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Associate Professor, Archives
Program Director, and Co-Director of the dual-degree program with
the Department of History Professor Bastian received her master's in library science from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica; she received her doctoral degree at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Science. Prior to coming to Simmons, Bastian was the Director of Libraries and Archives and Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands and served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas. She has work experience in government archives, public libraries and teaching Caribbean literature, as well as consulting on archives and library planning. Her publications include several articles and books that focus on West Indian literature and the Virgin Islands.
Professor and Director,
School Library Teacher Program Professor James Baughman is the director of the School Library Teacher Program. He most recently cowrote the study, "MCAS and School Libraries: Making the Connection," in which it was found that higher student MCAS scores at all grade levels can be directly linked to the presence and quality of public school libraries. Another recent work of Baughman's centers on the relationship between college and university ranking, size of library holdings, and faculty scholarship. Baughman has authored books on trusteeship and he served as the founding editor of Trustee Voice, the official publication of the American Library Trustee Association, a division of ALA. He recently served as chair of the Committee on Accreditation for ALA, and as a member of the steering committee that planned the Congress on Professional Education, an initiative of the ALA Executive Board, held in the spring of 1999. He also is a recipient of the "Research Competition Award" based on an article titled "Toward a Structural Approach to Collection Development."
Prior to coming to Simmons, Professor Benoit was an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky's College of Communications and Information Studies where he taught information technology, systems analysis and design/data modeling, information storage and retrieval, and microcomputing. He is a recipient of the U.S. Department of Education Scholarship (1996-1997) and the Latin American Center Mobility Fellowship (1997-1998), and he was awarded a National Leadership Grant.
Professor Margaret Bush teaches a wide array of courses in library materials and services for children and adolescents in public library management. She is a reviewer for the Horn Book and for School Library Journal. She has been very active in the American Library Association, where she served as a member of Council for eight years. She is a past president of ALA's Association for Library Service to Children and recently served as a member of its Wilder Award Committee. For the Massachusetts Library Association, Bush chaired the committees which developed Standards for Public Library Service to Children and Standards for Public Library Service to Young Adults in Massachusetts. She also serves on the board of directors for the Advancement of New England Storytelling. In 2003, she received the Hope Dean Memorial Award given by the Foundation for Children's Books.
Before coming to the United States, Professor Chaparro taught Spanish linguistics for several years at the Instituto Peruano de Publicidad and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Lima, Peru. He received a Fulbright Scholarship for MLS study at Rutgers University and went on earn his Ph.D. there. While working on his doctorate, he taught human information behavior, communications, international librarianship, information technology, and Spanish. His current research focuses on information technology and policy in Brazil and other Latin American countries.
Professor Chen is an author and editor of 35 books and more than 200 articles in the areas of information technology and management, recently specifically related to global digital libraries. She has received numerous major awards, including the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; the Library Information Technology Association's LITA/Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology, the LITA/HiTech Literature Award, and the LITA/OCLC Kilgour Award, the Humphrey/OCLC Award for outstanding contribution to international library work, as well as the first ALISE Pratt-Severn National Faculty Award in Library and Information Studies. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. She served as a member of both President Clinton's and President Bush's Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1998-2002, and was actively involved in several PITAC subcommittees, including Digital Library, Digital Divide, Future of Learning, Individual Security, and International Issues. Professor Chen has devoted her major efforts in recent years to digital library research and development. Her Global Memory Net, a multi-year International Digital Library Project, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF/IDLP), was publicly launched in July 2006.
Prior to coming to Simmons, Michele Cloonan was Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Information Studies, UCLA. Over the past twenty years, she has written extensively in the areas of preservation, book trade history, and bibliography. Her most recent publications have concerned the preservation of digital media and the moral and ethical dimensions of preserving cultural heritage. Before she began her teaching career, she worked as a book conservator at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and started the preservation program at Brown University. While a professor at UCLA she took a one-year leave of absence and was the Curator of Rare Books at Smith College. Dean Cloonan has held a variety of offices in the American Library Association, served on the board of the American Printing History Association, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Northeast Document Conservation Center and the Massachusetts Center for the Book. She has also served on the editorial boards of Libraries & Culture and Library Quarterly. Her honors include the Robert Vosper/IFLA Fellows Programme award, the Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship, and a fellowship to the Virginia Center of Creative Arts. She holds degrees from Bennington College (AB), the University of Chicago (AM), and the University of Illinois (MS, PhD). She has been a visiting or adjunct professor at Northern Illinois University, the Universities of Illinois, Rhode Island, and Alabama, and Smith College.
