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Fall 2007 Topics and Speakers:

• Wednesday, December 5, 2:00-3:00 pm (rescheduled to Spring 2008)
  HBK 2116, Dr. Kathleen Smarick, University of Maryland, "Exploring Social Science Data on Terrorism and Preparedness" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Thursday, November 29, 2007
  10:30-11:30am
  HBK 2119, Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, "Do Virtual Communities matter for Social Networks? Exploring the Role of Virtual Communities for the Development of Virtual Relationships of Patients" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  3:00-4:00Pm
  HBK 2119, Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, "Community Building for Innovations: IT-supported Idea Competitions as a Tool for Open Innovation" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Tuesday, November 6, 1:30-2:30 pm
  HBK 4115, Dr. Curt Bonk, Indiana University, "How the Learning World Became Flat: Ten Knowledge Sharing and Technology Trends Equalizing Access to Learning" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Monday, November 5, 2:00-3:00 pm
  HBK 2119, Dr. Paul T. Jaeger, University of Maryland, "The Community Impacts of Free Public Internet Access in Libraries" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Monday, October 29, 2:00-3:00 pm
  HBK 2119, Dr. Trudi Bellardo Hahn, University of Maryland, "Research Support from Uncle Sam: Potential and Realities" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Monday, October 22, 2:00-3:00 pm
  HBK 2119, Dr. Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland, "Computing in the Clouds: Thinking about Information Processing at "Web Scale"" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Monday, October 15, 2:00-3:00 pm
  HBK 2119, Dr. Kenneth R. Fleischmann, University of Maryland, " Digital Libraries and Human Value" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Monday, October 8, 2:00-3:00 pm
  HBK 2119, Dr. Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, "Lessons from the MALACH Project: Applying new technologies to improve intellectual access to large oral history collections" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Monday, October 1, 2:00-3:00 pm
  HBK 2119, Dr. Delia Neuman, University of Maryland, "LEARN: A Model for Creating Knowledge in the Information Age" -- Abstract and Bio
  

Spring 2007 Topics and Speakers:

• Thursday, February 15, 9:30 am
  HBK 0108, Ron T. Brown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Investigating Teacher Use of Digital Video" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Tuesday, February 27, 9:30 am
  HBK 0108, Chris Hagar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Crisis, Farming and Community: Informatics and Emergency Response" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Thursday, March 1, 9:30 am
  HBK 0108, Lili Luo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Toward Sustaining Professional Development: Identification of Essential Chat Reference Competencies and Effective Training Techniques" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Tuesday, March 6, 9:30 am
  HBK 0108, Ajit Pyati, UCLA, "A Critical Theory of Library Technology: An Examination of Open Source Software in Libraries" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Friday, March 9, 9:30 am
  HBK 0108, Trudi Hahn, University of Maryland, College Park, "Mass Digitization: Implications for Preserving the Scholarly Record" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Tuesday, March 13, 9:30 am
  HBK 0108, Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland, College Park , "Social Information Access: Connecting Distributed Information and People on the Web" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Thursday, March 15, 10:00 am
  HBK 0108, Dave Yates, University of Southern California, "Collaborative Technology Support for Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Synchronous and Asynchronous Virtual Interactive Contexts" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Tuesday, March 27, 10:00 am
  HBK 0108, Unmil Karadkar, Texas A&M University, "Perception-informed Digital Collection Interfaces" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Monday, April 2, 11 am
  HBK 2119, Genevieve Bell, Intel Corporation, "From the Edges of the Network:  Anthropological Musings on Wireless(ness)," joint colloquium with the HCIL seminar series -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Tuesday, April 3, 10 am
  HBK 0108, Prudence W. Dalrymple, Johns Hopkins University, "Is Information Enough? Exploring Inter-Disciplinary Approaches to Evidence-Based Practice" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Thursday, April 5, 10 am
  HBK 0108, J. Jason Li, University of Arizona, "Optimal Search-based Feature Subset Selection for Gene Array Cancer Classification" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Thursday, April 12, 4 pm
  HBK 4115, Ping Wang, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland at College Park, "Organizational Consequences of Fashion in Information Technology" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Thursday, April 19, 10 am
  HBK 0108, Scott Paquette, University of Toronto , "Knowledge Management Systems and Customer Knowledge Use in Organizations" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Tuesday, April 24, 10 am
  HBK 0108, Derek Hansen, University of Michigan , "Online Community Repositories:  Integrating Conversation and Collaboratively Authored Documents" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Thursday, April 26, 10 am
  HBK 0108, Jan Chong, Stanford University, "Knowledge Sharing and Work Practice" -- Abstract and Bio
  
