[Siguse-l] SIGUSE Chair Election is going on right now

[Rieh, Soo Young]

Dear SIGUSE members,

If you are in the SIGUSE roster, you'd receive the email from Dick Hill "SIGUSE Officer Election." Let me give you some background information about it. SIGUSE Cabinet members decided to hold an actual election this year. We have two chair candidates: Lorri Mon and Leanne Bowler. The person to be elected will serve as a chair-elect 2010-2011, and then serve as a chair 2011-2012. You will find their biosketches below. Please vote by responding to Dick Hill's email by October 20.


Once you vote, at the end you will get the following message: "Not Found. The requested URL /surveys/public/Thanks you for Voting! was not found on this server." Please ignore this message. Dick just happens to put the "thank you" in the wrong place, so you will not see a nice thank-you message after voting. However, it does not affect your voting.

Dr. Lorri Mon is an Assistant Professor in the College of Communication &  Information at Florida State University. She received an MLIS from University of Michigan's Information School and a PhD in Information Science from the University of Washington iSchool.  Her research explores intermediated information-seeking and how question-asking and question-answering interactions  are impacted by information technologies such as e-mail, chat, instant messaging, SMS text messaging, and virtual worlds. Dr. Mon has taught a variety of courses including a basic reference course, an introductory course on the information professions and an advanced reference course, "Virtual Reference Environments," which incorporates community service learning and hands-on experiences with information technology tools such as wikis, blogs, chat, virtual worlds, social media, and text messaging.  As a former  federal depository librarian at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Dr. Mon also teaches FSU's government documents course.  Dr. Mon has participated in SIG-USE since 2005, including contributing a chapter to the 2005 SIG-USE publication  "Theories of Information Behavior."  She received the 2007 Elfreda A. Chatman ASIS&T SIG-USE Research Award, and has served on the Chatman award committee.  In attending annual ASIS&T conferences since 2005, Dr. Mon has been actively involved as a presenter, moderator, and poster session participant.


Leanne Bowler is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, where she is responsible for the specialization in children's and young adult librarianship. She teaches courses about technology for young people, children's literature, services for early childhood, and design theory in LIS. Her research interests lie in the area of youth information behavior and design-based research. Her dissertation research resulted in a taxonomy of adolescent metacognitive knowledge during the information search process (Bowler, 2010). Future research will  focus on metacognition and youth, within the context of information seeking and the adoption of new media. Recent service to the community includes membership on the selection committee for the Best Books For Babies Award (Beginning with Books), as well as participation in the Early Childhood Working Group for Canada's National Reading Summit. She received her PhD and two master degrees - one in library science and the other in educational psychology - from McGill University. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a children's librarian for over ten years and as an educational consultant for the Quebec Centre for Literacy, on a project to investigate health literacy in a Montreal-area hospital, and for McGill University's Indonesian Social Equity Project (a bi-lateral project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and the Indonesian government).


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Soo Young Rieh
ASIST SIGUSE Chair 2009-2010
Associate Professor
University of Michigan School of Information
http://rieh.people.si.umich.edu<http://www.si.umich.edu/rieh>

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