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Ben Alexander Community : The Shaping of Memory. Facet Publications. CoEditor with Jeannette Bastian (Simmons College) Brody, Roberta, ed. Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: Proceedings of Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology-IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society: 8-10, June, 2006. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Society on Social Implications and Technology, 2006. Chelton, M.K.and Cool, C. (Eds.) (2007). Youth information seeking behavior II: Theories, models and issues. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. (50%) role in recruiting authors, editing and reviewing Ng, Kwong Bor & Kucsma, Jason (Eds.). (2011). Digitization in the real world. Published by NY: Metropolitan New York Library Council. 592 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0615379982

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: Alexander, Benjamin. “For Posterity: The Personal Audio Recordings of Louis Armstrong,” American Archivist, 71, 1 (Spring/Summer, 2008) , p. 50-86 Alexander, Benjamin. “The Lowell Affair,” The New England Quarterly, 81, 1 (Spring, 2008), p. 545- 587. Ben Alexander The Nature of the Palimpsest: From Archimedes to Kindle. . Ben Alexander “What a Setting for a Mystery”: Yaddo, the Yaddo Records, and the Memory of Place. Archival Science. Brody, Roberta. “Defining Competitive Intelligence,” IEEE Engineering Management Review, 36, 3 (Third Quarter 2008), p. 3-11. Brody, Roberta, “Defining Competitive Intelligence,” Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management, 4, 3 (2008), p. 3-8. Brody, Roberta. “The Problem of Information Niavete,’ Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59, 7 (2008), p. 1121-1127. Brody, Roberta. “Everyone’s An Expert,” ONLINE:Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals, 32 (May/June, 2008), p. 32. Brody, Roberta. “Information Ethics in the Business Environment.” Online, January-February, 2006, p. 38-41. Brody, Roberta ed. Special Issue: “Disaster Preparedness and Recovery,” IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 26, 3 (Fall, 2007). Introduction, p. 11-12. Brody, Roberta. “Everyone’s a Critic: Business watchdogs Online,” Online, 31, 2 (March/April, 2007), p. 24-28. Brody, Roberta. 2010. “Of Barbie, Buttons and Roquefort Cheese: Joseph Mattera of Trade Resources.” ONLINE: Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals. 34, (March/April 2010) Chelton, Mary K. Fundamentals of ," Public , 44, 1 (January/February, 2005), p. 51. Chelton, Mary K. Two Hundred Years of Young Adult Library Services History: The Chronology, Voice of Youth Advocates, 28, 2 (June, 2005), p. 106-114. (With Anthony Bernier, Christine Jenkins, and Jennifer Burel Pierce) Chelton, Mary K. Perspectives on YA Practice: Common Models of Service in Public Libraries: Advantages and Disadvantages, Young Adult Library Services, 3, 4 (Summer, 2005), p. 4-6, 11. Chelton, Mary K. Academia's Two Culture Dilemma, American Libraries, 36, 7 (August, 2005), p. 41. Chelton, Mary K. Extending the Five Foot Shelf: More Professional for Those Who Serve Teens, Voice of Youth Advocates, 28, 4 (October, 2005), p. 274-276. Chelton, Mary K. and Cool, Colleen, eds. Youth Information Seeking Behavior II: Context, Theories and Issues. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007. Mary K. Chelton 2010—Contributor, “A Selection of Core Resources for Readers’ Advisory Service,” RUSQ, 50, no. 1 (Fall, 2010). Chelton, Mary K. “Musings on Intellectual Freedom and Young Adults,” Voice of Youth Advocates, 34, no. 2 (June, 2011). Chelton, Mary K., “Roots and Branches: YA Services Past, Present and Future” the 2011 YALSA Past President’s Lecture, Posted on YALSA Blog, January 31, 2011 Xie, H. and Cool, C. (2009). Understanding help seeking within the context of searching digital libraries. