Ph.D. Program in Information Studies - Faculty Features

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. - Thomas Carlyle

Dr. Heting Chu
Professor
Ph.D., College of Information Studies, Drexel University, 1991
M.L.I.S., Graduate School of Library & Information Studies, McGill University, 1986
B.A., Department of Library & Information Science, Peking University, Beijing, China, 1982
Member: American Society for Information Science; Association for Computing Machinery; Association for Library and Information Science Education
Research Interest: Information Retrieval, Scientometrics, Research Methods, Information technologies applied in library and information science
Recent Publications:
Heting Chu, and Yi Ao. Image Retrieval: Principles, Systems and Practices. Shengyang: Liaoning Science & Technology Publishing House. (In press. A monograph in Chinese)

"Taxonomy of inlinked Web entities: What does it imply for Webometric research?". Library & Information Science Research: An International Journal, 27(1), 8-27. 2005.

Heting Chu & Thomas Krichel. "NEP: Current awareness service of the RePEc digital library". D-Lib Magazine, 9(12), December 2003.
Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december03/chu/12chu.html.

Heting Chu & Thomas Krichel. ?Current awareness service of the RePEc digital library: Progress, performance and potentials?. Proceedings of the CAS Symposium on the Sustainable Development & Innovation of Libraries, (pp. 221-233). Beijing, China, December 2003.

"Electronic books: Viewpoints from users and potential users". Library Hi Tech, 21(3), 340-346. 2003.

Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2003. 250p. ISBN 1-57387-172-9. (An ASIS&T monograph)

Send email to: hchu@liu.edu
Web Site: http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/hchu/

Dr. Gregory S. Hunter
Professor
Ph.D., American History, New York University 1989
M.Phil., New York University, 1979
M.A., New York University, 1977
Certificate in Archival Administration, New York University, 1978
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, St. John's University, 1975
Member: Academy of Certified Archivists: President (1989-90); Examination Development Committee (1995-97) Society of American Archivists: Chair, Committee on Education and Professional Development (1989-90); Vice Chair, Business Archives Section (1988-89); Chair, Publications Board (1998-2000) Organization of American Historians: Chair, Committee on Research and Access to Historical Documentation (1995-96)
Research Interest: Archives, records management, corporate history, electronic records, and organizational change issues
Recent Publications:
Records Management. Neal-Schuman, 2005.

Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives, Second Edition. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2003. Winner of the Society of American Archivists' 2004 Waldo Gifford Leland Prize.

"Business Archives." In Steven Fisher, ed., Archival Information: How to Find It, How to Use It. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004, pages 138-160.

"A Win-Win Situation: Knowledge Management and the Institutional Archives." in Michael E.D. Koenig and T. Kanti Srikantaiah, eds., Knowledge Management Lessons Learned: What Works and What Doesn't. American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2004, pages 269-274.

Preserving Digital Information (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2000).

Recent Awards: Preserving Digital Information won the Society of American Archivists' 2001 Preservation Publications Award.
Certified Archivist
Certified Records Manager

Send email to: ghunter@liu.edu

Dr. Michael E.D. Koenig
Ph. Program Director, Professor
Ph.D., Information Science, Drexel University, 1982
MBA, University of Chicago, 1970
M.S., Library & Information Science, University of Chicago, 1968
B.A., Psychology, Yale University, 1963
Member: Association for Computing Machinery; International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics; American Library Association
Research Interest: Knowledge Management; Scientometrics;
Information & Organizational Productivity
Recent Publications:
"Lessons from the study of scholarly communication for the new information era" Scientometrics, 51(3): 511-523,, 2001.

Knowledge Management for the Information Professional, co edited with T. Kanti Srikantaiah, Information Today for the American Society for Information Science, 598pp., 2000.

"Scientometrics, Cybermetrics & Firm Performance" (with Mary Westermann-Cicio), a chapter 20, pp. 389-404, in The Web of Knowledge - a festschrift in honor of Eugene Garfield. (ed. Blaise Cronin & Helen Atkins). Information Today and the American Society for Information Science, 2000.

"Knowlege Management" chapter 8, pp. 193-221, in Librarianship and Information Work Worldwide (ed. Maurice Line), London, Bowker-Saur, 2000.

