PAUL SOLOMON Associate Professor
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
212 Manning Hall, CB# 3360
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
919-962-8068 (Office); 919-962-8071 (FAX)
solomon@ils.unc.edu; http://ils.unc.edu/~solomon/hp/pshome.html

EDUCATION

University of Maryland (College Park, MD), Ph.D., Library and Information Services, May 1991
Dissertation: Information Systems for Children: Explorations in Information Access and Interface Usability for an Online Catalog in an Elementary School Library.

University of Maryland (College Park, MD), M.L.S., Library and Information Services, December 1986

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), Business and Applied Economics, September 1969-May 1971

University of Washington (Seattle, WA), M.B.A., Business Administration, August 1969

Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA), B.S., Business Administration, June 1968

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (1997-present).

• Fulbright Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere, Finland (August 1997-May 1998).

• Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (1991-1997).

• Deputy Chief, Recreation Resources Assistance Division, National Park Service, Washington, DC (1988-1991).

• Chief, Technical Services Branch, Recreation Resources Assistance Division, National Park Service, Washington, DC (1982-1988).

• Deputy Chief, Park and Recreation Technical Services Division, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, Washington, DC (1978-1982).

• Supervisory Program Analyst, Division of Systems Management, Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, Washington, DC (1976-1978).

• Operations Systems Analyst, Special Services Division, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Arlington, VA (1975-1976).

• Research Analyst, General Research Corporation, McLean, VA (1973-1975).

• Statistician/Operations Research Analyst, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Washington, DC (1972-1973).

• Teaching Fellow, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1970-1972).

• Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1969-1971).

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

American Society for Information Science (ASIS) (1984)

SIG/CR (Classification Research): Chair Elect (94-95), Chair (95-96)

Chair, Program Committee, 7th Classification Research Workshop [96]

Member, Program Committee, 8th Classification Research Workshop [97]

Member Program Committee, 9^th Classification Research Workshop [98]

Doctoral Forum Jury Member (96);

Member, Program Committee, 10^th Classification Research Workshop [99]

International Society for Knowledge Organization (1996)

Member, Program Committee, Sixth International Conference, Lille, France, August 1998

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Solomon, P. (in press). Information mosaics: Patterns of action that structure. Information seeking in context: Proceedings of an international conference on research in information needs, seeking and use in different contexts, 13-15 August, 1998, Sheffield, England . London: Taylor Graham.

• Solomon, P. (1998). On the use of research categorizations as the basis for organizing knowledge: A test in the domain of information behavior in health care. In W. Mustafa el Hadi, J. Maniez, & S. A. Pollitt (Eds), Structures and relations in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Fifth International ISKO Conference, 25-29 August 1998, Lille, France (pp. 293-301). Würzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag.

• Tang, R., & Solomon, P. (1998). Towards an understanding of the dynamics of relevance judgement: An analysis of one person's search behavior. Information Processing and Management, 34(2/3), 237-256.

• Solomon, P. (Ed.) (1997). Advances in Classification Research, 7. Medford, NJ: Information Today for the American Society for Information Science.

• Solomon, P. (1997). Access to fiction for children: A user-based assessment of options and opportunities. Information Services and Use, 17(2/3), 139-146.

• Solomon, P. (1997). Discovering information behavior in sense making. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48(12), 1097-1138.

• Solomon, P. [1997]. Conversation in information seeking contexts: A test of an analytical framework. Library and Information Science Research, 19(3), 217-247.

• Solomon, P. (1994). Children, technology, and instruction: A case study of elementary school children using an online catalog (OPAC). School Library Media Quarterly, 23(1), 43-51.

• Solomon, P. (1993). Children's information retrieval behavior: A case analysis of an OPAC. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 44(5), 245-264.

• Solomon, P. (1992). On the dynamics of information system use: From novice to ? Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 29, 162-170).

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