HELEN R. TIBBO
CONTACT INFORMATION
School of Information and Library Science SILS Office: 919/962-8366
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Office: 919/962-8063
School of Information and Library Science Fax: (919) 962-8071 100 Manning Hall CB# 3360 Fax: (919) 962-8071
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3360 Email: Tibbo@ils.unc.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, 1989 -- University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Dissertation: Abstracts, Online Searching, and the Humanities: A Study of the Structure and Content of Abstracts of Historical Discourse
M.A., American Studies, 1984 -- University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Multi-disciplinary program with an emphasis in American History
M.L.S., 1983 -- Indiana University , Bloomington, IN
B.A., English, 1977 -- Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 1997- Associate Dean, SILS
- 1996-1997 Assistant Dean, SILS
- 1995- Associate Professor, SILS
- 1989-1995 Assistant Professor, SILS
- 1982-1989 Graduate Assistant at Indiana University and the University of Maryland
- 1978-1982 Junior High School English Teacher in Whitman, Brockton, and Sharon, Massachusetts
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Profession-wide:American Library Association, 1987-
Library Research Round Table, 1992- ; Steering Committee, 1995-1997; Chair Elect and Chair, 1997-1999
Society of American Archivists, 1986- ; American Archivist Editor Search Committee, 1995; Council, 1997-2000; Editorial Board, 1991-1994; Long-Range Planning Committee, 1992-1994; Educators Roundtable, 1986- ; Chair, 1992-1994; Publications; Task Force on the Future of the American Archivist, Chair, 1996-1997; UNC-CH Student Chapter, Faculty Advisor, 1995-
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University-wide:Academic Affairs Library Staff Development Committee, 1992-1994
Editorial Board for Documenting the American South, a UNC-CH Academic Affairs Libraries’ digitization project, 1997-
Enrollment Management Committee, 1997-1998
Faculty Council, Nominating Committee, Chair, 1997 (Spring)
UNC-CH Graduate School, Administrative Board member, 1999-2002
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- "User Instruction Issues for Database Searching in the Humanities." Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 1999. 40 pp. Forthcoming.
- with Lee Anne Paris, "Freestyle vs. Boolean: A Comparison of Partial and Exact Match Retrieval Systems." Information Processing and Management 34 2/3 (1998): 175-190.
- with Natalia Smith. "Libraries and the Creation of Electronic Texts for the Humanities." College and Research Libraries, 57 (November 1996): 535-553.
- "The Epic Struggle: Subject Retrieval from Large Bibliographic Databases." American Archivist 57 (Spring 1994): 310-26. [Journal appeared in summer 1995]
- "Indexing in the Humanities." Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 45 (September 1994): 607-19.
- Abstracting, Information Retrieval, and the Humanities: Providing Access to Historical Literature. ACRL Publications in Librarianship #48. Chicago, Ill.: American Library Association, 1993. 276 pp.
COLLABORATIONSWith Dr. Gregory Newby, SILS, UNC-CH. Provost’s Distance Education Grant, 1999. $10,000. Funded.With several SILS faculty, and others from Duke University and the University of Virginia. American Front Porch Project grant proposal, 1998. $1.2 million. Not funded.
With Dr. Evelyn Daniel, SILS, UNC-CH. Information Technologies for the Cultural Heritage Community: Archivists, Museum Curators, and Librarians. $148,656 grant proposal to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 1998. With Evelyn Daniel. Not funded.
With Drs. Bert Dempsey and Diane Sonnenwald. Internet Multimedia Studio. $58,817 grant proposal to UNC-CH Chancellor’s Information Technology Initiative, December 1996. Funded.
With several SILS faculty, Medical Informatics faculty, and UNC-CH Health Sciences librarians. Preparing Tomorrow’s Health Sciences Librarians: Feasibility and Marketing Studies. $64,792 grant proposal to the National Library of Medicine, May 1995. Funded.