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60, (1), 1-18. Xie, H. & Cool, C. (2006). Toward a better understanding of help-seeking behavior: An evaluation of help mechanisms in two IR systems. Proceedings of the 69th American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, 43. Cool, C. and Chelton, M.K. (2005). Improving access to children through better understanding of their information seeking behaviors. Child and Society, 6, (2), 297-306. (Translated into Croatian ). Cool, C. & Xie, I (2010). Affective utterances as contextual feedback in interactive information retrieval. In Iiix 2010: Proceedings of International Conference on Interactive Information Retrieval in Context, August 2010. Perez-Carballo, J., I. Xie & C. Cool. (2010). Principles and best practices for digital libraries help systems. Proceedings of the Allied Academies Summer Internet Conference, July 19-30, 2010. p 82-84. Taylor, A., Cool, C., Belkin, N., and Amadao, W. “Relationships Between Categories of Relevance Criteria and Stage in Task Completion,” Information Processing and Management, 47, 4 (2007), p. 1071- 1084. Xie, H. and Cool, C. “Types of Help-seeking Situations for Novice Users of Digital Libraries.” Proceedings of the 70th American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, 44. CD-ROM Publication (14 printed pages). Perez-Carballo, J., I. Xie & C. Cool (2011). Design principles of help systems for digital libraries. Academy of Information and Management Sciences Journal , 14 (1), 101-135. Cooper, Linda Z. “Supporting Visual Literacy in the School Library Media Center: Developmental Socio- Cultural and Experimental Considerations and Scenarios,” Knowledge Quest, 36, 3 (January/February, 2008), p. 14-19. Wu, Lin and Li, Ping. “What Do They want? A Content Analysis of association Reference Job Announcements, 2000-2005,” Journal of the Medical Library Association:JMLA, 96, 4 (2008), p. 378- 381. Li, Ping, and Lin Wu. 2011. Supporting Evidence-Based Medicine: A Survey of US Medical . Medical Reference Services Quarterly 30(4): 365–381. Li, Ping. 2011. Science Tutorials and Pedagogy. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Journal 6(2). Retrieved from http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/9480/8128 Ng, K.B., Kantor, P., Stryzalkowski, T., Wachholder, N., Tang, R., Bai. B. Rettman, R., Song. P. and Sun, Y. “Automated Judegement of Document Qualities.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57, 9 (2006), p. 1155-1164. Ng, Kwong B. (2009) Automatically Evaluating the Quality of Contents Created in Collaborative Knowledge Building. In Rummler, Scott & Ng, Kwong B. (Eds.). Collaborative technologies and applications for interactive information design: emerging trends in user experiences, pp. 137-147. PA: Information Science Reference, IGI-Global, Inc. Rummler, Scott & Ng, Kwong B. (Eds.). (2009). Collaborative technologies and applications for interactive information design: emerging trends in user experiences. PA: Information Science Reference, IGI-Global, Inc. Perry, Claudia A. Education for Digitization: How Do We Prepare? Journal of Academic Librarianship, 31, 6 (November, 2005), p. 523-532 Valero, W., Perry, C. and Surprenant, T. “ History on a Post Card,” Library Journal: Net Connect, Winter, 2007, p. 6-9

BOOK CHAPTERS: Ben Alexander “This Really is Delightful Place to Work”: Langston Hughes, Yaddo and a Revaluation of the Black Radical Left. Included in, The Black Radical Left. Cambridge Scholarly Publications Brody, Roberta. “Information Niavete and Competitive Intelligence Failure.” Proceedings of the European Business Research Forum 2008, Helsinki, Finland. Brody, Roberta. “Credibility and Information Niavete in Socially Networked Information. In Society Citizens, Groups and Communities and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT): International Symposium on Technology and Society, Fredericton, Canada (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2008). Brody, Roberta. “Struggling with Information Quality and Welcoming the Cacophony of Many Voices in Traditional and New Media.” In Dervin, Brenda, ed. A Metatheory and Mrethodology for Community Media Practice and Integration: Applying Sense Making Theory (International Association for Media and Communication Research: Media