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The School of Information Studies at McGill University is pleased to bring attention to recent appointments at the School. Dr. Charles-Antoine Julien joined the School of Information Studies as an Assistant Professor in January 2012. Dr. Julien holds a PhD in Information Studies from McGill University, a Research Masters of Applied Science and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the École Polytechnique of Montreal. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr. Julien's research interests are focused on how information organization affects the efficiency of humans using novel information retrieval (IR) tools. He is concerned with increasing our understanding of how information is organized in order to create, develop and test efficient human-information interaction tools that people enjoy using. Dr. Julien has designed and tested human-information interfaces, based on metadata and ontologies, to facilitate information exploration and searching, and his future work will address highly interactive and immersive information visualization tools for existing organized collections. Dr. Karyn Moffatt joined the School of Information Studies as an Assistant Professor in September 2011. She obtained her BASc in Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2001. She then completed her Master of Science in Computer Science at UBC in 2004, and continued on to her PhD in Computer Science at UBC, completing her thesis on "Addressing age-related pen-based target acquisition difficulties" in 2010. Prior to joining us at McGill, Dr. Moffatt held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab (TAGLab), with funding from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (CIHR-STIHR), Health Care, Technology, and Place (HCTP). In her research, Dr. Moffatt focuses on the needs of older adults. She is particularly interested in the design of accessible technologies that are sensitive to the social environments in which they will be used, and that seek to leverage those relationships to improve assistance and support. Dr Moffatt was recently awarded a Young Network Investigator Award by the Graphics, Animation, and New Media Network of Centres of Excellence (GRAND-NCE) to support her work investigating the communication and information needs of families navigating hospice care. Dr. Carolyn Hank joined the School of Information Studies as an Assistant Professor in November 2010. She completed her Ph.D. in Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a 2010 recipient of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from Beta Phi Mu for her doctoral dissertation, "Scholars and their blogs: Characteristics, preferences and perceptions impacting digital preservation." She also holds a Master in Library and Information Science from Kent State University and a B.A. in Psychology from Antioch College. Dr. Hank is PI on two recently grant-funded projects. She was awarded the 2012 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Research Grant<http://www.alise.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=491> for the study, "Teaching in the Age of Facebook and other Social Media: LIS Faculty and Students 'Friending' and 'Poking' in the Social Sphere." She is joined on this project by her Co-PIs, Dr. Cassidy Sugimoto of Indiana University Bloomington and Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Hank recently presented the planned course of study to the ALISE community during the 2012 annual conference, held in Dallas, TX this past January. The other project, "The Biblioblogosphere: A Comparison of Communication and Preservation Perceptions and Practices between Blogging LIS Scholar-Practitioners and LIS Scholar-Researchers," was awarded a 2012 OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Competition. <http://www.alise.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=474> She is joined in this initiative by Dr. Sugimoto, Co-PI. Currently, Dr. Hank serves as the North American academic expert on "BlogForever", a co-funded European Commission project funded under the Information and Communication Technologies theme of the 7th Framework Programme for R&D. She is also an instructor in the Digital Curation Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle. The Institute is a component of DigCCurr II: Extending an International Digital Curation Curriculum to Doctoral Students and Practitioners, a four-year project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Susann Allnutt, PhD Administrative Assistant School of Information Studies McGill University 3661 Peel St. Montreal, QC H3A 1X1 Tel.: 514-398-6387 FAX: 514-398-7193 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.mcgill.ca/sis<http://www.mcgill.ca/sis>