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Changes to the Board of Editors
Library & Information Science Research 29 (2007) 3 – 4
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Changes to the Board of Editors With a term limit to Board of Editors service, it is inevitable that each year we have the sad duty of saying goodbye to departing members, and the happy pleasure of welcoming new ones. This year we are losing Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Lynn Silipigni Connaway (OCLC, Inc.). They have not only been wonderful reviewers, but each has also offered real support and encouragement to our endeavors. New member Jeffrey Pomerantz (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) was introduced to you in Issue 3 of last year, and it is our pleasure now to make welcome three more. Crystal Fulton is a faculty member of the School of Information and Library Studies (SILS), University College Dublin, where she is coordinator of the school's Information Behaviour Research Group and director of the Networking for Leisure and wider Life & Information Behaviour Research in Everyday Experience (LIBREE) research initiatives. Crystal has undergraduate and master's degrees in English and history, and a master's and PhD from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario. She has studied information behavior in everyday life settings, including the workplace, and has been invited to share her work at various European Union conferences. Her current research examines the information worlds of individuals and groups engaged in leisure activities and the connections among a chosen hobby, community development, information literacy, and social inclusion. She is a member of the LIS Research & Education Collaboratory, European Union. Michelle M. Kazmer is an assistant professor at the College of Information, Florida State University. She holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering (Columbia University) and a master's in library science (University of Pittsburgh), and she received her doctorate in library and information science from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Michelle's research focuses on social processes in online social worlds, especially online worlds that are designed to be temporary. Her recent research has examined the social world disengaging processes of distance learners and academic researchers, as well as community-embedded online learning. She is especially interested in how knowledge is shared among people who have left a social world, and in how individuals' local environments shape their online experiences. She works with an interdisciplinary research team that uses a doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2007.01.007
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hermeneutics approach for studying virtual communities. She has worked with online learners as a teacher and researcher since 1997, in the LEEP program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Florida State. Her research has been published in journals such as Library Quarterly, Library & Information Science Research, and New Media & Society. Reijo Savolainen received his PhD from University of Tampere in 1989, and has taught in the Department of Information Studies at that university since that time. From the early 1990's, his major area of research has been everyday life information seeking (ELIS). Studies conducted in this field have focused on ELIS practices of various groups such as teachers, industrial workers, people interested in self-development, environmental activists, and the unemployed. Currently, he is elaborating on the conceptual and empirical questions of everyday life information practices. His publications include about 100 articles and books published in national and international forums, and in journals such as Information Processing & Management, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Documentation, and Library & Information Science Research. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Information Research, and has served on the program committee and as a reviewer for most of the the biennial Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conferences.
Announcement
Changes to the Board of Editors With a term limit to Board of Editors service, it is inevitable that each year we have the sad duty of saying goodbye to departing members, and the happy pleasure of welcoming new ones. This year we are losing Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Lynn Silipigni Connaway (OCLC, Inc.). They have not only been wonderful reviewers, but each has also offered real support and encouragement to our endeavors. New member Jeffrey Pomerantz (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) was introduced to you in Issue 3 of last year, and it is our pleasure now to make welcome three more. Crystal Fulton is a faculty member of the School of Information and Library Studies (SILS), University College Dublin, where she is coordinator of the school's Information Behaviour Research Group and director of the Networking for Leisure and wider Life & Information Behaviour Research in Everyday Experience (LIBREE) research initiatives. Crystal has undergraduate and master's degrees in English and history, and a master's and PhD from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario. She has studied information behavior in everyday life settings, including the workplace, and has been invited to share her work at various European Union conferences. Her current research examines the information worlds of individuals and groups engaged in leisure activities and the connections among a chosen hobby, community development, information literacy, and social inclusion. She is a member of the LIS Research & Education Collaboratory, European Union. Michelle M. Kazmer is an assistant professor at the College of Information, Florida State University. She holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering (Columbia University) and a master's in library science (University of Pittsburgh), and she received her doctorate in library and information science from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Michelle's research focuses on social processes in online social worlds, especially online worlds that are designed to be temporary. Her recent research has examined the social world disengaging processes of distance learners and academic researchers, as well as community-embedded online learning. She is especially interested in how knowledge is shared among people who have left a social world, and in how individuals' local environments shape their online experiences. She works with an interdisciplinary research team that uses a doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2007.01.007
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hermeneutics approach for studying virtual communities. She has worked with online learners as a teacher and researcher since 1997, in the LEEP program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Florida State. Her research has been published in journals such as Library Quarterly, Library & Information Science Research, and New Media & Society. Reijo Savolainen received his PhD from University of Tampere in 1989, and has taught in the Department of Information Studies at that university since that time. From the early 1990's, his major area of research has been everyday life information seeking (ELIS). Studies conducted in this field have focused on ELIS practices of various groups such as teachers, industrial workers, people interested in self-development, environmental activists, and the unemployed. Currently, he is elaborating on the conceptual and empirical questions of everyday life information practices. His publications include about 100 articles and books published in national and international forums, and in journals such as Information Processing & Management, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Documentation, and Library & Information Science Research. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Information Research, and has served on the program committee and as a reviewer for most of the the biennial Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conferences.