The School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty members to our outstanding program.  Dr. Dick Kawooya and Dr. JingJing Liu will be joining us in fall 2012.  Their brief bionotes follow:

Dick Kawooya has been a Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Kawooya obtained a PhD in Communication and Information in 2010 from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. His doctoral research examined the understanding and application of ‘western’ intellectual property systems (copyright) in non-western cultural contexts by examining Ugandan traditional musicians’ construction of ownership. He served as Lead Researcher for the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project, from 2007 to 2010. He is currently involved in the Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open A.I.R) project which is exploring the role of intellectual property and innovation in Africa’s development. Broadly, Dr. Kawooya's current research focuses on intellectual property rights in informal sectors in the African context, specifically the dynamic relationship and interactions between IPRs (e.g., copyright) and informal sector activities. Kawooya held an Open Society Institute (OSI) Fellowship in 2006-2007 at the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Budapest, conducting research on the impact of copyright on representation of African knowledge and access to general knowledge (e.g., e-resources). He has served as a member of the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) Copyright Expert Group and as Uganda's national copyright expert, representing the Consortium of Ugandan University Libraries, for the international Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL). He is part of an International Network of Copyright Experts on National Copyright Exceptions and Limitations. He has attended and presented at several international conferences notably meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), including the June 2005 Inter-sessional Intergovernmental Meeting (IIM) on a Development Agenda for WIPO.

Jingjing Liu received her Ph.D. in Information Science from Rutgers University in 2010.  Her research focuses on the design and evaluation of information systems that support information seeking and use, and task accomplishment. She has published journal articles and conference papers in the areas of information retrieval, human computer interaction, and digital libraries, etc., and has received best poster awards in conferences. She will join SLIS from Southern Connecticut State University, where she has been teaching information technology, information organization, and foundations of library and information science.

 

All best regards,

Sam

 

Dr. S. K. Hastings

Director and Professor

School of Library and Information Science

University of South Carolina

Davis College

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Columbia, SC 29208

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