Faculty & Staff - iSchool @ UMD

Bruce I. Ambacher

Visiting Professor, PhD, Temple.
Archives administration, electronic records, digital preservation, national and international digital standards.

Diane L. Barlow

Associate Dean, PhD, Maryland.
Communication and information transfer, information use, education for the information professions.

Jason R. Baron

Esq., Adjunct Professor, J.D., Boston U.
Federal recordkeeping practices, information law, e-discovery

John C. Bertot

Professor, Director of the Center for Library Innovation, Ph.D, Syracuse University

Sharan Blohm

Adjunct Professor

Beverly R. Brown

Technology Officer, Adjunct Professor, M.S., UMUC

Anne S. Caputo

Adjunct Professor, MALS, San Jose State.
Director, Knowledge & Learning Programs, Factiva.

Susan R. Clabaugh

Adjunct Professor, EdD, Oklahoma State.
Coordinator, Technology Enhanced Learning, Office of Information Technology,
University of Maryland.

Thomas J. Connors

Adjunct Professor, MA, Brown.
Archivist/Curator, National Broadcasting Archives, University Libraries, University of Maryland.

Walter Cybulski

Adjunct Professor, MLS, SUNY-Albany.
Head, Quality Assurance Unit, Preservation and Management Section, National Library of Medicine.

Nancy Davenport

Adjunct Professor

Bruce W. Dearstyne

Adjunct Professor, PhD, Syracuse.
Consultant.

Vedat G. Diker

Assistant Professor, PhD, SUNY Albany.
Modeling and simulation of socio-economic systems, social and human impacts of information and communication technologies.

Jane Dorfman

Adjunct Professor

Allison Druin

Associate Professor, Director of the HCIL, PhD, New Mexico.
Children's information access and use, digital libraries for children, user interface design, children's storytelling processes and tools.

Jean Dryden

Assistant Professor, Ph.D, University of Toronto

John Fleckner

Adjunct Professor, MA, Wisconsin.
Senior Archivist, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Assistant Professor, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Human-Computer Interaction; Social Informatics; Information Ethics; Value-Sensitive Design of Educational Computer Simulations, Computational Models, and Digital Libraries

Kathleen Fominaya

Director of Administrative Services

Geraldine Foudy

Adjunct Professor, MSLIS, Long Island.
Government and Politics, Public Policy, and Law Librarian, University Libraries, University of Maryland.

Maralita Freeny, Adjunct Professor, MLS, Catholic University.
Director, Prince George's County Memorial Library.

Maralita Freeny

Adjunct Professor

Jen Golbeck

Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Maryland, College Park
Social networks, trust, intelligent systems, semantic web

Stephen Greenberg

Adjunct Professor, PhD, Fordham , MSLS, Columbia
Coordinator of Public Services, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

Robert S. Gresehover

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Maryland.
Service Area Manager, Information Services, Head Librarian, R.E. Gibson Library and Information Center, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory.

Trudi Bellardo Hahn

Professor of the Practice, PhD, Drexel
History of information science and technology; information policy; information literacy and assessment of learning

Stephen Hannestad

Research Associate, MIM, Maryland
Director of Research, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland.

Derek Hansen

Assistant Professor, Director of CASCI, PhD, University of Michigan

Social computing, mass collaboration, consumer health informatics, and information services.

Karen Hartman

Adjunct Professor

Carla D. Hayden

Adjunct Professor, PhD, Chicago.
Executive Director, Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Sheila Intner

Adjunct Professor

Paul Jacobs

Adjunct Professor, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley
Consultant.

Paul T. Jaeger

Assistant Professor, Director of the CIPEG, PhD, JD, Florida State University
Information Law and Policy, Information Access, E-government, Accessibility and the Information Needs of Persons with Disabilities, Social Theory and Information, Diversity and LIS Education, Evaluation of Networked Information Services and Resources

Ellen Jay

Adjunct Professor, MALS, San Jose State.
Director, Knowledge & Learning Programs, Factiva.

Cassandra Jones

Director of Student Services, MS, UMUC.

Neal K. Kaske

Adjunct Professor, PhD, Oklahoma.
Director of Statistics and Surveys, NCLIS

Jerry S. Kidd

Professor Emeritus, PhD, Northwestern.
Systems analysis, research methods, science communication including popularization, user needs.

Soo Jung Kim

Adjunct Professor

Deborah Klein

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Maryland.
Consultant.

Kari Kraus

Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Rochester
Digital Humanities, Information Access in the Arts and Humanities, Intellectual Property, Digital Preservation, Virtual Worlds, Image Metadata

Michael J. Kurtz

Adjunct Professor, PhD, Georgetown.
Assistant Archivist for Records Services, National Archives and Records Administration.

Sabrina Liao

Staff Research Assistant/Web Master, MA, NYU

Peter Liebscher

Adjunct Professor

James W. Liesener

Professor Emeritus, PhD, Michigan.
School library media services, young adult services, management.

