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February 2012 Stuart McRae will be joining DIS on Wednesday February 29th to present a seminar for the Knowledge Management Research Group. Contact Gill Ragsdell for more details. January 2012 Loughborough University has awarded Dame Lynne Brindley DBE, Chief Executive of The British Library, the degree of
Dame Lynne Brindley DBE, pictured with Professor Graham Matthews, head of the Department of Information Science Congratulations to Mark Hepworth on his recent promotion to Reader in People’s Information Behaviour. Dr. Mark Hepworth specialises in studying people’s information behaviour and researching factors that affect information behaviour. These include, for example, the context of the person as well as individual characteristics. He is particularly interested in the methods and techniques that can be used to understand people’s information behaviour. This knowledge has led to studies that focus on identifying people’s information management capabilities, including information literacy, and how people and organisations can foster and develop information management capabilities. Exploiting various methods to understand people’s information behaviour has also led to an interest in, and the development of, techniques that can be used to identify people’s information needs, in particular participative techniques that enable people to take an active role in the design of, appropriate, people centred information services and products. Dr. Janet Harrison is invited to the Launch of the report on Status of Health Libraries and Librarianship in Ireland ( SheLLI) , on 26th Jan , Dublin Dental Hospital, Janet led the work with Claire Creaser and Helen Greenwood. December 2011 Prof Graham Matthews has just returned from Seoul, Korea, where he was invited to present a paper at the 1st International Conference of the International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS), ‘Protecting the world’s cultural heritage in times of change: emergency preparedness and change’, held at the National Museum of Korea. Prof Matthews’s paper focused on protecting the diverse collections of libraries, archives and museums. Further details at: http://www.icbs2011seoul.org/ November 2011 Dr Robert Mellor author of "Knowledge Management & Information Systems: Strategies for Growing Organisations" is joining KMRG on January 25th. Please contact Gill Ragsdell for more details. Dr. Louise Cooke’s workshop at the LIS Research Coalition’s DREaM Event 2 is voted “most popular” session of the day. She will be continuing the interactive SNA exercise virtually with delegates at the follow-up workshop days. October 2011 Peter Lancett, a former IMBS student now working as a Technology Consultant for IBM, is profiled in Science magazine, illustrating the importance of excellent information and knowledge analytical capabilities. http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_09_30/caredit.a1100106 September 2011 Dr. Louise Cooke has been invited to present and facilitate on the use of Social Network Analysis at the LIS Research Coalition’s DReAM workshop in Edinburgh in October. Information about the workshop can be found http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-2-workshop-tuesday-25-october-2011/ June 2011 For the second year running, The Times Good University Guide (published June 2011) has ranked the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University as the top institution in the UK for studying Librarianship and Information Management. The ranking is based on student satisfaction, research quality, entry standards and graduate prospects. The Department are proud of this achievement. May 2011 Professor Amanda Spink, DIS Chair in Information Science, has been appointed as a member of the Aslib Advisory Council (http://www.aslib.com) which provides external guidance and support for Aslib’s development. Aslib, the Association for Information Management, is a membership association for people who manage information and knowledge in organisations. In 2010 Aslib was acquired by MCB Group and Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Professor Spink is also the Emerald Library and Information Science Book Series Editor and was recently appointed the Editor of the Emerald journal Aslib Proceedings. The Complete University Guide (published April 2011) has ranked the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University as the top institution in the UK for studying Librarianship and Information Management. The ranking is based on criteria including student satisfaction, graduate prospects, spend on academic services, completion rates, percentage of students achieving good honours degrees and quality of research. The Department are proud of this achievement Professor Amanda Spink has been appointed the Editor of the Emerald Journal Aslib Proceedings. ASLIB Proceedings is a peer-reviewed quality journal covering research and practice in library and information science, and information management. The journal is the major publication for ASLIB – the Association for Information Management in the United Kingdom - a membership association for people who manage information and knowledge in organisations and the information industry. Professor Spink will be redeveloping the journal Aslib Proceedings to a higher international quality, including a new Editorial Advisory Board. Amanda is also the Editor of the Emerald Library and Information Science book series. Dr Jonathan Levitt will be giving two talks on his research to information science staff