[Sig-l] Current Election Slate

[Heather D. Pfeiffer]

Current Election Slate for the SIG Cabinet meeting, Sunday, November 2,
2014 at 8:30 am:


SIG Cabinet Deputy Director (3 year term 2014 – 2017, from Deputy, Director
and then on to Past):


*Dr. Lynn Westbrook *is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas
School of Information.  She served as SIG-USE chair and currently serves as
a SIG Cabinet Advisor.  Her research interests center on women's
information experiences in high-risk contexts, including the information
environments of intersecting communities of practice.  Published in
top-ranked journals, she teach primarily in areas of professional practice,
e.g., academic librarianship and pedagogy. Her organizational skills would
support the SIG Cabinet's recent progress in enhancing and establishing
effective processes for essential functions.  As SIG-USE chair Dr.
Westbrook worked with colleagues to extend opportunities for wider
participation through creating new positions (e.g., social media director)
and framing informal elections into a more structured procedure. As Deputy
Director (and future Director) she would continue to streamline the
Cabinet's work and review the Cabinet's means of meeting its many
responsibilities.




SIG Cabinet Steering Committee members – (2 year term 2014-2016) – 3 open
positions


*Dr. Abebe Rorissa *is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Information Studies, College of Computing and Information.  Prior to
joining the University at Albany in 2005, he has had over 17 years of
experience working in four countries as a lecturer and professional
librarian. He has also consulted for academic institutions, national
governments, and international organizations on various topics including
information and communication technologies as well as information
organization. He has published extensively (in journals such as the Journal
of the Association for Information Science & Technology - JASIS&T,
Information Processing & Management, and Government Information Quarterly)
and served on program committees of international conferences. He is
currently serving on the editorial boards of four scholarly
journals/publications while he previously served as an assistant editor of
the ASIS&T proceedings, guest editor of the ASIS&T Bulletin, and as a
manuscript reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences.

As a multidisciplinary scholar, his research interests include multimedia
information organization and retrieval, measurement and scaling of users’
information needs and their perceptions of multimedia information sources
and services, and use/acceptance/adoption and impact of information and
communication technologies (ICTs). Dr. Rorissa teaches courses mainly in
three areas: research methods & statistics, information technology, and
foundations of information science.

In addition, Dr. Rorissa has been active in various professional
organizations such as the Association for Information Science & Technology
(ASIS&T), where he has served in leadership positions including as Chair of
SIG III, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education
(ALISE). His honors and accomplishments include serving as a University at
Albany Provost’s Fellow and winning the ASIS&T SIG Member of the Year Award
(2014).

For more, please visit his personal Website at:
http://www.albany.edu/~ar955283/.



*Dr. Lai Ma** i*s Lecturer at School of Information and Library Studies at
University College Dublin in Ireland. She has served as officers for SIG/ED
and most recently, chair of SIG/HFIS and co-chair of poster track of the
Seattle Conference. She is also chair of the European Chapter in 2014-2015.

For more, please visit her personal Website at:
http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/informationlibrarystudies/drlaima/



*Dr. Joan E. Beaudoin* is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library
and Information Science at Wayne State University where she teaches and
performs research on metadata, digital libraries, digital preservation, and
visual information. She has been an active member of ASIS&T and has held
several positions within the association's SIGs. This has included:

Chair-elect Pro Tem, SIG DL, 2014
Chair, SIG VIS, 2011-2013
Vice-Chair, SIG VIS, 2010-2011
Treasurer, SIG VIS, 2008-2010
Communications Officer, SIG AH, 2009-2011

Additional service to ASIS&T has included organizing workshops and panels
for the annual meetings, and reviewing and editing papers submitted to the
association's various publication venues:

Co-editor with Sarah Buchanan (2012). Digital humanities and information
visualization: innovation and integration. *Bulletin of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology,* 38(4).  Co-editor of
issue, co-author of introduction: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-12/

Organizer, panel for ASIS&T Conference 2014, Seattle, WA
Organizer, SIGVIS panel for ASIS&T Conference 2013, Montreal, QC
Organizer, SIGVIS panel for ASIS&T Conference 2012, Baltimore, MD
Organizer, SIGVIS workshop for ASIS&T Conference 2011, New Orleans, LA
Organizer, SIGVIS workshop for ASIS&T Conference 2010, Pittsburgh, PA
ASIS&T Program Committee Member, Knowledge Organization Conference 2011,
New Orleans, LA

Reviewer for various papers submitted to the *Journal of the Association
for Information Science and Technology*



Note: for both Deputy Director and Steering Committee members, we will take
names from the floor and write-ins.
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