[Asis-l] GSLIS at Illinois welcomes new faculty

[Schmidt, Kimberly Rae]

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois is pleased to announce the addition of three new faculty members. Peter Darch and Rachel Magee will join the faculty this fall, and Jodi Schneider will begin her appointment in August 2016. “We’re very pleased to be welcoming three accomplished faculty members to GSLIS. The range of their expertise complements the breadth of our teaching and research, and we’re thrilled they are joining us,” said Allen Renear, GSLIS dean and professor.

Peter Darch joins the faculty this fall.<http://www.lis.illinois.edu/articles/2015/07/darch-joins-gslis-faculty> After receiving his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Oxford, Darch was most recently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, working on the Knowledge Infrastructures project. Darch conducted longitudinal case studies of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center studying interactions between microbial life and geochemical processes in the seafloor, and of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a large telescope project currently in development. “There are many world-leading researchers on the faculty who study scientists, scientific workflows, and issues around the circulation of scientific data and knowledge with whom I am very eager to collaborate, in particular in the context of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS),” said Darch.

Rachel Magee joins the faculty this fall.<http://www.lis.illinois.edu/articles/2015/07/magee-joins-gslis-faculty> Magee’s research focuses on how young people engage with technology, and considers their social relationships and values as important factors in their technology use. She is also interested in developing technologies, strategies, and techniques to better support teens’ information access and use. Before embarking on her doctoral studies, Magee served as a teen and reference services librarian at the County of Los Angeles Public Library for three years. Magee is now looking forward to bringing that experience to the classroom. “I’m very excited to teach people who will be going out into the field and working directly with youth, drawing from my own experiences as a teen services librarian and my research,” she said.

Jodi Schneider will join the faculty in August 2016.<http://www.lis.illinois.edu/articles/2015/07/schneider-joins-gslis-faculty> For the next year, Schneider will be a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, supported by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at INRIA, the national French Computer Science Research Institute, funded by a highly competitive ERCIM Marie Curie Fellowship. Schneider’s research interests include computer-supported cooperative work; linked data including ontologies, metadata, and the semantic web; and scholarly communication. At GSLIS, she is looking forward to continuing her research into evidence curation as well as collaborating with other GSLIS faculty on complementary projects.

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Kim Schmidt
Director of Publications and Media Relations
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 265-6391
www.lis.illinois.edu
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