Library Review – quarterly research journal. 
“Relationship Marketing,” an annotated bibliography.  Library Connect (pamphlet #8, 2005), pp. 16-17.

Co-editor with Martha Smith, “Perspectives on Global Information Ethics,” to be published in JASIT&T. 2006

Chair, Library & Information Science Program & Professor

Office: 614 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-3245
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:
Archives and records management; history of archives, libraries and the information professions.

Recent publications:

Cox, Richard. 2006. Understanding Archives & Manuscripts. Chicago: Society of American Archivists.

Cox, Richard. 2005. Archives and Archivists in the Information Age. New York: Neal-Schuman.

Cox, Richard. October 2005. A Minor Nuisance Spread Across the Organization: Factors Leading to the Establishment and Support of Records and Information Management Programs. Pittsburgh: ARMA International Educational Foundation.

Cox, Richard. 2004. Lester J. Cappon and the Relationship of History, Archives, and Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival Theory. Chicago: Society of American Archivists.

Cox, Richard. 2004. No Innocent Deposits: Rethinking Archival Appraisal. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Associate Professor

Office: 613 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9444
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Institution of highest degree:
DLS. Columbia University

Research Interests:
Health information management and resources; gender issues in the professions.

Recent publications:

Detlefsen, E.G. May 2005. Information Specialist In Context (ISIC): NLM Informationist Fellowship Opportunities. Medical Library Association News 376 (9).

Detlefsen, E.G. Spring 2005. Who’s Teaching? The Journal of Research Section of MLA 19 (1): 5. http://gain.mercer.edu/mla/research/hyp05v19n1.pdf.

Detlefsen, E.G., and M.J. Dorsey. 2005. Investigating Information-Seeking Behaviors Of Primary Care Physicians Who Care for Older Depressed Patients and Their Caregivers: A Pilot Study. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 26: 111-116.

Detlefsen, E.G., Birru, M.S., Monaco, V.M., Charles, L., Drew, H., Njie, V., Bierria, T., and Steinman, R.A. September 2004. Internet Usage by Low-Literacy Adults Seeking Health Information: An Observational Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research 6 (3): e25. http://www.jmir.org/2004/3/e25/index.htm.

Detlefsen, E.G. February 2004. The Clinical Research Informationist. Reference Services Review 32 (1): 26-30.

Assistant Professor

Office: 618 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-2477
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Edinburgh

Research Interests:
Information retrieval and interactive retrieval system design; computational linguistics and natural language processing; machine learning, user modeling and adaptive web search system design and analysis.

Recent publications:

He, Daqing, Ritchie, Graeme, and Lee, John. 2006. Reference to Graphics Objects in Intelligent Multimodal Systems. Natural Language Engineering.

He, Daqing, and Ahn Jae-wook. November 2005. A Study of Three Relevance Feedback Techniques. Proceedings of Text Retrieval Conference TREC 2005. Gaithersburg, MD.

He, Daqing, and Ahn Jae-wook. September 2005. Pitt at CLEF 05: Data Fusion for Spoken Document Retrieval. Proceedings of Cross-Language Evaluation Forum CLEF 2005. 21-23.

He, Daqing, Demner-Fushman, Dina, Karakos, Damianos, Oard, Douglas W., and Khudanpur, Sanjeev. 2004. Improving Passage Retrieval via Interactive Elicitation and Language Modeling. Proceedings of Text Retrieval Conference (TREC).

Assistant Professor

Office: 609 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9459
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests:
Professional jurisdiction and disciplinarity; information organization in public and private contexts; visual structure and presentation of knowledge; information professionals; communications media; research methods.

Recent publications:

Jablonski, Judith. 2000. Preparing for the Job Interview. ALISE Conference.

Jablonski, Judith. 2000. What Questions do I Ask at the ALISE Conference  Job Interview. ALISE Conference.

Jablonski, Judith. 1999. Review of Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice (2nd Edition) by F.W. Lancaster.

Assistant Professor

Office: 611 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9441
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:
Visualization-based Information Retrieval (IR) user testing and evaluation; web-based visualization tools; cognitive principles for interface design; web query log analysis.

Recent publications:

Koshman, S. 2005. Testing User Interaction With A Prototype Visualization-Based Information Retrieval System. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 56 (8): 824-833.

Koshman, S., Spink, A., and Jansen, B.J. July 22-27, 2005. Using Clusters on the Vivisimo Web Search Engine. HCI International Las Vegas.

Koshman, S., Jansen, B.J., and Spink, A. Oct. 28-Nov. 2, 2005. Repeat Visits to Vivisimo.com: Implications for Successive Web Searching. ASIST Charlotte, NC.

