Carolina The SCHOOL of INFORMATION and LIBRARY SCIENCE • The UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL @
winter 2008 http://sils.unc.edu
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
AND LIBRARY SCIENCE
Number 72
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is now home to the world-renowned
Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) group (formerly known
as Data Intensive Computing Environments group), long of the University of
California, San Diego’s Supercomputer Center.
The research team holds appointments in Carolina’s nationally recognized
School of Information and Library Science with research space in Chapel Hill’s
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the Wilson Library. The award-winning
research group brings expertise in development of digital data technolo-gies,
including open source software that
enables sharing of data in collaborative
research, publication of data in digital
libraries, and preservation of data in persis-tent
archives for use by future generations,
along with a research portfolio in excess of
$10 million.
“The opportunity to recruit an entire
group of active researchers with an inter-national
reputation for vision, innovation
and accomplishment is rare, perhaps even
unprecedented in information and library
science,” said UNC Chancellor H. Holden
Thorp. “Their work is closely aligned with
the school’s efforts in the areas of digital
libraries and archives, databases, institu-tional
repositories, information retrieval
and information management. Our students
and many others across campus will have an
extraordinary opportunity to learn from and collaborate with this world-class
research team.”
Research team leaders Drs. Reagan Moore, Richard Marciano and Arcot Ra-jasekar
have been appointed as full professors at SILS. Other members of the DICE
group will be moving to Carolina in the next few months (see page 9 and 10).
“The DICE group will function as a magnet for students and collaborators,”
said SILS Dean José-Marie Griffi ths. “The group will help us further extend the
research computing infrastructure at UNC that will benefi t us all, improve our
capacity and capability to conduct larger-scale research projects, while inspir-ing
new generations of students to understand that considerable attention and
deliberate effort are needed to ensure both effective and long-term access to
information.”
Group members will interact with colleagues in the school and other campus
units on academic digital library and preservation research efforts, initially
focusing on current collaborations such as the National Archives and Records
Administration Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype and the National
Science Foundation Software De-velopment
for Cyberinfrastructure
project, along with others such as the
Library of Congress Video Archiving
project.
“A major challenge for the next
several decades will be managing the
enormous amount of digital data
we create in science and research,”
said Alan Blatecky, RENCI’s interim
director. “The DICE group has years
of experience and an international
reputation for developing innovative
systems for managing distributed
digital data. This will be a huge ad-vantage
for Carolina as the wave of
new data rapidly becomes a tsunami.
We will have the opportunity to
extend our leadership nationally
and internationally in managing, sharing, publishing and archiving research
data.”
Other potential areas for collaboration include biomedical and health data
management, grid computing and cyberinfrastructure with Carolina’s Trans-lational
and Clinical Sciences Institute, visualization of large-scale data sets
with the College of Arts and Sciences’ department of computer science and with
RENCI, as well as shared institutional repositories and digital library systems with
RENCI and the Triangle Research Libraries Network. Additional collaborations
Continued on page 4
Carolina attracts world-renowned large-scale
data research team; DICE group joins SILS
SILS to host iConference 2009
iConference 2009, “iSociety: research, education, engage-ment”
is scheduled to take place in Chapel Hill on Feb.
8 - 11, 2009. See page 3 for details.
DICE team leaders Drs. Richard Marciano, Arcot Rajasekar and Reagan Moore.
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Dear Colleagues and Friends:
In rare instances, the planets align, the stars shine a bit brighter and
magic occurs. Over the past several months, we’ve experienced some magic
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most recently, however,
the economy has sent a few meteors our way.
As the University celebrated its birthday on Sunday, October 12, H. Holden
Thorp was installed as the University’s 10th chancellor. Chancellor Thorp
has a strong commitment to Carolina, especially our people – faculty, staff,
students and alumni. He brings to his position a high degree of optimism
and a belief that together we can transform our future. We recently met with
the Chancellor and Provost Bernadette Gray-Little to discuss SILS successes,
challenges, immediate needs and plans for future growth. We are confi dent
that SILS will continue to be a key contributor to the transformation as we
all focus on the future.
Another shining moment has been the successful recruitment of the Data Intensive Cyber Environ-ments
(DICE) group. This world-renowned group of researchers brings much to the University and to the
School. Our students and colleagues from across the campus and beyond have an incredible opportunity
to learn from and collaborate with them on new and exciting projects. Many have already benefi tted from
working with the group. As you will see in the pages of this newsletter, the DICE group has brought in its
fi rst research grant to UNC at Chapel Hill for nearly $5 million over the next fi ve years.
In addition to winning awards and being recognized for their impressive work, several of our faculty
have recently received new grants for their research. They continue to represent SILS in a global capacity,
collaborating on projects and presenting ground-breaking research to others around the world. Our students
are becoming even more involved with school activities, hosting research days and presenting ideas that
enhance the learning experience. SILS has cause to celebrate!
While delighted with the vibrant activities of the School, the University and the hope for tomorrow,
it is also a time to focus on how the economic downturn sweeping the global community has and will
continue to impact our operations.
The State of North Carolina recently mandated budget cuts for state institutions. With the current
economy, the State has required a four percent cut. As a small school with relatively few operating dollars,
this mandate has been a challenge for SILS. Now more than ever, we need your help.
It is our primary goal to ensure that our students and faculty have what they need to ensure academic
excellence. Support for faculty, scholarships for students, the SILS building fund and unrestricted monies
are important areas of focus. As advocates and alumni of the number one school in the nation, we rely
on your continued support as we manage through this challenging period. As always, we appreciate your
generous support and continued involvement.
Sincerely,
José-Marie Griffi ths, Dean and Professor
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dean’s
Message
By José-Marie Griffi ths,
Dean of the School
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SILS will host the fourth annual iConference on February 8 - 11, 2009 at the William and Ida Friday
Continuing Education Center in Chapel Hill. With the theme, “iSociety: research, education, engage-ment,”
the conference brings together scholars and professionals who come from diverse backgrounds
and shared interests in working at the nexus of people, information, and technology.
Guest speakers, paper sessions, a poster session, roundtables, “wildcard” sessions and opportunities for
conversations and connections will be highlights in the conference program.
The topics include:
• e-inclusion in the iSociety: addressing under represented groups among iDesigners as well as iConsum-ers
(e.g., women, children and youth, the aging, people with disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities,
immigrant communities, non-Western cultures)
• Becoming a ‘green’ iSchool
• What is ‘engagement’ in a research institution?
• The infl uence of globalization on the nature and scope of iSchools’ research, education and engage-ment
• Information infrastructure development in the home, in organizations, in communities, in society,
globally
• Cultural information systems; e.g., multilingual information systems, information systems for memory
institutions or for indigenous and ethnic communities
• Preserving digital information and ensuring information quality, security and privacy
• Information management; e.g., personal information management, life cycle management of informa-tion,
digital asset management
• Information organization; e.g., ontological modeling, the Semantic Web, social bookmarking
Call for Participation
The organizing committee of the iSchools Conference has issued a “Call for Participation” that solic-its
contributions refl ecting on the core activities of the iSchools community as we move more fully into
the iSociety. These would include refl ections on: research topics, practices, methods and epistemologies
appropriate to an iSchool; educational practices in iSchools; and engagement between the iSchools and
wider constituencies both in the United States and abroad. The deadline for complete papers, abstracts for
posters, roundtable discussions and wildcard sessions is Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008.
For more information on formatting and submissions, please visit the conference Web site at:
www.ischools.org/oc/conference09/
DigCCurr 2009: Digi-tal
Curation Practice,
Promise and Prospects
April 1 - 3, 2009
The second Digital Curation Curriculum
(DigCCurr) symposium will be held April 1-3,
2009 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This event
provides a unique opportunity for researchers,
practitioners, faculty and students from around
the world to come together for immersion and
exchange of ideas on all facets of digital curation
– digital repositories, data management, preserva-tion
and migration of digital content across its life
span, institutional repositories, distributed data
networks, standards and more.
“DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice,
Promise and Prospects” is part of a project called
“Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: Building
an International Digital Curation Curriculum
(DigCCurr),” which has been funded for three
years (2006-2009) by the Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS). The primary goals of the
DigCCurr project are to develop a graduate-level
curricular framework, course modules, and expe-riential
components to prepare students for digital
curation in various environments. DigCCurr’s
various initiatives are informed by representatives
from the project’s collaborating institutions as well
as an Advisory Board of experts from Australia,
Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the
United Kingdom and the United States.
The first symposium, “DigCCurr2007: An
International Symposium in Digital Curation,”
was held April 18 - 20, 2007, attracting nearly
300 attendees from ten countries. Participants
explored the defi nition of digital curation and
what skills are necessary for digital curation
professionals working in libraries, archives,
museums, data centers and other data intensive
organizations. DigCCurr2009 will continue this
theme, focusing on current practice and research
surrounding digital curation with a look toward
the future, and trends in preparing digital cura-tion
professionals.
Through the leadership of Dr. Helen Tibbo and
Dr. Cal Lee, SILS is a global leader in the research
and practice of digital curation education.
For more information or to register, please visit
the Web site at: www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/
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Fourteen students from the Triangle community
participated in the fi rst BotCamp on July 31 through
Aug. 2 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. BotCamp is part of BOT 2.0, an innovative
program featuring a curriculum that weaves to-gether
four key themes – botany, environmental
conservation, the use of social technologies and
metadata literacy.
Using digital cameras and camera phones to
capture images of plants and trees in the fi eld, the
enthusiastic campers downloaded them to Web 2.0
social computing technologies such as Facebook,
MySpace, YouTube and blogs. In the classroom, they
focused on using metadata tagging for classifi cation
of each image.
“Researchers have demonstrated that students
learn more effectively when they are actively en-gaged
in the learning process and self evaluation,”
said Dr. Jane Greenberg, Francis Carroll McColl
Term professor at SILS and principal investigator of
the BOT 2.0 program.“BOT 2.0 applies this active
learning approach using Web 2.0 social computing
technologies to increase student engagement in
botanical science and to address known recruitment
and retention challenges.”
Students with nontraditional backgrounds
from Alamance Community College, North Caro-lina
A&T, North Carolina Central University, North
Carolina State University and UNC at Chapel Hill
were selected for the camp. The camp included
outings to the UNC Arboretum, the NC Botanical
Gardens, the Herbarium, Mason Farms and other
natural surroundings with botanical experts, as
well as information management and technology
sessions at SILS.
BOT 2.0 is a collaborative effort between the
Metadata Research Center at SILS, the North
Carolina Botanical Garden, the UNC Herbarium,
the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and
Information Technology Services. It is a two year
program funded through a grant from the National
Science Foundation and it is led by Greenberg and
Alan Weakley, curator of the UNC Herbarium, a
department of the NC Botanical Garden.
Campers use Web 2.0 to study botany
BotCampers and camp counselors from left to right, Curtis Williams; Dr. Jane Greenberg, SILS faculty,
and BOT 2.0 PI; Eunisa Simone Lindsey; David Woodbury, SILS student; Dr. Alan Weakley, Botanical
Garden Herbarium curator; Destiny Harris;Komi Segno Messan; Candace Farrish; Tosha Roberts; Ande-liene
Croce (in tree); Tracy Anderson (in tree); Morgan Robinson; Jacob Kramer-Duffi eld, SILS student;
Heather Wolff; Jennifer Kellie Walters; Dr. Evelyn Daniel, SILS associate dean for academic affairs, and
BOT 2.0 co-PI; and Domonique Bulls. Photo by Dr. Brian Sturm.
