School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
100 Manning Hall, CB #3360, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Phone: 919-962-8072; Fax: 919-962-8071; Email: wildem@ils.unc.edu
Home page: http://ils.unc.edu/~wildem/bmw-vitae.html
EDUCATION
1989 Ph.D. Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. College of Information Studies.
1982 M.Ed. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1976 M.L.S. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.
1971 B.Mus.Ed. North Central College, Naperville, Illinois.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1988-Present Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (1988-1989, Instructor; 1989-1995, Assistant Professor; 1996-Present, Associate Professor, SILS, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- 1985-1988 Teaching Assistant, College of Information Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1979-1985 Associate Director, ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
- 1978-1979 Head, Test Collection, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
- 1976-1978 User Services Coordinator and Indexer/Abstractor, ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
SELECTED RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED
1995-1996 "Preparing Tomorrow’s Health Sciences Librarians: Feasibility and Marketing Studies," funded by the National Library of Medicine. Principal Investigators: Barbara Moran, Carol Jenkins, Charles Friedman. Total: $65,600
- 1991-1993 "End User Searching of MEDLINE," funded by the Council on Library Resources. Principal Investigators: Barbara M. Wildemuth and Margaret E. Moore. Total: $4,000
- 1990-1998 "Information and Cognition in Medical Education," funded by the National Library of Medicine. Principal Investigator: Charles P. Friedman; Co-Principal Investigators: Ruth de Bliek, Stephen M. Downs, Barbara M. Wildemuth. Total: $579,712, 1990-1993; $578,898 (competing renewal), 1994-1998
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Dempsey, B. J., Wildemuth, B. M., & Geisler, G. Use of an expanding directory interface for WWW legal resources [poster]. Accepted for presentation at the Digital Libraries '99 Conference, August 11-14, 1999, University of California, Berkeley.
O'Keefe, K. M., de Bliek, R., Wildemuth, B. M., & Friedman, C. P. (1999). Medical students' confidence judgments using a factual database and personal memory: A comparison. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(8), 698-708.
- Sonnenwald, D. H., Marchionini, G., Wildemuth, B., Dempsey, B., Viles, C., Tibbo, H., & Smith, J. Collaboration services in a participatory digital library: An emerging design. Paper accepted for presentation at the Third International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS 3), Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 23-26, 1999.
- Wildemuth, B. M., Cogdill, K., & Friedman, C. P. The transition from formalized need to compromised need in the context of clinical problem solving. Information Seeking in Context: an International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts. Sheffield, United Kingdom, August 13-15, 1998, in press.
- Wildemuth, B. M., Friedman, C. P., & Downs, S. M. (1998). Hypertext versus Boolean access to biomedical information: A comparison of effectiveness, efficiency and user preferences. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 5(2), 156-183.
- Wildemuth, B. M., de Bliek, R., Friedman, C. P., & File, D. D. (1995). Medical students' personal knowledge, searching proficiency, and database use in problem solving. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46, 590-607.
- Wildemuth, B. M., & Moore, M. E. (1995). End-user search behaviors and their relationship to search effectiveness. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 83, 294-304.
- Wildemuth, B. M., & O'Neill, A. L. (1995). The 'known' in known-item searches: A pilot study. College & Research Libraries, 56, 265-281.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
American Society for Information Science
1999 Founder and Chair, Special Interest Group for Information Seeking and Use
1998 Technical Program Co-chair, ASIS Midyear Meeting
1994-1995 Best Student Paper Award Jury, Chair
1993-1994 ISI Dissertation Scholarship Jury, Chair
1991-1994 Award of Merit Nominations Committee; Chair, 1993-1994
Proposal review panel member, National Science Foundation, 1998
Referee (selected): Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994, 1996; Library Quarterly, 1999; MIS Quarterly, 1990-1993; Annual Meeting, American Society for Information Science, 1992, 1996
Panel moderator, meetings of the American Society for Information Science, 1991, 1992, 1998, 1999