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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:56:03 -0400 From: "Brown, Cecelia M." <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Dr. June Abbas Promoted to Full Professor Date: July 11, 2013 1:53:18 PM CDT The School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. June Abbas to Full Professor, July 1st, 2013! Dr. Abbas, obtained her PhD in Information Science from the University of North Texas in 2001 and taught in the Department of Library and Information Studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo from 2001-2008 before joining OU SLIS on the Norman Campus in August 2008. Her research focuses on the development of user-centered digital libraries, institutional repositories, and other knowledge organization structures. Dr. Abbas also conducts research on children and teens, and their use of technology; and the intersection between information behavior, information retrieval, and structures for organizing knowledge. For a list of Dr. Abbas' publications please click to: https://portfolio.ou.edu/users/abba5808/web/publications.html The courses she teaches include those related to the organization of information and knowledge resources, cataloging and classification, indexing and surrogation, digital collections, and digital information retrieval. Dr. Abbas has also served as project manager on eight digital libraries projects and on task forces to develop institutional repositories at two universities. For the pst six years Dr. Abbas served as the Chair of the American Library Association's Resource Description and Access Conference Forums and Programs Taskforce and is now the co-chair of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Cataloging and Metadata Management Section's Continuing Education Committee. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Abbas on reaching this significant milestone in her productive career and wishing her continued success in all her future endeavors! Best- Cecy Cecelia Brown Professor & Director [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍◍ OU-SLIS Connecting People to Information Since 1929 401 W Brooks, Room 120 Norman, OK 73019-6032 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Voice: 405.325.3921 FAX: 405.325.7648