DICE group joins SILS
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in the sciences, social sciences and humanities
are expected.
“The DICE group, in collaboration with SILS,
will pursue development of undergraduate, mas-ters
and doctoral level courses on data grids and
preservation environments,” said Moore. “The
opportunity to teach academic courses strongly
infl uenced the decision to move to SILS and UNC.
We are also interested in pursuing collaborations
for the creation of campus cyberinfrastructure
and participating on data management projects in
support of education, patient medical records and
emergency preparedness.”
For more than 10 years the group’s Storage
Research Broker (SRB) data grid has been used by
research teams worldwide to automate all aspects
of manipulation of large, distributed data fi les,
including discovery, access, retrieval, management,
replication, archiving and analysis. DICE most re-cently
developed iRODS, the open source Integrated
Rule-Oriented Data System, which introduced user-settable
rules that automate complex management
policies, helping users tame today’s mushrooming
collections of digital data.
The team has worked on national and interna-tional
projects, providing data management systems
for major grid and distributed research projects,
including the Southern California Earthquake
Center, the TeraGrid, the Worldwide University Net-work,
California Digital Library-Digital Preservation
Repository, the Laboratory for the Ocean Observa-tory
Knowledge Integration Grid, the Biomedical
Informatics Research Network and the Geoscience
network.
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UNC receives Clinical and
Translational Science Award
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was awarded a fi ve year grant for $61 million from
the National Institute of Health (NIH) May 29, 2008. The Clinical and Translational Science Award
(CTSA) will “help speed up how scientifi c discoveries directly benefi t patients in communities across
North Carolina.” The effort includes many units across campus including SILS.
As part of the award, the formation of the Translational and Clinical Sciences (TraCS) Institute was
announced during a press conference on the medical campus. The leadership of the Institute includes:
• Etta Pisano, director of the TraCS Institute
• José-Marie Griffi ths, deputy director of Biomedical Informatics for the TraCS Institute and
director of the Bioinformatics Core (dean of SILS)
• Giselle-Corbie Smith, deputy director of TraCS Institute in charge of bedside-to-practice program
and director of the TraCS Community Engagement Core
• Eugene Orringer, deputy director of TraCS Research Workforce and director of the Education,
Training and Career Development Core
• David Peden, deputy director for Pediatric Research of the TraCS Institute and director of its
Pediatrics Program
• Michael Fried, deputy director of the TraCS Institute in charge of Discovery-to-Bedside Program
and director of the Participant and Clinical Interactions Resouces Core
• Rudy Juliano, deputy director, Basic Science
• Lisa Lavange, deputy director, Analytics
• Rosemary Simpson, chief operating offi cer for the TraCS Institute
The TraCS Institute will “engage communities across North Carolina in a continuous cycle of knowl-edge,
discovery and dissemination of new ideas for delivering health care.”
“This institute will transform the way research is performed in our state,” said Dr. William L. Roper,
dean of the School of Medicine, vice chancellor for medical affairs and chief executive offi cer of UNC
Health Care. “The initiative will bridge science and clinical practice and speed up the movement of in-novations
from the laboratory bench to the bedside and the community.”
SILS faculty currently involved with the TraCS Institute include Javed Mostafa, Brad Hem-minger
and Cathy Blake.
The press release providing more information about the grant can be found at:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/new-federally-funded-health-initiative-to-speed-benefi
ts-of-science-to-north-carolinians.html
Who is Archimedes?
The all-knowing owl that resides in the corner
of the SILS Library Reading Room now has a name.
SILS students participated in a contest sponsored
by the Library to name the owl and four talented
students suggested the same name—Archimedes.
Archimedes is also the name of Merlin’s owl in T.H.
White’s The Once and Future King.
Morgan Stoddard, Mike Rooney, Sarah Everhart
(pictured here with Archimedes) and Rhea Emery-
Morris received gift certifi cates to the UNC Daily
Grind.
New Archives
& Records
Management
Concentration
celebrated
On Oct. 8, 2008 SILS joined the Society of
American Archivists in celebrating American
Archives month by hosting a special celebra-tion
that recognized the School’s new archives
and records management concentration.
Instructors, faculty and managers of archive-related
fi eld experiences were acknowledged;
and students were exposed to the various pos-sibilities
associated with archives and records
management.
Dr. Robert Martin (Ph.D. ‘88), former
director of the Institute of Museum and Library
Services and Lillian Bradshaw Endowed Chair
at Texas Woman’s University, delivered the
keynote address. He discussed his experience
with and the importance of archives.
Dr. Cal Lee, assistant professor, acknowl-edged
the alumni and current students who
focus on archives and records management.
Dr. Timothy Pyatt, Duke University, recognized
the adjunct instructors who teach archives
and records managements; and Kathy Wisser,
director of Instructional Services, spoke to the
fi eld experience supervisors who work with
SILS students. Dr. Helen Tibbo, reviewed the
new concentration with those in attendance.
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Faculty Research Grants and Awards
SILS faculty have received a number of substan-tial
grants to conduct their research. Following are
brief descriptions of these recent projects.
“NARA Transcontinental Persistent
Archive Prototype”
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has
awarded nearly $5 million for a continuing grant
to Drs. Reagan W. Moore, Arcot K. Ra-jasekar
and Richard J. Marciano for a project
entitled, “NARA Transcontinental Persistent Archive
Prototype.” The grant began Sept. 15, 2008 and
has been “approved on scientifi c/technical merit”
through 2012 pending available funds and scien-tifi
c progress. The initial funding, which includes
support from the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA), for year one is $953,988
with about the same award provided each year for
a total of fi ve years.
The NARA Transcontinental Persistent Archive
Prototype (TPAP) conducts research on funda-mental
preservation principles to inform the NARA
Electronic Records Archive. The current project is
developing a reference implementation for preserva-tion
environments that can be used as a starter kit.
The goal is to identify the basic preservation rules
and procedures that automate the management of
persistent archives.
“Multi-site Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Tri-als
Management Registry”
Dr. Javed Mostafa, co-investigator, and Dr.
Lisa Lavange, principal investigator and director of
the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, were
awarded $2,480,772 by the Multiple Sclerosis Foun-dation
for the “Multi-site Multiple Sclerosis Clinical
Trials Management Registry.” The three year grant
is through the University’s Collaborative Studies
Coordinating Center, Department of Biostatistics.
“A Digital Repository for Preservation
and Sharing of Data Underlying Published
Works in Evolutionary Biology”
Dr. Jane Greenberg is co-principal investi-gator
on a $650,999 grant from NSF for year one,
with the full award being $2,186,179 pending good
scientifi c progress over a 3.5 year period. The fund-ing
is for the development of the Dryad repository
for research data underlying scientifi c publications
in evolutionary biology and related disciplines.
Dryad was initiated as a collaboration involving the
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the SILS
Metadata Research Center. The project includes an
extensive research/evaluation program for building
and sustaining a robust and functional repository.
Partners include: Duke University, North Caro-lina
State University, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill (SILS MRC and Biology), University
of New Mexico and Yale University.
“DigCCurr II: Extending an International
Digital Curation Curriculum to Doctoral
Students and Practitioners”
Dr. Helen Tibbo received a grant for $878,634
from the Institute for Museum and Library Services
(IMLS) for a project entitled, “DigCCurr II: Extend-ing
an International Digital Curation Curriculum
to Doctoral Students and Practitioners.” Building
upon an earlier funded project, SILS partnering
with the National Archives and Records Administra-tion
and the University of Glasgow, will develop an
international, doctoral curriculum and educational
network in the management and preservation of
digital materials across their life cycle. This project
will prepare future faculty to perform research and
teach, as well as provide summer institutes for
cultural heritage information professionals already
working in this arena.
“Towards Evidence-Based Discovery”
Dr. Cathy Blake received a three-year grant of
$449,317 from NSF for her project entitled, “Towards
Evidence-Based Discovery.” The goal is to develop
new text mining methods that are consistent with
the manual processes that experts currently use
to resolve contradictory and redundant evidence.
Both discovery and synthesis are diffi cult activities
for people. Plans are to develop a socio-technical
strategy to achieve this goal. This study includes a
longitudinal study of manual discovery and synthe-sis
behaviors of a diverse network of faculty, policy
makers, and students from UNC and the Research
Triangle Park. Blake says, “One of the most exciting
components of the grant is a new interdisciplinary
seminar on discovery science that will bring together
faculty and students from around the campus, and
the Human Side of Discovery Science workshop that
will take place in year three.”
“Result Space Support for Personal and
Group Information Seeking Over Time”
Dr. Gary Marchionini received a three-year
grant from NSF for $448,000 to study and develop
the next generation of search systems.
The project aims to develop techniques and
systems that help people solve information problems
that are complex, general, or ongoing and when
information seeking takes place over multiple
intervals or in collaboration with other people. The
approach is to fi rst study how people seek informa-tion
and interpret results of searches as they use
multiple systems over time and in collaboration
with emphasis given to managing and optionally
sharing result sets and items. Based on these initial
investigations the team will build systems that
support dynamic search and visualization and can
serve both as a personal information manager and
a group information manager and evaluate these
tools in fi eld and laboratory settings. The results of
this research will provide guidance for designers of
the next generation of systems that support a full
range of information seeking needs and contribute
open source tools that people can easily adopt as
plug-ins to popular Web browsing software.
“HIVE: Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabu-lary
Engineering”
Dr. Jane Greenberg is the PI on a funded
project by IMLS entitled, “HIVE: Helping Interdisci-plinary
Vocabulary Engineering.” The co-PI on the
project is Ryan Scherle from National Evolutionary
Synthesis Center. (NESCent). Bob Losee, professor,
is senior staff/project principal and Kathy Wisser,
director of Instructional Services, is the workshop
leader/advisory board member. SILS doctoral
students, Hollie White and Sarah Carrier, are
also working on the project, which is approved for
$334,699.
The project is a collaboration between the SILS
Metadata Research Center and the NESCent. The
work connects to the recent NSF funded research
for the Dryad repository; and the use of W3C stan-dards
will be applicable to other interdisciplinary
repositories, libraries, etc.
“Workshop: Coordinating EU-US Digital
Library Education”
Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz received a $26,213
grant from NSF for his project, “Workshop: Coor-dinating
EU-US Digital Library Education.” The
meeting is intended to develop and launch a coor-dinated
international digital libraries curriculum
project. The two-day collaborative workshop will
bring together about 15 experts in information
and computer science research and educational
curriculum development.
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Workshop draws
global leaders
Leaders from around the world attended a
workshop funded by the National Science Founda-tion
on information-seeking support systems. Dr.
Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished
Professor at SILS, received funding from NSF to
run a workshop devoted to stimulating progress
toward better systems that support information
seeking beyond the single-session, known-item
searches supported by today’s search engines.
The key workshop objectives were to:
• Identify and organize the most promising
models of information seeking;
• Identify the key existing technologies that
can be adapted to support information
seeking activities;
• Specify and organize the new kinds of
technologies that are required to support
information seeking activities;
• Identify methods and associated metrics for
evaluating information seeking processes
The workshop was held in the Wilson Library
on the UNC at Chapel Hill campus on June 26-27.
