Appendix 3-1: Full-time Faculty Bios

Naresh K. Agarwal Assistant Professor B.A.Sc. (Computer Engineering.) Honors, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Ph.D., National University of Singapore

Work Experience: Research and teaching assistantships at the National University of Singapore; 6 years of cross-functional and cross-industry (voice-over-IP, bioinformatics and digital cinema) experience in Singapore, USA (Silicon Valley; Bay Area) and India. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Member of college-wide Health Informatics Task Force; American Society for Information Science and Technology (Chair-Elect, SIG Health; Vice Chair, SIG Social Informatics; Treasurer, SIG Education; Co-advisor to Simmons ASIS&T Student Chapter); Former Chair and Advisor, Association of Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral Students Network (APRU DSN); Member of ALISE, AIS, DSI. Publications include: journal papers (JASIST; International Journal of Business Information Systems), book chapter and conference proceedings (ASIS&T, ICIS, etc.) in the areas of information seeking behavior, informatics/knowledge management/social informatics, context, HCI, identity. Teaching and Research Areas: Evaluation of information services/research methods, knowledge management, technology/informatics.

Jeannette A. Bastian Professor; Director, Archives Program, and Co-Director, Dual Degree in Archives/History B.A., New York University; M.L.S., Shippensburg University; M.Phil., University of the West Indies; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Work Experience: Formerly Director of Libraries and Archives and Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands, Library Director, Enid M. Baa Library and Archives, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Reference Librarian, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas. Experience in government archives and public library administration. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Reviews Editor, American Archivist; Chair, Society of American Archivists Working Group on Cultural Property; Commissioner, City of Boston Archives Advisory Board; Principal Investigator, National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant, “Building a Simmons Archives and Preservation Digital Curriculum Laboratory,” New England Archivists. Publications include: Community Archives, The Shaping of Memory (2009), Archival Internships: A Guide for Faculty, Supervisors, and Students (2008), Owning Memory (2003), numerous articles on archives, archives education, archives and memory in primary archival journals. Teaching and Research Areas: Archives education, archives appraisal, collective memory, postcolonialism.

Gerald Benoit Associate Professor B.A. (double major), University of California-Davis; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles; continuing education classes in mathematics Harvard University.

Work Experience: Consulting for digital objects retrieval, system design, user interaction for corporations and universities; systems analysis/programmer; former partner in design firm; publications specialist for Price Waterhouse; librarian National Center on Deafness. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: American Society for Information Science & Technology, American Medical Informatics Association, Association for Computer Machinery. Publications include: articles in JASIST, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, IPM, JAMIA. Teaching and Research Areas: XML, RDBMS, information retrieval, technology, doctoral seminar, medical informatics, web design, visual communication, programming, HCI, theory and philosophy of information.

Michèle Valerie Cloonan Dean and Professor B.A., Bennington College; M.S. and Ph.D., University of Illinois; M.A., University of Chicago

Work Experience: While Dean and Professor at GSLIS, she coordinated a Simmons College/Harvard University/UCLA Libraries initiative to train Iraqi librarians from 2004-07. Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Information Studies, UCLA. Before she began her teaching career, she designed the preservation program at Brown University. Cloonan has been PI or co-PI on grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of State, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the California State Library, as well as from several foundations. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Dean Cloonan has held a variety of offices in the American Library Association, served on the board of the American Printing History Association, and is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC). Cloonan was president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in 2008-09. She has also been on the editorial boards of Libraries & Culture, Library Quarterly, and Libri. Long interested in international preservation education, she was a member of the Preservation and Conservation Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) from 2006-09. She is the 2010 recipient of the Banks/Harris Preservation Award of the American Library Association. Publications include: over fifty articles and books. She has written widely in the areas of preservation, book trade history, and bibliography. Her most recent publications have concerned the preservation of digital media and the ethical, social, and political aspects of preservation. Teaching and Research Areas: Preservation, cultural heritage, history of the book and book trade, the book arts, management.

Ross Harvey Visiting Professor B.Mus., B.Mus (Hons), Ph.D., Victoria University of Wellington; Dip.NZLS (National Library of New Zealand)

Work Experience: Formerly National Newspaper Librarian, National Library of New Zealand; followed by academic posts in Australia (Monash University, Curtin University of Technology, Charles Sturt University) and Singapore (Nanyang Technological University). Additional experience in acquisitions, bibliographic organization, and newspaper librarianship. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: member of ALISE, Australia Society of Archivists, Library and Information Association of Aotearoa/New Zealand; leadership roles in the Australian Library and Information Association. Publications include: over 40 refereed journal articles, 9 books, over 20 book chapters, numerous conference presentations and reviews: see the full cv and list of publications at elibank.net. Awards include FLIANZA (Fellow, Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) in 2007. Teaching and Research Areas: Preservation of library and archival materials, digital curation, digital stewardship.

