Simmons College

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.