It was attended by 30 national and international
leaders (11 universities in the U.S., Canada and the
United Kingdom), industry (A9, Endeca, fxPAL, IBM,
Google, Microsoft, Xerox, PARC and Yahoo!) and
government (Bureau of Labor Statistics, National
Science Foundation).
The workshop Web site may be accessed at ils.
unc.edu/ISSS where the agenda, position papers
and a list of attendees can be found. Diane Kelly,
assistant professor; Brad Hemminger, associate
professor; and Cathy Blake, assistant professor from
SILS, and SILS doctoral students Rachael Clemens,
Chirag Shah and Laura Sheble also participated in
the workshop.
The Organizing Committee included:
• Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
• Gene Golovchinsky, FxPAL, USA
• Diane Kelly, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA
• Gary Marchionini, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA
co-chair
• Peter Pirolli, Xerox PARC, USA
• Mc Schraefel, U. Southhampton, UK
• Ryen White, Microsoft, USA co-chair
Based on the success of the program in the Carolina Digital Curation Fellowship's inaugural year
(2007-2008), three of the project's practicum settings, University Library, Information Technology Services'
Teaching and Learning Division and the Odum Institute for Research in the Social Science, provided fund-ing
to support four additional Fellows for the 2008-2009 academic year to help meet the growing digital
curation challenges of their respective departments. The 2008-2009 Fellows are:
Alexandra Chassanoff is originally from New England and attended Brandeis Univer-sity,
receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a joint concentration in Women’s Studies
and Art History. She spent several years as a database analyst and became interested in digital
archives after working as a digital asset manager. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Informa-tion
Science (MSIS) at SILS and working on the development of the Carolina Digital Repository.
T. Mike Childs is a native North Carolinian who received his BA in Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures
from UNC at CH. He spent nine years in Los Angeles, working in several IT-related positions. He also authored
The Rocklopedia Fakebandica, a compendium of fi ctional music groups that was published in 2004. T.
Mike returned to Chapel Hill in 2006, and is pursuing a Master’s of Science in Library Science (MSLS) at SILS.
Katherine-Rose Repp has been interested in books and libraries for as long as she can remem-ber.
Her fi rst job, at the tender age of 14, was as a page at her local public library, and she’s never
looked back. An unapologetic bookworm, she’s also worked at Pattee Library at Penn State (where she
earned a BA in History from the Schreyer Honors College) and in a variety of school libraries in Tai-wan.
She taught English as a Second Language there for fi ve years. She became interested in digital
librarianship working at the Boston branch of the Internet Archive, a non-profi t where she helped
digitize the collections of a variety of New England libraries. She is originally from Rochester, New York.
Tara Wink received her bachelors degree in History and German at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.
While a student at Gettysburg, she worked in the Special Collections and College Archives department of
Musselman Library. Her duties included the usual archival responsibilities such as reference, preservation,
and processing collections as well as working with the rising number of Digital Collections at the College.
While at SILS, she plans to focus her degree on Archives and Records Management, leading to a career in an
archive where she can use her digital curation experience to preserve and create access to unique items.
The Carolina Digital Curation Fellows and project leaders on the steps of Manning Hall. First row, from left to
right: Katherine-Rose Repp, Dr. Helen Tibbo, Tara Wink, Lisa Gregory, Alex Chassanoff and Jennifer Mantooth.
Second row: Samantha Guss, Carolyn Hank, John Blythe, Mark Swails, Dr. Cal Lee and T. Mike Childs.
Carolina Digital Curation Fellows
8
Phillip M. Edwards
joined the faculty of the
School of Information
and Library Science on
Aug. 1, 2008.
Edwards comes to
SILS from the University
of Washington where he
is currently a doctoral
candidate in the infor-mation
science program. He expects to defend his
dissertation, “Mapping scholars’ decision processes
and factors that infl uence how they publish and
distribute their work,” later this year.
He holds a master’s degree in information with
a specialization in library and information services
from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor’s
degree in chemistry from University at Buffalo, State
University of New York.
Prior to joining SILS, Edwards taught classes at
the University of Washington’s Information School.
He also served as an instructional consultant at the
Center for Instructional Development and Research,
and as a teaching associate for the School’s under-graduate
informatics program.
“Phillip brings a number of strengths that will
be a great addition to SILS,” said Dr. José-Marie
Griffi ths, dean of the School. “His work in scholarly
communications and collections will add critical
expertise to our ongoing and planned programs
and activities, and expose our students to important
dimensions of the discipline and profession.”
His teaching and research interests include:
scholarly communication, design and evaluation
of information services, search strategies, research
methods, information behavior, digital libraries,
information resources in science and technology
and instructional design and methods.
Phillip Edwards joins SILS
Evelyn Daniel steps in as associate
dean for academic affairs
Dr. Evelyn Daniel, professor, has been appointed associate dean for
Academic Affairs replacing Dr. Paul Solomon who retired from SILS on
June 30, 2008.
Daniel, who was set to retire in June as well, has taken on responsibility
for addressing curriculum issues, assigning student advisors, scheduling
classes, working with the faculty on school committees and faculty meet-ings,
selecting and managing adjunct faculty and teaching assistants,
preparing materials for University catalogs and the SILS Web site, overseeing
the coordination of the Ph.D. program, making fi nancial aid decisions,
organizing material for reviews by external agencies and a myriad of other
tasks associated with academic affairs.
Daniel has been with SILS since 1985 when she was appointed dean of the school. Her fi ve-year
term as dean was marked by a number of signifi cant accomplishments for the school. Chief among
these was the increased breadth of the school’s curriculum and research, symbolized by a change in
name from the School of Library Science to the School of Information and Library Science and by the
addition of two new degrees.
A master’s track in information science was initiated in 1988. The post-master’s Certifi cate of
Advanced Study was added that same year and six new faculty were appointed. Enrollment increased
from 120 matriculated students in 1985 to over 170 in 1990. Sources and amounts of funded research
also increased.
“We are honored that Evelyn will remain at SILS a bit longer in this important and much needed
role,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffi ths, dean. “Her experience, expertise and devotion to SILS are invaluable
and we are delighted that she’s agreed to assume these responsibilities.”
Scholars from
three countries
visit SILS
Three visiting scholars representing South
Korea, China and Spain have arrived at SILS.
Gum-Sook Hoang is visiting SILS from the
Department of Library and Information Science,
Daelim College, South Korea. Dr. Hoang's research
interests include bibliotherapy, reading guidance,
cultural programming for children in public
libraries and improving public and school library
services for children in South Korea. She currently
teaches courses in reading education, administra-tion
of the school library and digital libraries. Her
visit is hosted by SILS Associate Professor Sandra
Hughes Hassell.
Gema Bueno de la Fuente is a doctoral stu-dent
from the Library and Information Science
Department, University Carlos III of Madrid,
Madrid, Spain. de la Fuente is working with Dr.
Jane Greenberg, Francis Carroll McColl term
professor, on the “Helping Interdisciplinary Vo-cabulary
Engineering” (HIVE) project through
the Metadata Research Center. She is preparing a
bibliographic and state of the art revision about
Simple Knowledge Organization System and
semantic interoperability issues. de la Fuente
has just published, Open Archives Initiative
(OAI): Status and Prospects in Spain and Latin
America. Her research interests are digital learn-ing
resources, digital repositories and e-learning
platform systems and interoperability and integra-tion
issues between these systems and the library
systems (mainly related to metadata, vocabularies
and some specifi c standards).
Dr. Qi Hong arrived at SILS in August from
the School of Information Resource Management
at Ren Min University (Beijing), where she is an
associate professor. Dr. Qi’s research interests are
in the areas of information organization, infor-mation
interaction and usability. She regularly
teaches courses on the organization of informa-tion,
and is observing how SILS faculty approach
that teaching. “During my visit, I am glad to be
able to exchange teaching skills with my SILS col-leagues
and to fi nd out their views on our mutual
research interests,” said Dr. Qi. Her visit is hosted
by Professor Barbara Wildemuth.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: A portion of this article was reprinted from the Fall 1989 edition of News from Chapel Hill, the school's newsletter.)
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SILS welcomes the DICE group
Reagan Moore: Professor
Reagan Moore was appointed professor at SILS on Aug. 1, 2008. Moore is director of the award-winning Data
Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) group formerly of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the
University of California, San Diego. Moore previously was director of Data and Knowledge Systems at SDSC where
he coordinated research efforts in development of data grids, digital libraries and preservation environments based
on the Storage Resource Broker data grid and the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System. His projects include the
National Archives and Records Administration Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype and an NSF Software
Development for Cyberinfrastructure grant. His interests include rule-based data management, data grids, digital
libraries, persistent archives and genealogy.
“Reagan is an eminent leader, researcher and collaborator,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffi ths. “His research and
scholarship have contributed both theoretical foundations and understandings along with empirical results and
practical solutions to the scientifi c data, grid computing and digital preservation communities. His contributions
are innovative and outstanding, and have stimulated and infl uenced others worldwide. We enthusiastically welcome
him and members of the DICE group to SILS.”
Moore has a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego and a B.S. in physics from
the California Institute of Technology.
Richard Marciano: Professor
Richard Marciano was appointed SILS professor on Aug. 1, 2008. He served as director of the Sustainable
Archives & Library Technologies (SALT) Laboratory and lead scientist in the DICE Group at SDSC at the University
of California San Diego after his initial appointment there in 1995 as computational environmental scientist. He
has also served as an affi liated professor in the Urban Studies and Planning Program in the Division of Social
Sciences at UCSD.
He is recognized as an international leader in digital preservation, largely based on his ability to bridge the
worlds of computer science and the cultural heritage community, eliciting and translating user needs into func-tional
requirements and system designs.
Marciano’s interests are with data management, digital archiving and long-term preservation. Current research
projects include eLegacy (preservation of geospatial data), T-RACES (cyberinfrastructure for the humanities),
WRAP (preservation workfl ows for digital video), informatics for urban planning, and DCAPE (distributed custodial
archival preservation environments).
“Richard is clearly a visionary and collaborative researcher whose greatest strength is his ability to work ef-fectively
at the intersections of multiple disciplines,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffi ths. “His contributions to the areas of
digital libraries, digital preservation and community informatics are innovative and outstanding. I am delighted
to welcome him to the SILS faculty.”
Marciano carried out a post-doc in computational geography and has a Ph.D. and master’s degree in computer
science from the University of Iowa; and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and avionics, from the National
School of Civil Aviation, Toulouse, France.
Arcot Rajasekar: Professor
Arcot Rajasekar (Raja)was appointed a SILS professor on Aug. 1, 2008. He previously held the role of director
of the Data Grids Technology Group at the SDSC, and he is the lead designer behind the concepts in the Storage
Resource Broker and the iRODS data grid systems. He has multiple publications in the areas of logic programming,
dedutive databases, data grids, digital library and persistent archives. He is co-author of the book, Foundations of
Disjunctive Logic Programming from the MIT Press, and he taught as an assistant professor at the University of
Kentucky at Lexington at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
“Raja is an innovative and collaborative researcher who works at the intersections of technical and application
domains,” said Dr. José-Marie Griffi ths. “His contributions to the areas of grid computing and data grids, informa-tion
architectures, open source software and their application to digital libraries, digital preservation and curation
are outstanding. I am pleased to welcome him to the faculty.”
