[Sigdl-l] SIG-DL 2010 Election Results
Barrie Hayes
bhayes at email.unc.edu
Thu Nov 19 09:01:44 EST 2009
The SIG-DL Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the 2010 SIG-DL
Elections results. The new officers' terms are active as of the SIG-DL
business meeting at the ASIST 2009 Annual Meeting on November 9, 2009.
*Chair-Elect- June Abbas*
Dr. Abbas, is Associate Professor in the School of Library and
Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Oklahoma, Norman campus.
She obtained her PhD in Information Science from the University of North
Texas in 2001 and taught in the Department of Library and Information
Studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo from 2001-2008
before joining the SLIS in August 2008. Her research focuses on the
development of user-centered digital libraries, institutional
repositories, and other knowledge organization structures. She also
conducts research on children and technology. The courses she teaches
include those related to the organization of information and knowledge
resources, cataloging and classification, indexing and surrogation,
digital libraries, and digital information retrieval. She has also
served as project manager on seven digital libraries projects and on
task forces to develop institutional repositories at two universities.
Currently she is Chair of the ALA RDA Programming Taskforce. She
previously served as SIG-DL membership officer in 2009.
*Communications Officer - Ali Shiri*
Dr. Shiri is an Associate Professor in the School of Library and
Information Studies at the University of Alberta. He received his PhD
from the University of Strthclyde, Glasgow, UK. His research interests
include information retrieval, digital libraries user interfaces, visual
interfaces for IR, and social tagging and interfaces.
*Treasurer - Susan Wells-Parham*
Susan Parham is Head, Data Curation Services at Georgia Tech Library and
Information Center, where she is responsible for planning and
implementing the Library's program in digital research data curation.
Additionally, she manages digital preservation strategies as Georgia
Tech's MetaArchive Project Manager. Susan previously served as Georgia
Tech Library's Head of Digital Library Development. She obtained an MS
in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in
1999 and plans to complete the Certificate of Advanced Studies in
Digital Libraries from UIUC in 2010. Her research interests include
digital preservation and digital curation. She previously served as
SIG-DL communications officer in 2009.
*Webmaster - Fatih Oguz*
Dr. Oguz is Assistant Professor in the Master of Library and Information
Science Program at Valdosta State University. He received his PhD in
Information Science from the University of North Texas in 2007. His
research interests include digital libraries, information systems design
and analysis, information architecture, web services, communities of
practice and technology adoption. He previously served as SIG-DL
webmaster officer in 2009.
*Membership Officer - Anne Diekema*
Dr. Diekema is Assistant Professor in the Department of Instructional
Technology & Learning Sciences in the Emma Eccles Jones College of
Education and Human Services. She received her PhD from Syracuse
University in 2003. Her research interests lie in the areas of digital
libraries, information retrieval, information organization, and human
information behavior. Currently, she is teaching aspiring school
librarians all over the state of Utah as part of the School Library
Media Administration program. She's also teaching pre-service elementary
teachers on how to use technology in their classrooms. As part of her
research Dr Diekema is working with the Verizon Foundation on the
Thinkfinity project assigning educational standards to digital
resources. Her other project is with the Institute of Museum and Library
Services where she is collaborating on an open source metadata tool .
Prior to joining the faculty at Utah State University (Fall 2008) she
was an Assistant Research Professor and Interim Director of the Center
for Natural Language Processing in the School of Information Studies at
Syracuse University.
* -- Other officers - incoming and outgoing SIG-DL chairs --
*Chair - Barrie Hayes*
Barrie Hayes is the Bioinformatics Librarian and Collaboration Center
Manager at the Health Sciences Library. She has a BS degree in Biology
from North Carolina State University and an MS in Library Sciences from
the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS). She has a background
in information services and web systems development, and previously managed
HSL's Applications Development Services Department. In her current role,
Barrie supports library services for bioinformatics and UNC's translational
research efforts, and coordinates videoconferencing and visualization services
of the HSL Collaboration Center <http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Collaboration/index.cfm>.
*Past-Chair - Miguel Ruiz*
Dr. Ruiz’s primary area of research focuses on: information retrieval,
data and text mining, image retrieval (specifically applied to medical
images), natural language processing for medical documents, and health
informatics. He served as SIG-DL Chair in 2009.
The SIG-DL Nominating Committee
Miguel Ruiz, Chair
Barrie Hayes
Allison Brueckner
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Barrie Hayes, MSLS
Bioinformatics Librarian and Collaboration Center Manager
UNC Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Practice
School of Information and Library Science
CB 7585, 335 S. Columbia Street
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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barrie_hayes at unc.edu
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