and Global Divides, 2008). Brody, Roberta, Researching Information Failure: A Potential Application of Sense Making Methodology. In Proceedings of the International Communications Association's 55th Annual Conference. Edited by Brenda Dervin. New York: ICA, 2005 Chelton, Mary K. “Preface.” Excellence in Library Services to Young Adults, 5th ed. Young Adult Library Services Association, 2008. Chelton, Mary K. “What To Do When a Reader Asks for a ‘Good Book.” In Haycock, Ken and Sheldon, Brooke E., eds. The Portable MLS: Insights from Experts. Libraries Unlimited, 2008. Xie, Hong (Iris) and Cool, Colleen. “Toward a Better Understanding of Help Seeking Behavior: An Evaluation of Help Mechanisms in Two I.R. Systems.” In Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), 43, Austin Texas Cool, C. & Belkin, N. (2011). Interactive information retrieval: Early history. In Ruthven, I. and Kelly, D. (Eds.), Interactive information seeking, behaviour and retrieval (pp.1-14). London: Facet. Li, Ping. And Behesti, Jamshid. “Do Doctoral Students Need Instructions on Using Google?-An Exploratory Study.” In Proceedings of the CAIS/ACSI 2008: Information Beyond Borders. Li, Ping and Lin, Wu. “Are Health Sciences Librarians Taking the Evidence Based Medicine Challenge?” In Proceedings of the CAIS/ACSI 2008: Information Beyond Borders. Perry, Claudia A., and Surprenant, Thomas T. “Metro Grant Success Story: Waterways of New York Project.” Creating Small-and Medium-Sized Digital Collections: Lessons Learned in the Real World. Eds. Kwong Bor Ng and Jason. Kucsma. New York, Metro, 2010. 100-122. Thomas T. Surprenant “Creating an ePortfolio.” In Jackie Davis Ed. World Language Teacher Education: Transitions and Challenges in the 21st Century, Chapter 7. Charoltte, 2010. Information Age Publishing Inc. (IAP) 131-147.

PRESENTATIONS: Alexander, Benjamin. “Yaddo, The Yaddo Records and the Boundary of the .” International Conference on History of Records and Archives, University of Western Australia, Perth, August 2008. Alexander, Benjamin. “These Fragments’: The Archive and the Shapes of History.” Claremont Graduate University, October, 2008. Alexander, Benjamin. “Depression and Revolution’: Yaddo and the 1930s Radical Left.” Modernist Studies Association, Annual Conference, November 2008. Alexander, Benjamin. “Revolution, Revolution: Yaddo and the Making of American Proletarian Literature,” North East Modern Language Association. March, 2008 Ben Alexander Claremont Graduate University. Remembring “America’s Music”: Jazz, Audio capture, and the Archive. Ben Alexander Invited Panelists: Text Transmission, Reception. Conference hosted by University, Nijmegen, Holland. (fully sponsored). Paper title: Salman Rushdie, The Archive, and The Capture of a Textual Revalution. Ben Alexander University of Glasgow. MetaData (And All That). Ben Alexander New York Archivists Roundtable. From Capture to Access: The Private Audio Recordings of Louis Armstrong Ben Alexander University of Glasgow. The Nature of the Palimpsest: From Archimedes to Kindle Ben Alexander Wolfson College, Oxford, UK. The Nature of the Palimpsest: From Archimedes to Kindle. Ben Alexander University of Edinburgh. The Nature of the Palimpsest: From Archimedes to Kindle Ben Alexander American Comparative Literature Association. Questioning Oral History: From Nixon to Satchmo Ben Alexander University of Hamilton, Ontario. The Archive and the Civil Rights Movement in America.” Ben Alexander University College London. Nothing is But What it Seems": 21st Century Memory and the Technology of Collage. Brody, Roberta. “Information Niavete and Competitive Intelligence Failure. Europoean Business Research Forum, Helsinki, Finland, September, 2008. Ochsner, Neal and Brody, Roberta. “Using Geographic Information Systems for CI.” 2008 SCIP International Conference and Exhibition, San Diego, Cal., April, 2008. Brody, Roberta. “Business research Basics at the Bridge the Gap program.” Law Librarians Association of Greater New York, New York, March, 2008 Brody, Roberta. “Information Failure and the Culture of Success.” International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS ’06), 9-10, June, 2006. Sponsored by the IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology, June 10, 2006. Brody, Roberta. 