Rajasekar has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland; a Master’s degree in computer
science from the University of Madras, Madras, India; and a B.E. (Honors), Electronics and Communications from
the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
Continued on page 10
Reagan Moore
Richard Marciano
Arcot Rajasekar
10
Drs. Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer
Distinguished Professor, and Jeffrey Pomerantz,
assistant professor, have won the 2008 Outstanding
Paper accolade at the Emerald Literati Network
Awards for Excellence for their paper, “The Digi-tal
Library as Place” that was published in The
Journal of Documentation.
The winners of the awards are selected through
a rigorous process of consultation amongst the
eminent academics and managers who make up
the editors of the over 200 journals that Emerald
publishes. “The Digital Library as Place” exhibited
“excellent structure and presentation...rigour in
terms of argument [and] analysis,” and it had
that "special something...that raised it above all
others."
Details about the Awards for Excellence can
be found on the Web site: http://info.emerald-insight.
com/authors/literati/index.htm?PHPSE
SSID=t29pl99k7gc4e03l96ji3j2t70& and “The
Digital Library as Place” document is available
for free access from the Emerald Web site at: www.
emeraldinsight.com/
Gary Marchionini and
Jeff Pomerantz win the
Emerald Literati 2008
Award for Excellence
Stephanie Peterson, assistant manager of student services,
and Aaron Brubaker, assistant director of instructional technol-ogy,
have received the 2008 SILS Staff Excellence Award.
Peterson and Brubaker were selected for their excellence,
commitment, teamwork and outstanding service. Along with the
certifi cates, each will receive $500 and three additional paid days
of leave. Their names will also be submitted for the Chancellor’s
Award next spring.
A ceremony was held in the Public Domain of Manning Hall
on October 14. “Today, we recognize Stephanie and Aaron and
all of our employees who provide continuous outstanding service
to the School,” said Dean José-Marie Griffi ths.
Stephanie Peterson
and Aaron Brubaker win
staff excellence award
Antoine C. de Torcy: Research Associate
Antoine C. de Torcy will join SILS as research associate. de Torcy was
previously a research engineer with the San Diego Supercomputer Center
where he managed several projects for the DICE group. He assisted in the
design and implementation of two data grid middleware systems developed
by the DICE group: the Storage Resource Broker (SRB) and its successor, the
Rule Oriented Data System (iRODS). At SILS, de Torcy will continue his work
with the group.
de Torcy was an IT specialist for the National Institute for Nuclear Phys-ics
and Particle Physics, in Paris, France where he completed an internship
in a physics research laboratory. He tested and adapted client interfaces to
the data grid middleware system used for storing and sharing data between
laboratories.
He has a master’s degree with a major in Computer Science and a minor
in Mathematics from the University of Paris Dauphine, Paris, France
Chien-yi Hou: Research Associate
Chien-yi Hou has agreed to join SILS as research associate. He comes to
SILS from the San Diego Supercomputer Center where he worked as a digital
preservation specialist with the DICE group. He has worked on the Temporal
Dynamics of Learning Center project, T-RACES(a Testbed for the Redlining
Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces)and DIGARCH(Digital Preserva-tion
Lifecycle Management).
Hou will continue his work with the DICE group as he researches, designs,
implements and monitors high performance datafl ow systems to automate
tasks related to data management using iRODS data grid technology. iRODS
is a open source project supported by NSF(National Science Foundation) and
NARA(National Archives and Records Administration).
He has a master’s degree in computer science from the University of
California, San Diego, and he received his bachelor’s degree in computer and
information science from the National Chiao Tung Univeristy, Taiwan.
SILS welcomes DICE Continued from page 9
Antoine C. de Torcy
Chien-yi Hou
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He did it! Scott Adams ran across North Carolina
As he ran the steep inclines of North Carolina’s mountains to the west,
across the piedmont in 100 plus degree weather, through the smoldering fi res
and smoke of the coastal region, it was thoughts of those who have been lost
to cancer and those who continue to suffer from the disease that spurred Scott
Adams on toward his goal of running nearly 700 miles across the state to raise
awareness and funds for the fi ght against cancer.
Adams, director of Information Technology at the School of Information
and Library Science, began his trek in Murphy on the western side of the state
on May 27. He ran eastward toward Manteo enduring unprecedented 100 degree
temperatures—the type of heat that you can see wave over the pavement—the
type that melts the tread of your shoes, heavy trucks that nearly blew him off
the side of the road, blisters the size of quarters and painful muscles and joints.
Then there were the dogs… those that chased him until they gave up.
He went through fi ve pairs of running shoes and changed socks 10 times
each day. He completed the 18-day run along North Carolina Bike Route 2 on
Friday, June 13.
Planning the Run
Adams repeated a similar running strategy he had used to complete an-other
super-run of over 200 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway in four days in
2005—covering 50 miles a day. With this run, however, Adams ran for six days
at a time and then took one day to rest. Mapping out the trail, he repeated the
six day cycle of running nearly two marathons a day until his feet touched the
cool waters of the Outer Banks.
Training to prepare for his trek began Dec. 22, 2007. He ran 20-25 hours a
week, learning to manage pain and dealing with constantly being hungry.
Along the carefully mapped route, there were necessary detours. The fi rst
change came when he encountered the Blue Ridge Parkway closing from
Asheville to Mount Mitchell. The second change was made when the map
indicated a road went through an area near the Raleigh Durham Airport that
actually was a dead-end. Another needed change was an alternate route to
take the runner away from the heavy smoke he was traveling through near
the fi res on the coast.
Providing Support
Adams contributes reaching his goal to those who provided support along
the way. He says he couldn’t have completed his run without the support of his
family and friends, including many UNC at Chapel Hill colleagues.
His wife, Mindy, and 9-year-old son, Tyler, were with him over the last four
days of the run. Other supporters would meet him on the route usually in teams
of two. The crew would drive every couple of miles mapping the way for Scott.
At times someone would run or bike alongside and share the experience of the
scenery of hills and farms. The support crews were always there to ensure food,
water, ice, dry socks and shade (for the occasional breaks) were ready. Others
leant moral support by being at known break points to cheer him on. Some of
the supporters included fellow runners, Diane Kelly, assistant professor at SILS;
Les Chaffi n, SILS alumnus; Kristin Chaffi n, SILS alumna and former UNC
faculty; Jeremiah Joyner, manager of Applications and Platforms, Information
Technology Services; graduate students Liz Peters and Stacy Lunden; and Marsha
Torres, UNC at Chapel Hill alumna. Adams’ SILS colleagues Lara Bailey, Aaron
Brubaker, Stephanie Peterson, Marcia Tauber and Wanda Monroe, as well as
Wayne Pond, former director of UNC’s Humanities and Human Values and his
wife Mary Donna cheered him on as he ran through Carrboro, about two thirds
on the way to his fi nal goal.
Donating to the Cause
Although completing the run was a personal goal for Adams, it was more
than that. He partnered with the American Cancer Society, dedicating his run
to “those who have fought the fi ght and those who continue to fi ght against
this disease.”
“Ever since watching the Terry Fox story as a kid, it’s always been a goal
to run across the United States,” said Adams. “As he inspired me so long ago,
I hope to inspire others with what seems almost impossible to accomplish.
Knowing that I was running for more than myself was a sustaining force to
take one step at a time toward the goal for the six months of training to the
18 day adventure.”
To date, over $10,000 has been donated on behalf of the run, including a
gift by a man along the route who was suffering with cancer.
Along with radio and television interviews, several news articles were pub-lished
about Adams’ accomplishment in the local newspapers. On June 17,
Adams was named “Village Pride Award” honoree on WCHL radio.
To view more about the run or to join Adams quest to fi ght cancer, visit the
RunNC2008 Web site at: http://runnc2008.ning.com/
Donations may also be made through the American Cancer Society by ac-cessing
the Web site: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/runnc2008
Scott Adams takes a well-deserved break while supporters provide ice
for sore muscles and joints, a change of socks and plenty of water.
12
Deborah Barreau, associate professor, led the
summer seminar to Prague in June, 2008. She
co-edited, “Introduction to Keeping, Refinding
and Sharing Personal Information” in the ACM-Transactions
on Information Systems Sept. 11,
2008 issue. Barreau chaired the jury for the ALISE/
Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition and
participated on an SLA jury.
Cathy Blake, assistant professor, and Brian
Sturm, associate professor, were cited in the June
4, 2008 issue of American Libraries Direct. “Brian
is cited as the authority in distinguishing between
bibliotherapy and readers’advisory. Cathy’s work on
“claim jumping through scientifi c literature” is de-scribed
with a reference and a link to International
Science Grid This Week, dated May 28.
David Carr, associate professor, presented, “Re-membering
what to Remember - September 11,
2001 in Fiction” at the Cameron Village Library in
Raleigh, NC on Sept. 11, 2008.
Jane Greenberg, Francis Carroll McColl Term
Professor, was presented the prestigious Frederick G.
Kilgour Award at the ALA annual conference June
29, 2008 in Anaheim, CA. Greenberg was program
co-chair for the International Conference on Dublin
Core and Metadata Applications, Sept. 22-26, 2008,
in Berlin, Germany, and co-edited the conference
proceedings. She also completed a report with
White, H.C., Carrier, S., Thompson, A., Greenberg, J.,
& Scherle, R. (2008). “The Dryad Data Repository:
A Singapore Framework Metadata Architecture in a
DSpace Environment.” Greenberg presented a team
poster at Dublin Core (Shoffner, M., Greenberg,
J., Kramer-Duffi eld, J., & Woodbury, D.) in Sept.
2008, and “Web 2.0 Semantic Systems: Collabora-tive
Learning in Science.” Greenberg presented a
poster at the NSF/Principal Investigator conference-
Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement
program. She and Diane Kelly attended the 2008
Microsoft Faculty Research Summit on July 27 – 29,
2008 in Redmond, WA.
José-Marie Griffi ths, dean, particpated as a
panelist on “America’s Libraries in the 21st Cen-tury
Breakout Session” at the American Libraries
Association Annual Conference June 27, 2008,
Anaheim, CA. The breakout session kicked off the
Offi ce of Information Technology Policy’s (OITP)
new Program on America’s Libraries in the 21st
Century (AL21C). Griffi ths presented, “The Future
of Librarians in the Workforce: Status of Special
Libraries,”and “An Overview of ‘On the Record:
Report of the Library of Congress Working Group
on the Future of Bibliographic Control” at the
Special Libraries Association Annual Conference
on June 16, 2008 in Seattle, WA. She presented,
“The New Diaspora: The Dispersal of Bibliographic
Control in a Collaborative Universe,” May 22, 2008
to the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA)
Resources & Technical Services Section’s Spring
Workshop 2008 at Wake Technical Community
College, Raleigh, NC.
Stephanie Haas, professor, Haas, S. W.,
Travers, D. A., Tintinalli, J. E., Pollock, D.,
Waller, A., Barthell, E., et al. (2008). Towards
Vocabulary Control for Chief Complaint. Aca-demic
Emergency Medicine, 15(5), 476-482.
Sandra Hughes-Hassell, associate professor,
has been named to two school library-related award
lists for the book she edited, School Reform and
the School Library Media Specialist: Principles
and Practices. “Teacher Librarian” named it
the most important school library book of 2007.
