School of Library and Information Studies

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Michele Besant Phd., LIS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999 SLIS Library Director 4191A Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2963 Email: mbesant@library.wisc.edu Areas of Interest: Print culture, public library evaluation, LIS education Teaching: LIS 620 Field Project in Library and Information Literacy Instruction top
Greg Downey Ph.D., History of Technology and Human Geography, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000 Associate Professor School of Library & Information Studies and School of Journalism & Mass Communication 4259 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 225-3809 Email: gdowney@facstaff.wisc.edu Areas of Interest: History and geography of information & communication technology, especially the often hidden labor behind such technology Teaching: Seminar in the foundation of library and information studies Digital divides and differences Mapping libraries and communities with GIS Information technology and information labor Recent Publications: Greg Downey, "The place of labor in the history of information technology revolutions," in Aad Blok and Greg Downey, eds., Uncovering labor in information revolutions, 1750-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 225-261. Gregory J. Downey, Telegraph messenger boys: Labor, technology, and geography, 1850-1950 (Routledge, 2002). Greg Downey, "Virtual webs, physical technologies, hidden workers: The spaces of labor in information internetworks," Technology and Culture 42:2 (2001), 209-235. Personal Homepage: http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/~gdowney/index.php top
Kristin Eschenfelder Ph.D. Information Transfer, Syracuse University, 2000 Associate Professor 4228 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2105 Email: eschenfelder@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: Digital copyright and intellectual property, digital rights management, management of electronic government information, information policy and ethics, organizational communications, user-based information system design and evaluation, research methods Teaching: Managing licensed digital resources (LIS 855) Information Architecture (LIS 861) Database design and management (LIS 751) Introduction to technology: telecommunications and network management (LIS 644) Recent Publications: (2008) "Every Library's Nightmare? Digital Rights Management and Licensed Scholarly Digital Resources." College and Research Libraries (2007)"Examining the role of Web site information in facilitating different citizen-government relationships: A case study of state Chronic Wasting Disease Web sites" Government Information Quarterly 24(1), pg. 64-88. Eschenfelder, K.R.; Miller, C.A. (2005) "The Limits of DeCSS Posting: A Comparison of Internet Posting of DVD Circumvention Devices in the European Union The People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macau" Journal of Information Science 31 (4), 317-331. Eschenfelder, K.R.; Desai, A.C.; Alderman, I.; Sin, J.; Shen Yi Personal Homepage: http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen top
Peter Gottlieb Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1977 Adjunct Associate Professor Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division 816 State Street, Madison WI 53706 Phone: (608) 264-6480 Email: Peter.Gottlieb@wisconsinhistory.org Areas of Interest: Archival program administration, strategy development and planning, public relations and outreach Teaching: Administration of Archives and Manuscripts Programs top
James A. Kalupa Information Processing Consultant 4160a Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2962 Email: kalupa@wisc.edu top
Allison G. Kaplan Ed.D., Educational Leadership, University of Delaware, 2006 Associate Faculty Associate, School Library Media Program Coordinator 4256 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-1335 Email: agkaplan@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: Cataloging and classification, information literacy, collaboration in K12 schools. Teaching: LIS 620/C&I 620, Field Project in Library and Information Agencies LIS 651, Cataloging and Classification LIS 654, Information Agency Management Recent Publications: Catalog It!: A Guide To Cataloging School Library Materials, with Ann Marlow Riedling. 2nd ed. Worthington, OH : Linworth, 2006. "Do I Have to Make a New Record? Deciding on When You Have a New Edition and When You Have a Second Copy". Library Media Connection, 24 (4) (2006): 28-29. top
Kyung-Sun (Sunny) Kim Ph.D. Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin Associate Professor 4255 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2941 Email: kskim@slis.wisc.edu Areas of Interest: Information-seeking behavior, User-oriented systems design, Digital libraries, Subject access Teaching: Cataloging & classification (LIS 651) Digital libraries (LIS 879) Human-computer interaction (LIS 640) Research methods (LIS 710) Kim, K.-S. (2008). Experienced users' Web search behavior: Effects of users' emotion control and search task on navigation behavior and search performance. Information Processing & Management, 44 (1): 373-385. Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2008). Increasing ethnic diversity in LIS: Perspective from librarians of color. Library Quarterly, 78 (2). Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2007). Perception and selection of information sources by undergraduate students: Effects of avoidant style, confidence, and personal control in problem solving. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 33 (6): 655-665 Kim, K.-S., Chiu, M.H., Sin, S.-C. J., & Robbins, L. (2007). Recruiting a diverse workforce for academic/research librarianship: Characteristics and preferences of subject specialists and librarians of color. College & Research Libraries, 68 (6): 533-552. Personal Homepage: http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kskim/ top
