ASIST Doctoral Seminar on Research and Career Development

October 30, 2012, Hilton Baltimore, Ruth Room (near the Diamond Tavern)

Organizers:

Barbara Wildemuth, School of Information and LIbrary Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and

John Bertot, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland College Park

Purpose

The purpose of this seminar is to provide a forum in which doctoral candidates and recent doctoral graduates can discuss their research and career plans with more senior scholars. During the seminar, the junior scholars will become acquainted with more senior scholars working in related areas and will have the opportunity to interact with their peers.

Participants

The following junior researchers have been invited to participate:

• Parmit Chilana, University of Washington, Improving Software Help-Seeking through Selection-Based Crowdsourced Contextual Help (Advisor: Andrew Ko)
• Laura Christopherson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ARGGGGH!! l2spell online! The Creative Vocabulary of Cyberlanguage x(~_^)-b (Advisor: Stephanie Haas)
• Mary Grace Flaherty, Syracuse University, The Public Library as Health Information Resource? An Exploratory Case Study (Advisor: Carsten Oesterlund)
• Roberto González-Ibáñez, Rutgers University, Melting the Affective Poles: A Study of the Interaction of Positive and Negative Affects and their Role in Collaborative Information Seeking
• Yong-Mi Kim, University of Michigan (now at Duke University), The Use of Social Tags in Text and Image Searching on the Web (Advisor: Soo Young Rieh)
• Youngseek Kim (CV), Syracuse University, Institutional and Individual Influences on Scientists' Data Sharing Practices (Advisor: Ping Zhang)
• Chang Liu, Rutgers University, Personalizing Information Retrieval Using Interaction Behaviors in Search Sessions in Different Types of Tasks (Advisor: Nick Belkin)
• Lori McCay-Peet, Dalhousie University, At the Intersection: Investigating the Qualities of the Serendipitous Digital Environment and the Serendipity-Prone Person (Advisor: Elaine Toms)
• Kyong Eun Oh, Rutgers University, The Process of Organizing Personal Information (Advisor: Nick Belkin)
• Ellen Rubenstein (CV), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (now at the University of Oklahoma), "It's a Microcosm of Life": Weaving a Web of Information and Support in an Online Breast Cancer Community (Advisor: Lori Kendall)
• Jaime Snyder, Syracuse University, Image-Enabled Discourse: Investigating the Creation of Visual Information as Communicative Practice (Advisor: Liz Liddy)

The following senior researchers will be working with them:

• June Abbas, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Oklahoma
• Rob Capra, School of Information & Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Colleen Cool, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY
• Ken Fleischmann, School of Information, University of Texas
• Jim Jansen, College of Information Sciences & Technology, Penn State University
• Jenny Preece, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
• Nancy Roderer, Welch Medical Library and Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University
• Howard Rosenbaum, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University
• Candy Schwartz, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College
• Carol Tenopir, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Christine Urquhart, Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University

Agenda

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