“Voice of Youth Advocates” included it in its “Five
Foot Bookshelf” (Essential Books for Professionals
Serving Teens). Hughes-Hassell also co-edited an
issue of Knowledge Quest.
Brad Hemminger, associate professor, is
co-chairing with Javed Mostafa, a commit-tee
developing a master���s curriculum in health
informatics.
Diane Kelly, assistant professor, presented “The
effects of performance feedback on users’ evalua-tions
of an interactive IR System” at the Information
Interaction in Context (IIiX 2008) conference in
London, England, Oct. 14 – 17, 2008. The paper
was co-written by Kelly and students, Chirag Shah,
Cassidy Sugimoto, Earl Bailey, Rachael Clemens,
Ann K. Irvine, Nicholas A. Johnson, Weimao Ke,
Sanghee Oh, Anezka Poljakova, Marcos A. Rodri-guez,
Megan G. van Noord and Yan Zhang All. Kelly
was a Visiting Fellow in Computing at Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia in May 2008. While
there, she presented a talk at the Joint HCSNet-EII
Workshop on Interactive and Ubiquitous Informa-tion
Access. She spoke at Australia’s Commonwealth
Scientifi c and Industrial Research Organisation/
Australian National University and at the Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Donald W. King, distinguished research profes-sor,
gave a talk on the “Future of Libraries” at the
Libraries and Archives Canada. He also presented the
“Future of the Library Workforce” on Oct. 7, 2008 at
the Canadian Library Association, Library Human
Resources Summit in Ottawa, Canada.
Cal Lee, assistant professor, was elected to the UNC
at Chapel Hill’s Faculty Council. The three year role
will ensure SILS has a voice in Faculty Governance.
Lee (presenter) and Helen R. Tibbo, “What
Do Job Postings Indicate about Digital Curation
Competencies?” 2nd SAA Research Forum, San
Francisco, CA, August, 26, 2008.
Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Distin-guished
Professor, co-authored a paper for the
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June 16-20
in Pittsburgh, PA. On July 15-18, he presented,
“Exploratory Search: Getting Beyond Known Item
Retrieval” at the Singapore Management University.
He presented “Understanding Human Information
Interaction” at Simmons College in Boston, MA on
Sept. 15, 2008. Marchionini chaired the search com-mittee
for Editor-in-Chief of JASIST and completed
six years as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on
Information Systems. He saw his paper, “Human-information
Interaction Research” published as
an invited paper for the 30th Anniversary issue
of Library and Information Science Research
and he participated in the 2nd Human-Computer
Information Retrieval Workshop in Redmond, WA
on Oct. 23, 2008. Panel discussion, “My So-called
Life on the Web.” ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Oct.
24-29, 2008.
Joanne Marshall, alumni distinguished profes-sor,
presented the keynote address, “Workforce Issues
in LIS (WILIS) research project” on Oct. 7, 2008 at
the Canadian Library Association, Library Human
Resources Summit in Ottawa, Canada. “Linking
Education to Practice, a paper presented at the Me-dial
Library Association Annual Meeting, Chicago,
IL May 20, 2008. “Workforce Issues in Library and
Information Science: Preliminary Results” was
presented at the Library Research Roundtable,
American Library Association, Anaheim, CA, July
28, 2008.
Barbara Moran, professor, contributed “Manage-ment:
An Essential Skill for Today’s Librarians” a
chapter in the The Portable MLIS Insights from the
Experts, published in 2008 by Libraries Unlimited,
Westport, CT. Moran’s presentation, “Learning to
Work Together: Building Effective Teams in Public
Libraries” is included in the proceedings of the Inter-national
Conference on Public Library Management
and Services Trends, Taiwan. She also published,
“Making the Transition from Reader to Reader’s
Advisor.” Readers’ Advisor News, June, 2008, pp,
4-5. http://lu.com/ranews/jun2008/moran.cfm
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DICE Group receives SAA award
During the 72nd annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists on Aug. 29, the Data Intensive
Cyber Environments (DICE) group received the 2008 J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award. The
award “honors an individual, institution, or organization that promotes greater public awareness, ap-preciation
or support of archives.
The DICE Group was selected for its “long-term support of and involvement in the archival profession’s
work to address the challenges of managing, preserving, and providing access to electronic records. The
group has supported efforts to develop and implement international standards related to electronic records
between partners in digital preservation efforts funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute
of Museum and Library Services, provided technical expertise to NHPRC grant projects, contributed to the
archival literature, and provided invaluable support in the many and varied archival research efforts in
developing electronic records archives. The members of the DICE Group have a genuine interest in and
understanding of the archival profession, its principles and practices, and its unique challenges, and have
become strong advocates in its favor.” (Gayle Yiotis, SAA Jameson Award Subcommittee Chair)
Javed Mostafa, associate professor, presented
“Personal health information delivery,” an NSF
Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure in Health (and To-bacco
Research), March 28, 2008, Beijing, China.
“Open Source Repositories as Laboratories for
Training Next Generation Librarians,” ACM+IEEE
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 20, 2008,
Pittsburgh, PA. “Multi-institutional Programs:
IT Infrastructure for Distant and Collaborative
Instructional Support,” American International
Consortium of Academic Libraries Annual Confer-ence
, May 27, 2008, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
Brian Sturm, associate professor, presented “Ray
Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine as a Metaphor for
Gardening.” at the Ackland Art Museum, Chapel
Hill (NC), Aug. 2008, and “Creating Community:
Europe and Russia in the School Media Center”
at the World View Symposium for K-12 Educators,
UNC Global Education Center, Chapel Hill (NC),
May 2008. Sturm entertained with his storytelling
at the Carrboro Branch Public Library October 19,
Hank, & Christopher A. Lee presented, “Chal-lenges,
Curricula, and Competencies: Researcher
and Practitioner Perspectives for Informing the
Development of a Digital Curation Curriculum” is
in Archiving 2008 Final Program and Proceed-ings,
Bern, Switzerland, June 24-27. She presented,
“Functions over the Digital Lifecycle: The Founda-tion
of the UNC at Chapel Hill Digital Curation
Curriculum” at the JCDL 2008 Education for Digital
Stewardship Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, June 20,
2008; and “Building Sustainable Digital Curation
Education” at the DELOS Digital Preservation
Summer School in Tirrenia, Italy, June 8-13, 2008.
Tibbo presented, “Generating Higher Response Rates
for User-based Evaluation Instruments in Archives
and Special Collections,” she co-organized and
co-hosted the 2nd Annual SAA Research Forum in
San Francisco, CA, Aug. 26, 2008 where she also
presented the “Welcome and Concluding Remarks.”
She presented, “VidArch Exchange Demo” and with
Gary Marchionini, “Digital Collection Boundar-ies
and Context: VidArch” at the NDIIPP Meeting,
Arlington, VA, July 9, 2008.
Barbara Wildemuth, professor; Jeffrey Po-merantz,
assistant professor; and Sanghee Oh,
doctoral student; co-authored papers presented
last summer including: Yang, S., Levy, J., Miller, K.,
Pomerantz, J.P., Oh, S., Wildemuth, B.M., Fox, E.A.
(2008). “Two approaches to enhance the educa-tion
for ETDs: Developing educational modules
and migrating the ETD Guide into a community
wiki.” The paper was presented at ETD 2008: The
11th International Symposium on Electronic
Theses and Dissertations, Aberdeen, Scotland, June
4-7, 2008. Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B.M., Oh, S.,
Yang, S., and Fox, E.A. (2008). “Evaluation of a
curriculum for digital libraries.” The poster was
presented at JCDL, Pittsburgh, PA June 16-20, 2008.
A brief description of the current fi eld testing being
conducted for the same project was published this
summer: Wildemuth, B.M., Pomerantz, J., Oh, S.,
Yang, S., and Fox, E.A. (2008). “A digital libraries
curriculum: Expert review and fi eld testing” was
described in D-Lib Magazine, 14(7/8). Wildemuth
presented, “What patients want from their personal
health records” for the Mary Junck Colloquium
Series in the School of Journalism and Mass Com-munication,
UNC at Chapel Hill, Oct. 2, 2008. She
also co-presented with R. St. Amant, “eServices and
the human factor” at the North Carolina Digital
Government Summit, Raleigh, NC, Sept. 3, 2008.
2008 and in July at the Carroll Woods Retirement
Center. Published articles include, “The Process of
Sharing Stories with Young People,” Knowledge
Quest, 36, 5, 12-18. Imaginary “Geographies” of
Childhood: school library media centers as secret
spaces. Knowledge Quest, 36, 4, 46-53. “Learning a
Story: the 5-P approach,” Journal of Tar Heel Tell-ers,
14, 4, 8-9, and “Readers’ Advisor and Reading
as Heroic Quest “[5 manuscript pages]. Readers’
Advisor News. Libraries Unlimited.
Helen Tibbo, professor, participated on the panel
presentation, “European (and North American)
Perspectives on Digital Curation in Museums,”
and presented with Wendy Duff, “Toward a Digital
Curation Curriculum for Museum Studies: A North
American Perspective” at the CIDOC Conference in
Athens, Greece, Sept. 2008. Tibbo was session chair
at the “21st Century Data Curation for Archives,
Libraries and Museums,” at the Society of American
Archivists (SAA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco,
CA, Aug. 29, 2008. Helen R. Tibbo, Carolyn
Members of the DICE group
receive the J. Franklin Jameson
Archival Advocacy Award.
From left to right, Paul Tooby,
Antoine de Torcy, Chien-yi Hou
and Reagan Moore
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The American Society of Information Science
and Technology is a highly regarded organization
for information professionals. SILS faculty, students,
alumni and staff are regularly involved with ASIS&T,
but this year, SILS has been even more involved
than normal. Several faculty and students have
been recognized prominently in many categories.
Annual Meeting Chair - Dr. José-Marie
Griffiths
Dean José-Marie Griffiths chaired the 2008
annual meeting of ASIS&T that took place
Oct. 24 – 29, 2008 in Columbus, OH. With a
theme of, “People Transforming Information:
Information Transforming People,” the confer-ence
brought together more than 600 people
from 38 countries. The planning team included
several SILS alumni and students. They were:
• Dr. José-Marie Griffi ths, Chair
• Mike Brown
• Rachael Clemens
• Dr. Brenda Dervin
• Devan Donaldson
• Carolyn Hank
• Dr. Samantha Hastings
• Margie Hlava
• Dr. Corinne Jorgensen
• Julia Kampov-Polevoi
• Dr. Diane Neal
• Megan Oakleaf
• Andreas Orphanides
• Dr. Soo Young Rieh
• Dr. Mark Rosso
• Dr. Deborah Swain
• K.T. Vaughan
“The team put together an excellent plan for
the annual meeting,” said Griffi ths. “Their input
and time that was devoted to ensuring a successful
program is appreciated. Thanks to all who volun-teered
their time and ideas to the planning of this
extraordinary meeting.”
President-Elect – Dr. Gary Marchinoni
Dr. Gary Marchinonini,
Cary C. Boshamer Distin-guished
Professor, has been
elected president-elect for a
three-year term for ASIS&T.
The three-year commitment
includes the fi rst year as pres-ident-
elect, the second year
as president and the third year as past president.
According to the ASIS&T Bylaws, “the president
shall serve as the chair and preside at all business
meetings of the Society and all meetings of the Board
of Directors and the Board Executive Committee.”
