UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE, SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES
PhD Information Studies
PhD Newsletter Vol. 02 | No. 02
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Note from the PhD Program Director, Dr. Iris Xie
February 2013
A Note from our Director... This is the fifth year of our PhD program. While we celebrate our stuTh de dents’ achievements, it is also a time for us to review our program, discu the challenges, and come up with solutions. On January 18, 2013, cuss
Student Accomplishments Student Milestones
Intt In Interim Dean Wooseob Jeong organized the retreat on the SOIS PhD p pr program. I made a presentation consisting of the following three parts:
Building the Toolkit: Dr. Suyu Lin & Dr. Kun Lu Recent Scholarship: Chapters & Monographs, Journals, Conference Proceedings & Presentations
Recent Scholarship: Invited Speaker, Poster Sessions, Teaching, Awards, Service
Recent Scholarship Cont. Save The Date: Upcoming Events
cur u re ren nt sstatus, nt tatu ta tuss o tu pera pe rati ra tion ti on challenges, and achievements of our PhD program; 1)) current operation, 2) survey results on academic planning for the PhD program from both faculty and students; and 3) overview of 15 iSchool PhD programs in terms of their concentrations, enrollments, online programs, and financial support for students. Faculty and staff had a lively discussion and offered constructive comments and suggestions for the enhancement of the program. Based on the comments, I will work with the Doctoral Program Committee (DPC) on the following in Spring 2013: - Work on the document specifying the pros and cons of eliminating major and minor areas of the current PhD program, review the current curriculum of iSchool PhD programs, and propose revised program/curriculum for the SOIS PhD program. - Create a list of subject areas, noting faculty members aligned with each subject area based on their research expertise. The list can be used by current and prospective students to identify major professors and committee members. - Discuss the workload issues of Project Assistant/Teaching Assistant (PA/TA), in particular the TA appointment for a doctoral student teaching a class. - Develop a PA/TA evaluation form for faculty members to provide feedback about doctoral students’ PA/TA work. In addition, we are going to continue offering workshops to our doctoral students once per month this Spring (dates listed in this issue). Professor Wolfram will continue organizing the Overcoming Barriers to Information Access (B2A) colloquium presented by B2A students every first Tuesday of each month.
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Student Accomplishments
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by Tyler Smith
hile remembering the first post-secondary course I ever took, I recall opening my course reading packet and staring blankly at the pages. I
remember thinking, “Who would write such a torturous and lengthy cacophony of words?” I now know the answer to that question. We all have become the writers, researchers, and presenters who haunted our syllabi in our not so distant pasts. How far we have all come! The daunting task of publishing, presenting, and teaching are now becoming the new norm for many of us. I had a professor who once told me, “If you want to publish you have to think of academia like a prison yard, and the first rule in the prison yard is find the biggest guy there and take a swing at him.” While that practical and eloquent advice can describe some fields (in this case history) I have come to find LIS a far more collaborative discipline. Even a superficial glance at our PhD students’ accomplishments this semester shows a profusion of co-authored and partnered works. A perfect example of this kind of partnership can be seen with work done by SOIS PhD student Jihee Beak and SOIS professor Dr. Margaret Kipp. Their poster presentations Exploring Digital Information Using Tags and Local Knowledge at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 75th Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland and Examining Studies Comparing Tags and Controlled Vocabularies at the Canadian Association of Information Science (CAIS) 40th Annual Conference in Waterloo, Ontario are evidence of the commitment that our discipline and more importantly our doctoral program has to collaborative efforts in publications and presentations. The encouragement and confidence gained from this kind of collaborative effort can be seen as PhD students begin presenting and writing in their own voice.