Koshman, S., Spink, A., Jansen, B.J., Park, M., and Field, C. April 11-15, 2005. Multitasking Web Search on Vivisimo.com. IEEE ITCC Proceedings, Las Vegas.

Dean & Professor

Office: 514 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-5139
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Maryland College Park

Research Interests:
Digital libraries. interoperability. scalability. cross-lingual information retrieval. location-aware computing. mobile computing. computer and network performance analysis. performance metrics for distributed digital libraries.

Recent publications:

Larsen, Ronald, and Wactlar, Howard. June, 2003. Knowledge Lost in Information. Report of the NSF workshop on future research direction for digital libraries. www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop.

Larsen, Ronald, and Jean Scholtz. 2002. Book Chapter. In Cancer Informatics: An Essential Technology for Clinical Trials, eds. J. Silva, M. Ball, et al. Springer Verlag.

Larsen, Ronald, (multiple authors). October, 2002. Rover: Scalable Location-Aware Computing. IEEE Computer 46-53.

Assistant Professor

Office: 610 IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9331
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Wisconsin—Madison

Research Interests:
Digital libraries; Utility and transformation of cataloging tools in the digital world; Digital rights management; Changes in information work processes; Online pedagogy.

Recent publications:

Lawton, Pat. Forthcoming 2007. Catalogers in the Metadata World and the Future of Cataloging. Invited paper for a special issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly.

Lawton, Pat and Rae-Ann Montague 2004. Teaching and Learning Online: LEEP's Tribal Gleanings. Chapter in Learning, Culture and Community: Multiple Perspectives and Practices in Online Education: Research and Practice. Ed. by Caroline Haythornthwaite and Michelle M. Kazmer. New York: Peter Lang.

Lawton, Pat and Deborah Rose-Lefmann 2004. What is Technical Services?: Perspectives from the Field and from LIS Education. Chapter in Innovative Redesign and Reorganization of Library Technical Services: Case Studies and Paths for the Future. Ed. by Brad Eden. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

University Librarian, Director University Library System & Professor

Office: 271 Hllmn
Phone: 412-648-7710
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Institution of highest degree:

Research Interests:
Academic library management; cultural diversity; strategic planning; personnel issues; staff development; organizational development.

Recent publications:

Miller, Rush G., and Zhou, Peter. July, 1999. Global Resource Sharing: A Gateway Model. Journal of Academic Librarianship 25 (4).

Miller, Rush G. 1999. Electronic Journals and the Scholarly Process: Present and Future. In IT and Global Digital Library Development, ed. Ching-chih Chen, 293-300.

Miller, Rush G. 1998. Building Global Partnerships in the 21st Century: Envisioning the Global Virtual Library. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Missions of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century, 267-270. Beijing: Peking Univ Press.

Associate Professor

Office: 601A IS Building
Phone: 412-624-3776
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Oregon

Research Interests:
American National Government and Public Policy. Digital Citizenship. eGovernment. and Service-Learning. Environmental Policy. Civic Environmentalism. Smart Growth. and Environmental Justice. Mass Media. Film & Politics. and the History of Political Communication.

Recent publications:

Shulman, Stuart W., Shelley, Mack C., and Thrane, Lisa E. 2006. Generational Differences in Informational Technology Use and Political Involvement. International Journal of Electronic Government Research.

Shulman, Stuart W., Shelley, Mack C., and Thrane, Lisa E. 2006. Lost in Cyberspace: Barriers to Bridging the Digital Divide in E-Politics. International Journal of Information Policy, Law, and Security.

Shulman, Stuart W., Zavestoski, Stephen, and Schlosberg, David. 2006. Democracy and The Environment on the Internet: Electronic Citizen Participation in Regulatory Rulemaking. Science, Technology & Human Values.

Shulman, Stuart W. 2005. eRulemaking: Issues in Current Research and Practice. International Journal of Public Administration 28: 1-21.

Associate Professor

Office: 608A IS Building
Phone: 412-624-9448
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Institution of highest degree:
PhD. Case Western Reserve University

Research Interests:
Open source computing and scientometrics.

Recent publications:

Tomer, C. May 2005. Review of Humanizing Information Technology. Julian Warner. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004. Published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Online Preview Edition. [DOI: 10.1002/asi.20182; US: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20182].

Tomer, C., and S.W. Alman. 2004. Distance Education: The SIS Experience. In D. Baron (ed.) Distance Education in LIS Schools.

Tomer, C., Griffiths, Jose Marie, King, Donald W., Lynch, Thomas, and Harrington, Julie. 2004. Taxpayer Return on Investment in Florida Public Libraries. Florida Division of Library and Information Services.