Peter Hernon Professor B.A., M.A., University of Colorado; M.A. (L.S.), University of Denver; Ph.D., Indiana University

Work Experience: has taught at Simmons College, the University of Arizona, and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Professional Affiliations and Leadership: He is in the second grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the doctoral program, Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions. He has received awards for his research and professional contributions, including being the 2008 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) award for Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. Publications include: more than 300 publications, 50 of which are books. Together with Robert E. Dugan and Danuta A. Nitecki, he received the 2010 Greenwood Press award for the outstanding book in library and information science: Viewing Library Metrics from Different Perspectives (ABC-CLIO, 2009). The first edition of his book, Assessing Service Quality, was the 1998 winner of the Highsmith award for outstanding contribution to the literature of library and information science in 1999. Besides his various activities in New Zealand, he has delivered keynote addresses in eight other countries: Canada, England, France, Finland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa. He is the co-editor of Library & Information Science Research, founding editor of Government Information Quarterly, and past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Academic Librarianship. For the past 6 years he has been a member of the Board of Visitors for Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh. He was appointed to this position by the university’s provost. Teaching and Research Areas: Research methods, evaluation of library services, academic librarianship, leadership, and government information policy.

Lisa K. Hussey Assistant Professor B.A., University of Miami; M.A. (IRLS), University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Missouri

Work Experience in a variety of settings. Assistant librarian and electronic resources coordinator for a private high school, librarian II for Arizona Department of Corrections, program manager for the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona, and director of library services at a small academic library. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Association of Library and Information Science Educators, American Society of Information Science and Technology, the American Library Association, American Society for Information Science and Technology, and Popular Culture Association. Publications include: articles regarding diversity in LIS, LIS and theory, and management in IT. Teaching and Research areas: Management and leadership, reference, and information services.

Mary Wilkins Jordan Assistant Professor B.A. Psychology, B.S. Political Science (Quincy University); J.D. (Case Western Reserve School of Law); M.L.I.S. (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee); Ph.D. expected (University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, 2010)

Work Experience: Public library director and administrator; attorney. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: ALISE, ALA, and PLA. Publications include: book chapters and articles. Received a LSTA research grant and a travel award from Simmons College, and a Hollowell grant from GSLIS. Teaching and Research Areas: Management, reference, and library administrative practices.

Daniel N. Joudrey Assistant Professor B.A., George Washington University; M.L.I.S., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Work Experience: Bibliographic searching and cataloging assistant in academic libraries. Metadata policy intern at the Library of Congress. Lecturer and consultant to various institutions and professional groups on cataloging issues. Research, editorial, and teaching assistantships at the University of Pittsburgh. Professional Affiliations: American Library Association (most recently chair of the Subject Analysis Committee); Association of Library and Information Science Education. Speaker at New England Library Association, New England Technical Services, Northern California Technical Processes Group, International Society of Knowledge Organization—Spain, and American Library Association conferences. Publications include: Co-author of the third edition of the popular textbook, The Organization of Information; co-author of the forthcoming eleventh edition of Introduction to Cataloging and Classification; author of articles and book chapters on cataloging, cataloging education, metadata, and information systems in information organization, subject analysis, and the nature of aboutness. Margaret Mary Corbett Award recipient (University of Pittsburgh). Teaching and Research Areas: Information organization, descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, vocabulary control, and classification.

Melanie A. Kimball Assistant Professor B.Mus., Alma College; M.Mus. University of Michigan; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign

Work Experience: Cataloger, Head of Technical Services in academic and special libraries. Research Assistant, University of Illinois Archives, Research Assistant, Center for Children’s Books, Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: American Library Association (currently Chair of the Library History Roundtable); Young Adult Library Services Association; Association of Library Services to Children; Public Library Association; Association of Library and Information Science Education; Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Publications include: articles in Library Trends, Teacher- Librarian, Public Libraries. Chapter in Genreflecting, 6th ed. Reviews in Library Quarterly, SHARPNews, History of Education Quarterly, Feminist Collections. Teaching and Research Areas: Literature for youth, youth services, information organization.

