[Asis-l] UW-Milwaukee announces the appointment of Dr. Lynne Howarth as Distinguished Researcher

[LEE Hur-Li]

The School of Information Studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee announces the appointment of Dr. Lynne Howarth as
Distinguished Researcher

Dr. Lynne Howarth has been appointed to the School of Information
Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) as
Distinguished Researcher in the area of Information Organization and
will make her first visit in this role this week.

Dr. Howarth completed her Ph.D. in library and information science,
was appointed to the Faculty of Information in 1990, and served as
Dean from 1995-2003 at the University of Toronto. Prior to her time at
the University of Toronto, she held positions in North York Public
Library in Toronto. Her recent publications indicate the range of her
expertise:  a series of articles on RDA: Resource Description and
Access (with J. Weihs) in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
(2007-2009), “Creating Pathways to Memory: Enhancing Life Histories
through Category Clusters” (paper for the 10th ISKO conference in
2008),  “Visualizing Search Results from Metadata-Enabled Repositories
in Cultural Domains” (with T. Miller; Springer-Verlag, 2006),
"Guidelines for OPAC Displays" (2005), “Metadata and Bibliographic
Control: Soul-mates or Two Solitudes?” (Cataloging and Classification
Quarterly 40, no. 3/4), “Designing a Language-Independent Search
Prototype for Accessing Multilingual Resources from Metadata-Enabled
Repositories” (paper for the Canadian Association for Information
Science 2005 conference, with T. Miller), “Enabling Metadata: Creating
Core Records for Resource Discovery” (paper for the World Library and
Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council, 2005),
and “A Metadata Framework for Designing Subject Gateways” (2004).

Dr. Howarth is a member of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, the
IFLA Classification and Indexing Section, the IFLA Working Group on
Metadata Schemes, and the ISBD Review Group (IFLA).

Dr. Howarth joins the Information Organization Research Group (IOrg)
at SOIS, and will further enhance the school’s reputation as a leader
in the area of Information Organization. With current faculty such as
Drs. Hur-Li Lee, Hope Olson, Margaret Kipp, and Richard Smiraglia
along with Steven Miller and post doc Charles-Antoine Julien, the
addition of Dr. Howarth confirms SOIS as an unquestioned leader in
North America in this area of expertise.

###

The School of Information Studies at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee offers several degrees and programs including the
Bachelor of Science in Information Science and Technology, Master of
Library and Information Science (accredited by the American Library
Association), and Ph.D. in Information Studies. With a growing student
body of more than 800, SOIS strives to meet the demand for information
professionals at all levels in libraries, archives, corporations,
government agencies, schools, other institutions, and in higher
education. SOIS is a leader in online education and currently enrolls
students from all regions of the United States and from countries
around the world. For more information about the School, its faculty,
and its programs, see http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/ or call
1-888-349-3432.