He will lead the organization of approximately
4000 information professionals in more than 50
countries worldwide. The organization’s mission is
to “advance the information sciences and related
applications of information technology by provid-ing
focus, opportunity and support to information
professionals and organizations.”
Director-at-Large-Dr.
Deborah Barreau
Dr. Deborah Barreau, as-sociate
professor, was elected
director-at-large for ASIS&T.
She joins another director-at-
large, Dr. Barbara Wilde-muth,
SILS professor, who
was elected in 2007 for a three-year appointment.
The Board assists in governing the organization.
Barreau has been an active member of ASIS&T since
1988 serving on several committees most recently
as chair of the Outstanding Information Science
Teacher Jury in 2007.
Phillip Edwards receives Crestos Award
New SILS faculty member, Phillip Edwards, was
awarded the ASIS&T James M. Cretsos Leadership
Award for his contributions to the organization.
“The Cretsos Award was established in 1992
to recognize new ASIS&T members who have
demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities in
professional ASIS&T activities. It is administered by
the Leadership Committee and is presented annually
to the recipient during the annual meeting.”
Edwards has been involved with ASIS&T since
2005. He has been chair of the Scientifi c and Techni-cal
Information SIG; a member of the John Wiley
Best JASIST Paper Award Jury in 2007; a reviewer of
contributed papers for the 2007 Annual Meeting; a
member of the Constitution and Bylaws Committee,
2006 to present; chair-elect of SIG/STI from 2006 to
2007; a member of the Bulletin of the ASIS&T Advi-sory
Board in 2006; member of the Best Information
Science Book Award Jury in 2006; and secretary/
treasurer of the SIG/STI in 2005 to 2006.
Rachael Clemens wins ASIS&T Chapter
Member of the Year Award
Doctoral student, Rachael Clemens is the recipi-ent
of a 2008 ASIS&T Chapter Member of the Year
Award. Clemens has devoted her time, energy and
dedication as a board member of the Carolinas
Chapter of ASIS&T (cc:asis&t).
The citation states, “Rachael was instrumen-tal
in helping to charter an ASIS&T chapter for
North and South Carolina in 2007. She utilized
her years of extensive experience with ASIS&T to
take a leadership role in the formation of the local
chapter. As Program Committee co-chair, she led
the coordination and promotion of the chapter’s
inaugural program entitled, “Institutional Re-positories:
The Great Debate.” The event, which
took place in April 2008, drew an enthusiastic and
diverse audience from the local library and infor-mation
science community. Reviewers noted her
unconditional commitment and ability to juggle so
many efforts on behalf of the Carolinas Chapter.”
Cassidy Sugimoto elected deputy chapter
assembly director
Doctoral student Cassidy Sugimoto has been
elected to serve a two-year term as deputy director on
the ASIS&T Chapter Assembly. Ballots were received
from 15 chapters from around the nation. In this
capacity, Cassidy will serve on a number of ASIS&T
committees and will report to the Board of Directors
as an advocate for the ASIS&T Chapters. Cassidy’s
previous relationship with ASIS&T chapters was
in the founding of the new Carolinas Chapters
(cc:asis&t) and serving on that Chapter as Secretary
(2007) and Chair (2008).
Ann K. Irvine wins Pratt-Severn Best
Student Research Paper Award
Ann K. Irvine, (MSLS ‘08) won the 2008 ASIS&T
Pratt-Severn Best Student Research Paper Award.
“The best student research paper is judged on
technical competence, signifi cance of fi ndings,
originality and clarity of expression. The Award
recognizes the outstanding work of a current student
in a degree-granting program in the information
fi eld and has been sponsored by Pratt Institute since
1996.” Irvine’s paper is entitled, “Natural Language
Processing and Teporal Information Extraction in
Emergency Department Triage Notes.”
SILS represents - ASIS&T leadership and awards
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Ph.D. graduate student Chirag Shah received
the Best Paper award at the ACM SIGIR ‘08 Confer-ence
in Singapore. Shah co-authored the paper
“Algorithmic Mediation for Collaborative Explor-atory
Search” with colleagues from FX Palo Alto
Laboratory, Inc. The award was for $1000.
The 31st Annual International Association for
Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on
Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) Conference is
the major international forum for the presentation
of new research results and for the demonstration
of new systems and techniques in the broad fi eld of
information retrieval (IR).
Shah was also pub-lished
over the past few
months. Following are
some of the publications
he has authored and co-authored:
Shah, Chirag;
Oh, Jung Sun; and Oh,
Sanghee. “Exploring char-acteristics
and effects of user participation in online
social Q&A sites.” First Monday, Volume 13 No. 9
(30 Aug. 2008).
Shah, Chirag, and Marchionini, Gary. “Captur-ing
Relevant Information for Digital Curation.” In
Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital
Libraries, 4(1), Spring 2008.
Shah, Chirag, and Marchionini, Gary. “Con-textMiner:
A Tool for Digital Library Curators.” In
Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital
Libraries, 4(1), Spring 2008.
Shah, Chirag. “Toward Collaborative Informa-tion
Seeking (CIS).” In Collaborative Exploratory
Search Workshop at JCDL 2008.
Shah, Chirag, and Marchionini, Gary. “Hunting
for Hip, Hipsters, and Happenings on YouTube.”
To appear in ASIST 2008, Oct. 24-29, 2008, Co-lumbus,
OH.
Oh, Sanghee; Oh, Jung Sun; and Shah, Chirag.
“The Use of Information Sources by the Internet
Users in Answering Questions.” To appear in ASIST
2008, Oct. 24-29, 2008, Columbus, OH.
Shah, Chirag. “Understanding System Imple-mentation
and User Behavior in a Collaborative
Information Seeking Environment.” In Doctoral
Consortium at SIGIR 2008.
Shah, Chirag. “TubeKit - A Query-based You-
Tube Crawling Toolkit.” Demo at the JCDL 2008
in Pittsburgh, PA.
“The Dada Detective,” a comic written by Mat-thew
Zeno Wood (MSLS student), won its fi rst
award - The Nerdlinger Award. The comic has
also been nominated for a Webcomics Readers
Choice Award at Frumph.net. For more informa-tion,
visit http://www.nerdlingerawards.com/ and
check under “Previous Winners.”
Dana Hanson-Baldauf (Ph.D. student) had
two works published recently: Hanson-Baldauf,
D. & Lyles, S. (2008). “Hospital School Media
Centers: Implicit Statements of Hope.” Knowl-edge
Quest, 36 (5). And Hughes-Hassell, S.,
Hanson-Baldauf, D., & Burke, J. (2008). “Urban
Teenagers, Health Information, and Public
Library Teen Websites.” Young Adult Library
Services, 6 (4), pp. 35-42.
Cassidy Sugimoto (Ph.D. student) and co-authors
Jean Pratt and Karina Hauser had
their article, “Using fi eld cocitation analysis to
assess reciprocal and shared impact of LIS/MIS
fi elds,” published in JASIST.
Leo Cao (Ph.D. student) recently attended
a conference hosted by the Gates Millennium
Scholars Program (http://www.gmsp.org/pub-licweb/
aboutus.aspx) in Chantilly, VA. Cao has
been serving as an alumni mentor for two years,
discussing the ILS fi eld with the younger scholars.
He also contributed to an LIS fact sheet profi le
for APIASF (a partnership organization with the
gates program) aimed at raising awareness of the
fi eld to the Gates’ Scholars community.
Mary Wilkins Jordan (Ph.D. student) will
give a pre-conference seminar titled, “Do you
Q? Looking at your users in a new way!“ at the
January American Library Association conference
in Denver, CO. Jordan is a research consultant on
a grant just awarded by the Illinois State Library,
called “Researching Communities to Prepare for
the Future.”
Thomas Jones (BSIS student) teaches a chil-dren’s
Tae Kwon Do class at a martial arts school
in Durham twice weekly. Some of his students
have disabilities, but all are taught in an environ-ment
that allows them to grow without fear or
pressures from external environments.
Meredith Weiss (Ph.D. student) had her
article, “Results-Based Interaction Design”
published in Volume 31, Number 4 edition of
EDUCAUSE Quarterly Journal.
Chirag Shah wins Best
Paper at ACM SIGIR ‘08
Student Briefs Meredith Weiss
awarded Zipf Fellowship
The Council on Library and Information Re-sources
(CLIR) has awarded SILS doctoral student,
Meredith Weiss, its
prestigious 2008 A.R. Zipf
Fellowship.
The award was es-tablished
by the CLIR in
honor of A. R. Zipf, "a
pioneer in information
management systems."
The fellowship is awarded annually to a student who
is enrolled in graduate school, in the early stages
of study and who shows exceptional promise for
leadership and technical achievement in informa-tion
management.
While a student at SILS, Weiss is simultaneously
pursuing a certifi cate in computer programming
from North Carolina State University. Her research
focuses on higher education technology adminis-tration,
organizational design, communications
and leadership; human computer interaction; user
interface design; information system development
and evaluation; and business intelligence systems.
She is also the associate dean for Administration,
Finance and Information Technology at UNC at
Chapel Hill's Law School.
Previous SILS students who won the $10,000
award include Abe Crystal (2006). Miles James Efron
(2002) and Debra Ruffner Weiss (1999).
Amber Cushing (MSLS
student) has been ap-pointed
to the Society of
American Archivists Com-mittee
on Education where
she works with committee
members to explore the is-sue
of accreditation of U.S.
archival programs.
Abe Crystal (Ph.D. student) and Rick Cecil
have founded a company, MoreBetterLabs. Their
product is Ruzuku, a Web application that supports
personal improvement. Ruzuku uses proven social
and behavioral science research to help people
achieve their personal goals. Specifi cally, Ruzuku
helps people envision personal success, record their
progress through micro-blogging, and fi nd others
online with similar interests and challenges so they
can work together and hold each other accountable.
(Ruzuku has not yet been released.)
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Doctoral students host research symposium
SILS doctoral students hosted the DSA Doctoral Research Symposium on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 in Manning Hall. The event offered opportunities
for doctoral students to share their research with other students and faculty. A poster session, presentations and lunch were part of the day’s activi-ties
that were well-attended, well-organized and enjoyed by all. There were a total of eight posters, including one from a doctoral student from
South Carolina. There were 10 presentations by SILS doctoral students. The event was organized by students, Cassidy Sugimoto, Amy Van Scoy
and Chirag Shah.
Amber Cushing discusses her poster with Dr. Barbara
Wildemuth, professor, during the poster session portion
of the research symposium. Her poster is titled,“Career
Satisfaction of Young Archivists.”
Simon Spero discusses his poster titled, “LCSH is to
Thesaurus as Doorbell is to Mammal” with fellow
student Laura Sheble.
Yan Zhang talks with a fellow student about her poster,
which is titled, “Visiting Human Errors in Interacting
with IR Systems from Decision Making Perspective.”
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Spring Commencement 2008
The School of Information and Library Science
celebrated its spring commencement ceremony on
Sunday, May 14, 2008 with 101 graduates and over 400
guests that fi lled the Great Hall of the Student Union to
capacity. The program featured special guest, Dr. Duane
Webster, executive director of the American Research
Libraries along with presentations of several awards and
acknowledgements of completion to the graduates.
