Athena Salaba, Ph.D. Professor School of Information Kent State University Email: [email protected] 314 Library, PO Box 5190 Phone: (330) 672-0023 Kent, Ohio 44242-0001 athenasalaba.org

EDUCATION Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies (2005) School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Master of Library Science (1996) School of Library and Information Science Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

Bachelor of Arts (Cultural Anthropology) (1995) Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Degree in Librarianship (1986) School of Library Science Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece

AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS University of Washington, Information School, Visiting Scholar, Autumn 2017. 22nd Annual Celebrating College Teaching Conference, Outstanding Poster Award, 2015 (Maureen Blankemeyer, Athena Salaba, Jakyung Seo), Kent State University Teaching Council, October 2015 Intercultural Faculty Scholars, Kent State University, 2014-2015 CCI Dean's Administrative Fellowship, College of Communication and Information, Kent State University, Fall 2014 Bohdan S. Wynar/ALISE Research Paper Competition Award, 2009 (Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, winners), Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 2009 Teaching Scholars Learning Community, Kent State University, 2006-2007 Beta Phi Mu, International Library and Information Studies Honor Society, since 2004 Vilas Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002 Superior Scholarship, Kent State University, 1996 Golden Key Honorary Society, since 1996 University Scholarship, Kent State University, 1993-94

ACADEMIC POSITIONS Kent State University. School of Information (previously School of Library and Information Science), Kent, OH Professor, August 2019-present Associate Professor, August 2011-July 2019 Associate Director, June 2013-December 2015 Assistant Director, January-December 2012

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 1 Assistant Professor, January 2004-August 2011

UW-Madison. School of Library and Information Studies, Madison, WI Lecturer, Summer 2002 Teaching Assistant, Spring 2000 Guest lecturer, Fall 1998 - Fall 2003

UW-Madison. School of Library and Information Studies, Continuing Education, Madison, WI ETN Instructor (Distance Education), Fall 1999

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Central Library, Thessaloniki, Greece Visiting Instructor (Invited), May-June 1998

Technological and Educational Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece Library Science Instructor, September 1990 - June 1992

RESEARCH

Books Chan, L.M., & Athena Salaba. (2016). Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction. 4th ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Žumer, Maja, Maria Lei Zeng, & Athena Salaba. (2012). FRSAD: Conceptual Modeling of Aboutness. Third Millennium Cataloging Series, Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.

IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR). (2011). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data, A Conceptual Model (FRSAD). Zeng, M., Žumer, M. and Salaba, A., Eds. Berlin/München: De Gruyter Saur.

Zhang, Yin, & Athena Salaba. (2009). Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions. New York: Neal-Schuman.

Book chapters Salaba, Athena, & Yin Zhang. (2012). Searching for Music: End-User Perspectives on System Features. In Indexing and Retrieval of Non-Text Information. Edited by Diane Rasmussen Neal. Munich: De Gruyter Saur. (Peer reviewed)

Zhang, Yin & Athena Salaba. (2012). A User Study of Moving Images Retrieval Systems and Implications on System Design for Library Catalogues. In Indexing and Retrieval of Non-Text Information. Edited by Diane Rasmussen Neal. Munich: De Gruyter Saur. (Peer reviewed)

Salaba, Athena. (2005). Συστήματα Οργάνωσης Γνώσης : Σύγχρονα Ζητήματα και Τάσεις. IN Από την Βιβλιοθηκονομία στην Επιστήμη της Πληροφόρησης, Μελέτες προς τιμήν του Γ.Μ. Κακούρη. Επιμέλεια Χρ. Παπατσικουράκης, Α. Σίτας. Αθήνα: Τυπωθήτω. (English translation: “Knowledge Organization Systems – KOS: Current Issues and Trends” IN From Librarianship to Information Science: Studies in Honor of G.M. Kakouris). (Invited)

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 2 Salaba, Athena. (1993). A Greek Librarian in America: Personal Reflections on an Eight-month Practicum at Kent State University Libraries. In Academic Libraries in Greece: The Present Situation and Future Prospects. Dean H. Keller, editor. New York: The Haworth Press. 205-213. (Invited)

Dissertation Salaba, Athena. (2005). Term selection process in subject searching: End-user interactions with information retrieval systems and indexing languages. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Reviewed and Refereed Articles in Journals and Encyclopedias Salaba, Athena, Tanja Merčun, and Trond Aalberg. (2018). Complexity of Work Families and Entity- based Visualization. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, vol. 56 no. 8 (2018). DOI 10.1080/01639374.2018.1529008

Salaba, Athena, and Tanja Merčun. (2018). Visualizations of Bibliographic Information: A User Experience Study. Journal of Librarianship & Information Science. DOI: 10.1177/0961000618804014

Zeng, Marcia Lei, Maja Žumer, and Athena Salaba. (2017). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) -- A Conceptual Model. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. 4th edition. Taylor & Francis. (12 pages) DOI: 10.1081/E-ELIS4-120049494

Zeng, Marcia Lei, Maja Žumer, and Athena Salaba. (2014). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) -- A Conceptual Model. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. 3rd edition. Taylor & Francis. (16 pages) DOI: 10.1081/E-ELIS3-120049494

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2012). What Do Users Tell Us About FRBR Catalogs? Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, vol. 50(5-7): 705-723. [Also published as electronic version on July 18, 2012]

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2009). What is Next for FRBR? A Delphi Study. The Library Quarterly, vol. 79(2): 233-255. [Received the prestigious 2009 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Award].