Send email to: michael.koenig@liu.edu

Dr. Thomas Krichel
Assistant Professor
PhD, Economics University of Surrey, 1999
MA (Exon) 1990
Mag. Econ. (Paris) 1989,
DEUG (Touloues) 1984
Research Interest: Digital Libraries; Scholarly Communication
Recent Publications:
Design of a metadata framework to support scholarly communication", (with Simeon Warner), presented at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001 in Tokyo, Japan, October 24 to 26, current print version available at http://openlib.org/home/krichel/papers/kanda.a4.pdf, 2001

The UPS Prototype: An Experimental End-User Service across E-Print Archives", (with Herbert van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, and others), Dlib Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2, February 2000

Cataloging Economics preprints: an introduction to the RePEc project", (with José Manuel Barrueco Cruz), Journal of Internet Cataloging, available at http://openlib.org/home/krichel/papers/shankari.pdf, 2000

Personal data in a large digital library", (with José Manuel Barrueco Cruz and Markus J.R. Klink), presented at the Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries in Lisbon, September 18 to 21, 2000, print version available at http://openlib.org/home/krichel/papers/phoenix.a4.pdf

Send email to: krichel@openlib.org
Web Site: http://openlib.org/home/krichel

Dr. Richard Paul Smiraglia
Professor
MDiv., General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, 1997
Ph.D. (Information Science) University of Chicago, 1992
MLS, Indiana University 1974
BA (Music), Lewis & Clark College, Portland Oregon, 1973
Member: American Library Assn.; American Society for Information Science; Assn. for Library and Information Science Education; Assn. for Computing Machinery; International Society for Knowledge Organization; National Episcopal AIDS Coalition; Integrity USA
Research Interest: Knowledge Organization; Research Methods
Recent Publications:
The Nature of A Work. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2001.

"Words and Works; Signs, Symbols and Canons: The Epistemology of The Work." In Dynamisn and Stability in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2000, Toronto, Canada, ed. Clare Beghtol, Lynn C. Howarth, Nancy J. Williamson. Advances in Knowledge Organization v. 7. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2000, pp. 295-300.

"Qualitative Analysis of Derivative Bibliographic Relationships: Toward a Grounded Theory of Works" Gregory H. Leazer and Richard P. Smiraglia. Library Resources & Technical Services 43 (1999): 191-212.

"Derivative Bibliographic Relationships Among Theological Works." Proceedings of the 62nd annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science, ed. Larry Woods. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1999, pp. 497-506.

"Derivative Bibliographic Relationships: The Work Relationship in the OCLC Online Union Catalog" Richard P. Smiraglia and Gregory H. Leazer. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (1999): 493-505.

"Beyond the Score:" David H. Thomas and Richard P. Smiraglia. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 54 (1998): 649-66.

Recent Awards: Music Library Association, Richard Hill Award for Best Article in Music Librarianship, 1999. Shared with David H. Thomas for "Beyond the Score."
Distinguished Alumni, Award for distinguished service in library and information science, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, May 1996.

Send email to: Richard.Smiraglia@liu.edu
Web Site: http://smiraglia.org/

Dr. Amy Spaulding
Professor
DLS, Columbia University
MLS, University of Pittsburgh
BA, Willamette University
Member: American Library Association (councillor); Association for Library and Information Science Education; NSA
Research Interest: Storytelling as Art and as Information; Children's Literature
Recent Publications:
"Myth in an Age of Information." JOYS 12:2 Winter 1999. pp 18-24.

The Page as a Stageset: Storyboard Picture Books. Scarecrow, 1995.

Recent Awards: Lillian Bradshaw Lecturer

Send email to: Amy.Spaulding@liu.edu

Dr. Mary L. Westermann-Cicio
Acting Dean and Associate Professor, Palmer school
PhD, History of Medicine, SUNY Stony Brook
MA, History, SUNY Stony Brook
MPA, Health Care Administration, Long Island University
MS, Library Science, Long Island University
BA, Biology, Long Island University
Member: American Library Association; Medical Libraries Association; Special Libraries Association; New York Library Association
Research Interest: Health Informatics, Health Sciences Librarianship
Recent Publications:
Koenig, MED and Westermann-Cicio, ML "Scientometics, cybermetrics, and firm performance" in: The Web of Knowledge, ASIS, 2000. p. 389-404.
Recent Awards: Murray L.. Gottlieb Award in the History of Medicine, Medical Library Association, 1998. Golden Anniversary Award for distinguished, significant, and consistent contributions to the profession. Beta Phi Mu, 1999. Distinguished Member, Academy of Health Information Professionals.

Send email to: westerma@liu.edu