[Sigcr-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.



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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.