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| Palmer School of Library and Information Science - Faculty Bea Baaden is a full-time Assistant Professor who specializes in school media and instructional design. She is recently retired from the Plainedge School District where she was a school media specialist for 17 years. She has also been a high school English and Social Studies teacher. Bea has also worked as an educational consultant for the Robin Hood Foundation and the Nassau School Library System, and various school districts. She has offered staff development courses in interdisciplinary instruction, teaching methodology, integrating information literacy and learning standards, and curriculum design. Her doctoral dissertation was in the field of education, with an emphasis on alternative assessment and feedback. Her research interests are related to teacher and student sense of efficacy. Dr. Byrne is Co-chair of the Department of Educational Technology in the School of Education and has a joint appointment in the Palmer School. He served as Chair of the Educational Technology department from 1983-1993 and was instrumental in developing a distinctive master's program, "Computers in Education", that has been offered at five of Long Island University's campuses. With over 20 years experience with computers in education, Dr. Byrne is an expert in the applications to the teaching/learning process. He is recognized for his expertise in many areas of telecommunications including telephone systems, telecommunications based learning systems, and distance learning. He is a founding member of New School Vision, Inc., a not-for-profit New York Corporation that identifies leading edge technology-based teaching/learning projects and assists with their growth and dissemination.
Heting Chu came tthe Palmer School in 1994 after one year full-time teaching at St. John's University. Her teaching and research interests include the use of information technology in library and information science, especially in the areas of information representation and retrieval, Internet, research methods, and scientific communication. Dr. Chu currently does research on digital libraries, image retrieval, and scientometric analysis of websites. Her book titled "Information Representation & Retrieval in the Digital Age" was recently published by Information Today, Inc. as an ASIS&T monograph. More information about Dr. Chu can be found at http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/hchu/. Gregory Hunter is both a Certified Archivist and a Certified Records Manager. Before joining the faculty in 1990, he was Manager of Corporate Records for ITT Corporation and Director of Archival Programs for the United Negro College Fund. His professional activities include being elected the first president of the Academy of Certified Archivists and serving as Editor of a series of books published by Neal-Schuman called The Archivist's and Records Manager's Bookshelf. He frequently lectures and writes on topics related to archives and records management. Dr. Hunter currently is conducting research on digital records. Two of his books, Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives and Preserving Digital Information, received awards from the Society of American Archivists. Dr. Hunter was elected a Fellow of SAA in 2004. Dr. Hunter also is the Principal Archivist and Records Manager on a team led by Lockheed Martin, which was awarded a $308 million contract to build an Electronic Records Archive for the federal government. Dr. Koenig's background is primarily in information and knowledge management in the corporate area. His academic background is in information science and business. Prior to his appointment as Dean of the Palmer School, previous postions held by Dr.Koenig include head of information services for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Vice President at Tradenet, and Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University. He is a past president of the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics. His research interests include informetrics, database structuring, and the impact of information and information technology on society, in particular the effect of library and information services and systems upon organizational productivity. Born in Vöklinden, (Gramany) in 1965, Thomas Krichel studied Economics and Social Sciences at the universities of Toulouse, Paris, Exeter and Leicester. Between February 1993 and April 2001 he lectured in the Department of Economics at the University of Surrey. In 1993, he founded NetEc, a consortium of internet projects for academic economics. In 1997, he founded the RePec dataset to document economics. Between October and December 2001, he held a visiting professorship at Hitosubashi University. Since January 2001, he has been an assistant professor at the Palmer School. Seth Magot's career at Long Island University began in 1970 and has included serving as the Director of the Demerec Memorial Science Library at the C.W. Post Campus, working as a Librarian and Coordinator of Computer Activities at the Brentwood Campus, and serving as the Director of Academic Computing at Southampton College. While at Southampton, he built an MIS program and taught a number of courses in the area of Computer/Information Science. After returning to C.W. Post to work in the Periodicals Department of the Library, Dr. Magot was given a joint appointment in the Fall of 1997 and teaches in both the Computer Science/Information Systems Department and the Palmer School.
