Faculty Accomplishments
What are the LIS faculty up to?
Dr. Hermina Anghelescu
- Attended the IFLA World Library and Information Congress held in Durban, South Africa, August 19-23, 2007. In Durban, she was elected Chair of the Library History Section for 2007-2009.
- After the conference, Anghelescu spent five days in Pretoria, where she was invited to lecture at the Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria (http://is.up.ac.za/). She also visited the construction site of the National Library of South Africa in Pretoria (http://www.nlsa.ac.za/NLSA/) and the Archives & Special Collections of the University of South Africa—UNISA—Pretoria campus (http://www.unisa.ac.za/).
- Nominated by ALA as a member of the Standing Committee of the Library History Section for the period 2007-2011.
- Appointed as associate member to the Romanian National Library Commission for the period 2007-2010. This is a joint appointment between the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education. She attended the Commission’s two-day meeting held at the Onesti Municipal Library.
- Invited by the Association of Public Libraries and Librarians in Romania to give a five-day workshop on New Trends in Library and Information Science at the Cluj County Library in Cluj-Napoca, July 16-20 2007. She also gave a three-day workshop in Busteni, at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture’s Center for Continuing Education.
Dr. Lynda Baker
- Williamson, C., Baker, L. M., Jenkins, M., & Cluse-Tolar, T. (2007). Police-prostitute interactions: Sometimes discretion, sometimes misconduct. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 18(2), 15-37.
Judith J. Field
- Attended the IFLA Conference in Durban South Africa where she was reelected as Chair of the Knowledge Management Section.
Dr. John Heinrichs
- Published Winning Strategies from Competitive Analytics, Heinrichs & Lim, 2007, Thomson in August.
Dr. Robert Holley
- Edited Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar: Essays in Honor of Ruth Carter, published as Volume 44, Numbers ½ and Numbers ¾ of the Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. The book version will appear later. Within this volume, his article, “Are Technical Services Topics Underrepresented at the ACRL National Conferences?” was published. (Volume 44, Numbers ¾, pp. 259-269)
- A brief account of his experiences as ALCTS President was included in Commemorating the Past, Celebrating the Present, Creating the Future: Papers in Observance of the 50th Anniversary of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, edited by Pamela Bluh, (Chicago: American Library Association, 2007), pp. 25-27.
- On August 27, at the invitation of Better World Books, he toured their warehouse and processing center in Mishawaka, Ind. as part of his research on the out-of-print book market.
Dr. Bin Li
- Published:
- Li, B. (2007). American Libraries and the Internet: The Social Construction of Web Appropriation and Use. NY: Cambria Press Inc.
- Li, B. (accepted). Dealing with Uncertainty in Travelers’ Planning of Road Trips. Information Processing & Management.
- Heinrichs, J.H., & Li, B. (in press). Integrating Electronic Notebooks In Daily Work: Training Modules For Academic Librarians. in E. Conner (Ed.). An Introduction to Staff Development in Academic Libraries. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc.
- Attended 2007 American Society for Information Science & Technology in Milwaukee, WI from 10/19-23.
- Attended the 3rd International Conference on Communities and Technologies at Lansing, MI in June, 2007.
Dr. Marcia Mardis
- Submitted two papers to the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2008 conference:
- Mardis, M. and Dickinson, G. (submitted) Perception Meets Reality: Preservice School Library Media Specialists’ Approaches to Implementing New Learning Standards for Libraries.
- Mardis, M. (submitted). Streaming Media in Schools: Patterns of Systemic Implementation and Use.
- Provided metadata and policy consultation to Library of Michigan and Michigan Department of Education for Michigan Educators’ Resources (http://mer.mel.org) digital library.
- Received notification of paper accepted for publication in International Journal of Digital Libraries (IJDL):
- Mardis, M.A., Hoffman, E.S., and Marshall, T. (in press). A New Framework for
- Educational Digital Library Use: Re-examining the Digital Divide in U.S. Schools. International Journal of Digital Libraries.
Dr. Joseph Mika
- Published, “Wayne State University Takes the Lead in Library and Information Science Using Mediasite,” Distance Learning, volume 4, no. 3, 2007, pages 69-70.
- Consulting Editor for Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, volume 17, no. 4, 2007, published
- Consulting Projects:
- Strategic Planning Presentation, OHIONET, Columbus, OH, Oct. 1, 2007
- Strategic Planning Session for Tecumseh District Library, Tecumseh, MI, Oct. 20, 2007
- Strategic Planning Focus Group sessions at Tecumseh District Library, Tecumseh, MI, Oct. 29, 2007
- Strategic planning for Clinton Macomb Public Library, Clinton Twp., MI, Sept. 13, 2007
- Consulting on Library Director search for Brighton District Library, Brighton, MI, Sept. 18, 2007
- Strategic planning for Tecumseh District Library, Tecumseh, MI, Sept. 19, 2007
- Consulting on Library Director search for Novi Public Library, Novi, MI, Sept. 29, 2007
- Consulting for Clinton Macomb Public Library on strategic planning, Clinton Twp., MI, July 10 & 13, 2007
- Consulting for Traverse Area District Library on library reorganization, Traverse City, MI, July 25-27, 2007
- Visited the Michigan Health Science Library Association, Bay City, MI, Sept. 26, 2007
- Received $11,900 grant for research in library education curriculum from H.W. Wilson Foundation
- Selected for inclusion in 2008 edition of Who’s Who in America
Dr. Gordon Neavill
- Presented a refereed paper, “Canonicity, Reprint Publishing, and Copyright” at the SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) conference, held at the University of Minnesota, in July.
- Appointed to a three-year term on the Wayne State University Press Editorial Board in August.
Dr. Ronald Powell
- Published, “Post-Master’s Educational Needs of Information Professionals,” in the Journal Of Access Services, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 29-43. This article was co-authored with Susan Boling, a former LIS student, and presents a study conducted in order to inform the Program’s deliberations on a possible doctoral program.
- Tayo Nagasawa, a doctoral student at Nagasaki University and research mentee for the past few years published: A Case Study on Learning and Teaching Support Provided by Earlham College Library in Library and Information Science, No. 57, 2007, pp. 33-50. This article represents some of the research that Tayo Nagasawa has been conducting for her doctoral dissertation.
- Attended CoLIS 6, An International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science held in Boras, Sweden, August 13-16. The theme of this year’s conference was “Featuring the Future.”