  
• Wednesday, May 9, 11:30 am
  Room 2120 A.V. Williams Building, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, "The Use of Sketches as a Tool for Identifying Gaps in Students' Conceptual Models of 'How Search Engines Work", joint CLIP and CLIS Colloquium -- Abstract and Bio

Fall 2006 Topics and Speakers:

• Wednesday,September 13 "Bridging Computer Science and Behavioral Science: Research Examples " by Joseph A. Konstan , Professor of Computer Science and Engineering , University of Minnesota -- Abstract and Bio
• September 20, 4 pm, Eileen Abels, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, "Internet Public Library" and "the Institutional Review Board at Maryland" -- Abstract and Bio
• October 4, 4 pm, Alexandra McKeown and Anne Geronimo, Office of Research
  Administration and Advancement, University of Maryland, Support for Research at
  College of Information Studies
• October 11, 4 pm, Allison Druin and Jerry Fails, College of Information Studies,
  University of Maryland, "Mobile Storytelling" -- Abstract and Bio
• October 19 (Thursday), 3 pm, Margaret Dalton, University of Alabama, "Exporting American Librarianship: A Work in Progress" -- Abstract and Bio
• October 25, 4 pm, Judith Klavans, College of Information Studies, University of
  Maryland, "Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building" -- Abstract and Bio
• November 1, 4 pm, Samer Faraj, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland,
  "Exchange Structure of Electronic Knowledge Networks" -- Abstract and Bio
• November 8, 4 pm, Daniel Weitzner, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) -- Abstract and Bio
• November 13 (Monday), 11 am, Robert McArthur, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, "Socio-cognitive Representation of Meaning in Electronic Communication," jointly hosted with Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory (CLIP) Colloquium Series." -- Abstract and Bio
  
• November 15, 4 pm, Farid Ahmed, Catholic University of America, “Secure Content Distribution: How Does Digital Watermarking Help?”. -- Abstract and Bio
• November 29, 4 pm, Katherine Stewart, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, "Success Factors in Open Source Software Development: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Tests". -- Abstract and Bio
• December 6, 4 pm, Gary W. Strong, MITRE Corp. "Modeling Phase Change Behavior" -- Abstract and Bio
• December 15, 10:30 am, Kari Kraus, Zotero. "Writing Down Pictures: Linguistic Description of Digital Images" -- Abstract and Bio

SPring 2006 Topics and Speakers:

• January 25: "Learning@Europe: sharing culture and fun in a virtual world with students from all over Europe" by Caterina Poggi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Abstract and Bio
• February 1: "What Practitioners Have to Say about Preparing Subject Specialists for Academic and Research Libraries" by Dr. Diane Barlow and Pat Fisher, CLIS, University of Maryland. Abstract and Bio
• Tuesday, February 7, 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. in HBK 0108*: "Finding the Archive in Digital Libraries: Samples of a Research Agenda" by Dr. Paul Conway, Duke University. Abstract and Bio
• Friday, February 10, 2:00 p.m., McKeldin Library 6137:** "Digital Technologies and Education: Distracton or Panacea?" by Dr. Frank Moretti, Executive Director, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning,Columbia University. Abstract and Bio
• Tuesday, February 14, 9:30 a.m. in HBK 0108*: "Multi-perspective Requirements Modelling" by Professor Pericles Loucopoulos, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. Abstract and Bio
• Thursday, February 23, 9:30 a.m.*: "An Affect-Cognition Model (ACM) of Individuals’ Decisions about ICT Use" by Dr. Ping Zhang, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. Abstract and Bio
• Wednesday, March 1, 9:30 a.m.*: "Intellectual Property and Intellectual Access: Exploring the Tensions" by Dr. John N. Gathegi, College of Information, Florida State University. Abstract and Bio
• Monday, March 6, 9:30 a.m.* "Growing Older in the Information Age: Civic Engagement, Social Relationships, and Well-being among Older Internet Users in China and the United States" by Bo Xie, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Abstract and Bio
• Wednesday, March 8, 9:30 a.m.*: "Information Policy, Information Access, and Democracy" by Paul Jaeger, College of Information, Florida State University. Abstract and Bio
• Wednesday, March 15, 9:30 a.m.*: "Assessing Information Literacy Skills: A Rubric Approach" by Megan Oakleaf, Librarian for Instruction and Undergraduate Research, North Carolina State University. Abstract and Bio
• Friday, March 31, 9:30 a.m.*: "Supporting Representation Construction in Sensemaking" by Yan Qu, of Information and the Department of Computer Science Engineering at the University of Michigan. Abstract and Bio
• Thursday, April 6: "A Multidisciplinary Approach to Manage the Risk of Information Systems Security and Privacy Incidents" by Fariborz Farahmand, Visiting Assistant Professor of Management, Krannert School of Management and Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, Purdue University. Abstract and Bio
• Wednesday, April 12: "Policy-driven Online Community Development" by Dr. Vedat Diker, CLIS, University of Maryland. Abstract and Bio
• Wednesday, May 3: "Popular Concepts Beyond Organizations: Exploring New Dimensions of Information Technology Innovations" by Dr. Ping Wang, CLIS, University of Maryland. Abstract and Bio

Fall 2005 Topics and Speakers:

• December 15: "Factors Affecting the Access to and Use of Scholarly Scientific Information by Graduate Students of Colombia," by Margarita Echeverri, Tulane University and CLIS. Abstract
• December 8: by Neil Fraistat, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Abstract
• December 1: "Recovering Community with Documents: The Carr Store Research Project," by Donald Linebaugh, Director, Historic Preservation Program, School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland. Abstract
• Tuesday, November 15, in room 0108:** "Understanding Implicit Feedback: Behaviors, Context and Relevance," by Diane Kelly, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina. Abstract
• Wednesday, November 9**: "Systems for Older and Disabled People: Research in Applied Computing at the University of Dundee," by Professor Alan Newell, Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Scotland. Abstract
• November 3: "Retrieval and Evaluation of Emails and Email Threads," by Yejun Wu, CLIS, University of Maryland. INTERNAL ONLY Abstract
• October 27: "An insider's look at BRIDGE - the Bilingual Resource Inference and Dictionary Generation Environment," presented by Burcu Karagol-Ayan, Tandeep Sidhu, and Miriam Matteson. INTERNAL ONLY Abstract
• October 13: "Policy Capturing Models for Multi-faceted Relevance Judgments," by Xiaoli Huang. INTERNAL ONLY Abstract
• October 6 at 3:00 p.m.*: "Finding Everything: GALE at Maryland," presented by Douglas W. Oard, CLIS, University of Maryland. Abstract
• September 22: "Moving Towards Question Answering Systems for Evidence-Based Medicine," presented by Jimmy Lin, CLIS, University of Maryland. INTERNAL ONLY Abstract
• September 15: "Preserving Digital Client Records From a Bankrupt Law Firm: An NDIIPP-sponsored Search for Solutions to the Archival Donut," presented by David A. Kirsch and Anthony M. Ramirez, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Abstract

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