Her research interests range from cataloging non-book materials to academic libraries and collection development. Dr. Maillet's book Subject Control of Film and Video: A Comparison of Three Methods was published by the American Library Association in 1991.
Jerry Nichols, Director of the Palmer Institute for Public Library Organization and Management, is a former Director of the Suffolk Cooperative Library System, as well as several regional public libraries, and has taught as an adjunct faculty member since 1997. Mr. Nichols is responsible for the development of the Advanced Certificate Program in Public Library Admininstration, the first program in the nation. A recipient of the New York Library Association's Outstanding Service to Libraries Award, Mr. Nichols was also a member of the New York State Regents' Commission on Library Services and has served as Chair of the Public Library System Directors' Organization of New York State. His areas of expertise include public library management, construction, finance and law.
John J. Regazzi, one of the electronic publishing industry’s most prominent executives, was appointed dean of the College of Information and Computer Science at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, on July 1, 2005. Regazzi is the retired CEO of Elsevier Inc., the U.S. division of Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of scientific, technical and health information.
At Elsevier Inc., Dr. Regazzi developed the Engineering Village, the first online community for engineers; Scirus, the first search engine for science and scientific inquiry; and Science Direct, the largest and most used full-text article database for scientists and researchers in all fields. From 1988 to 1999, Dr. Regazzi was president and CEO of Engineering Information Inc. in New Jersey. That company merged with Elsevier in 1999 and Dr. Regazzi joined the management of Elsevier at that time. From 1995 through 1997, Dr. Regazzi also served as chairman of Article Express International, a joint venture of Engineering Information Inc. and Dialog, the online-based information service company. Dr. Regazzi has also held positions with H.H. Wilson Co. of New York; the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey; The Foundation Center of New York; Northern Illinois University and the University at Albany. He is the author of numerous articles and papers. He also serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including: the Ei Foundation, the Elsevier Foundation, Centre of Applied Biology International (UK), and St. John's Home for Boys in Far Rockaway. Dr. Regazzi holds a bachelor of arts in psychology from St. John's University; a master of arts in religion from the University of Iowa; a master of science in library and information science from Columbia University, and a doctorate in information science from Rutgers University. Before coming to the Palmer School in 1997, William Saffady held faculty positions at the State University of New York at Albany, Vanderbilt University, Pratt Institute, and Wayne State University. Dr. Saffady is the author of over three dozen books and many articles on information management topics, including records management, electronic document imaging, information storage technologies, and library automation. His latest work, published in 2002 by the Association of Record Managers and Administrators (ARMA International), is a study of records management practices in large U.S. industrial companies. Other recent books include Managing Electronic Records, Third Edition (2002), Electronic Document Imaging: Technology, Applications, Implementation (2001), and Micrographics: Technology for the Twenty-First Century (2000), all of which were published in the indicated years by ARMA International. In addition to teaching and writing, Dr. Saffady serves as a consultant, providing training and analytical services, to corporations, government agencies, and other organizations. Dr. Saffady also teaches professional development seminars on information management technology and applications for a variety of organizations. Those seminars have been attended by more than 15,000 persons since the mid-1970s. E mail: wsaffady@liu.edu Bette Schneiderman - bes@liu.edu Dr. Schneiderman is co-chair of the Department of Educational Technology in the School of Education and was given a joint appointment to the Palmer School in 1996. She has extensive experience with technology, learning organizations and leadership and change, and creates systems that use technology as a tool to empower learners. Dr. Schneiderman also leads the Long Island Team, a collaboration of more than 1,000 people on Long Island who use telecommunications to dialogue, take action, and improve communities. She has given numerous presentations across the country at conferences on topics relating to technology and an innovative lock-step graduate program called TEAM. More than five of her papers have appeared in national publications in the past few years. Richard Smiraglia is professor of knowledge organization in the Palmer School and has recently completed a second term as President of the Long Island University Faculty Senate. He was an assistant professor in the School of Library Service at Columbia University until 1992, and was for many years a music librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has served as editor of Library Resources & Technical Services, Music Library Association Technical Reports, and the Soldier Creek Music (Cataloging) Series. He is the author of many works on music cataloging, on bibliographic control theory, and most recently of The Nature of a Work. Dr. Spaulding is a storyteller, in addition to being a specialist in services for diverse populations, materials and services for youth, and the role of myth in the information age. She was the Children's Materials Specialist for The New York Public Library, worked as a school librarian, and has taught for several schools of library and information science. Dr. Spaulding has lectured and told stories widely and has published articles, reviews and educational software. She has been both a Benjamin Dean Lecturer for the Morrison Planetarium of the California Academy of Sciences and a Lilian Bradshaw Lecturer for Texas Woman's University. She wrote a book, The Page as a Stageset, and has been active in many professional associations and honorary societies, including being elected Councilor for the American Library Association and chair of the Caldecott Award Selection Committee. Dr. Spaulding's latest book, The Wisdom of Storytelling in an Information Age won the 2004 Anne Izard Storytellers Choice Award.