Madge Klais Ph.D., Medieval History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993 Assistant Professor 4261 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2943 Email: mhklais@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: School librarianship, history of education and librarianship, history of books and print culture Teaching: History of Books and Printing (LIS 570) Field Project in Library and Information Agencies (LIS 620/C&I 620) Multicultural Literature for Youth (LIS 629) both on-campus and online Young Adult Literature (LIS 631) Information Literacy (LIS 640) The School Library Media Center (LIS 641) both on-campus and online Action Research (LIS 845 - Topics Course) Recent Publications: Madge Hildebrandt Klais, "Teaching Computer Search Skills to Middle School Students." in Information Technology for Schools: Creating Practical Knowledge to Improve Student Performance, ed. Bena Kallick and James M. Wilson III. (Jossey-Bass, 2001). M. M. Hildebrandt, The External School in Carolingian Society (E.J. Brill, 1992). Personal Homepage: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/mhklais/web/ top
Anne Lundin Ph.D., Library Science, University of Alabama Professor 4230 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 265-4733 Email: alundin@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: History of Children's Literature/Youth Services, Storytelling, Cultural Studies Teaching: Children's Literature (LIS 354) - Online Children's Literature course Children's Literature (LIS 622) - Contemporary Trends in Children's Literature Youth Services in Libraries (LIS 772) - Connecting the Child, the Library, The Community Storytelling (LIS 624) - Oral Traditions and Storied Lives Information Sources & Services (LIS 571) - Core course in Reference Collection Management (LIS 655) - Collection Development and Evaluation Recent Publications: "Little Pilgrims' Progress: Literary Horizons for Children's Literature", Libraries & Culture (Fall 2005) "Robinson Crusoe and Children's Literature", in Approaches to Teaching Robinson Crusoe, ed. Maximillan Novak and Carl Fisher (Modern Language Association, 2005) Constructing the Canon of Children's Literature: Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers (Routledge, 2004) Defining Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children's Literature, co-edited with Wayne Wiegand (Libraries Unlimited, 2004) Personal Homepage: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/alundin/web/index.htm top
Stephen Paling Ph.D., Information Transfer, Syracuse University, 2004 Assistant Professor 4251 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2944 Email: paling@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: The organization and publication of information, information technology use in literary and artistic communities. Teaching: LIS 551, Organization of Information LIS 651, Cataloging and Classification Recent Publications: Paling, S., and Nilan, M. (2006). "Technology, values, and genre change: The case of small literary magazines". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(7), 862-872. Paling, S., and Miszkiewicz, M., and Abbas, J. (In press). "Digital Images in Dentistry Education: The Role of Delivery Medium and Metadata". Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, TX, November 2006. Paling, S. (2005, October). "Technology, tradition, and the individual talent: Literary authors and aesthetic use of information technology". Poster presented at the ASIS&T annual meeting, Charlotte, NC. top
Anna Palmer M.A., Library Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005 Associate Outreach Specialist 4285 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-4452 Email: ahpalmer@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: public libraries, reference service, continuing education top
Christine Pawley Ph.D. Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996 Professor 4234 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2945 Email: cpawley@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: Print culture; history of readers and reading; critical studies of information Teaching: LIS 450, Information agencies & their environment LIS 561, Information use & users LIS 642, Reading Interests of Adults 810 History of Readers and Reading 950 Seminar: Foundation of Library and Information Studies Recent Publications: "Blood and Thunder on the Bookmobile: American Public Libraries and the Construction of 'the Reader,'" in Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States, edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter (forthcoming, University of Massachusetts Press, 2007) "A 'Bouncing Babe,' a 'Little Bastard:' Women, Print and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-1952," in Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) "Unequal Legacies: Race and Multiculturalism in the LIS Curriculum." (The Library Quarterly, 76 (2) 2006.) "Gorman's Gauntlet: Gender and 'Crying Wolf.'" (Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 46 (4) 2005: 304-312) Personal Homepage: http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~cpawley top
Andrea Poehling Student Services Coordinator 4217 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2909 FAX: (608) 263-4849 Email: student-services@slis.wisc.edu top
Jane Pearlmutter M.A., Library Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Director / Director of Continuing Education 4230 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-6398 Email: jpearlmu@wisc.edu Areas of Interest:Continuing education, collection management, electronic resources Teaching: LIS 450 Information Agencies and Their Environment LIS 654 Management of Libraries and Information Agencies LIS 655 Collection Management Collection Development (certification course for public libraries) Basic Library Management Librarians' Tour to Scotland Recent Publications: (2005) Wisconsin Public Library System Size and Organization, http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dlcl/pld/pdf/systemsize.pdf Personal Homepage: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jpearlmu/web/index.html top
