Jane E. Klobas

Biographical Information

Jane Klobas is Senior Lecturer in Information Management and co-ordinator of the information management specialisation on the Master of Business Administration program in the Graduate School of Management (GSM) at The University of Western Australia. She has a PhD in organisational psychology and an MBA. She is a professional member of the Australian Computing Society and the Australian Library and Information Association. Jane is an experienced consultant who has managed information services for business organisations and the administrative and technical services divisions of a university library. She has also worked in human resource management, taught on a wide range of topics associated with information management, and published widely in information management and statistical computing.

Recent publications include:

• Klobas, J. E. (1998). The virtual supply chain: A view of information flows, business structures, and business opportunities. Business Information Review, 15(3), August.

• Klobas, J. E. & Clyde, L. A. (1998). Learning to use the Internet in a developing country: Validation of a user model. Libri, September.

• Klobas, J. E. & Haddow, G. (1998). Evaluating the impact of computer-supported international collaborative teamwork in business education. Discussion Paper Series, 1998-5 [The Graduate School of Management, The University of Western Australia].

• Klobas, J. E. (1997). Information services for new millennium organizations: Librarians and knowledge management. In D. Raitt (Ed) Libraries for the new millennium: Implications for managers (pp. 39-64). London: Library Association Publishing.

• Klobas, J. E. (1997). The methods of action research. School Libraries Worldwide, 2(3), 11-30.

• Klobas, J. (1997). User response to a WWW browser-based interface to library information resources: Results of the second CygNET user survey. The Graduate School of Management Discussion Papers Series, 1997-11, 36 pp. [Nedlands, Australia: The Graduate School of Management, The University of Western Australia, ISSN 1320-1980].

• Klobas, J. E. (1996). Networked information resources: Electronic opportunities for users and librarians. Internet Research. 6(4), 53-62.

• Klobas, J. E. (1996). Information infrastructure: Organizational capability for online information provision. In D. I. Raitt & B. Jeapes (Eds), Online Information 96, 20th International Online Information Meeting, Proceedings, London, 3-5 December, 1996. Oxford: Learned Information, pp. 73-84.

• Klobas, J. E. (1995). Beyond information quality: Fitness for purpose and electronic information resource use. Journal of Information Science. 21(2), 95-114.

• Klobas, J. E. & McGill, T. (1995). Identification of technological gatekeepers in the information technology profession. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 46(8), 581-589.

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