iPAC Staff to present at ASIS&T 2012

Co-Director John Carlo Bertot helped organize the ASIS&T Doctoral Seminar on Research and Career Development. Assistant Professor Katie Shilton is also a co-organizer for the Student Design Competition.

More information about their participation as well these activities can be found at: www.asis.org/asist2012/studentactivities.html.

Beth St. Jean's paper "I Just Don't Know What I Don't Know!": A Longitudinal Investigation of the Perceived Usefulness of Information to People with Type 2 Diabetes was accepted for the ASIS&T 2012 Annual Meeting.

John Carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jeager, Mega M. Subramaniam and Erik T. Mitchell also had papers or panels accepted for presenation at the meeting. More information about the accepted papers can be found below.

Join us in congratulating our staff on their impressive achievements!

Accepted Papers and Panels:

Ahn, J., Subramaniam, M., Fleischmann, K., Waugh, A., Walsh, G. & Druin, A. (2012, October). Youth identities as remixers in an online community of storytellers: Attitudes, strategies, and values. Paper to be presented at the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

Arns, J., Copeland, C., Jaeger, P., Mehra, B. & Subramaniam, M. (2012, October). Information outsiders of the 21st century: Access and implications for information behavior research. Panel to be presented at the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

Bertot, J. C., Caidi, N., Gorham, U., Jaeger, P. T., & Shilton, K. (2012). Ten years later: Information and policy in the aftermath of 9/11. Panel to be presented at the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

Mitchell, E. T. & McCallum, C. (2012). Old Data, New Scheme: An Exploration of Metadata Migration Using Expert-guided Computational Techniques. Paper to be presented at the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

Mitchell, E.T. and Srikantaiah, K. (2012). L.A. Meta(data): Exploring vocabulary interoperability in Libraries, Archives and Museums. Poster to be presented at the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

Moulaison, H.L., Rathbun-Grubb, S., Abbas, J., Greenberg, J., La Barre, K. Rodruiguez, E. M., Mitchell, E. T., & Sauperl, A. (2012). Emerging Trends in Metadata Research. Panel to be presented at the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

 St. Jean, B. (2012). Developing a card-sorting technique for use in information behavior research. Lightning talk to be given at the ASIS&T 2012 SIG-USE Symposium: Evolving and Emerging Research Methods in Information Behavior, Needs, Seeking, and Use, Baltimore, MD, October 27 2012.

St. Jean, B., Shilton, K., & Butler, B. (2012). Self-tracking is social: Toward a model of the technologically-mediated information behavior of self-trackers. Paper to be presented at The 8th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (ASIS&T SIG-SI): Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future, Baltimore, MD, October 27, 2012.