Salaba, Athena. (2009). End-User Understanding of Indexing Language Information. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, vol. 47(1): 23-51.

Zhang, Yin, Jason Holmes, David Robins, and Athena Salaba. (2009). Understanding Internet Searching Performance in a Heterogeneous Portal for K-12 Students: Search Success, Search Time, Strategy, and Effort. Journal of Web Librarianship, vol. 3(1): 15-33.

Holmes, Jason, David Robins, Yin Zhang, and Athena Salaba. (2008). An Exploratory Study of School- age Children’s Use of a Heterogeneous Resource Site. The Journal of Web Librarianship, vol. 2, Issue 2/3: 263-285. -- Special double issue on Library web sites and usability studies.

Raptis, Paschalis, and Athena Salaba. (1994). Bilingual Authority Files at the Central Library of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. International Information and Library Review, 26: 67-76.

Articles/Papers in Peer Reviewed and Refereed Proceedings Salaba, Athena. (2020; accepted & forthcoming). “Knowledge Organization Requirements in LIS Graduate Programs.” In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International ISKO Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 6-8 July 2020. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 3

Salaba, Athena and Maja Žumer. (2020; accepted & forthcoming). Reshaping the Identity of Bibliographic Information in the Digital Age. Libraries and Information Institutions in the Digital Age (LIDA), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 19-22 May 2020.

Salaba, Athena and Joseph T. Tennis. (2018). “Solid Foundations and Some Secondary Assumptions in the Design of Bibliographic Metadata: Toward a Typology of Complementary Uses of Metadata.” In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, Porto, Portugal, 9-11 July 2018. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

Hajibayova, Lala and Athena Salaba. (2018). “Critical questions for big data approach in knowledge representation and organization.” In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, Porto, Portugal, 9-11 July 2018. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

Salaba, Athena and Tanja Merčun. (2017). User Interactions with Bibliographic Information Visualizations. In J. Kamps et al. (Eds.). Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 18-21, 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 10450, pp. 1–6, 2017. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. Chapter DOI: 0.1007/978-3-319-67008-9_49

Merčun, Tanja, Athena Salaba, and Maja Žumer. (2016). User Testing of Prototype Systems in Two Different Environments: Preliminary Results. In A. Morishima et al. (Eds.). Digital Libraries: Knowledge, Information, and Data in an Open Access Society, 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, December 7-9, 2016 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10075, pp. 104-109, 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. Chapter DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-49304-6_14

Salaba, Athena, and Marcia Zeng. (2014). Extending the “Explore” User Task Beyond Subject Authority Data into the Linked Data Sphere. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International ISKO Conference, Krakow, Poland, May 19-22, 2014. Advances in knowledge organization, no. 14. Würzburg: Ergon.

Žumer, Maja, Athena Salaba, and Yin Zhang. (2012). User Verification of the FRBR Conceptual Model and Testing of FRBR Prototypes. In ICADL, The 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, November 12-15, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan. Cham: Springer.

Žumer, Maja, Marcia Lei Zeng, and Athena Salaba. (2010). FRBR: A Generalized Approach to Dublin Core Application Profiles. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 20-22 October.

Salaba, Athena. (2010). Use and Users of Subject Authority Data. In Paradigms and Conceptual Systems in KO: Proceedings of the Eleventh International ISKO Conference, February 23-26, 2010, Rome, Italy. Advances in knowledge organization, no. 12. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

Zeng, M., M. Panzer, A. Salaba. (2010). Expressing Classification Schemes with OWL2 Web Ontology Language. In Paradigms and Conceptual Systems in KO: Proceedings of the Eleventh International ISKO Conference, February 23-26, 2010, Rome, Italy. Advances in knowledge organization, no. 12. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

Žumer, Maja, Athena Salaba, and Marcia Zeng. (2007). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR): A Conceptual Model of Aboutness. Asian Digital Libraries: Looking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 4 (ICADL 2007), 10-13 December 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam. Cham: Springer. Publication appears in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Salaba, Athena, Marcia L. Zeng, and Maja Žumer. (2006). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records. In Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society: Proceedings of the Ninth International ISKO Conference, 4-7 July 2006, Vienna, Austria. Advances in knowledge organization, no. 10. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

Articles in Non-refereed Journals Salaba, Athena, and Yin Zhang. (2007). Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR): From a conceptual model to application and system development. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, August/September. Available at http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-07/Bulletin_AugSep07.pdf

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2007). Critical Issues and Challenges Facing FRBR Research and Practice. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, August/September. Available at http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-07/Bulletin_AugSep07.pdf

Research Reports Zhang, Y., and Salaba, A. (2010). National Leadership Grants NLG Library-Research and Demonstration - Final Report on “Research and Development of FRBR-Based Systems to Effectively Support User Tasks and Facilitate Information Seeking.” December 29, 2010.

Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data – a report of the IFLA Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records Working Group. Editors: Marcia Lei Zeng, Maja Žumer, Athena Salaba. (Served as the Working Group co-chair and secretary, 2005 – 2010). Approved: June 2010.

Zhang, Y., Salaba, A., and Ceci, V. (2008). Akron-Summit County Public Library OPAC user study report. A report submitted to the Akron-Summit County Public Library, 2008.

Zhang, Y., Salaba, A., and Ceci, V. (2008). Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library OPAC user study report. A report submitted to the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library, 2008.

Zhang, Y., and Salaba, A. (2007). Identifying major issues and challenges of FRBR research and practice: A Delphi study report. November, 2007.

Holmes, J., Robins, D., Zhang, Y., Salaba, A., and Byerly, G. (2006). Report on the usability and effectiveness of SirsiDynix SchoolRooms for K-12 students. A project report submitted to SirsiDynix, May 2006.

Soete, George, and Athena Salaba. (1999) Measuring Journal Cost-Effectiveness: Ten Years After Barschall. Available at http://www.library.wisc.edu/projects/glsdo/cost.html

Technical Reports and Monographs Eppelheimer, L., C.M. Metcalfe, and A. Salaba (1997). MARC: Making it Manageable. Caledonia, Minn: Winnebago Software Co.

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 5 Selness, S., L. Eppelheimer, L. Horihan, and A. Salaba. (1997). MARC Coding & Tagging: Quick Reference Guide. Caledonia, Minn: Winnebago Software Co.

Translation Furrie, Betty. (1992). Για να κατανοήσουμε το MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging). Μετάφραση από τα αγγλικά, Αθηνά Σαλαμπά. Θεσσαλονίκη. [Translation of Furrie, Betty. Understanding MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging). 2nd ed. McHenry, IL: Follett Software Co., 1989.]

Presentations, Refereed/Peer Reviewed [Note: some conference presentations are based on papers published in the conference proceedings and therefore may be listed in both sections]

Salaba Athena. (2019). “Knowledge Organization Education: A Balancing Act Between Foundational Knowledge and Curriculum.” 2019 ALISE Annual Conference, Knoxville, TN, September 24-26, 2019.

Salaba, Athena (presenter) and Joseph T. Tennis. (2018). “Solid Foundations and Some Secondary Assumptions in the Design of Bibliographic Metadata: Toward a Typology of Complementary Uses of Metadata.” Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, Porto, Portugal, July 9-11, 2018.

Hajibayova, Lala and Athena Salaba (presenter). (2018). “Critical questions for big data approach in knowledge representation and organization.” Fifteenth International ISKO Conference, Porto, Portugal, July 9-11, 2018.

Salaba, Athena (presenter, paper presentation) and Tanja Merčun. (2017). User Interactions with Bibliographic Information Visualizations. 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2017), Thessaloniki, Greece, 18-21 September 2017.

Salaba, Athena (presenter, poster) and Tanja Merčun. (2017). User Interactions with Bibliographic Information Visualizations. 21st International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2017), Thessaloniki, Greece, 18-21 September 2017.

Merčun, Tanja, Athena Salaba (presenter, paper presentation), and Maja Žumer. (2016). User Testing of Prototype Systems in Two Different Environments: Preliminary Results. 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, December 7-9, 2016.

Merčun, Tanja, Athena Salaba (presenter, poster), and Maja Žumer. (2016). User Testing of Prototype Systems in Two Different Environments: Preliminary Results. 18th International Conference on Asia- Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, December 7-9, 2016.

Blankemeyer, Maureen, Athena Salaba, and Jakyung Seo. (2015). A Faculty Resource to Promote Intercultural Proficiency in the Classroom. 22nd Annual Conference Celebrating Teaching, Kent State University, Oct. 22-23, 2015. [Winner of the “Outstanding Poster Award.”]

Matteson, Miriam, Athena Salaba, Mary Anne Nichols, and Yin Zhang. (2014). Perceptions of Course Delivery Format: A Challenge for Excellence. Educational Entrepreneurship. 2014 ALISE Annual Conference, January 21-24, 2014, Philadelphia, PA.

Salaba, Athena, and Marcia Zeng. (2014). Extending the “Explore” User Task Beyond Subject Authority Data into the Linked Data Sphere. Thirteenth International ISKO Conference, Krakow, Poland, Mary 19- 22, 2014.

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 6 Salaba, Athena, Yin Zhang, and Marcia Zeng. (2013). Are Ph.D. Graduates Prepared to Meet the Challenges of Information Organization in the Sematic Web Era? Poster presentation. ALISE’13 Always the Beautiful Question: Inquiry Supporting Teaching, Research, & Professional Practice. 2013 ALISE Annual Conference, January 22-25, 2013, Seattle, Washington.

