San José State University

SCHOOL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE



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SLIS Home – San José Gateway Ph.D. – Doctoral Supervision

Doctoral Supervision

San José Areas of Specialization: archives and records administration; information retrieval; information systems and technologies; information use; education for LIS; management and leadership; teacher–librarianship; youth services.

Supervisors accredited by QUT are tenured faculty designated with an asterisk (*). While other faculty may work with doctoral students they must work in conjunction with an accredited supervisor.

Professors

*Bill Fisher, Professor—B.A. (Arkansas), M.A. (Arkansas), M.L.I.S. (SUNY at Geneseo), Ph.D. (Southern California). Doctoral supervision: management and leadership; education for LIS. Specific focus: information agencies in corporate settings; curricular issues in LIS. [See Research Profile.]

*Debra Hansen, Professor—B.A. (CSU–Fullerton), M.A. (CSU–Fullerton), M.L.I.S. (UCLA), Ph.D. (UC–Irvine). Doctoral supervision: archives and records administration. Specific focus: oral history; intersections of feminization and professionalization in LIS; history of libraries and librarianship. [See Research Profile.]

*Ken Haycock, Professor, FCCT—B.A. (Western Ontario), Dip. Ed. (Western Ontario), M.Ed. (Ottawa), A.M.L.S. (Michigan), Ed.D. (Brigham Young), M.B.A. (Royal Roads). Doctoral supervision: management and leadership; education for LIS; teacher–librarianship. Specific focus: development of library leaders; advocacy; organizational models and issues; public library governance; education for professional librarians; role and effectiveness of teacher–librarians. [See Research Profile.]

*David Loertscher, Professor—B.S. (Utah), M.L. (Washington), Ph.D. (Indiana). Doctoral supervision: information use; teacher–librarianship. Specific focus: Information literacy; teaching and learning in the library; school library media programs; technology and learning; instructional design; social networking; young adults and libraries. [See Research Profile.]

*Linda Main, Professor—B.A. (Dublin, Trinity College), M.L.I.S. (Aberystwyth), M.A. (Dublin, Trinity College), Ph.D. (Illinois Urbana–Champaign). Doctoral supervision: information systems and technologies. Specific focus: Web programming; digitization of manuscripts; distance learning. [See Research Profile.]

*C. James Schmidt, Professor—B.A. (Catholic), M.S.L.S. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Florida State). Doctoral supervision: management and leadership; education for LIS. Specific focus: management of academic libraries; intellectual freedom. [See Research Profile.]

*Judy Weedman, Professor—B.A. (Colorado), M.L.S. (Oregon), Ph.D. (Michigan). Doctoral supervision: information retrieval. Specific focus: socio–technical studies; social informatics; scholarly communication. [See Research Profile.]

Associate Professors

*Geoffrey Liu, Associate Professor—B.A. (Wuhan), M.A. (Wuhan), Ph.D. (Hawaii at Manoa). Doctoral supervision: information retrieval; information systems and technologies. Specific focus: natural language processing; virtual communities; data mining. [See Research Profile.]

*Ziming Liu, Associate Professor—M.S. (Zhongshan), Ph.D. (UC–Berkeley). Doctoral supervision: information use. Specific focus: user behaviors in the digital environment. [See Research Profile.]

Assistant Professors

Anthony Bernier, Assistant Professor—A.B. (UC–Berkeley), M.L.I.S. (UC–Berkeley), M.A. (UC–Irvine), Ph.D. (UC–Irvine). Doctoral supervision: information use; youth services. Specific focus: public libraries; critical youth studies; library design and architecture. [See Research Profile.]

Joni Bodart, Assistant Professor—B.S. (Texas Woman's), B.A. (Texas Woman's), M.L.I.S. (Texas Woman's), M.A. (Texas Woman's), Ph.D. (Texas Woman's). Doctoral supervision: information use; youth services. Specific focus: reading motivation; booktalking; value and defense of controversial materials for youth; bibliotheraphy; intellectual freedom; impact of digital technologies on early childhood development and learning, socially, psychologically, and physically. [See Research Profile.]

Kristen Clark, Assistant Professor—B.S. (Saint Joséph College), M.L.I.S (San José), Ph.D. (UC–San Diego). Doctoral supervision: information retrieval; information use. youth services. Specific focus: interventions to support critical multiliteracies among children participating in community–based informal learning environments; relationships between information behavior and human development. [See Research Profile.]

Daniel Fuller, Assistant Professor—B.A. (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), M.L.I.S. (Pittsburgh), Ph.D. (Pittsburgh). Doctoral supervision: management and leadership; teacher–librarianship. Specific focus: distance learning; library automation systems. [See Research Profile.]

Lecturer

Lori Lindberg, Assistant Professor—B.A. (San Francisco State), M.L.I.S. (San José State), Ph.D. Candidate (UCLA). Doctoral supervision: archives and records administration. Specific focus: archival informatics; metadata and metadata structures; the role of metadata in the long–term preservation of reliable and authentic electronic records. [See Research Profile.]

Lili Luo, Lecturer—B.A. (Peking), Master (Peking ), Ph.D. (UNC–Chapel Hill). Doctoral supervision: information use. Specific focus: Education for reference librarianship; Adoption of new technologies in reference service provision; Information seeking behavior in the digital environment.

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