and students, at Sheffield University on May 13 and at City University on May 18. We are pleased to announce that Dr Jonathan Levitt has returned as Principal Investigator on the ESRC funded Small Grant 'Using bibliometric data in the effective allocation of research funding'. Dr Levitt will be conducting research on this project with his consultant Prof. Mike Thelwall, Head of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton. Dr Levitt was a Visiting Research Fellow in this department from February to June 2009 and an ESRC Post-doctoral Fellow in this department from July 2009 to June 2010. Health Librarianship and Libraries in Ireland February 2011 Professor Amanda Spink, Chair in Information Science, recently made an invited research presentation on her ARC funded project exploring information behaviour in early childhood to students and staff in the Department of Information Science at the City University London. FreedomLab Future Studies, a major European Think Tank, conducted videotaped interviews with Professor Amanda Spink, Chair in Information Science, on February 16 about her research and thinking on information behaviour. Professor Spink’s recent book published by Springer, “Information Behavior: An Evolutionary Instinct” provides a visionary evolutionary and developmental view of information behaviour. FreedomLab Future Studies (FreedomLab.org) is a research lab and an European think tank that provides leading-edge research on social change based on future studies to commercial and government organizations world-wide to help them develop alternative visions and creative strategies. Members of the FreedomLab Think Tank include former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Don Tapscott and Shoshanna Zuboff from Harvard University. Professor Amanda Spink, Chair in Information Science, will make an invited presentation on her book “Information Behavior: An Evolutionary Instinct” to students and staff in the School of Computing and Information Technology at University of Wolverhampton on March 2. Her recent book provides a visionary evolutionary and developmental view of information behaviour. November 2010 Professor Amanda Spink, Chair in Information Science has been invited to speak about her new book “Information Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective” on February 9 at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. Her presentation is being sponsored by the Department of Information Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The seminar is the inaugural seminar in a speaker series for the National Library of Wales and the Information Services Directorate, aimed at staff of the 3 departments/ institutions and postgraduate students at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth Department of Information Studies. In her new book Professor Spink provides a new understanding of information behavior by incorporating related findings, theories and models from social sciences, psychology and cognition. In her presentation, she argues that information behavior is an important instinctive sociocognitive ability that can only be fully understood with a highly interdisciplinary approach. The leitmotivs of her examination are three important research questions: First, what is the evolutionary, biological and developmental nature of information behavior? Second, what is the role of instinct versus environment in shaping information behavior? And, third, how have information behavior capabilities evolved and developed over timDr Gillian Ragsdell visits alumni in Kuwait and Bahrain Professor Amanda Spink, Chair in Information Science, in collaboration with Australian researchers at the Queensland University of Technology and Charles Stuart University has received funding for a research project exploring Web searching by young children. The project has been funded by a 3-year $463,971 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant. The project CI's are Prof Amanda Spink (Loughborough Information Science), Profs Susan Danby (QUT - Early Childhood) and Karen Thorpe (QUT – Psychology) and Dr Christina R Davidson (CSU - Education). Titled - Interacting with Knowledge, Interacting with People: Web Searching in Early Childhood - the study investigates the nature and extent of pre-school (4-5 year old) children's Web searching, what they access and in what social contexts. The project extends previous studies reported in: Spink, A., Danby, S., Mallan, K., & Butler, C. (2010). Exploring young childrens’ web searching and technoliteracy. Journal of Documentation, 66(1), 191-206. Adrienne Muir will be chairing the Legal Alignment panel at the international Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation conference. The conference is being held on May 23-25, 2011, in Tallinn, Estonia. The conference is co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Library of Estonia. The other panels are: Organisational, Economic, Standards, Technical and Education alignment. For further information see http://www.educopia.org/events/ANADP Inese Smith, Lecturer, Hui-Yun Sung, PhD student and Graham Matthews, Head of Department, in front of Inese’s poster, 'Preserving unique Latvian documentary heritage: the Latvian National Register of the UNESCO "Memory of the World" Programme' at IFLA 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden. Hui-Yun Sung also presented a poster on “Public libraries and Community Engagement”. Congratulations to Professor Paul Sturges, Emeritus Professor of Library Studies, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, on