Photos above and clockwise include: Devan Don-aldson
as he received the “Outstanding Service to the
School” award from Jean Ferguson, president of SILSAA;
master’s graduate, Jie Jin with his parents who fl ew from
China to share this memorable occasion; Nicholas
Johnson, who received a Dean’s Achievement award
from Dr. Sandra Hughes Hassell; (not pictured, Ann K.
Irvine who also received a Dean’s Achievement award);
Xin Fu, who received his Ph.D. from Dean Griffi ths and
advisor, Dr. Gary Marchionini; and undergraduate,
Anna-Marie Mansour with Dr. José-Marie Griffi ths.
A reception was hosted by the SILS Alumni Associa-tion
following the ceremony.
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Bachelor of Science in
Information Science
Evan Edward Carroll
Crystal Dapheen Essex
Jordan Matthew Fleuriet
Alexander Gregory Foley
Shawn Jerome Guy
Julia Kampov-Polevoi
Scott David Kraus
Joshua Thomas Lockhart
Elizabeth Kyle Lyons
Anna-Marie Mansour
Ashley Marie May
Trent Evan Reese
Kathryn Denise Roth
Spencer Lewis Smith
Su Yon Song
Master of Science in
Information Science
Earl Wayne Bailey, Jr.
Timothy D’Arcy Baldwin
Sarah Whitley Carrier
Trisha Melinda Crutchfi eld
James Grant Dickie
Li He
Annie Mare Hughes
Ann Kathryn Irvine
Jie Jin
Nicholas Adam Johnson
Jared Philip King
Daniel Vincent Lucas
Sarah Kay Peterson
Janice Marie Pickney
Marcos Antonio Rodriguez
Wei-Hsin Su
Lashonda Denise Watts
Peiwen Zhu
Master of Science in Library
Science
Stephanie Catherine Adamson
Edwin Bross Arnaudin
Jennifer Ellen Bates
Laura Jeanne Berberian
Carrie Marie Bertling
Lisa Marie Boxill
Jennifer Cari Castaldo
Anna Rebecca Craft
Lynn Drye Dimac
Devan Ray Donaldson
Caitlin Rose Donnelly
Whitney Dare Etchison
Meghan Ann Fitzgerald
Marian G. Fragola
Elizabeth Diane Gorman
Sarah Margaret Gransee
Elizabeth Jean Gregg
Paul Daniel Greitzer
Thomas Patrick Hailey
Megan Claire Halsband
Elizabeth Ronan Herzog
Elizabeth Walker Howson
Noah Garland Huffman
Emily Josephine Hurst
Rachel Ondine Jorgensen
Sarah Nicole Kahn
Emily Marie King
David Ray Lawson
Anne Michelle Less
Cory William Lown
Stacey M. Lunden
Grant Collins Lynch
Meredith Anne MacPherson
Nicholas Andrew Mall
Elizabeth Anna Matson
Briynne Nicole Ross McCrea
Jennifer Elaine Merriman
Amy Elizabeth Morgan
Laurie Jo Neuerburg
Hannah More Noll
Spring 2008 SILS graduates
Regina Lynn Nowicki de Guerra
Genya Morgan O’Gara
Andreas Kyriacos Orphanides
Michael Tadesseh Peper
Jessica Anne Peterson
Allison Spencer Rainey
Kenneth Reed
Lisa Beezette Reynolds
Lindsey Rebecca Ritter
Casey Alexander Roberson
Megan Anne Rudolph
Johanna Murray Russ
Melinda Joy Trost Ryan
Mary Elizabeth Samouelian
Stephen Craig Sherman
Jacqueline Rae Sipes
Jennifer Hodl Solomon
Gillian Mills Speace
Abbey Elizabeth Thompson
Patrick Langsdon Tomlin
Todd Michael Venie
Katrina Claire Vernon
William Shane Wallace
Elizabeth Ann Watson
Doctor of Philosophy
Xin Fu
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Three faculty members from the School of Information
and Library Science received the 2008 Outstanding Teacher
Awards, which were presented to them during the School’s
commencement ceremony on May 11, 2008.
Dr. Deborah Barreau, associate professor, and Thomas
Nixon and Pam Sessoms, adjunct assistant professors of
practice, were nominated by their students for their “excep-tional
performance in the classroom and their dedication
as teachers of information and library sciences.”
“The person selected [Barreau] has been called a bril-liant
professor, committed to students, and known for kind-ness
and dedication,” said Diane Kelly, assistant professor
and recipient of last years’ award. “An exceptional mentor,
this person offers time and advice when students need it. It seems this person’s door is always open . . . and
indeed it is, as I walk past this person’s door everyday on the way to my own offi ce. This person is able to
enliven classroom discussions and helps students develop a deeper understanding of assigned materials.
One student says that this person ‘creates a safe classroom environment that encourages creativity tempered
by a strong foundation in the classic works that defi ne our fi eld.’”
Dr. Barreau has been a member of the SILS faculty since 2002, specializing in design, development
and use of information systems; organizational behavior; organizational communication; and personal
information systems. She earned her B.A. and M.A.T. in Sociology, and M.S.L.S. from SILS, and she received
her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park.
This year’s Outstanding Teacher Award for adjunct faculty was awarded to a team, Thomas (Tommy)
Nixon and Pam Sessoms. The recipients are described as demonstrating a “commitment to teaching excel-lence
and a genuine consideration for students,” and having the “dedication to prepare students for success
and leadership in the profession.” Teaching together these professors “provide what has been termed by one
student as the creation of
‘a learning experience
that is in the top tier of
information and library
science instruction,’”
said Ronald Bergquist,
recipient of the 2007
award for adjunct fac-ulty.
As a team, Nixon and
Sessoms teach, “Infor-mation
Resources and
Services.” Nixon received his A.B. in English and an M.S.L.S. from the UNC
at Chapel Hill, and he serves as the Humanities Reference Librarian at UNC at
Chapel Hill’s Davis Library.
Pam Sessoms is the Electronic Reference Services librarian in the Reference
Department of Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her
professional interests include virtual reference services and assistive technologies
for library users with visual disabilities. She has a BA and an MLS from UNC at
Chapel Hill and has been with the Reference Department since 1994.
Outstanding Teachers Spring 2008 Distinguished
Alumni Award
Frieda Rosenberg (MSLS ’78) was
named a 2008 Distinguished Alumna of the
School of Information and Library Science
during the spring commencement ceremony
on May 14.
The award recognizes alumni who ex-hibit
a strong commitment to librarianship
or information science and demonstrate
outstanding professional achievements at
the international, national, state or local
level.
“Today, we recognize a distinguished
alumna who more than meets the criteria
for the SILS Distinguished Alumni Award,”
said Jean Ferguson, president of SILS Alumni
Association. “She is a SILS graduate who has
made professional and personal contribu-tions
to librarianship and she has demon-strated
continued support and advocacy
for SILS. A serials, monographic series and
analytics cataloguer, Frieda has recognized
for her work on CONSER, a national catalog-ing
standard, and for her contribution to the
profession in 2003 with the Bowker-Ulrich
Serials Librarianship Award.”
“Frieda has been my model of the
scholar librarian,” said Selden Durgom
Lamoureux, who nominated Rosenberg.
“Her intellectual prowess is considerable,
and it’s clear that her scholarship informs
her daily actions. I cannot hope to match
her abilities, but I do hope to emulate the
value she places on a constant engagement
at a high intellectual level with the complex
issues that confront the profession.”
Rosenberg began with the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries since
1979. She most recently held the position
of head of Serials Cataloging. She retired
on Aug. 1, 2008.
Drs. Deborah Barreau and Diane Kelly
Dr. Ronald Bergquist presents the Distinguished Adjunct Teaching Award to one of
this year’s recipients, Tommy Nixon.
Pam Sessoms
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Cassidy Sugimoto
President
csugimoto@unc.edu
Jean Ferguson
Immediate past president
jean.f@duke.edu
Emily King
Vice president/president-elect
emking@unc.edu
Angela Bardeen
Treasurer
albard99@yahoo.com
Suchi Mohanty
Secretary
smohanty@email.unc.edu
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
José-Marie Griffi ths
Dean
Wanda Monroe
Director of Communications
Meredith Sutphin
ILSSA student representative
SILS Alumni Association Executive Board, 2008-2009
Hello from the School
of Information and Li-brary
Science Alumni As-sociation
(SILSAA)! We
are excited for this new
academic year. New to the
Board this year is Emily
King, who will be serving
as our vice-president. Em-ily
is a recent graduate of
SILS and the Coordinator
of E-Learning Services at
UNC at Chapel Hill’s Undergraduate Library. We
are thrilled to have Emily as part of our Board.
Returning members of the Board are Jean Ferguson
(past-president), Angela Bardeen (treasurer), Suchi
Mohanty (secretary), and Meredith Sutphin (stu-dent
representative). We would like to thank Mark
Sanders for his three years of service to this Board,
as vice-president, president, and past-president. We
really appreciate all that you did for the Board and
for alumni. Thank you, Mark!
We just fi nished our summer mailing to alumni
and would like to thank all of you who joined,
renewed your membership or became a Lifetime
Member of SILSAA. These dues make possible all
of the service that we do for alumni and current
students. A special thank you for all of you who
made donations to the various scholarships and
programs we support. Your contributions make a
difference at SILS.
Also, we will be moving to a new format for our
summer mailing. You will be able to join and renew
your membership at any time of the year, using the
envelope in this newsletter. Please just indicate
“SILSAA membership” on your check.
Lastly, we are going to be sending out a survey
this Fall to address our current programming and
plans for future programming. To make sure you
are able to take part in this survey, please consider
joining the SILSAA listserv. The traffi c is light and
the list provides an invaluable communication tool.
Visit our Web site at http://sils.unc.edu/alumni/ to
join the listserv and to stay in touch with us!
If you have any additional questions, comments,
suggestions or ideas you would like to share with
us, please feel free to send e-mail to me directly
at csugimoto@unc.edu. We would love to hear
from you!
Best,
Cassidy R. Sugimoto
President, SILSAA
News from the SILS Alumni Association
Alumni
Message
By Cassidy Sugimoto,
SILSAA
SILS Alumni Association Executive Board from left to right, Angela Bardeen, Jean Ferguson, Suchi
Mohanty, Cassidy Sugimoto, Meredith Sutphin and Emily King.
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The UNC School of Information and Library Science Alumni Association cordially invites you to join or renew your membership in the Association.
The SILS Alumni Association supports the work of SILS and encourages alumni fellowship and involvement in the School. The Association’s activities
focus on providing fi nancial support to students, recognizing alumni achievement, and facilitating communication among SILS, its alumni, and current
students. Some of these activities include:
• Welcoming reception for new students in the fall
• Book and research scholarships for students
• Mentoring celebration pairing students with professionals
• Graduation reception honoring new graduates
• Communication via alumni listserv
• Alumni Day
• Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding service to the profession
Membership fees are used to support the work of the SILS Alumni Association and provide members with an opportunity to participate in the continu-ing
life of the school and its alumni. (Annual dues are for the fi scal year of July 1 – June 30.) We also ask you to consider making a contribution to the
Elfreda Chatman Book and Research Fund. Dr. Chatman was a member of the SILS faculty from 1983 to 1998, and was internationally known for her
research on the subject of human information-seeking behavior. She is probably best remembered for her work in ethnographic studies of information
use and for her enthusiastic support for original research.