Žumer, Maja, Athena Salaba, and Yin Zhang. (2012). User Verification of the FRBR Conceptual Model and Testing of FRBR Prototypes. ICADL, The 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, November 12-15, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2012). Current Research on and Use of FRBR in Libraries. ALA 2012 Annual Conference, ALA ALCTS, June 21-26, 2012, Anaheim, California.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2011). User Participatory Design and Implementation of a FRBR-Based Catalog Prototype. Panel presentation. American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST 2011), October 9-12, 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2011). FRBRizing Existing MARC Records at Expression and Manifestation Levels. 2011 ALA Midwinter Conference, ALA ALCTS FRBR Interest Group, January 7, 2011, San Diego, CA.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba (2010). FRBR User Research and a User Study on Evaluating FRBR Based Catalogs. American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST 2010), October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Žumer, Maja, Marcia Lei Zeng, and Athena Salaba. (2010). FRBR: A Generalized Approach to Dublin Core Application Profiles. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2010, October 22-27, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2010). FRBRizing MARC Records Based on FRBR User Tasks. ALA 2010 Annual Conference, ALA ALCTS FRBR Interest Group, June 25, 2010, Washington, DC.

Salaba, Athena. (2010). Use of Subject Authority Data. Eleventh International ISKO Conference, February 23-26, 2010, Rome, Italy.

Zeng, M., M. Panzer, and A. Salaba. (2010). Expressing Classification Schemes with OWL2 Web Ontology Language. Eleventh International ISKO Conference, February 23-26, 2010, Rome, Italy.

Salaba, Athena, and Yin Zhang. (2009). User Perspectives on NextGen Catalog Features (Poster presentation). 2009 American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST 2009), November 6-11, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Zhang, Y. and Athena Salaba. (2009). User Interface for FRBR User Tasks in Online Catalogs (Poster presentation). 2009 American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST 2009), November 6-11, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Salaba, Athena, and Yin Zhang. (2009). Identifying Works Using Legacy Data: FRBRization Approaches, Issues, and Challenges (Poster presentation). 2009 Annual ALA Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 9-17.

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 7 Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2009). Developing a FRBR-Based System to Effectively Support User Tasks. 2009 ALA Midwinter Conference, ALA ALCTS FRBR Interest Group, January 23-28, Denver, Colorado.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2009). FRBRizing Legacy Data: Issues and Challenges. 2009 ALA Midwinter Conference, ALA ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group, January 23-28, Denver, Colorado.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2009). What is next for FRBR? A Delphi Study. 2009 ALISE Annual Conference, January 20-23, Denver, CO. – Best Research Paper Award Presentation.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2008). Critical Issues and Challenges of FRBR Research and Practice: A Delphi Study (Poster presentation). World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council, Quebec, Canada, August 10-14, 2008.

Salaba, Athena (panelist), Maja Žumer, and Marcia Zeng. (2008). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR): A Conceptual Model of Aboutness. Panel: Conceptual Models of Aboutness. 10th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), Montreal, Canada, August 5-8, 2008.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba (presenter). (2008). User Study for Searching for Moving Images (Poster presentation). 10th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), Montreal, Canada, August 5-8, 2008.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2008). User Research and Testing of FRBR-Based Online Library Catalogs. Library Research Round Table Research Forums (Research to Understand Users: Issues and Approaches) at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 26–July 2, 2008.

Žumer, Maja (presenter), Athena Salaba, and Marcia Zeng. (2007). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR): A Conceptual Model of Aboutness. 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2007), 10-13 December 2007, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Salaba, Athena, Michele Ewing, Butler, Beth, David Smeltzer, Vickie Ellison, Moussa Kalifa Traore, Anita Varrati, E. Sue Wamsley, and Christopher A. Was. (2007). Student Engagement: Exploring diverse perspectives within and beyond the classroom. 14th Annual Conference Celebrating College Teaching, Kent State University, November 1-2, Kent, Ohio.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2007). User Research and Testing of FRBR Prototypes and Systems (Poster presentation). 70th American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST’07), October 18-25, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Zhang, Yin, Jason Holmes, David Robins, and Athena Salaba. (2007). A Heterogeneous Online Education Portal for K-12 Students: Perspectives of Developer, Service Provider, Researcher, and User. ED-MEDIA 2007, Vancouver, Canada, June 25-29, 2007.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2007). Current FRBR Model Implementation Efforts and Issues in Library Catalogs (Poster presentation). 2007 ALA Annual Conference, June 23-26, Washington, D.C.

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 8 Salaba, Athena, Michele Ewing, David Smeltzer, E. Sue Wamsley, and Christopher A. Was. (2007). Engaging Students with Technology: A Speed Date with Student Engagement II Creating Environments and Collaborations to Enhance Student Success and Retention, KASADA 5th Annual Conference, May 14, North Canton, Ohio.