The achievements of SOIS PhD students include several other accomplishments. In addition to 38 poster presentations, our students have presented over 70 times at conferences in Taipei, Daegu, Manchester, Mysore, Baltimore, Kansas City, and Waterloo. This includes students like Melodie Fox who presented her paper, “Rhetorical Space and the Ontogeny of Women in the DDC” at the Doctoral Student Symposium at the 2012 ASIST conference. The continued efforts and successes of our students can also be seen in students like Chunsheng Huang whose international presentations at the fourth Information Interaction in Context (IIiX) Symposium held in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and the fourteenth International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries in Taipei, Taiwan continue to propel SOIS PhD students onto the international stage. SOIS PhD students are not limited to the conference circuit though, there have been 33 peer-reviewed articles and over 100 nonpeer-reviewed articles published or accepted. Articles have been published in such prestigious journals as Melodie Fox’s article in Knowledge Organization and Ed Benoit’s article in the Journal of Documentation. In addition to these accomplishments, SOIS PhD D students have had seven book proposals or chapters accepted for st publication. pu u As A PhD students at SOIS continue to strive for excellence and establish themselves on the world stage, it is encouraging to see es such su a prosperous start for so many. As the program expands and as more students matriculate, these numbers will continue to swell, as will our pride in our students’ accomplishments.
Student Milestones: • Dalal Al-Budaiwi successfully defended her dissertation proposal.
• Elizabeth Barry-Kessler, Jihee Beak, Jeremy Mauger, and Nicholas Proferes successfully passed their preliminary exams.
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Building the Toolkit:
by Adriana McCleer
Transition from Doctoral Student to Academic Professional As doctoral students, we move through the program as adventurers and explorers, eager to advance yet cautious and careful in anticipation of the unknown. It is reassuring and motivating to see our peers reaching milestones and achieve success in their respective areas of interest. We had the opportunity to reconnect with Dr. Suyu Lin and Dr. Kun Lu to learn about their transition from doctoral student to academic professional. They completed their doctoral studies in 2012 as the first doctoral graduates in Information Studies at SOIS. Dr. Suyu Lin is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Archives and Records Management (ARM) at the Department of Library, Information and Media Studies in the College of Education at Chicago State University in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Kun Lu is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Management at Wuhan University in Wuhan, China. We are pleased to share their perspectives on this unique transition. Dr. Lin shares that the major differences between the roles of doctoral student and academic professional are the different priorities and how “work [now] comes from multiple sources (students and colleagues from the department, college, and university.)” She continues, “After one semester of adjustment, I feel the art of time management, setting priorities, and delegation is the key to handling this new role. Teaching and research are the high priorities based on my new school. I prioritize accordingly, and where necessary, delegate responsible staff I can trust and with whom I have built a good working relationship over a period of time.” Dr. Lu believes the biggest change from his work as a doctoral student compared with his work as a professor is the need to think more independently. He shares, “I need to develop my own academic career and research plans. I spend more time on thinking what our field will be and what I should contribute to. Instead of thinking of how to do, you need to think more of what to do as a professor.” He describes how there have not been many surprises in his transition to his professional academic position and how the SOIS doctoral program provides the necessary education and preparation for future academics. The program was helpful in his preparation to become a professor, as he notes: “The program provides reading intensive courses that help you to understand the field, research method courses that enhance your skills, and seminar courses that focus on your major area. In addition, the program provides project assistantships that allow you to work on specific research projects with faculty members, and teaching assistantships to practice your teaching skills.”
As Dr. Lu and Dr. Lin reflect on their respective experiences during the doctoral program, they refer to their experiences to share some advice with current and future Ph.D. students. Dr. Lu suggests that students keep focused on their work, do as much research as possible, and take advantage of the opportunities to learn from the SOIS faculty members in preparation for an academic position. Dr. Lin provides her best practices for preparing for the interview process in her search for a faculty position. She shares, “There are some typical academic interview questions, such as, ‘Tell me about your research,’ ‘What is your research agenda?’ ‘What courses would you like to teach [in addition to the one or two specialty courses specified in the job advertisement]?’ ‘How would you teach [name of a course]?’ ‘What approach would you take?’ I actually wrote down all the possible questions and rehearsed the answers. By doing this, I took the time to reflect on who I am professionally and what my research interests truly are.” When preparing for telephone interviews, she printed out her rehearsed answers to the listed questions and referred to them during the interview. She shares, “In this way, my brain wouldn’t go blank when I heard the search committee’s questions on the other end of telephone, and my voice sounded much more organized and calm. Honestly, I was nervous in the whole 45 minutes!” As we advance, it is important that we share our respective experiences with honesty and authenticity. Thank you to Dr. Lin and Dr. Lu for providing some tools to advance in this adventure. They are both willing to receive your questions and comments via email. Dr. Suyu Lin, slin20@csu.edu Dr. Kun Lu, kunlu@whu.edu.cn Spring 2013
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PhD Recent Scholarship Information Studies
Chapter & Monograph Publications Joo, S. & Xie, I. (2013). Evaluation constructs and criteria for digital libraries: A document analysis. In C. Cool & K. B. Ng (Eds.), Recent Developments in the Design, Construction and Evaluation of Digital Libraries. (126-140).
