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SCHOOL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE



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SLIS Home – San José Gateway Ph.D. – Doctoral Supervision – Research Profile: Dr. C. James Schmidt

Research Profile: Dr. C. James Schmidt

Dr. C. James Schmidt
Professor

Statement of Research Interests & Experience

My current research interests include academic libraries, higher education, legal issues relating to intellectual freedom and libraries.

Possible PhD Thesis Topic Area

• Survey research on information literacy instruction
• Historical research on academic libraries and/or American higher education
• Legal research on intellectual freedom as it relates to libraries or "fair use" under US copyright law and the Berne Convention/WIPO.

Ten Representative Publications

• Schmidt, J. & April Gage. (Forthcoming). Confidentiality, national security, and libraries. In festschriften for Gordon Conable, Chicago: ALA Editions.
• Schmidt, J. (2000). Media rating schemes: Industry self-defense/regulation, Useful for or useable by libraries? Libri, 50, 26-51.
• Schmidt, J. (1992). Constitutional constancy in cyberspace: Principles for librarians in the networked nation. In D. J. Reynolds (Ed.), Citizen rights and access to electronic information (p. 81-83). Chicago: Library and Information Technology Association.
• Schmidt, J. (1989). Summary of three non-bibliographic entities. In Network Planning Paper #19 Beyond Bibliographic Data: Proceedings of the Library of Congress Network Advisory committee meeting, March 29-31, 1989. Washington: Library of Congress. p. 39-42.
• Schmidt, J. & Pobuda, M. (1988). Capacity modeling at RLG. Information Technology and Libraries, 7, 173-77.
• Schmidt, J. (1985). Copyright: more AND less than you have ever wanted. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 11, 204-205.
• Schmidt, J. (1979). Faculty status: Retrospect and prospect. In New Horizons for Academic Libraries. New York: K.G. Saur. p. 411-417
• Schmidt, J. (1976). Collective bargaining and academic librarians: a review of the decisions of the NLRB. College and Research LibrariesNews, 37, 1-3.
• Schmidt, J. & Gardner, H. (1975). An alternative model of a profession for librarians. College and Research Libraries, 36, 175-187.
• Schmidt, J. (1970). Library services to University branch campuses: the Ohio State experience. Library Resources and Technical Services, 14, 562-573.

Professional Memberships & Related Matters:

I am a member of the following groups: American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Reference and User Services Association, Library Administration and Management Association, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, and the Library and Information Technology Association.

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