Butler, Beth, Michele Ewing, David Smeltzer, Chere Doiron, Vickie Ellison, Athena Salaba, Moussa Kalifa Traore, Anita Varrati, E. Sue Wamsley, and Christopher A. Was. (2007). The Seven-Minute Date with Student Engagement. Blueprints for Student Learning: 19th Annual Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching – West, Pomona California, March 16-17, 2007.

Salaba, Athena (presenter), Marcia Lei Zeng, and Maja Žumer. (2006). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records. Ninth International ISKO Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 4-7, 2006.

Salaba, Athena. (2006). Perspectives on a Global Sharing of Knowledge Organization Systems: Content of Subject Authority Records. Panel presentation. Ninth International ISKO Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 4-7, 2006.

Salaba, Athena. (2006). Amazoogle: User Searching Behavior and Expectations for Library Catalogs. 2006 Ohio Library Council Technical Services Retreat, Mohican State Park, April 25-26, 2006.

Salaba, Athena. (2002). K-12 at UW-Madison: Malting Excellence Accessible. Annual National Science Foundation GK-12 Meeting, Washington, DC, October 30-November 1, 2002.

Callahan, Eileen, and Athena Salaba. (2002). K-12 Web Portal: Access to K-12 Related Resources Available at UW-Madison. 44th Annual Convention of the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers. Madison, Wisconsin, April 11-13, 2002.

Presentations, Invited Kempf, Andreas Oskar, and Athena Salaba. (2019). Multicultural Issues and Awareness in Subject Representation and Access. World Library and Information Congress: 85th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 24-30 August 2019, Athens, Greece.

Salaba, Athena. (2018). Intercultural Competence in Knowledge Representation. 2018 ALA Annual Conference, CaMMS Forum, New Orleans, LA, June 21–26, 2018. (Keynote to the CaMMS Forum, a featured event)

Salaba, Athena. (2012). Modeling Subject Authority Data: FRSAD Overview and Implementation Examples. American Association of Law Libraries (AALL 2012) 10th Annual Meeting and Conference, July 21-24, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts.

Salaba, Athena. (2012). The Road to the Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a FRBR-Based Catalog Prototype. Presentation at the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 16 May, 2012.

Salaba, Athena, and Yin Zhang. (2011). Developing an FRBR-Based System to Support User Tasks. Northern Ohio-American Society for Information Science and Technology (NOR-ASIST) Meeting, April 4.

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 9 Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2010). Research and Development of FRBR-Based Systems to Support User Information Seeking. Presented to Central Ohio Chapter of ASIST (CO-ASIST), Columbus, OH, November 9, 2010.

Salaba, Athena. (2010). FRBR Family. Getting Ready For RDA: Preparing for The Transition. Joint Meeting of Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians Association (NOTSL), and the Academic Library Association of Ohio’s Technical, Electronic, & Digital Services Interest Group (ALAO-TEDSIG), Wooster, Ohio, May 14.

Salaba, Athena. (2009). FRSAD: Functional Requirements for Subject Data. SACO-at-Large Meeting, 2009 Annual ALA Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 9-17.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2009). What is next for FRBR? A Delphi Study. 2009 ALISE Annual Conference, January 20-23, Denver, CO. – Best Research Paper Award Presentation.

Athena Salaba. (2008). Functional Requirement for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) - (Invited report). 2008 ALA Annual Conference, Subject Analysis Committee Meeting, Anaheim, CA, June 26–July 2, 2008.

Salaba, Athena (presenter), Maja Žumer, Marcia Zeng, and Lois Mai Chan. (2008). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR): A Conceptual Model of Aboutness. 2008 ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 26–July 2, 2008.

Zhang, Yin, and Athena Salaba. (2008). User Research and Testing of FRBR-Based Online Library Catalogs. Report to IMLS Grant advisors from OCLC and Library of Congress, Dublin, Ohio, January 17, 2008.

Žumer, Maja, Athena Salaba, and Marcia Zeng. (2007). FRSAR Update. World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council, Durban, South Africa, 19-23 August 2007.

Zeng, Marcia Lei, Athena Salaba, and Maja Žumer. (2007). Functional Requirement for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) - (Invited presentation). 2007 ALA Annual Conference, Subject Analysis Committee Meeting, June 25, Washington, D.C.

Zeng, Marcia Lei, Athena Salaba, and Maja Žumer. (2006). Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records - Updates. World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council, 20-24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea.

Zeng, Marcia Lei, and Athena Salaba (keynotes speakers). (2005). Toward an International Sharing and Use of Subject Authority Data. FRBR in 21st Century Catalogues: An Invitational Workshop, OCLC. Dublin, Ohio, May 2-4, 2005.