2009. “Information Authenticity Redefined as Authentic Informing Through Dialogue: An Application of Dervin’s Sense-Making Methodology.” International Communication Association Annual Conference. May 2009, Chicago. Brody, Roberta. 2009. “Struggling with Information Quality and Welcoming the Cacophony of Many Voices in Traditional and New Media.” International Communication Association. May 2009, Chicago. Brody, Roberta. “Back to Basics Business Research” (seminar) sponsored by the Business and Finance Division for the New York Chapter Special Libraries Association, New York, NY April 6, 2009 Brody, Roberta. 2009 “Professionalism: what Exactly is that You Do?” Hudson Valley, Chapter, Special Libraries, April 2, 2009. White Plains, NY. Brody, Roberta. 2009 “Are we on the Same Page? Communication Successfully with Your Internal Clients.” Competitive Intelligence in Pharma, USA.” March , 2009, Philadelphia. Kim Kaiman and Roberta Brody. 2010 “Soap Opera Witches: Folklore Themes in Daytime Television” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. April 1, 2010 Brody, Roberta. 2010. Business Research at the Bridge the Gap program, sponsored by the Law Librarians Association of Greater New York, New York, NY, March 26, 2010. Brody, Roberta. 2011. “Rethinking Our Professional Roles “ Metropolitan New York Library Council. New York, NY. July 19, 2011. Brody, Roberta. 2011. “Business Research for Due Diligence ” Law Librarians Association of Greater New York; New York, NY. April 1, 2011. Chelton, Mary K. “Where Readers Go, Books Follow: The Future of Audio Materials in Public Libraries.” Preconference, Association, Minneapolis, March, 2008. Chelton, Mary K. “Going Beyond Google,” Queens Borough Public Library Page Fellows Program, January 6, 2009, Flushing Branch, QBPL, Flushing, NY. Mary K. Chelton “Intersection of Reading Motivation and Intellectual Freedom,” Long Island School Media Association, March 10, 2010, Garden City High School Library, Garden City, NY. Cool, Colleen. “Understanding Help Seeking as Information Behavior.” Rutgers University, October 2008 Cool, Colleen. “Human Information Behavior in the Help Seeking Process: Implications for the Design of Interactive Automated Help Functionalities.” Digital Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA), Dubrovnik, Croatia, June, 2006. Cool, C. & Xie, I (2010). Affective utterances as contextual feedback in interactive information retrieval. International Conference on Interactive Information Retrieval in Context, August 2010, New Brunswick, N.J. Cool, C. (2011) Understanding Help-seeking Behaviors Among Novice Users of Digital Libraries. Presented at Nankai University, Tianjin, China, June 2011. Cool, C. (2006) Computers as Social Actors in the Help-Seeking Process. Presented at the Information School, University of Washington. Seattle, WA. Cooper, Linda, Davis, Jacqueline F., Fernandez, Eva, Perry, Claudia A. and Surprenant, Thomas T. “ePortfolios for Teaching, Learning and Assessment.” Queens College Ed Tech Day, October 24, 2008. Cooper, L (2009). Panel presentation: Picture book illustrators Sean Qualls and Carin Berger: Work and process. Presented at the Hunter College Elementary School, December 1, 2009, New York, NY. (Invited moderator) Li, Ping Exploring the Real World: Medical Librarians' Involvement in Supporting Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Practice. Paper (with Lin Wu) presented at the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2009 Annual Conference. Ottawa, ON, Canada. May 2009. Li, Ping. Science Information Literacy Tutorials and Pedagogy Paper presented at the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2010 Annual Conference. Montreal, QC. June 2010. Li, Ping and Behesti, Jamshid. “Do Doctoral Students Need Instructions on Using Google?