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Following are some highlights of faculty activity and publications from the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University.

 

 

Goodyear Professor in Knowledge Management Denise Bedford has been named North American Regional Editor of the International Journal of Information Management, a peer-reviewed journal for managers responsible for designing and managing complex information systems.

 

A paper by Goodyear Professor in Knowledge Management Denise Bedford was selected for presentation at the 2011 SAS Global Forum in Las Vegas in April. It will be presented as part of the Data Mining and Text Analytics section, which combines statistical, economic and forecasting techniques and leverages a multitude of SAS tools to solve problems in today's economic environment.

 

Professor Michael O. Bice presented “Perspectives on Managing Change in Health Care” at the October 2010 meeting of the Ohio Health Information Management Association (OHIMA).

Professor Carolyn S. Brodie and Assistant Professor Meghan Harper have published chapters in a new book, Multicultural Literature and Response: Affirming Diverse Voices, edited by Lynn Atkinson Smolen and Ruth A. Oswald (Libraries Unlimited, 2011). Brodie’s chapter is titled “Stories from the Mountains: Appalachian Literature for Children and Adolescents”; Harper’s chapter is on “Linking Audiovisuals with Multicultural Literature.”

 

An article by SLIS Assistant Professor Frank Lambert, "Do Provenance-based Classification Schemes Have a Role Still in Libraries and Information Centres? The Case of Government Classification Schemes," has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.

 

SLIS Assistant Professor Frank Lambert presented a refereed paper at the Community Informatics Research Network-Direct Implications of Advanced Computing (CIRN-DIAC) conference in Prato, Italy (near Florence), in October 2010. His paper is titled “Web Searching to Meet Everyday Information Needs: A Comparative Longitudinal Study of Queries Submitted to an Online Community Information System.” The conference was sponsored by The Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Australia, in conjunction with the Community Informatics Research Network, and featured presenters from around the globe. This was the second time Lambert had been invited to present at this conference. In addition to participating as a presenter and author, Lambert also served as a session chair. 

 

SLIS Assistant Professor Dan Roland presented “Responding to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Sunday Sermon: A Study in How Clergy Members Apply Scripture in Addressing an Environmental Disaster” at the 2010 International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture: Living on the Edge, Dec. 17, 2010, in Perth, Australia.

SLIS Assistant Professor Dan Roland presented “To Whom Shall We Go? Hard Decisions, Denominational Affiliation, and Social Identification” at the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion International Interdisciplinary Conference: Meaning, Identity and Culture: East and West, Dec. 28, 2010, in Kolkata, India.

 

Adjunct IAKM (Information Architecture and Knowledge Management) instructor Kanti Srikantaiah is co-editor of Convergence of Project Management and Knowledge Management (with Michael Koenig and Suleiman Hamawdeh; Scarecrow Press, Plymouth, UK, 2010). The book features a chapter by Srikantaiah, et al., “Convergence of Project Management and Knowledge Management: An Overview,” as well as a chapter by Dr. Denise Bedford, Goodyear Professor in Knowledge Management, “Constructing Business Oriented Knowledge Organization Systems.

 

 

 

 

 

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Kent State University

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