[Asis-l] New Faculty at SLAIS/UBC

[Mary Sue Stephenson]

posted on behalf of Edie Rasmussen

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The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia is pleased to welcome three new Assistant Professors in 2009/2010. Eric Meyers and Lisa Nathan, graduating from the University of Washington, will join the School in July, 2009 while Aaron Loehrlein from Indiana University will begin in January 2010.

Aaron Loehrlein is completing a joint Ph.D. in Information Science and Cognitive Science at Indiana University in Bloomington. His dissertation research is an exploration of the ways in which a person’s conceptual structures influences information-seeking behaviour. Aaron holds an MLS from the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, and a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Iowa. He has taught in the areas of information architecture and in the organization and representation of knowledge and information. Aaron is co-author of an ARIST chapter on Information Architecture, and has published and presented his work at conferences such as TREC, ALISE, ISKO and ASIST. Aaron will join SLAIS in January, 2010.

Eric Meyers is completing a PhD in Information Science at the University of Washington, with a dissertation on “The Nature and Impact of Group Information Problem Solving”. He holds an A.B. in Literature, Science and the Arts from the University of Michigan, with a history concentration, and a Professional Teaching Credential in Social Science and Earth Science, as well as an MS in Information. He also has an MA in Education from Stanford. His research interests include youth information behaviour, information literacy, and virtual worlds. His work on the information life of preteens and the Net Generation has been published in Library Quarterly, Information Research, Library and Information Science Research, and at IASL, ALISE, ISIC and other conferences and workshops.

Lisa Nathan is completing her doctoral dissertation on “Adaptation and Information Technology: An Ethnography of Values, Choice, and Tension in Two Ecovillages” in the Information School at the University of Washington. Lisa holds an MS in LIS from Simmons College, Boston, and a BA in Education from Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. She has several years of experience in public libraries in Vermont. While at the University of Washington, she taught a course on the Organizational, Societal and Global Perspectives on Information Systems, and served as a teaching assistant for several other courses. She also served as a research assistant on several major research projects. This year, she is serving as Co-Principal Investigator on the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal Project. Lisa is the author of many journal articles, book chapters, papers and posters and has organized and participated in a number of workshop, symposia and courses.
  
  
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