[Asis-l] Long Island University's Palmer School Welcomes New Faculty

[Valeda Dent]

*Long Island University's Palmer School of Library and Information Science
is pleased to introduce our newest faculty members.*



*Dr. Hsin-liang (Oliver) Chen* joined the Palmer School faculty in Spring
2015. Prior to arriving at Palmer he taught at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of
Missouri, and Indiana University at Indianapolis. Dr. Chen’s expertise
covers the areas of Information Technology and Systems, and Digital
Librarianship.



Dr. Chen’s research interests focus on the application of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) to assist users in accessing and using
information in different environments. His interest in these areas are
guided in part by his previous experience as an art teacher and school
librarian in Taiwan and a faculty member in higher education.  Dr. Chen has
studied how college students search for art historical images to complete
their course assignments, how museum practitioners use images for their job
duties, how system designers should design online mathematics digital
libraries for K-12 math education, and how college students learn from
multimedia materials in an online information literacy class.



Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the
University of Pittsburgh in 1999, MA in Educational Communication and
Technology from New York University in 1995, and BA in Library Science from
Fu-Jen Catholic University in Taiwan in 1985.





*Dr. Vincent M. Livoti *joined the Palmer School faculty in the Fall of
2014.



Dr. Livoti is a Boston-area native. Prior to his arrival in New York he
lived in Portland, Maine and worked for the University of Maine as an
Assistant Professor. He previously taught in the Graduate School of
Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he also
managed the Kresge Center for Teaching Resources.  Dr. Livoti is an alumnus
of both Simmons College and Massachusetts State University. He moved to
London for graduate studies before beginning his interdisciplinary doctoral
research.



Having previously worked with Harvard University, The Museum of Science,
Boston Children’s Museum and the Boston Center for Adult Education, Dr.
Livoti brings a diverse range of human service experience to the Palmer
School.



As a human service worker with over ten years in the field, Dr. Livoti is
engaged with advocating for the underserved in the information sphere as
well as scholarship exploring the expanding role of sexual minorities in
American culture.



Dr. Livoti specializes in social action research and the underserved,
inclusion practice and cultural competency, media analysis and information
literacy, LGBT studies and queer theory, the diversification of resources
for library and information centers, and youth services and developmental
resources.



In spring 2015 Dr. Livoti revised the Palmer School’s Children’s and Young
Adult Services curriculum. Dr. Livoti enjoys contemporary art and film, as
well as exploring the expanses of Long Island’s natural beauty.



*Dr. Wei Xiong* will join the Palmer School of Library and Information
Science as an assistant professor in Fall 2015.  Prior to LIU, he served as
an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science
and Information Systems at Northwest Missouri State University. Dr. Xiong
holds a dual-bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and Marketing from
Hubei University of Economics, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Information Systems
from New Jersey Institute of Technology.



Dr. Xiong's teaching interests include data mining (big data and its
applications), information representation and retrieval, and digital
libraries. His research involves a wide range of data mining applications
in different domains, including behavioral-targeted advertising in
business, automatic document classification in digital libraries, and early
alert system for online course instructors in academia. He has worked as a
data scientist in industry and has a funded grant proposal on data mining
research.



Dr. Xiong is teaching a special topics course in Data Mining for the
Information Professional in the Fall 2015. He is working on creating two
courses focused on Information Analytics for the Spring 2016.



Please join me in welcoming our newest faculty members to the Palmer School.



Valeda F. Dent, Ph.D., MILS, MSW

Dean, University Libraries

Interim Director, Palmer School of Library and Information Science

Long Island University

Brookville, New York  11548

(516) 299 - 2307 Phone

(516) 299 - 4169 FAX
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