Dr. Deirdre C. Stam combines her teaching in the Palmer School's new program in rare books and special collections with her work as Director of the New York Center for the Book, an organization affiliated with the Library of Congress and now housed at the Palmer School. Professor Stam has served as library director, university web-master, museum curator, executive director and/or secretary of information organizations (the Museum Computer Network and the Bibliographical Society of America), and teacher at Columbia University, Catholic University, and Syracuse University. Her research interests include the history of books and reading, and the application of information technology to issues of art information.
Mary Westermann-Cicio joined the faculty of the Palmer School of Library and information science is 1988 and became Assistant Dean in 1995. Prior to joining the faculty at the Palmer School, Dr. Westermann-Cicio was library director of the Nassau Academy of Medicine in Garden City, New York. She is a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals and has served as president of the Long Island Chapter of the Special Libraries Association and the Medical and Scientific Libraries of Long Island. Dr. Westermann?]Cicio is a frequent lecturer on medical librarianship, health?]related internet resources and consumer health information advocacy. She was recipient of the Jackson Turner Main Award for her research in the history of medicine at SUNY Stony Brook where she completed her doctoral studies. In addition, Dr. Westermann-Cicio was recently honored with the Murray Gottlieb Award in the history of medicine from the Medical Library Association. She has also been the recipient of the Catholic Library Association’s Librarian of the Year award, the Palmer School Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award, and most recently, Beta Mu Chapter Beta Phi Mu’s Golden Anniversary Award.
Don Wilson has more than 32 years experience in Library and Information Science. In the spring of 1988, he joined the Palmer School staff as an adjunct faculty member, He has been a full time School Media Specialist in the Island Trees School District since 1967 and a half-time public librarian in various libraries in Nassau and Suffolk counties. More recently, he has expanded his experiences as an educator developing and teaching courses to teachers through SCOPE and teaching a number of undergraduate courses at St. Joseph's College. He has been a conference presenter at NYLA, NYS Reading Association, TAWL program at Adelphi East End Reading Council and Summer Institute at the University of Southern Maine. His interests are bibliotherapy for children and Native American Literature for children and young adults. However, his real interest lies in local Long Island Native American themes, legends, people and history. He is also a member of Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrator (SCBWI).
Dr. Zhang has background in psychology and human-computer interaction. Prior to this position, she was an Assistant Professor at Drexel University and a research scientist at Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. As a member of ACM and ASIST, she is actively involved in both ACM CHI and ASIST communities. Dr. Zhang has presented papers for conferences of ACM, ICKM, ASIST, ALISE, International Congress of Psychology, etc and published papers at journals like JIKM. Dr. Zhang teaches in the area of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), research methods, and knowledge organization. Her research focuses on HCI and CSCW, particularly she is interested in facilitating productive collaborations of individuals who are geographically and culturally distributed. More information about Dr. Zhang can be found at http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/qzhang. |
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Mary L. Westermann-Cicio - 
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