-An Exploratory Study.” Canadian association for Information Science (CAIS) Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2008. Li, Ping and Lin, Wu. “Are Health Sciences Librarians Taking the Evidence Based Medicine Challenge?” Canadain Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2008 Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 2008. Li, Ping and Perry, Claudia A. “Introduction to APA Style, 6th ed.” GSLIS Curriculum Space. Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York, September 20, 2010. Li, P., Is Information Literacy Instruction Essential to Graduate Students? -- A Perspective Based on the Review of Research Literature on Graduate Students’ Information Behavior. Paper presented at the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2011 Annual Conference. Fredericton, N.B. June 2011. Ng KB, Title: DOM for Librarians, Date: Nov 21, 2011. For: Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). New York City. Ng KB, Title: JavaScript for Librarians, Date: Nov 14, 2011. For: Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). New York City. Perry, Claudia A., Panelist. “Collaborative Student Development of a Digital Database: The Waterways of New York Project”. ALISE Panel on Teaching Technologies, (Moderated by Linda C. Smith, other panelists included Xia Lin, Todd Marshall, and Yin Zhang). ALISE Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, January 13, 2010. Perry, Claudia A. “Digitization 101: The Essentials”. LACUNY Archives and Roundtable Workshop, Baruch College, New York, New York, November 10, 2006 Perry, Claudia, Panelist. “Do We Need Library Schools? The Future of Library Education”. (Moderated by Maureen Sullivan, other participants included Marie Radford, Rutgers University, and James Neal, Columbia University Libraries). METRO Spring Issues Forum, May 8, 2007. Perry, Claudia A., Cooper, Linda Z., and Davis, Jacqueline C. Panelists. “ePortfolios: An Overview.” Department of Secondary Education and Youth Services Faculty Meeting, Queens College, Flushing, New York. February 4, 2009. Perry, Claudia A. “Grant Funding for Librarians”. “3 By the Sea” TriChapter Meeting of the Medical Library Association, Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 8, 2009. Perry, Claudia A. “Librarians as Researchers: Getting Started with Research and Publication”. "3 By the Sea" TriChapter Meeting of the Medical Library Association, Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 6, 2009 Perry, Claudia A. “New Technologies and the Emerging Information Environment.” Special Libraries Association Mid-Hudson (New York) Chapter Meeting, December 1, 2009. Perry, Claudia, Moderator. “Pilot Study in Gerontechnology: Bridging the Digital Divide for the Elderly through Intergenerational computing”. (Presenters B.A. Thomas, J.F. Coppola, F. Gustavson, L. Forman and C. Phipps). IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology. 2006 International Symposium on Technology and Society. Queens College, CUNY. June 9-10, 2006. Davis, Ann., Fernandez, Eva M., Fraboni, Michelle, and Perry, Claudia A. “ePortfolio Pilot with Epsilen”. Fourth Annual EdTech Day, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York, October 30, 2009. Perry, Claudia A. and #Davis, Jacqueline C. “ePortfolio: The Queens College Experience”. (Materials and presentation prepared with substantial input over time from Linda Z. Cooper, Jackie Davis, Eva Fernandez, E, Michelle Fraboni, Boone Gorges, Mindy Miller, Claudia Perry, Tom Surprenant, Vivek Upadhyay). Making Connections Seminar. LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, New York, December 18, 2010. Perry, Claudia A, Fraboni, Michelle, and Davis, Jacqueline C. “ePortfolios: An Update.” Fifth Annual EdTech Day, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York, October 22, 2010. Perry, Claudia A. and Surprenant, Thomas T. “ePortfolios: An Introduction.” SLA-NY Career Kickoff, St. John's University, Manhattan Campus, New York, New York, May 24, 2010. Perry, Claudia A. and Surprenant, Thomas T. “In-class Experiential Learning: The Waterways of New York Project. Fifth Annual EdTech Day, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York, October 22, 2010. Perry, Claudia