Phone: 617-521-2878 sheila.denn@simmons.edu
Professor Denn received her master's in information science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she expects to receive her doctoral degree in December 2006. While a doctoral student, she taught courses in database design and participated in research on an NSF-funded digital government grant. Her current research focuses on metadata for use of government statistical data, human-computer interaction for complex information-seeking, and the relationship of metadata to human-computer interaction design. Along with Assistant Professor Rong Tang, Denn was awarded a grant in November 2007 from the Simmons College President's Fund for Faculty Excellence.
Phone: 617-521-2699 ross.harvey@simmons.edu
Professor Harvey, until recently professor of library and information management at Charles Sturt University in Australia, will be a Visiting Professor at GSLIS through Spring 2010. In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa. He received his doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and a diploma from the library school at the National Library of New Zealand. Harvey has held academic positions at several international institutions, including the University of Glasgow in Scotland, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University in Bangkok, Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Monash University in Australia, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Harvey is the editor of Australian Academic & Research Libraries. He also co-edited the Spring 2007 issue of Library Trends with Simmons GSLIS Dean Michele Cloonan. Harvey's research interests include the preservation of library and archival materials, the history of print culture, nineteenth-century New Zealand and Australian newspaper history, and the history of music printing and publishing. He has written many articles on library preservation, and his articles have been published in Library Trends, Australian Library Journal and Journal of Library and Information Management, among others.
Professor Hernon teaches in the areas of government information, public policy, evaluation of library services, research methods, and academic libraries. He is the author of more than 260 publications of which forty-five are monographs. He is the 1999 ALA's Highsmith Award winner for the best book in library and information science. He is coeditor of Library & Information Science Research, former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Academic Librarianship, and founding editor of Government Information Quarterly. During the 1995-1996 academic year, Hernon served as a visiting professor in the Department of Library and Information Studies at Victoria University in New Zealand. In 1998, he returned to New Zealand to lecture and consult, and in 2002 he spent his sabbatical leave teaching there. He has also spoken in Britain, Canada, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa. Together with Candy Schwartz, he is currently working on an IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) Librarians for the 21 st Century grant on developing a Ph.D. program in managerial leadership.
Phone: 617-521-2852 lisa.hussey2@simmons.edu
Professor Hussey, who is joins the GSLIS faculty in Fall 2008, formerly the director of library services at DeVry University in Arizona, has taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of Missouri, where she received her doctoral degree. She also served as program manager for the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science. Hussey has given several presentations on diversity in librarianship and what motivates minorities to choose a library science career. Her other research interests include diversity and management, leadership, and the role of theory versus practice in teaching library science.
Melanie
Kimball Professor Kimball, who will begin at GSLIS in Spring 2009, is an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she also got her M.S. degree in Library and Information Science. Her primary area of research is in youth services in public libraries, literature for youth, and the history of public libraries as social and cultural institutions. Kimball has published articles in Library Trends, Public Libraries, and Teacher-Librarian, among others. She is currently involved in a project with the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, NIOGA Library System, the Buffalo Public Libraries, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The project, called Get Graphic! was funded by the State Library of New York and promotes the use of graphic novels in the classroom as aids to literacy.
Professor Joudrey, an expert in organizing information, joined the Simmons faculty in 2005 and teaches courses in the organization of information and cataloging. Prior to coming to Simmons, Joudrey was a teaching fellow and research assistant at the University of Pittsburgh for Dr. Arlene G. Taylor, a well-known cataloging authority. Joudrey was also a metadata policy intern at the Library of Congress. Joudrey is assisting Dr. Taylor in the writing of the forthcoming third edition of The Organization of Information. Joudrey received his Ph.D. and MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh and his B.A. in theatre from George Washington University. His dissertation, Building Puzzles and Growing Pearls: A Qualitative Exploration of Determining Aboutness was completed in December 2005. His current research focuses on the theoretical foundations of subject determination, the nature of cataloging education, and the application of classification theory to the subject analysis process.
Dean Matarazzo has work experience at the MIT Libraries in science and reference, serials and journals, technical reports, and government publications. He is a consultant to companies and corporations on the organization, evaluation, and creation of corporate libraries, information centers, and management of information. His current research focuses on the development of a model to evaluate the worth of corporate libraries, on why some corporate libraries are excellent, and on how senior executives value library and information science. Matarazzo is a fellow of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). He received SLA's Professional Award in 1983 and again in 1991 when he also received SLA's President's Award. Dr. Matarazzo was president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (2000-2001) and is the vice president of the H.W. Wilson Foundation, Inc.