Rick Pifer Ph.D. in American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison Adjunct Assistant Professor Wisconsin Historical Society, Archives Division 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 264-6477 Email: Rick.Pifer@wisconsinhistory.org Areas of Interest: Archives collection development, appraisal, and public services Teaching: LIS 734: Modern Archives Administration Recent Publications: A City at War: the Milwaukee Labor Movement During World War II, Wisconsin Historical Society, December 2002. Authored a grant proposal to catalog one third of the Wisconsin Historical Society photograph collections; funded for 2000-2002 by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. top
Greg Putnam Information Technology Manager 4191a Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: 608-262-7124 Email: gdputnam@wisc.edu top
Louise Robbins Ph.D. Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman's University, 1991 Professor and Director Room 4238 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2900 Email: lsrobbin@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: History of libraries and librarianship, intellectual freedom, academic libraries, education for library and information science, information policy. Teaching: LIS 620 -- Field Project in Libraries and Information Agencies (Bibliographic instruction) LIS 653 -- Government Information Sources LIS 450 -- Information and Its Use in Cultural Context LIS 654 -- Information Agency Management Personal Homepage: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/lsrobbin/home/LouiseRobbins2006.html top
Susan B. Santner M.A., Library Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000 Outreach Program Manager of Continuing Education Services 4282 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-0364 Email: sbsantner@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: Continuing Education, Youth Services, Storytelling Teaching: Youth Services (certification courses for public libraries) top
Debra Shapiro M.A., Library Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991 Instructional Program Manager 4282A Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-9195 Email: dsshapiro@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: Distance education, Metadata, Digital archives and libraries, Digital images, the convergence of libraries, archives, and museums as cultural heritage institutions Teaching: LIS 551, Organization of Information LIS 651, Cataloging and Classification LIS 875 Topics in Information Processing and Retrieval - Metadata Fundamentals of Cataloging (certification course for public libraries) Introduction to Metadata (Continuing education course) Recent Publications: EScholarship: A LITA Guide / Debra Shapiro, editor. Chicago : American Library Association, 2005. Personal Homepage: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/dsshapiro/web/shapiro/ top
Catherine Arnott Smith Ph.D., Library & Information Science/Medical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, 2002 Assistant Professor 4263 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-1334 Email: casmith24@wisc.edu Areas of Interest:Medical informatics: electronic medical records, medical vocabularies, and how they relate to consumers and consumer health Teaching: LIS 828 (Online Reference & Information Services) LIS 847 (Topics in Reader Services: Consumer Health Information, Resources and Services) Recent Publications: Smith, C.A. (2007). Nursery, gutter, or anatomy class? Obscene expression in consumer health. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association 2007 Annual Symposium. Smith, C.A. (2007). The Ten Thousand Questions Project: Towards a better understanding of consumer health vocabulary. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 11(1), 33-47. Zeng-Treitler, Q., Kim, H., Goryachev, S., Keselman, A., Slaughter, L., & Arnott Smith, C. (2007). Text characteristics of clinical reports and their implications for the readability of personal health records. Medinfo 2007, Brisbane, Australia. Nicholson, S., & Smith, C.A. (2007). Using lessons from health care to protect the privacy of library users: Guidelines for the de-identification of library data based on HIPAA. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Smith, C.A. & Haque, S.N. (2006). Paper versus electronic documentation in complex chronic illness: A comparison. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association 2006 Annual Symposium. top
Ciaran B. Trace Ph.D. Library and Information Science, University of California Los Angeles, 2004 Assistant Professor Room 4253 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 263-2955 Email: trace at wisc.edu Areas of Interest: Social nature of organizational records and record-keeping, personal information management, applicability of qualitative research (theory, method and practice) to archival issues, ethnographic study of archival work Teaching: Records Management Accessioning and Appraisal The Practice of Archives-Manuscripts Administration Archives User Services and Outreach Recent Publications: Ciaran B. Trace, "For Love of the Game: An Ethnographic Analysis of Archival Reference Work", Archives and Manuscripts 34 (1) (May 2006): 124-143. Ciaran B. Trace, "Information Creation and the Notion of Membership," Journal of Documentation 63 (1) (2007): 142-164. Personal Homepage: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/trace/web/ top
Ethelene Whitmire Ph.D., Higher Education, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2001 Associate Professor Helen C. White Hall #4226 600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 262-8952 Email: ewhitmire@wisc.edu Areas of Interest: Biography of Regina Anderson Andrews (1901-1993)--African American librarian, academic libraries, information-seeking behavior, and students of color and the academic library. Teaching: LIS 561, Information Use & Users LIS 825, Reference & Information Services LIS 722, College & University Libraries Recent Publications: Recent Publications: Whitmire, E. (2006). African American undergraduates and the university academic library. Journal of Negro Education, 75(1), 60-66. Personal Homepage: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/ewhitmire/web/ top

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