Journal Publications Crawford Barniskis, S. (2012). Graffiti, poetry, dance: How public library art programs affect teens. Part 1: Introduction & literature review. The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, 2(3). Crawford Barniskis, S. (2012). Graffiti, poetry, dance: How public library art programs affect teens. Part 2: The research study and its practical implications. The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, 2(3). Crawford Barniskis, S. (2013, in press). Embedded, participatory research: Creating a grounded theory with teenagers. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. Crawford Barniskis, S. (2013, in press). Teaching art to teens in public libraries. Teaching Artist Journal. Fox, M. J. & Reece, A. M. (2012). Which ethic? Whose morality?: An analysis of ethical standards for the organization of information. Knowledge Organization, 39(5), 377-383. Xie, I. & Benoit, III, E. (2013). Search result list evaluation versus document evaluation: Similarities and differences. Journal of Documentation, 69(1), 49-80.
Conference Proceedings Barry-Kessler, L. (Submitted). Queering copyright: Feminist and queer theory concerns with the exclusion of recipes from copyright protection, and with the idea of expanding copyright law. In Selected Papers in Internet Research of Association of Internet Researchers 13.0, October 2012, Manchester, United Kingdom.
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Fox, M. J. (2012). Communities of practice, gender and social tagging. In A. Neelameghan and K.S. Raghavan (eds.), Categories, Relations and Contexts in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the Twelfth International ISKO Conference, August 6-9, 2012, Mysore, India. 352-358. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag. Huang, C., Joo, S., & Xie, I. (2012). Effects of learning styles on the selection of search tactics: A preliminary result. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Conference, October 26-30, 2012. Baltimore, MD. 49: 1–4. Joo, S. & Lu, K. (2012). Structural Analysis of Author Vector Space in Information Sciences. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Conference. October 26-30, 2012. Baltimore, MD. Joo, S., Wolfram, D. & Song, S. (2013). Nonparametric estimation of query term size and token distribution. In Proceedings of iConference 2013. February 12-15, 2013. Fort Worth, TX. Joo, S. & Xie, I. (2012). Exploring search tactic patterns in searching digital libraries. In Proceedings of ICADL 2012 Conference. November 11-15, 2012. Taipei, Taiwan. Martinez-Avila, D., Fox, M. J., and Olson, H. A. (2012). Intersectionality in users of library knowledge organization systems: Lessons learned from the misrepresentation of Latina lesbians. Desafios e perspectivas científicas para a organização e representação do conhecimento na atualidade. Estudos Avançados em Organização do Conhecimento. v.1 (Proceedings of the First Annual Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, Brazil Chapter). 160-163. Tirilly, P., Huang, C., Jeong, W., Xie, I., Mu, X., & Zhang, J. (2012). Image similarity as assessed by users: A quantitative study. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Conference, October 26-30, 2012, 49: 1–10. Tirilly, P., Mu, X., Huang, C., Xie, I., Jeong, W., & Zhang, J. (2012). On the consistency and features of image similarity. In IIIX ‘12 Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, August 21-24, 2012. Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 164-173.