The Association will continue to award three Chatman Book Scholarships each year to help defray the costs of textbooks, and to award Chatman
Research Scholarships twice annually to help defray the cost of original research for master’s and Ph.D. students. Your contribution in any amount is
important to the students and much appreciated. Please print out, fi ll in and return the form below to make your contribution.
School of Information and Library Science Alumni Association
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Please make check payable to UNC-CH SILS Alumni Association and send with this form to:
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Your SILS Alumni Association Needs Your
Support and Participation
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In Memoriam
SILS graduate Mary Samouelian (MSLS 2008) has been awarded the
2008 Pease Award from the Society of American Archivists (SAA) for her Master’s
paper entitled, “Embracing Web 2.0: Archives and the Newest Generation of
Web Applications.”
The Pease Award was created in 1987 to recognize superior writing achieve-ments
by students of archival studies. This competitive award is judged on in-novation,
scholarship, pertinence and clarity of writing. The Pease committee
commented that Mary’s paper “suggests several directions for future research
concerning Web 2.0 technologies” and that it “advances not only the author’s
research agenda, but the professional literature as a whole.”
“Mary’s paper is a demonstration of excellent research design, and it takes
on a set of issues that are very important to the future of the profession,” said
Cal Lee, SILS assistant professor and Mary’s advisor who nominated the paper
for the award. “She investigated the extent to which Web 2.0 features have been
integrated into the interfaces to digital collections of archives and special collec-tions.
Mary’s paper provides an informative look at current practices and raises
many observations that will be useful to the profession in years to come.”
Mary was formally presented with the Pease Award at the 2008 SAA Confer-ence
in San Francisco. Her paper will be published in the Spring 2009 issue
of American Archivist, Vol. 72.1, scheduled for publication, both in print and
online on 15 May 2009.
SAA Pease Award goes to Mary Samouelian
Virginia Crumpler Adams, ABLS, ’38
Elizabeth Hobcraft Allan, BSLS ’55
Angele Avizonis, BSLS’53
Susan Elizabeth Bello, MSLS ’85
Mary Guy Boyd, MSLS ’56
Marguerite Louise Carder, BSLS ’42
Ann Watson Coogler, BSLS ’41
Frances Cantor Davis, MSLS ’69
Josephine Bone Floyd, BSLS ’45
Alice Carol Gaar, MSLS ’79
Eliza Ross Good, MSLS ’65
Martha Jones Gundaker, ABLS ’38
Carolyn Wiggins Holman, BSLS ’50
Sidney Holmes, ABLS ’37
Margaret Vanys Husselbee, MSLS ‘62
Isabella Jinnette, ABLS ‘37
Ardie Lee Kelly, MSLS ‘63
Olive Lee, BSLS, ‘41
Katharine Scoggin Martyn, ABLS ‘36
James Marvin Nicholson, Jr., MSLS ‘55
Miriam Mary Revelise, BSLS ‘42
Ruth Jones Rouse, BSLS ‘43
Cynthia Lyn Rugh, MSLS ‘93
Eleanor Strowd Shaw, ABLS ‘40
Jane Keenan Starnes, MSLS ‘77
Lindsay Polk Stone, MSLS ‘63
Elizabeth Tarver, BSLS ‘42
K.T. Vaughn (MSLS 2001) has been admitted as a Senior Member of the Academy of Health Information
Professionals (AHIP), the credentialing body for medical and health sciences librarians and information spe-cialists.
Vaughn says, “Admission to AHIP is a challenging, peer-reviewed process that involves demonstrating
excellence in academic preparation, professional experience and professional accomplishments (including
teaching, publishing, membership and leadership in professional societies, continuing education and partici-pation
in scholarly conferences). She currently holds a joint appointment in the UNC Health Sciences Library
and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Vaughn is active in the American Society of Information Science
&Technology, American Association of Colleges Pharmacies and the Medical Library Association.
The Senior level of AHIP is the highest level for professionals with 5-10 years of experience in medical/
health sciences libraries. More information on AHIP is at http://www.mlanet.org/academy/.
K.T. Vaughn admitted as senior member of AHIP
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In March 2008, SILS alumna, Glenda Blais-dell-
Buck (MSLS 1979) was the inaugural win-ner
of the North Carolina Association of Educators
Linda Rader Professional Opportunity Award. She
used the $3,000 award, plus additional money she
raised, to fund a volunteer vacation in Cape Town,
South Africa.
She volunteered for the entire month of August
2008, setting up a library and assisting a sixth grade
teacher in a high-poverty primary school. (The
photo above was taken at Cape Point.)
While in Africa, she blogged about the experience,
which you can read at: www.ncaelindaraderinsouth-africa.
blogspot.com
Blaisdell-Buck presented a session on “How I
spent my summer vacation volunteering in South
Africa,” at the North Carolina School Library Media
Association annual conference in Winston-Salem,
on Oct. 31, 2008.
Last spring, she won a Golden Achievement
award from the National Schools Public Rela-tions
Association (NSPRA). For more about the
award see: http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/includes/gfi .
asp?fi leHandle=5447.asp
Blaisdell-Buck volunteers in Africa
2008
Anna Craft (MSLS) has been hired as a
Metadata Librarian at Western Carolina
University.
2007
Heather McCullough (MSIS) submitted the
abstract from her masters’ thesis to the Interna-tional
Conference of the Book held in Washington,
DC this year and it had been accepted. The title is,
“The Fate of Reading, Thinking, and Learning
in an Electronic Age.” To link to the abstract, go
to: http://b08.cgpublisher.com/proposals/27/
index_html
2004
Amanda Myers married Caleb Echterling on
April 26,2008 in Raleigh, NC. The couple resides
in Harrisonburg, VA. Amanda also recently wrote
an article for the September issue of Info Career
Tends newsletter entitled “The Procurement
Librarian.”
2002
Dorothy Porter Leontseva (MSLS) has
recently taken on a new position. Previously
program coordinator at the Collaboratory for
Research in Computing for Humanities at the
University of Kentucky; she has moved to a new
role as the Metadata Manager at the Digital Hu-manities
Observatory, a project of the Royal Irish
Academy, in Dublin, Ireland (http://www.dho.ie/).
Leontseva says “the DHO is the key infrastructural
element of the Humanities Serving Irish Society
Consortium (HSIS), which consists of most of the
major research universities in Ireland (both the
Republic and Northern Ireland). The aim of HSIS
is to build a national platform for the coordina-tion
and dissemination of humanities research,
teaching and training at an all-island level, and
the DHO will be an electronic access portal and
research resource for the humanities, designed,
hosted and operated by the RIA.
1996
Lynn W. Zimmerman (MSLS) has been
awarded a teaching Fulbright for Spring 2009.
She will teach in the English Department at the
University of Wroclaw in Wroclaw, Poland.
1991
Ruth Monnig (MSIS) married Mark Steele in
Winter Haven, FL in Aug. 2008.
1982
Laura Christopherson (MSIS 2005, Ph.D.
student), and Elizabeth A. Evans (MSLS 1982),
UNC-Chapel Hill Information Technology Services,
presented a poster at the inaugural Meaningful
Play conference at Michigan State University in
October. The poster, “Game Assessment for Higher
Education Curricula: A Beginning,” described
efforts to develop a way for faculty to determine
if a game is appropriate for use in a course. The
poster can be viewed at http://LearnIT.unc.edu/
Games4Learning/calendar under “Past Events.”
Michael Habib (MSLS 2006) has relocated to
Amsterdam, The Netherlands to work as a product
manager in the Academic & Government Products
Group at Elsevier Science & Technology. He is in a
newly formed group focusing on creating new on-line
collaboration tools to assist academic research-ers
with their literature research workfl ow. The Col-laboration
Tools group contains existing products
like 2collab (http://www.2collab.com/ ) and Scirus
Topic Pages (http://topics.scirus.com/).
He is working on a product that is a profi ling,
expert fi nding and networking tool that will auto-matically
generate 20 million plus Author Profi les,
covering published science, technology and medical
researchers from across the world. Building around
this information, they are designing a tool to assist
researchers with their profi ling, expert fi nding and
networking needs. One primary goal of the tool
will be to foster interdisciplinary and international
collaborations.
Habib is interested in getting feedback from
librarians in the sciences and health sciences and
high level university administrators, such as deans
and provosts about the tool. To contribute ideas,
please contact him at: m.habib@elsevier.com
Alumni relocates to
Amsterdam
Alumni Briefs
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Jennifer Kellerman DeVito (MSLS) wel-comed
a baby boy in Aug. 2007 - Russell Anthony
DeVito was 5 lbs. and 15 ozs. at birth.
DeVito was promoted to Library Director at
Briarcliffe College in New York on Oct. 1, 2008. The
college has campuses in Long Island City, Bethpage
and Patchogue.
1999
Corwin Andrew Blodgett Harper was born to
Paulina Vinyard Harper (MSLS) and her
husband Andrew on Feb. 26, 2007. He weighed
9 lbs. and 3 ozs. and was 22" long. He's now
19-months old and a whopping 32 lbs. and 35"
tall. Harper says, “He already loves books, and
will spend large chunks of time just sitting in
my lap while I read him book after book after
book!”
Harper resigned her position as Electronic
Resources Librarian at the University of Houston
- Downtown when Corwin was born. She now
works part-time as a Weekend Reference Librarian
at University of Houston-Downtown.
2001 1997
Jeff Alpi (MSLS) recently relocated back to
North Carolina with his wife, Kristine. Jeff is cur-rently
working as a Web developer for UNC at Chapel
Hill's Frank Porter Graham Childhood Development
Institute. Kristine is the new head of NC State's Vet
School Library.
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Cassidy Sugimoto (MSLS and current doc-toral
student) and her husband, Thomas, welcomed
Anastasia Emiko Sugimoto on May 31, 2008.
Anastasia weighed 6 lbs. 10 ozs. and was 19 1/4
inches long.
2007
Jason Griffey (MSLS) completed his first
book, co-authored with Karen Coombs, titled Li-brary
Blogging, published by Linworth Press and
released summer 2008. He has been named chair
of the LITA Program Planning Committee this year.
Griffey also has a 10-month-old daughter, Eliza.
Jean Ferguson (MSLS) has been promoted to
Head of Research and Reference Services at Perkins
Library, Duke University. Ferguson is part of the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded Open Library
Environment project team, which is working on
creating a re-envisioned open source version of an
integrated library system. She encourages all SILS
alumni to get involved with the project. Information
can be found at: http://oleproject.org
Ferguson also welcomed a new addition to her
family. Conrad Ferguson Thomas was born Feb.
11, 2008.
2004
Carlton Brown (MSLS 1994) and Marlys
Ray (MSLS 1994), who met at SILS in 1992, have
just celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary.
They live in Durham; Brown is associate director
and manager of IT Services at the Ford Library,
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and
Ray is a librarian at the UNC Institute on Aging in
Chapel Hill.
1994
Proud parents, T. Mike Childs (MSLS ‘89 and
current SILS doctoral student) and his wife, Selena
B. Childs (MSLS ‘93) and graduate of the School
of Social Work, class of '99, welcomed June Vivian
Childs on Sept. 12, 2008 at 8:16 a.m. at the UNC
Hospital. She weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz.
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