James M. Matarazzo Professor and Dean Emeritus B.S., M.A., Boston College; M.S. Simmons College; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Work Experience at the MIT Libraries in science and reference, serials and journals, technical reports, and government publications. Consultant to companies and corporation on the organization, evaluation, and creation of corporate libraries and information centers. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: A Fellow of the Special Libraries Association, he received SLA’s Professional Award in 1983 and again in 1991. He also received SLA’s President Award in 1991. Dr. Matarazzo has served on the SLA Board of Directors, was President of SLA’s Boston Chapter and has been a member of or chaired many SLA Committees. A member of ALA, he served two terms as a Counselor and was on a number ALA committees. Dr. Matarazzo is a past president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. He was inducted to the Massachusetts Library Association Hall of Fame in 2002. Dr. Matarazzo is Vice President and Secretary of the H.W.Wilson Foundation. Publications include: (most recently) articles in Searcher magazine, May 2009, June 2009, September 2009 and November/December 2009—all on corporate/special libraries. He is the co-author of a chapter in Advances in Librarianship, on the management of corporate libraries. He has received citations from the Association of Boston Law Librarians and the SLA Boston Chapter in the recent past. Teaching and Research Areas: Current research on the worth of corporate libraries, on excellent corporate libraries, and how senior executives value library and information service.

Amy Pattee Associate Professor; Co-Director, Dual Degree in Children's Literature/Library and Information Science B.S., University of North Carolina at Greensboro; M.L.S., Rutgers University; Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill

Work Experience: former children’s and YA librarian in two public libraries. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: ALA and Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) member; YALSA Research Committee member; ALISE member; Children’s Literature Association member. Publications include: peer-reviewed publications related to young adult literature in Library Journal (2), Feminist Media Studies (1), Children's Literature Association Quarterly (2), and Children's Literature in Education (1); peer-reviewed and professional publications in library and review journals; reviewer for School Library Journal and Voice of Youth Advocates. Teaching and Research Areas: Children’s literature; young adult literature; library programs and services to children.

Robin P. Peek Associate Professor B.S., University of Oregon; M.S., Ph.D., Syracuse University

Work Experience: in academic libraries, publishing, and computing services. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association of Library and Information Science Educators. International Program Adviser, Open Access Week. Editorial Board, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Publications include: Co-founder and Editor, Open Access Directory. Author of “Focus on Publishing,” a monthly column in Information Today (www.infotoday.com). Editor and contributor to Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontiers. Writer, reviewer, and editor of numerous other publications. Teaching and Research Areas: The evolution of scholarly communication on the Internet, sociological implications of computer network environments, information design, social informatics, and telecommunication and computer networks in libraries. Technology for information professionals, digital publishing, social informatics, scholarly communications.

Howard Rodriguez-Mori Assistant Professor B.A., M.L.I.S., Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico; M.S.L.I.S., Ph.D., Florida State University

Work Experience: Reference, diversity and outreach librarian in public libraries including the Orlando (FL) Public Library and the Arapahoe Library District (CO). Assistant reference librarian and supervisor in academic libraries including Florida State University Libraries and the University of Arizona Libraries. Lead instructor, lecturer, diversity faculty fellow and adjunct faculty at the LIS programs in Florida State University, Wayne State University, the University of Denver, and the University of Arizona. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: American Library Association; Public Library Association; Reference & User Services Association; Association of College and Research Libraries; Association of Library and Information Science Education. Publications include: “Ethnicity As Boundary Object: Latina Education and Participation in the IT Workforce,” and Spanish-Language Subject Headings: Their Impact on Information Access. Research and Teaching Areas: Information and reference services processes; information-seeking behaviors in interpersonal relationships and social networks; diversity in LIS practice and research; and, issues that affect and/or influence the LIS profession.

Laura Saunders Visiting Professor B.A., Boston University; M.S., Ph.D., Simmons College

Work Experience: Reference/Career Resource Librarian, Simmons College; Circulation Librarian, Medford Public Library. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Public Relations Committee, Massachusetts Library Association; Co-Vice President, Career Resources Managers Association. Her dissertation, “Information Literacy as a Student Learning Outcome,” won the Jean Tague-Sutcliffe award at the 2010 ALISE conference. Publications include: Articles in College & Research Libraries, the Journal of Academic Librarianship, Library & Information Science Research, and Library Philosophy and Practice. Her article, “Regional Accreditation Organizations’ Treatment of Information Literacy: Definitions Outcomes and Assessment,” was chosen as one of the “Twenty Best Articles of the Year” by ALA’s Library Instruction Round Table, 2007. Teaching and Research Areas: Accreditation, evaluation of information, information literacy, learning outcomes assessment, reference, user Instruction.

Carolyn S. (Candy) Schwartz Professor and Coordinator, Doctoral Programs B.A., M.L.S., McGill University; Ph.D., Syracuse University

Work Experience in technical services. Lecturer and consultant to institutions and professional groups on social media, indexing, and metadata. Academic background in linguistics. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: American Society for Information Science and Technology (President, 1998-1999), Association for Library and Information Science Education. Recipient of the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award and Watson Davis Award (both from the American Society for Information Science and Technology). Co-editor, Library & Information Science Research. Publications include: numerous articles in journals and monographic collections; co-author of Records Management and the Library; author of Sorting Out the Web; co-editor of Revisiting Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education. Teaching and Research Areas: Metadata, cataloging, classification, indexing, and digital libraries.