Panels, Peer Reviewed Zhang, Yin, Maja Žumer, and Athena Salaba (organizers). (2011). Developing FRBR-Based Library Catalogs for Users. Panel. American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST 2011), October 9-12, 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 10 Zhang, Yin, Athena Salaba, and Marcia Zeng (organizers). (2010). FRBR Implementation and User Research. Panel. American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST 2010), October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Grants & Research Proposals IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) Extensions. With Dr Maja Žumer. Bilateral research travel grant, July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2020. This project is tied with a 3-year National Science Foundation project (7500 EUR per year, with possible extensions) of Maja Žumer and her team in Slovenia. Amount: 7.500 Euro annually (total $27,000) -- Funded

Intercultural Awareness of Knowledge Organization Professionals: Where in the Cultural Competence Continuum Do Knowledge Organization Professionals Fall? Proposal submitted to the Kent State University, College of Communication and Information (CCI) Research and Creative Activity Fund (RACAF). P.I. 2017. Amount: $3,500 -- Funded

Visualization of FRBR-Based Worksets. Proposal submitted to the Kent State University, School of Library and Information Science, Center for the Study of Librarianship, Faculty Research Mini Grant. P.I. 2016. Amount: $4,200 -- Funded

A General framework for knowledge organization systems: from a conceptual model to implementation data models. With Drs Marcia Zeng and Maja Žumer. Bilateral research travel grant, July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2017. This project is tied with a 3-year National Science Foundation project (7500 EUR per year, with possible extensions) of Maja Žumer and her team in Slovenia. Amount: 7.500 Euro annually (total $27,000) -- Funded

Ph.D. in Information Organization in the Semantic Web Era: A New Generation of Educators, Researchers, and Professional Leaders in Information Organization. Proposal submitted to the IMLS 2013 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. Co-P.I. 2012 (with Dr. Marcia Zeng and Dr. Yin Zhang). Amount: $499,444.12 requested, $224,765.10 match, $724,209.26 total -- Not funded

FRBRizing Library Legacy Data in a Linked Data Environment. Proposal submitted to the IMLS National Leadership Grant, Research and Demonstration program. Co-P.I. 2010 (with Dr. Yin Zhang). Amount requested: $ 895,642.67 -- Not funded

Conceptual models of aboutness and the Implmentation of FRSAD model. With Drs Marcia Zeng and Maja Žumer. Bilateral research travel grant no. BI-US/09-12-025. Extention for 2012-2016. This project is tied with a 3-year National Science Foundation project (no. P5-0361 2009-2011, 7500 EUR per year, with possible extensions) of Maja Žumer and her team in Slovenia. Amount: 7.500 Euro annually (total $27,000) -- Funded

Conceptual models of aboutness and the Implmentation of FRSAD model. With Drs Marcia Zeng and Maja Žumer. Bilateral research travel grant no. BI-US/09-12-025, July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2012. This project is tied with a 3-year National Science Foundation project (no. P5-0361 2009-2011, 7500 EUR per year, with possible extensions) of Maja Žumer and her team in Slovenia. Amount: 7.500 Euro annually (total $27,000) -- Funded

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 11 Encouraging Digital Advocacy and Professional Training (EDAPT): Educating Information Professionals to Build and Preserve Digital Collections. Proposal submitted to IMLS. Co-P.I. 2010-2013 (with Dr. Karen Gracy, P.I. and Dr, Marcia Zeng, Co-P.I.) Amount requested: $610,108 -- Not funded

Research and Development of FRBR-Based Systems to Effectively Support User Tasks and Facilitate Information Seeking. IMLS National Leadership Grant, Research and Demonstration program. Co-P.I. 2006-2009 (with Dr. Yin Zhang). Amount: $266,789 award, $295,507 matching, $562,296 total -- Funded

Subject Authority Records: A study of Content and Encoding Formats. Proposal submitted to the OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Program. P.I. 2006. Amount requested: $11,862 -- Not funded

Uses of Subject Authority Data and its Impact on the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records. Proposal submitted to Kent State University Summer Research and Creative Activity Appointments. Co-P.I. 2006. (with Dr. Marcia Zeng). Amount requested: $6,500 -- Not funded

REVIEWER, PROGRAM & EDITORIAL BOARDS Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference. Reviewer Classification and Cataloging Quarterly. Reviewer Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) International Conference Conference. Reviewer International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL). Reviewer Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science. Editorial Board Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR). Program co-Chair (2018) Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR). Reviewer; Program Committee Neal-Schuman. Book reviewer (pre-publication) North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO). Reviewer Rowman and Littlefield. Book reviewer WLIC 2016. IFLA Classification and Indexing, Satellite Meeting. Program Committee and Host Organizer (2016) WLIC 2018. IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Standing Committee (IFLA SAA), Section Open Session. Program Chair (2018) WLIC2019. IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Satellite Meeting. Program Committee (2019)

TEACHING Courses Developed and Taught LIS 60002 Organization of Information LIS 60002 Organization of Information – online core course LIS 60020 Information Organization – 2-credit hour online core course (co-developer: Dr. Hajibayova) LIS 60020 Information Organization – 3-credit hour online core course (co-developer: Dr. Hajibayova) LIS 60602 Cataloging and Classification I LIS 60602 Cataloging and Classification I – online course LIS 60603 Cataloging and Classification II