Jimmy Lin

Assistant Professor, PhD, MIT.
Computational linguistics, information retrieval, question answering, search interfaces, theoretical linguistics.

Johnnie Love

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Denver.
Coordinator, Personnel Programs, McKeldin Library.

Charles Lowry

Dean of Libraries and Professor, PhD, Florida.
Operations research, faculty status for librarians, digital libraries and library information technology, and organization and management.

Anne S. MacLeod

Professor Emerita, PhD, Maryland.
History and criticism of children's literature, library in the social process.

Laura Madison

Administrative Assistant.

Michael L. Miller

Adjunct Professor, PhD, Ohio State.

Christina Moyer

Advisor, Student Services Office, MLS, Maryland.

Delia Neuman

Emerita Associate Professor
Information as a tool for learning, school library media issues, instructional system design and qualitative research methods.

Douglas W. Oard

Associate Dean for Research & Associate Professor, PhD, Maryland
Information technology, user modeling, information retrieval.

Jaime Oliver

Communication Coordinator, Student Services Office

Deborah Ozga

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Maryland.
Biomedical Librarian, National Institutes of Health Library.

Scott Paquette

Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Toronto
Knowledge Management, Customer Knowledge, The Role of Information Systems and External Users in Innovation, Knowledge Transfer in the Environmental and Climate Sciences, Knowledge for Sustainable Development

Thomas Phelps

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Oregon.
Assistant Director, National Endowment for the Humanities.

Jennifer J. Preece

Professor & Dean, PhD, Open University.
Computer-mediated communication, human-computer interaction, management of online communities of practice, health, education, and knowledge.

Ann Prentice

Professor Emerita, DLS, Columbia.
Management of information environments, governance, planning, financial administration, political considerations, community analysis, research methodology, education for the information professions, outcome assessment.

Yan Qu

Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Michigan
Information Seeking and Organization, Sensemaking and Learning, Information System Design, Human Computer Interaction.

Mary Ramos

Faculty Research Assistant

Vera T. Rhoads

Adjunct Professor, MS, Syracuse.
Senior Manager, Intranet, Fannie Mae.

Nancy K. Roderer

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Maryland.
Director, Welch Medical Library, Interim Director, Division of Health Sciences Informatics. Johns Hopkins University.

Maria Salvadore

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Maryland.
Consultant.

Susan Schreibman

Adjunct Professor, PhD, University College Dublin.
Assistant Dean, Head of Digital Collections and Research, University Libraries, University of Maryland.

Anne L. Sheldon

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Maryland.
Children's Librarian, Freelance Storyteller, and Poet-in-the-Schools.

Kevin Shook

Development Coordinator

Wendy Simmons

Adjunct Professor, PhD, Maryland.
Foreign Service Library Specialist, US Department of State.

Simmona E. Simmons-Hodo

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Maryland.
Services Development and Special Projects Librarian, Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Dagobert Soergel

Professor, Dr. phil., Freiburg.
Information storage and retrieval, expert systems, classification theory and index languages.

Timothy Sprehe

Adjunct Professor

Kanti Srikantaiah

Adjunct Professor, PhD, Southern California.
Professor and Director, Center for Knowledge Management, Dominican University.

Deborah Taylor

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Maryland.
Coordinator, School and Student Services, Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Regina Tracy

Assoc. Director of Development

J. Maurice Travillian

Adjunct Professor, MALS, Vanderbilt.
Consultant.

Margarita Vargas

Administrative Assistant

Patricia Verdines

Adjunct Professor

Claude E. Walston

Professor Emeritus, PhD, Ohio State.
Technology assessment, design and management of information systems, telecommunications, information for decision making.

Ping Wang

Assistant Professor, PhD, UCLA.
Management of information technology innovations in organizations, technology entrepreneurship, institutional analysis of technological and organizational change.

Paul Wasserman

Professor Emeritus, PhD, Michigan.
Administration, bibliography, publishing, comparative librarianship.

Ann C. Weeks

Professor of the Practice, PhD, Pittsburgh.
School library media programs, children's information access and use, digital libraries for children.

Marilyn Domas White

Associate Professor Emerita, PhD, Illinois.
Information access, information seeking behavior, questioning behavior, search strategy, user-centered design of retrieval systems, scholarly communication, computer-mediated communication.

Linda Williams

Adjunct Professor, MLS, Maryland.
Director, Library Media Services, Anne Arundel County Public Schools.

Bo Xie

Assistant Professor, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Older adults' learning and use of computers and the Internet; computer literacy; lifelong learning; civic engagement; volunteering; social relationships; social support; online communities; health and well-being

Dave Yates

Assistant Professor, PhD, University of Southern California
Organizational use of collaborative technologies for innovation; social creativity and social influence in virtual contexts