the award of OBE for services to Libraries in the UK and Overseas in the Queen's Birthday Honours. The Department of Information Science has been ranked as the top department for studying Librarianship and Information Management in this year's Times Good University Guide, reinforcing its position as one of the country's leading departments. The Times Good University Guide, published in June 2010, is based upon a number of measures of quality including student satisfaction, research quality, entry standards and graduate prospects. The Department is proud of this achievement which is a clear indication of the excellent standard of education provided to our students and the fantastic opportunities available to them. May 2010 Pictures from the recent successful "Locking in Low Carbon Knowledge" conference co-hosted by Dr Gill Ragsdell (DIS), Dr Jacqui Glass (Civil & Building Engineering) and Dr Jenny Harding (Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering). DIS postgraduate students win awards: Two DIS postgraduate students were awarded funding to attend the UKSG Annual Conference in Edinburgh in April 2010. The successful students were Esther Nyambi, who is studying on the MSc Information & Knowledge Management programme, and Tamsyn Bayliss, who is on the MSc Information & Library Management programme. Geoff Walton, wins the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Europe, Information Professional Award 2010. Geoff successfully completed his PhD in the Department of Information Science in 2009. The prize includes an expenses-paid trip to the SLA conference in New Orleans, June 2010. The prize was funded by Dow Jones. Geoff has also been invited to be part of a panel to lead a discussion on the implications of Web 2.0 for the information profession. The discussion will look at common issues for information professionalsl which cut across or span national boundaries. Hartmut Schwamm, a student on the Information and Library Management programme 2007-8, has been awarded the 2009 Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) postgraduate prize for his dissertation ‘An evaluation of marketing orientation in European national libraries.' This innovative work was supervised by Dr. Derek Stephens. The Department is delighted with Hartmut’s award which completes a hat-trick for the Department - this is the third time in a row that a student from the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University has won this award; Hartmut’s success follows that of Jo Bryant and Catherine Parkinson. LIRG is a special interest group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals that promotes the value of information research and links research with practice. Research students from Information Science visited the British Library on the 28th July. Rachael Lindsay has won the PhD student prize at UKAIS doctoral consortium in Oxford. Her multi-facet research has involved a study at Leicestershire Constabulary into the use of Mobile Data Terminals (MDT's) by officers responding to incidents. Prof Ray Paul's evaluation of her research at UKAIS was that she was without doubt the best PhD student at the conference. More details about Rachael's research can be found on the Departmental web pages. The Emerald Group Publishing Limited have informed the Department that Dr. Michael Norris has been named as a Highly Commended Award winner of the 2008 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Information Science category for his doctoral thesis. These prestigous awards have now been running for four years and attract submissions of an exceptionally high quality from across the globe in all subject areas. Michael was awarded his Ph.D. in the autumn of 2008 and is continuing to work on a research project in DIS. Charles Oppenheim, Head of Department commented: "This recognition of Dr. Norris' research is richly deserved. His outstanding research explored the topical and contentious issue of whether Open Access journal articles receive more citations than toll access journals, and if so, why. His work demonstrated that the reasons for the increase of citations are complex and cannot be explained away in a simplistic fashion, as some have tried to so." The Department of Information Science is pleased to announce a new postgraduate programme in Information Management and Business Technology to begin in September 2008. Please click for programme details. For application details and further information please contact the programme tutor. Organisations require hybrid managers to understand the technical and business requirements of the organisation. Based around real industry problems, and consisting of a mixed blend of recently graduated students and experienced employees from industry, the programme will provide students with hybrid managerial knowledge and experience of both information and business technologies. June 2008 Joanna Bryant, a student on the Information and Library Management programme 2006-7 Joanna Bryant, a student on the Information and Library Management programme 2006-7 has been awarded the 2008 Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) postgraduate prize for her dissertation 'An ethnographic study of user behaviour in Open3 at the Pilkington Library, Loughborough University'. The work was supervised by Professor Graham Matthews and Dr Graham Walton. LIRG is a special interest group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professions that promotes the value of information research and links research with practice. May 2008 Victoria Robinson, Publishing