A. , Surprenant, Thomas T., and Valero, Walter E. “Waterways of New York: A Digital Collection of Early 20th Century Postcards.” [in conjunction with “Long Island Memories Project”, presented by Regina Feeney, Freeport Public Library, and Cynthia Krieg, Freeport Public Library & Historical Society]. Digitization in Libraries: How to Start, Maintain or Expand your Library’s Digital Collection, moderated by Marianne Leavell. Nassau County Library Association, Media Services Division. June 19, 2007, Uniondale , New York, New York. Perry, Claudia A. “Multimedia Research in the Disciplines.” Conference on Multimedia in the Disciplines. (Making Connections Transfer Project). Queensborough Community College, Bayside, New York, August 22, 2011. Smith, Karen P. “But If You Call Me Anne, Please Call Me Anne Spelled with an ‘e’: Imagination, Singlemindeness and the Formation of Classical Status in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.” 8th International Conference on L.M. Montgomery, Prince Edward Island, June, 2008. Valero, Walter, Perry, Claudia, and Surprenant, Tom. Waterways of New York: Creating a small digital collection using Greenstone Open Source software. METRO Digitization SIG and METRO Solos+ SIG Joint Meeting. 7 June 2006, New York, New York.

PERFORMANCES, EXHIBTIONS AND OTHER SCHOLARLY WORK: Ben Alexander Fall 2010. Queens Contemporary History Pilot Project. (Natalie Milbrodt, GSLIS Student and Special Collections Fellow wrote the grant under the combined advisement and coordination of myself and GSLIS Faculty member K.B. NG). Agency: METRO, 2010 Collaborative Digitization Grant. Amount awarded: $30,000. Ben Alexander N.B. Advisory Board includes: Robert DeCandido (Morgan Library); Anne Gilliland (Professor, Department Chair and Director Archival Studies Program, University of California Los Angeles); and, Elizabeth Yakel (Professor, University of Michigan). Spring 2010. Brody, Roberta. “Back to Basics Business Research (workshop).” Business and Finance Division, Special Libraries Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA., June 2008. Brody, Roberta. 2010. “The Last Books Standing.” Informed . October 2010. Cooper, Marianne. IMLS, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant: Archival Education at Queens College: Updating the Knowledge Base; Planning and Curriculum Building. (with Alexander, Benjamin). Chelton, Mary K. “More Teen Programs That Work.” Public Libraries, 45. 2 (March/April, 2006), p. 76. Chelton, Mary K. “Perspectives on Practice: Young Adult Collections Are More Than Just Young Adult Literature.” Young Adult Library Services, 4, 2 (Winter, 2006), p. 10-11. Chelton, Mary K. “Adult Readers Advisory and Young Adult Services.” Library Association of Rockland County, April 19, 2006., New City, N.Y.(workshop) Chelton, Mary K. “Finding the Right Book for Each Teen: Sometimes the Right Book Isnt a Book at All. Suffolk County YA Librarians, Fran Romer Memorial Bookday Talk, April 7, 2006, Northport Public Library, Northport New York. Chelton, Mary K.. “Reader Advisory Services: What To Do and How To Do It Right.” Onandaga County Public Library System, April 20, 2006 (With Duncan Smith; workshop) Chelton,Mary K. “Reader Advisory Services.” Hingham Public Library, March 22, 2006, Hingham, Massachusetts (workshop) Chelton, Mary K. “Reader Advisory Workshop.” Queens Borough Public Library, February 7, 2006, Jamaica, New York Chelton, Mary K. “More on Guest Presenters: Timely Payment,” Public Libraries, 46, 1 (January/February, 2007), p. 2, 9. Chelton, Mary K. “Remembering YALSA: The View of the “Oldest Living YA Librarian,” Young Adult Library Services, 6, 1 Chelton, Mary K., “Guest Editorial,” Voice of Youth Advocates, (April, 2009). Chelton, Mary K., 2009—YA Book Discussion Leader, “YA Potpourri” at Lit-Fest: A Celebration of Books for Children and Young Adults Conference. Nassau Library System, November 6. Mary K. Chelton 2010--Invited to give premiere YALSA Past President’s Lecture at ALA Midwinter, San Diego, subsequently posted on ALA/YALSA website: Mary K. Chelton 2010--Invited to give Ted Samore lecture at School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in May. Mary K. Chelton 2010—External Appraiser, Ph. D. Thesis The Psychosocial Portrait of Immigration through the Medium of Reading: Leisure Reading and Its Role in the Lives of Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Toronto by Keren Dali. Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, May. Mary K. Chelton 2010—Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Advances in Library and Information Science Research (ALISR) book series, IGI Global. Mary K. Chelton 2010—2011—Member, YALSA Past Presidents’ Lecture Planning Committee. Mary K. Chelton 2010—Referee, New York Library Association, Journal of the Library and Administration Section. Cooper, Linda Z. “Overarching Issues in Children’s and Youth Information Behavior Research: Moving the Research Agenda Beyond Systems Design.” Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science: ASIST 2007 Annual Meeting. Cooper, Linda Z., Davis, Jacqueline, Perry, Claudia A. (Principal Investigator), and Surprenant, Thomas T. Making Connections: An ePortfolio Mini-Grant & Seminar Program, Year I. Funded by LaGuardia Community College and The Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE), an agency of the US Department of Education for $8,000, from January – December 2008. Cooper, Linda Z., Davis, Jacqueline, Perry, Claudia A. (Principal Investigator), and Surprenant, Thomas T. Making Connections: An ePortfolio Mini-Grant & Seminar Program, Year II. Funded by LaGuardia Community College and The Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE), an agency of the US Department of Education for $4,000, from January – December 2009. Cooper, Linda Z, and Perry, Claudia A. (Eds.) (2011). Queens College, City University of New York, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Program Presentation, Submitted to the American Library Association Committee on Accreditation and the External Review Panel. Flushing, NY: Queens College, CUNY. Cooper, Linda Z, and Perry, Claudia A. (Eds.) (2011). Queens College, City University of New York, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Program Presentation, Submitted to the American Library Association Committee on Accreditation and the External Review Panel. Flushing, NY: Queens College, CUNY Cooper LZ, 2011. Invited referee - Library and Information Science Research Cooper LZ, 2011. Co-author GSLIS Internship Handbook with Walter Valero and Thomas Surprenant Li, Ping, and Lin Wu. 2009. Exploring the Real World: Medical Librarians' Involvement in Supporting Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Practice. Proceedings of CAIS/ACSI 2009: Mapping the 21st Century Information Landscape: Borders, Bridges and Byways. Ng, Kwong Bor. Using XML. New York: Neal-Shuman, 2007. Ng, Kwong Bor. “XML for Metadata Encoding.” Metropolitan New York Library Council, April 16 and April 17, 2008. (workshop). Ng, Kwong Bor. “Using Actionscript for Interface Design.” Metropolitan New York Library Council, July 30 and August 1, 2008. (workshop) Ng, Kwong Bor. “Design and Construction of Digital Library Using PHP and MySQL.” Metropolitan New York Library Council, November 6 and November 7, 2008. (workshop) Making Transfer Connections. A grant awarded to LaGuardia Community College with participation across five CUNY campuses, funded by U.S. Department of Education Title V (Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions program) for five-years (beginning Fall 2010), and totalling $3.7 million. Participating institutions include Queens College, Lehman College, Queensborough, Bronx and LaGuardia Community College. Claudia Perry served as a Key Contributor to the grant proposal phase on behalf of Queens, and will be serving as a Senior Project Advisor during the implementation phase. Funds awarded to Queens College: $500,000 over five years. Fernandez, Eva (Principal Investigator), Perry, Claudia, and Fraboni, Michelle. Mentoring faculty who teach online. Funded by the 2010-2011 CUNY Central Office of Academic Affairs Hybrid Initiative for $30,000 from February 2010 through December 2011.