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UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA'S SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES APPOINTS DR. INGE ALBERTS AND DR. ANDRÉ VELLINO The University of Ottawa's École des sciences de l'information/School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) is pleased to announce the appointment of two tenure-track faculty members as of July 1, 2012: Dr. Inge Alberts and Dr. André Vellino. Appointed as Assistant Professor, Dr. Alberts earned both her MIS and doctorate from the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) at the Université de Montréal. Dr. Alberts has worked as a consultant and as the Director of Research and Innovation in Information Management at Cogniva Information Solutions. She is also the Scientific Director of the Organizational Information Compliance research stream of the Cogniva Information Science Research Institute. Her doctoral research focussed on textual practices in digital work environments in Canadian municipalities and federal administrations, and her current research interests include personal information management and textual practices, recordkeeping in public administrations, document and genre theory, and organizational semiotics. Appointed as Associate Professor, Dr. Vellino has a rich background in academic, government and industrial research. He received an MSc in Logic and Scientific Method from the London School of Economics (UK) and a PhD in Logic from the University of Toronto. His initial work was in the application of reasoning methods to predict the properties of organic compound for the US Environmental Protection Agency. He has performed research and development in Constraint Logic Programming at Bell Northern Research (Nortel) in the 1990s and was a senior software engineer at Entrust developing textual content-analysis software for protecting e-mails from extrusion and ensuring legislative compliance. For the past six years he served as a Senior Research Officer at the National Research Council in the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), which is Canada's National Science Library. His work at CISTI has focused on information retrieval in large corpora of technical research papers and advancements in methods for the automated recommendation of research articles in digital libraries. Dr. Vellino's current research centers on the representation and extraction of scientific data for the purpose of archiving, reuse and discovery. ÉSIS is delighted to welcome both Inge and André to the information studies team! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lynne Bowker, PhD, C.Tran (ATIO) Director and Full Professor / Directrice et Professeure titulaire School of Information Studies / École des sciences de l'information University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa 200 Lees (B-153-C), Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5 Canada Tel. +1 613-562-5989 / Fax +1 613-562-5854 / [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>