News from the Field
University
of South Florida
School of Library and Information Science
People: Appointments, Departures, Promotions
The School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida is pleased to announce four new faculty appointments:
Linda Alexander, assistant professor, will be joining the faculty in a tenure-track position. Dr. Alexander's most recent position was Coordinator of the Library Information Program at Western Kentucky University, where she oversaw the training of graduate assistants to teach the required library information literacy course to 2400 undergraduate students each year. Dr. Alexander also taught children's literature and young adult literature in Western Kentucky's Library Media Education Department. Dr. Alexander received her Ed.D. in May 2000 in Higher Educational Administration from the University of Louisville.
Cheryl
Dee, assistant professor, was also appointed to a tenure-track position.
Dr. Dee has been a visiting professor at the University of South Florida
for the past two years where she has taught courses in library administration,
online searching, special libraries, and medical librarianship. Previous
to teaching at USF Dr. Dee served for 24 years as a
medical librarian at the Watson Clinic Medical Library in Lakeland, Florida.
She has won several awards from the Medical Library Association including
the Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship and
an award for the best-contributed research paper.
Boryung
Ju, a doctoral candidate from the School of Information Studies at
Florida State University, will be joining the faculty as a visiting instructor.
Jung is completing her dissertation on "Assessing Usability of Menu
Driven Interfaces: The User-Process Model Approach" under the directorship
of Dr. Myke Gluck. She was the recipient of the ALISE
Methodology Paper Award in 2000 and the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation
Fellowship Award in 1999-2000.
Kevin
Rioux, a doctoral candidate from the University of Texas at Austin,
will be joining the faculty as a visiting instructor. Rioux holds a Master
of Arts in journalism from UT at Austin. His research emphases are information
sharing in electronic environments, information-seeking behavior, and
human factors in interface design. He has been employed in both libraries
and research positions. Last year he held the University
Continuing Fellowship, the David Bruton, Jr. Continuing Fellowship, and
the Robert R. Douglass Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship at the
University of Texas at Austin.
For questions or comments, contact Barbara Tuck, Editor.
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