with English finalist wins student writing award. Victoria Robinson, a Publishing with English finalist, has won the Student Writing Award Scheme offered by the Higher Education Academy. The 2008 award gave students studying Information and Computer Sciences the opportunity to express their views on the subject of ""What makes a good lecturer?" . More details on the scheme can be found at http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/student_central/competitions.htm November 2007 Recent graduate Elizabeth McDonald named as one of the top ten new librarians in England. The love librarians campaign has named Elizabeth McDonald as one of the most inspiring new librarians for 2007. Elizabeth graduated from the Department of Information Science with a degree in Information and Library Management in 2002. View Elizabeth's entry on love librarians. September 2007 Catherine Parkinson has been awarded the Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) postgraduate prize for 2007 for her dissertation on Website accessibility statements. Catherine Parkinson, a student in the Department 2005-6, has been awarded the Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) postgraduate prize for her dissertation "Website accessibility statements: a comparative investigation of local government and high street sector:. The work was supervised by Wendy Olphert. May 2006 ALLIS award for portals articleAt the 2006 AGM of the Association of Librarians and
Information Workers in the Social Sciences (ALLIS) at the British Library,
Yvonne Hamblin from the Department of Information Science was awarded
the prize for ‘the best article of the year award’ for her
article on library portals. The criteria was for an article which was
topical, informative, well written and inspiring. March 2006 Congratulations to Emma Dalby Bowler (Publishing with English finalist) who has been elected as next year's Editor of the Loughborough Student Union Magazine, LABEL. This is a student union sabbatical post and Emma will be a full member of the LSU Executive Committee for 2006-07. February 2006 RNIB sponsors accessibility evaluation of library software. A student, Majid Khan, in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University has completed an evaluation of Ex-Libris Metalib library software. The impact of Majid's study will mean that independent access to learning for tertiary students who are blind or partially sighted will be enabled and improved. January 2006 Appointment of Honorary Research Fellow The Department of Information Science is pleased to announce
the appointment of Dr Graham Walton,as
an Honorary Research Fellow. Dr. Walton is the Service Development Manager
of the University Library. He is a recognised authority in the field of
health informatics, and is currently editor of Health Information and
Libraries Journal, one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in the field.
He also has research and practioner expertise in the delivery of hybrid
academic library services. Before coming to Loughborough he was Assistant
Director of the Information Management Research Institute at the University
of Northumbria. It is expected that Dr.Walton will contribute to research
activities in the department. December 2005 CILIP Branch support for local student The East Midlands Branch of CILIP have awarded a bursary to Jeremy Silvester, a postgraduate in the Department of Information Science. The Branch Committee offered the bursary as part of their ongoing aim to support regional members of CILIP and to foster a strong working relationship with the local Library and Information education provider at Loughborough University. Jeremy, who is a part-time postgraduate studying for a qualification in Information and Library Management, lives and works in the East Midlands, and won the bursary through demonstrating his commitment to the work of CILIP and to the library and information profession. For further information about the activities of the Branch,
visit the CILIP web site or contact the Secretary, Yvonne Hamblin. Email:
y.c.hamblin@lboro.ac.uk November 2005 Miggie Pickton, who graduates this
December (2005) with an MSc in Information and Library Management from
the Department of Information Science at Loughborough has won the Roger
K Summitt scholarship for Library and Information Science. The scholarship
is awarded in recognition of electronic information proficiency and the
recipient must demonstrate outstanding interest or performance in electronic
information services. This included a test of knowledge of the Dialog
IR system. Miggie has been awarded Euro 5000 to further her professional
development. The staff and students in Information Science at Loughborough
are delighted for Miggie. July 2005 The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Charles Oppenheim has been awarded £145,000 funding for a new research project "The Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories". The project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) under the Digital Repositories Programme. This represents a cooperative venture between the Department of Information Science (DIS), the Engineering Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (engCETL) and the University Library. The two year project aims to establish a single Blended repository to meet the teaching and research needs of this institution. It will address the motivational issues facing depositors of teaching materials with a focus on the associated Rights and Rewards. |
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