Conference Presentations Barry-Kessler, L. (2012, September). Making and queering a feminist critique of the exclusion of recipes from U.S. copyright law. Midwest Law and Society Retreat, Madison, WI. Barry-Kessler, L. (2012, October). Queering copyright: How lack of copyright protection for recipes both frustrates and benefits food bloggers. Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Manchester, United Kingdom. Beak, J. (2012, October). Children’s perceptual cognitive factors in book selection and metadata schema: Pilot study. American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Conference, Baltimore, MD. Fox, M. J. (2012, October). Rhetorical space and the ontogeny of women in the DDC. American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Conference, Doctoral Student Symposium, Special Interest Group/Classification Research, Baltimore, MD. Huang, C. (2012, November). Help-seeking interactions in digital libraries: Influence of learning styles. 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, Graduate Student Consortium, ICADL 2012, Taipei, Taiwan. Joo, S. (2012, November). Exploring Users’ Search Tactic Application in Digital Libraries. Graduate Student Consortium in ICADL 2012. Taipei, Taiwan. Mauger, J. (2012, October). Internet filtering in Denmark: The case of Pirate Bay. Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Manchester, United Kingdom. McCleer, A. (2012, September). Learning from Tucson: Coping with censorship challenges to authors of color. Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, Kansas City, MO. McCleer, A. (2012, October). Censorship of Mexican American Studies: An exploratory case study. School of Information Studies, University of Milwaukee-WI, Milwaukee, WI.
Recent Scholarship PhD Information Studies
McCleer, A. (2012, October). The ABCDs of Building Relationships with Refugee and Immigrant Communities. Wisconsin Library Association, La Crosse, WI. Proferes, N. & Zimmer, M. (2012, October). The ethics of Twitter research: A topology of disciplines, methods and ethics review boards. 2nd International Symposium on Digital Ethics, Chicago, IL. Wolfram, D., Glover, J., Kapusniak, R., McCleer, A., Thiele, J. (2012, September). Overcoming Barriers to Information Access. Joint Conference of Librarians of Color, Kansas City, MO.
Invited Speaker Barry-Kessler, L. (2012, August). Protecting your blogging rights, respecting those of others. Invited panelist at BlogHer 2012, New York City, NY. Beak, J. (2013, January). Children’s book selection behaviors and metadata schemas. Invited speaker at the Kyungpook National University, Department of Library and Information Science, Daegu, South Korea. Benoit, E. (2012, October). Home movies in society and the historical record. Invited speaker at the Home Movie Day Preview Night. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. McCleer, A. (2012, September). Asset-based approach to community assessment. Invited speaker for LI&SCI 734: Library Services and Resources for Adults, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Thiele, J. (2012, Fall). Programming and Outreach. Invited speaker for the Public and Community Library Services Course, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
Poster Sessions Han, H. J., Kapusniak, R., & Jeong, W. (2013, February). The usability study on the multicultural children’s book project of the National Library for Children and Young Adults (NLCY) in Korea. Poster presented at the iConference, Fort Worth, TX.
Joo, S. (2013, January). User engagement and system support during the search session in digital libraries. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference, Seattle, WA.
Benoit, E. (2012). School of Information Studies Teaching Reward, LI&SCI 210, Information Resources for Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.
Kapusniak, R., & Thiele, J. (2012, August). Browsing for leisure reading in the digital environment: A case study. International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and Institutions World Library and Information Congress, Helsinki, Finland.
Jayroe, T. (2012). Pre-Conference on the History of ASIST and Information Science Worldwide Student Scholarship. ASIST History Fund Board of Advisors.
Margaret, E. I. K., & Beak, J. (2012, May). Examining Studies Comparing Tags and Controlled Vocabularies. Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) 40th Annual Conference, Waterloo, Ontario. Margaret, E. I. K., Buchel, O., Neal, D. R., Beak, J., & Choi, I. (2012, October). Exploring digital information using tags and local knowledge. American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Conference, Baltimore, MD.
Joo, S. (2012). School of Information Studies Teaching Reward, L&I SCI 440, Information Architecture III, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Kapusniak, R. (2012). Graduate School Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Smith, T. S. (2012). Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI.
