Faculty & School News
Professor Alexander has published an article entitled, "The Lowell Affair," which appeared in December 2007 issue of The New England Quarterly. He also has an upcoming article entitled, "'For Posterity': The Private Audio Recordings of Louis Armstrong." It has been selected for to be the cover article for the Spring 2008 issue of American Archivist.
In July he will be presenting a paper entitled, “'Forty or so Acres': Yaddo, the Archive, and the Collective Formation of Literary Intent,” at international conference entitled Archive Fervour / Archive Further hosted by The University of Wales.
In August he will be co-presenting a paper (with Jeannette Bastian, Professor and Director of Archives Program at Simmons College) entitled, "Communities and their Archives: Documenting and Sustaining Memory,” at the Fourth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives, at the University of Western Australia, Perth.
Professor Brody has been named as the new Editor of SLA New York Chapter's ChapterNews. The New York Chapter of SLA has well over 1,000 members; approximately 10% of the membership of SLA. The most recent issue of ChapterNews, can be found at www.sla-ny.org
She was the Guest Editor of the recently published Fall 2007 issue of Technology and Society Magazine, the award-winning publication of the IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). The theme of this issue was 'Disaster Preparedness and Recovery' which was the theme of the 2006 SSIT Annual Conference - the International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2006). She chose to edit articles submitted to this peer-reviewed papers conference, submitted them for re-review and subsequent revisions. These comprise the primary contents of this issue of Technology and Society Magazine.
Professor Chelton has just been appointed to the ALA/RUSA Readers' Advisory Research and Trends Forum by RUSA president, Neal Wyatt. In her words, " It is loosely based on the existing RUSA Reference Research Forum and LITA's Top Technology Trends Forum. The creation of the RA Forum was approved at the ALA Midwinter conference in January 2008. Eventually this will become an ongoing RA Forum run by a CODES committee and the results will be featured in an annual issue of RUSQ's RA column."
Professor Cool was recently honored by CUNY for her "Outstanding Scholarly Achievements and Contributions to the Creation and Transmittal of Knowledge." This award was presented by Chancellor Goldstein, at the "Salute to the Scholars" reception held at NYPL on December 5, 2007.
She co-authored a paper with Iris Xie, entitled “Types of Help-Seeking Situations for Novice Users of Digital Libraries: A Preliminary Study.” It was presented at the American Association For Information Science & Technology (ASIST) annual meeting, held October 19-24 2007 in Milwaukee , WI . The paper was published in the conference Proceedings.
Profesor Linda Cooper has been selected to serve on the NYLA Task Force on Information Literacy Standards. The Task Force will be collecting and reviewing standards that exist and making recommendations for adoption by the NYS Council for Universal Broadband. The Council is charged with developing strategies to ensure that every New Yorker has access to affordable, high-speed internet service. .
She is also part of a mini grant [with Professors Perry, Surprenant and Davis] See Professor Perry for more information.
Professor Marianne Cooper is on sabbatical leave for the 2007/2008 academic year. after completing a three year assignment as Affirmative Action Officer of Queens College in June. She anticipates returning to the GSLIS in the Fall of 2008 and resuming her responsbilities for the Internship course, among others.
Professor Li will be presenting two papers at the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 2008 Annual Conference ( Vancouver , BC , June 5-7 2008).
“Do Doctoral Students Need Instructions On Using Google? -- An Exploratory Study” (Co-authored with Jamshid Beheshti)
“Are Health Sciences Librarians Taking The Evidence-based Medicine Challenge?” (Co-authored with Lin Wu)
Professor Ng
has recently had a book published.
Ng, Kwong Bor (2007), Using Xml: A How-to-do-it Manual and CD-ROM for Librarians . New York : Neal Schuman
ISBN-10: 1555705677; ISBN-13: 978-1555705671
He recently signed a book contract from the IGI Global publisher ( http://www.igi-global.com/ ), to co-edit a book with the title: "Collaborative Technologies and Applications forInteractive Information Design: Emerging Trends in User Experiences". His co-editor is: Scott Rummler.
Professor Perry (and ProfessorSurprenant) will join colleagues from Bucknell University in presenting at the 2008 NERCOMP annual conference in Providence, Rhode Island on March 11, 2008. Entitled "Hands-on Information Literacy: Reinforcing Student Skills through the Creation of Two Digital Archives", the presentation will feature two collaborative digitization projects, including our Waterways of New York collection, that exemplify best practices in visual and information literacy and technology fluency. NERCOMP is the Northeast regional affiliate of EDUCAUSE, the nonprofit association which aims to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
Professor Perry, and Professors Cooper and Surprenant have been accepted to represent Queens College (QC) as participants in “Making Connections:”An ePortfolio Mini-Grant & Seminar Program supported by LaGuardia Community College and The Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE), an agency of the US Department of Education. Along with Professor Jacqueline Davis of the Division of Education, Cooper, Perry and Surprenant—along with other GSLIS colleagues—will explore uses of ePortfolios in assessing program success in meeting GSLIS goals in selected courses.
Professor Surprenant has been invited, along with twenty University faculty, to join An Inquiry Into Learning: A 2007-2008 CUNY Seminar on ePortfolio Research & Practice which is sponsored by the LaGuardia Community College Center for Teaching & Learning and the Professional Development program of the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs. The Seminar is exploring the learning an assessment possibilities of electronic student portfolios.
Professor Surprenant also will work with the QC Center for Teaching and Learning in devising possible initial platforms for creating and maintaining ePortfolios supported by the QC infrastructure as a part of the "Making Connections..." mini grant..
Professors Perry & Surprenant: Waterways of New York Digitization Project Update
Professors Perry and Surprenant recently delivered a completed D&H Canal digital postcard database on CD/ROM to the Ellenville Public Library & Museum in Ellenville , New York . Both sides of over 70 cards from the Ellenville collection were digitized in Fall 2006 and partly processed by students in GSLIS 791. During the Spring 2007 semester, Professors Perry and Surprenant made editorial and quality control corrections using a revised thesaurus and additional data points. Greenstone, an open-source digital library collection software, was utilized for the D&H collection. The online version of the database has been posted on the Queens College server for universal access via the Internet.This Spring they will be adding to the D&H collection by digitizing postcards at the Neversink Valley Area Museum in Cuddebackville, NY.
Students in the Fall 2006, Spring and Fall 2007 sections of Dr. Perry's Digital Imaging course were extremely active in expanding the Waterways of New York Collection, as well. Using postcards from Dr. Surprenant's Erie Canal postcard collection, and that of the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse, students greatly expanded the Waterways collection. Students scanned and uploaded over 350 cards using CONTENTdm digital collection software, onto a server hosted by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). Under Dr. Perry's supervision, students revised and expanded the Waterways Thesaurus to ensure greater compatibility with the Library of Congress' Thesaurus for Graphical Materials . They also created detailed metadata for the fronts and backs of the cards, including transcriptions of most messages. Ms. Susan Savage, as part of an Independent Study, performed meticulous quality control and created additional metadata categories on the cards processed during the Fall 2006 semester. This ensured greater consistency with evolving thesaurus and data entry standards and guidelines. Eventually, we hope to migrate all the cards onto a single integrated Waterways Collection hosted at the College. Students in the Spring 2008 Digital Imaging course will continue to add to the various databases which now total over 500 cards (1,000 images). The existing collections can be viewed at the following link through the GSLIS web page: http://qcpages.qc.edu/GSLIS/digitization.html.