Rong Tang Associate Professor and Director, Simmons Usability Lab B.S., Renming University of China; M.A., Ohio State University; M.L.S., Wayne State University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Work Experience: in academic libraries, consultant experience in user needs assessment, usability testing, and library automation. Organizer and speaker of World Usability Day event at Simmons. Taught in University at Albany, State University of New York and Catholic University of America. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Past Chair of ALISE Research Grant Competition Committee. American Library Association; Association of Library and Information Science Education; American Society for Information Science and Technology. Publications include: articles in Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Documentation, Scientometrics, Library & Information Science Research, Internet Reference Service Quarterly, College & Research Libraries, and Perspectives on Psychological Science. One of her papers was the winner of 2008 Wynar/ALISE research paper competition. Received multiple research grants and awards. Recipient of 2007 APA (American Psychological Association) PsycINFO Needs Assessment Contract Award, 2007 Simmons College President’s Fund for Faculty Excellence, 2008 OCLC/ALISE Research Grant Award, and a contractual award from Harvard University Center for Biomedical Informatics in 2010. Teaching and Research Areas: Evaluation of information services, research methods; library automation systems; digital information services and providers; usability and user experience research.

Andrew Whitmore Visiting Professor B.A., Cornell University; M.S., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., SUNY-Albany

Work Experience: Instructor, SUNY-Albany; IT Auditor, Ernst & Young LLP; Economist, Consumer Price Index, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: North American Digital Government Working Group, ALISE, System Dynamics Society. Publications include: articles in IEEE Software, International Journal of Electronic Government Research, Information Technology and Control, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Information Management & Computer Security, and Political Quarterly. Teaching and Research Areas: Information policy, open source software, information security and privacy, economics of information, IT project lifecycle, public sector information systems, computer simulation, XML.

Tywanna Whorley Assistant Professor B.A., M.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Carnegie Mellon University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Work Experience: teaching and research positions at the University of Pittsburgh (Department of Library & Information Science; Link to Learn Grant); Archives Technician, Library of Congress; Research Assistant at The Center for Documentary Studies (Duke University) and The Black Belt Press. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: Society of American Archivists, ALISE, Association of Canadian Archivists, New England Archivists, and Society of American Archivists. Publications include: contributions to Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society (Cox and Wallace, 2002), and The Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (2001). Article in Journal of Negro History. Teaching and Research Areas: Archives management, intellectual freedom.

Kathy Wisser Assistant Professor BA, American History, Bates College (1989), M.A. Early American History, University of New Hampshire (1998), M.S. Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2000), Ph.D., Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2009)

Work Experience: in academic libraries and statewide consortia as well as extensive consultation experience with libraries, archives, and museums related to metadata standards and digitization. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: include the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), and regional organizations such as the Society of North Carolina Archivists and the New England Archivists. Held numerous leadership positions and was continuing education instructor for various organizations. Currently Chair of the EAC Working Group, which has developed a standard for the encoding of contextual information for record creators (Encoded Archival Context— Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF)). Publications include: in technical services journals and presented at numerous conferences relating to libraries and archives. Teaching and Research Areas: Information organization, archival description, bibliographic cataloging, subject analysis, metadata, and the history of libraries.

Mary Frances Zilonis Visiting Professor and Director, School Library Teacher Program B.S., Bridgewater State College; M.Ed., Bridgewater State College; Ed.D., Boston University

Work Experience: Formerly, Director of Information Technology, K-12 and Director of Educational Media Services, K-12 for the Newton, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Public Schools, respectively. Wrote and administered the $1.2 million Cambridge Library Power grant. Past Professor and Chair of the Secondary Education and Professional Programs Department, Coordinator of the Graduate Library Media Program and of the Graduate Instructional Technology Program at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. Lecturer and consultant to public schools and professional groups on school libraries, instructional technology, strategic planning, grant writing, and curriculum development. Professional Affiliations and Leadership: President of the New England Educational Media Association, Recording Secretary and member of the Executive Board and of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, past member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (Mass CUE). Member of the following professional organizations: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, International Society for Technology in Education, Phi Delta Kappa, ALA, American Association of School Librarians, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Massachusetts School Library Association, Massachusetts Computer Using Educators, and New England School Library Association. Publications include: A Strategic Planning Guide for School Library Media Centers and a chapter in Beyond Technology: Learning with the “Wired” Curriculum entitled, “Nauset Regional High School: Technology Redesign, Integration, and Renewal.” In 2002 awarded the Mass CUE Pathfinder Award. Teaching and Research Areas: Teaching strategies, curriculum, instructional technology, school media administration, and management principles.