Professional Service Moyer, J., Kapusniak, R., & Thiele, J. (2013, January). Reader’s advisory services: Have we gotten any better? Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference, Seattle, WA. Thiele, J., Kapusniak, R., & Zimmer, M. (2013, February). Ebooks and cross generational perceived privacy issues. iConference, Fort Worth, TX.
Teaching Benoit, E. (Fall 2012). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: LI&SCI 210, Information Resources for Research. Joo, S. (Fall 2012). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: L&I SCI 440, Information Architecture III.
Beak, J. — Executive Officer, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization. Fox, M. J. — Program Committee Member, North American Symposium for Knowledge Organization (NASKO) 2013 Conference; Editorial Assistant/Reviewer, Knowledge Organization. Jayroe, T. — Advisory Board Member and Tweeter, Rocky Mountain Land Library; Communications Officer, ASIST SIG-Digital Libraries; Representative, UWM Graduate Student Advisory Council; Panel Organizer, ASIST Digital Liaisons: Shifting Borders in Interdisciplinary Collaborations. Kapusniak, R. — Executive Officer, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; PhD Student Representative, SOIS Research Committee; Vice President, ASIST Student Chapter, School of Information Studies, University of WI-Milwaukee.
Awards Beak, J. (2012). Graduate School Student Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. Benoit, E. (2012). Great Lakes National STEM Scholarship.
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Save the Date! B2A Presentations
PhD Workshops
McCleer, A. — President, SOIS Doctoral Student Organization; PhD Representative, SOIS Doctoral Program Committee; PhD representative, SOIS Diversity and Equity Committee; Editor, SOIS PhD Newsletter; Library Services to the Spanish Speaking Member, Reference Services Section, Reference and User Services Association Committee; Member, REFORMA Legislative Committee; Member, American Library Association Diversity Research Grant Advisory Committee.
NWQ B 3511
NWQ B 3511 • Lunch will be provided.
“Librarians’ Perception of Older Adult Services”
“What to Expect as a Junior Faculty Member”
Jennifer Thiele, PhD Student March 5 | 12:30 - 1:30pm
Presented by Patricia Hayes, Graduate School March 12 | 12:30 - 2:00pm
Smith, T. S. — Communications Coordinator, ASIST Student Chapter, School of Information Studies, University of WI-Milwaukee.
“Access Denied? An Exploratory Study of LCSH for African American Materials”
“How to Prepare to Teach a Class”
Thiele, J. — Co-Chair, Local Arrangements, 2013 Wisconsin Library Association Conference, Green Bay, WI.
Renee Kapusniak, PhD Student February 5 | 12:30 - 1:30pm
“Equity of Access in Rural Libraries: A Case Study of Low Broadband Speed and its Impact on Practice”
Jeannette Glover, PhD Student April 2 | 12:30 - 1:30pm
Presented by Dr. Nadine Kozak and Dr. Terrance Newell February 19 | 12:30 - 2:00pm
“How to Format and Submit your Dissertation and Graduate School Forms”
Presented by Dr. Laretta Henderson and Dr. Jessica Moyer April 09 | 12:30 - 2:00pm
“The Cyberpragmatics of Twitter” Tina Jayroe, PhD Student May 7 | 12:30 - 1:30pm
The SOIS PhD Newsletter is published twice a year by the SOIS PhD student body. Contributions (articles, letters, photos, etc.) are welcomed. Please send updates to the PhD Program Director, Dr. Iris Xie (hiris@uwm.edu). EDITORIAL BOARD Adriana McCleer, PhD Student, Chief Editor Tyler Smith, PhD Student, Editor
Liza Barry-Kessler, PhD Student, Editor Dr. Iris Xie, PhD Program Director
Art Direction & Design: Rebecca Hall Photography: Natalie Puariea & UWM Photographic Services
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Doctoral Committee - 2012/13 Dr. Hope Olson (Chair) Dr. Iris Xie, PhD Director Dr. Wilhelm Peekhaus Adriana McCleer, PhD Student (2012) Nick Proferes, PhD Student (2013) Linda Barajas, Admissions Coordinator