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 12 LIS 60637 Metadata Architecture and Implementation (co-taught with Dr. Zeng) LIS 60638 Digital Libraries - developed and taught online LIS 60661 Technical Services

Workshop Developed and Taught RDA (Resource Description and Access): The New Cataloging Standard

Doctoral Committee (Kent State University, CCI) Clunis, Julaine. PhD in Communication and Information, Kent State University

Thesis (Kent State University, iSchool) Mixter, Jeff. “Linked Data in VRA Core 4.0: Converting VRA XML Records into RDF/XML.” May 2013 completion (Thesis committee member)

International Doctoral Student Research Supervisor • Malec, Luana. “Helping Readers Find Fiction Books: An Evaluation of Five Web Information Systems for Fiction Search.” University Of Ljubljana, Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies. 2019 • Jug, Tjaša. “Metadata in the Publishing Industry: a Delphi Study.” University Of Ljubljana, Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies. 2016 • Pauman Budanović, Mihela. “The First Step Towards the Development of Intuitive Cataloguer’s Tools.” University Of Ljubljana, Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies. 2015 • Noč, Manca. “Music Cataloging and Classification.” University Of Ljubljana, Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies. 2014

COMMITTEE SERVICE School of Information/ Library and Information Science, Kent State University • Faculty Affairs Committee, 2019-2020 • Student Affairs Committee, 2017-2018 • Accreditation and Assessment Committee, Member, 2011-2017 • Curriculum Committee, 2011-2016; Chair, 2012-2016 • Student Services & Advising Working Group, 2013-2015 • Diversity Working Group, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 • Recruitment Group, 2013-2014 • Online Learning Committee, Member, 2009-2012 • Student Academic Complaints Committee, Member, 2004-2011 • SLA Student Chapter, Academic Advisor, 2005-2010 (Chapter received the National Merit Award) • Distributed Learning Committee, Member, 2004-2009

Ad-Hoc Committees • iSchool Strategic Priorities, 2018- • MLIS Core Course Development Team, Coordinator, 2015-present • LIS 60020 Core Coordinator and Co-Developer, 2015-2017 • Executive Committee, Member, 2016-2017 • MLIS Core Course Review, Coordinator, 2014-2016 • Faculty Handbooks Review Committee, Chair, 2009-2010, 2011-2012, 2013-14, 2015

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 13 • SLIS Online Instructor Training Portal (Blackboard), 2014-2015 • SLIS Online Teaching Event, Organizer, 2014 • Advising/Student Services Group, Lead, 2014 • Part-Time Instructor Handbook, 2012-2013 • Face-to-Face Task Force (MLIS program), Chair, 2012 • SLIS COA Steering Committee, Co-Chair, 2010-2011 • Director Review Committee, 2009 • Digital Library Specialization and Certificate Task Force, 2007

Search Committees • Search Committee, Director, Member 2010-2011, 2015-2016, 2019-2020 • Search Committee, Director, Co-Chair, 2011-2012 • Search Committee, Faculty, Member, 2009-2010, 2013-2014

College of Communication and Information Kent State University. College of Communication and Information • Research and Creative Activity Fund (RACAF) Committee, 2016-2017 • College Advisory Council, SLIS representative, 2011-2013 • College Curriculum Committee, 2012-2016 Ad Hoc Committees • Global Communication, 2012 • CCI Diversity and Global Awareness Task Force, 2015

Kent State University Kent State University • Senior Vice President and Provost Search Committee, 2020 • Kent State Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-KSU), iSchool Representative, 2017-present • Commencement, Convocation and Honors Day Committee, Member, 2006-present • Professional Standards Committee, 2017-2019 • Faculty Ethics Committee, 2016-present; Chair, 2018-2019, 2019-2020 • Advisory Committee on Academic Assessment, Member, 2016-2019 • Kent State Associate Director of Assessment Search Committee, 2017 • Educational Policies Council, 2014-2016 • Intercultural Train the Trainer Program, 2014-2015 • Student Media Policy Committee, Chair 2009-2010, Member 2007-2015, Alternate member 2006-2007, Alternate member 2013-2014 • Citation and Recognition Committee, Alternate member, 2006-2007

University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies. • Advanced Studies Committee. Student member, 2000-2002 • Curriculum Committee. Doctoral student member, 1999-2001

UW-Madison Libraries • Catalog Review Group. Authorities Subcommittee, 2000-2003 • Catalog Review Group, 1997-2001

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Regional Northern Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NORASIST) Chair-elect, 2006-2007; Chair, 2007-2008

National American Library Association. • Committee on Accreditation. Appointed member, 2019-2022 • Committee on Accreditation. External Review Panel. Member, 2015-2016; Chair, 2017-2019 • ALCTS. CaMMS. Subject Analysis Committee. Member, 2011-2012; Chair, 2013-2014

International Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) • Standards Committee, 2008-2016

Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) • Professional Contribution (Chair), 2019-2020; member 2018-2019 • Nominating Committee. Member, 2016-2019; Chair, 2017 • Jean Tague Sutcliff Doctoral Poster Competition Committee, Co-chair, 2013-2014, Judge

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) • Subject Analysis and Access (SAA) Standing Committee, Member, 2017-present, Chair, 2019- 2021 • WLIC 2019. Satellite on “Metadata specialists in the machine age” Program Committee, Member 2018-2019 • President’s Meeting and Global Vision Kick-off Meeting, invited participant representing IFLA Subject Analysis and Access SC, 2018 • Bibliographic Conceptual Models Review Group (BCM-RG), Member, 2018-present • Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Review Group (FRBR-RG), Member, 2014- 2018 (change to BCM-RG in 2018) • WLIC 2018. Subject Analysis and Access (SAA) Open Session, Program Chair, 2017-2018 • WLIC 2016. Classification and Indexing (C&I) Section, Satellite organizer and Program Committee Member, 2015-2016 • Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAR) Review Group, Member, 2013-2014 • Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAR) Working Group, Co-chair and Secretary, 2005-2010

International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) • Secretary and Treasurer, elected, 2018-2022

International Hellenic University. Department of Library Science and Information Systems. • Committee of Faculty Selection and Promotion. International Faculty Representative Member, 2019-present

Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki (Greece). Department of Library Science and Information Systems.

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 15 • Committee of Faculty Selection and Promotion. International Faculty Representative Member, 2014-2019

Ionian University. Faculty of Information Science & Informatics. Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology. • Committee on Faculty Tenure and Promotion. International Faculty Representative Member, 2015-present

LEADERSHIP ALISE Leadership Academy, 2019 Kent State University. Intercultural Train the Trainer Program, 2014-2015 (Inaugural program) Kent State University. College of Communication and Information. Dean’s Administrative Fellowship. Fall 2014 Kent State University. Institute for Excellence for Individual Contributors 2012 (Leadership program). January-November 2012

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Kent State University. Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR). October 2, 2015 Kent State University. Safe Space: Ally Training 101. August 25, 2015 University of North Carolina, School of Information and Library Science. DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects. Symposium, Chapel Hill, NC, April 1-3, 2009 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Education for Digital Stewardship: Librarians, Archivists or Curators? Workshop, June 16-20, 2008 Society of American Archivists. Encoded Archival Description Workshop, March 1-2, 2007 Kent State University. Faculty Professional Development. Teaching Scholars, 2006-2007 Society of Ohio Archivists. Just DACS: An Introduction & Understanding of DACS, Workshop, September 18, 2006 LITA Regional Institutes. XML and Libraries, Workshop, May 11, 2004

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Library Association (ALA) Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Special Libraries Association (SLA), 2005-2011

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Graduate School, UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (September 2001 – November 2003) Position: K-12 at UW-Madison Web Portal, Project Manager Responsibilities: Creation of an annotated K-12 web portal. Responsible for developing metadata element set, design database, evaluation and usability testing, identify and organize K-12 resources at UW-Madison for better access by teachers, students, and parents.

School of Library and Information Studies Laboratory Library, UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (July 1997 -August 2001) Position: Technical Services Coordinator (Project Assistant)

Athena Salaba – Curriculum Vitae: Page 16 Responsibilities: Original and copy cataloging of all types of materials; developing and updating library's web site including electronic reserves; supervising student employees working on technical services projects.

General Library System, UW-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (March 1998-August 1999) Position: Research assistant Responsibilities: Conducted journal cost-effectiveness research.

ERIC Clearing House on Elementary & Early Childhood Education, Champaign, Illinois (April 1997-February 1998) Position: Freelance Indexer Responsibilities: Indexing and abstracting journal articles.

Winnebago Software Company, Caledonia, Minnesota (April - June 1997) Position: MARC Consultant Responsibilities: Consulted and updated company's MARC documentation; contributed to MARC related publications.

Kent State University Libraries and Media Services, Kent, Ohio (September 1994 - December 1996) Position: Graduate Student Assistant Responsibilities: Responsibilities included providing reference assistance at the Department of Special Collections and Archives, processing manuscript collections and archival material, electronic publishing (HTML) of manuscript collections and preservation of archival material.

(January 1993 - August 1994) Position: Student Employee Responsibilities: Authority work.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Central Library, Thessaloniki, Greece (October 1986 - November 1992) Position: Cataloger Responsibilities: Original and copy cataloging of print and non-print materials; authority work; organized and supervised the system-wide retrospective conversion of the union card catalog; initiated system-wide name and subject authority control; trained library employees in MARC formats for bibliographic and authority records; trained and supervised new catalogers.

(January -September 1990) Participated in the exchange program between Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Gained experience in all KSU Library departments, especially in the departments of Technical Services and Special Collections & Archives. Attended classes and workshops at the School of Library and Information Science, KSU.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Central Library, Thessaloniki, Greece (September 1984 - September 1985) Position: Library Assistant Responsibilities: Processed and organized materials used in the Library's "Thessaloniki 2300 Years" exhibit.

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