Professor Oyler's background is broad and varied but her major interests are in international librarianship and management, automation, preservation and technical services, especially in public libraries. Nationally, she is Chair of the Orientation and Mentoring Committee of the International Relations Roundtable of the American Library Association where she has also served on the Council of the Association. Internationally, she is active in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) where she has served as Chair of the Committee on Continuing Professional and Workplace Learning. Under the direction of Oyler, Simmons College has received several grants from Atlantic Philanthropies, the Henry Luce Foundation and the Starr Foundation to provide master-level training for librarians from Vietnam as the country works to build its academic libraries and information technology infrastructure in a rapidly growing global economy. During the 1990's, Professor Oyler coordinated the Simmons College/Harvard Yenching Institute Scholar Librarian Program where the first 18 of a total of 30 Vietnamese librarians attended Simmons for their master's degree in library and information science. She remains active in assisting these librarians in developing a library infrastructure for Vietnam and continues to travel to Vietnam regularly to teach continuing education classes for librarians. Oyler became Associate Dean in January 2008.
After completing her MLS at Rutgers University, Professor Pattee worked as a children's librarian at public libraries in Ocean County and Burlington County, New Jersey. She received her doctorate in library information science from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. A recent publication of hers in Library Quarterly reflects her current research interests: "Mass Market Mortification: The Developmental Appropriateness of Teen Magazines and the Embarrassing Story Standard." She teaches children's and young adult literature.
Professor Peek, an early advocate of the Open Access (OA) movement in scholarly communication, has written over 150 articles on digital and scholarly publishing. She is the co-founder and editor of the Open Access Directory. In addition she serves as the Associate Editor for Book Reviews for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, prior to this appointment she served on its editorial board for over a decade. For over a decade she has authored the "Focus on Publishing" which appears in Information Today, the largest circulating publication for the information industry. Prior to completing her doctoral work at Syracuse University, Professor Peek had gained experienced in publishing, computing services, and academic libraries. Her current research interest is focused on the history and evolution of the OA movement and the development of OA mandates, journals, and institutional change.
Phone: 617-521-2811 howard.rodriguez-mori@simmons.edu
Professor Rodriguez-Mori, who is joining the faculty in Fall 2008, is completing his doctorate in library and information studies from Florida State University. He specializes in information-seeking behavior in interpersonal relationships and social networks, information behavior patterns of English-as-a-second-language speakers, and ethnographic and qualitative research. He has taught library science courses at universities including the University of Arizona, the University of Denver, Wayne State University, and Florida State University. Rodriguez-Mori has published several articles on music reference, Spanish-language access, multicultural opportunities for research, and increasing the diversity of Ph.D. candidates in library and information science. He also served as the Spanish/diversity/outreach librarian for the Arapahoe Library District in Englewood, CO.
Professor Schwartz is an active member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), and served as the association's president from 1998-1999. She is the recipient of two ASIST awards, the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award and the Watson Davis Award, given to an ASIST member for outstanding and dedicated service to the society. Her manuscript, "Sorting Out the Web: Approaches to Subject Access" was published in 2001. She is coeditor of the journal Library & Information Science Research. Professor Schwartz gives workshops locally and internationally on metadata, Web search engines, and information organization and retrieval. She also does consulting in these areas, most recently with Ebsco Information Services and Endeca. She teaches information organization, digital libraries, and subject analysis, and coordinates the doctoral programs at GSLIS. With Peter Hernon, she is currently directing an IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) "Librarians for the 21st Century" grant, which has institutied a Ph.D. concentration in managerial leadership.
It is with deep sadness that we announce Professor Allen Smith's passing on Saturday, August 2, 2008. To read more, please see the announcement.
Phone: 617-521-2880 rong.tang@simmons.edu
Professor Tang received her PhD from the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught evaluation of information services, technology for information professionals, library automation, digital information services and providers, and research methods and design. Her research areas range from user studies and needs assessment, mental models of online searching, bibliometrics and citation behavior research, usability testing and evaluation, to user community generated metadata and question-answering services. Professor Tang is the Director of GSLIS Usability Lab. She has received multiple research grants and awards. One of her papers has won the 2008 Wynar/ALISE research paper competition. She is a recipient of 2007 APA PsycINFO Needs Assessment Contract Award, 2007 Simmons College President's Fund for Faculty Excellence, and 2008 OCLC/ALISE Research Grant Award.
The recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, Professor Whorley has masters degrees in history and social history from the University of Virginia and Carnegie Mellon University, and she received her doctorate in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught archival access and advocacy, and management of records and information resources. Her research interests focus on governmental and state archives and the relationships between access, privacy and collective memory. Her most recent essay, entitled "The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Access & Control Over Controversial Records," was published in the edited volume Political Pressure & the Archival Record.
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