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JPEG of Johanna Tunon

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City: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Telephone:
  1-954-792-6814

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Academic Libraries
  • Bibliometrics / Informetrics / Webometrics
  • Distance Education in LIS
  • Electronic Documents
  • Electronic Reference Services
  • Evaluation of Service
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Literacy and Instruction
  • Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
  • Information Needs / Behaviors of the Public
  • Information Needs and Behaviors / Practices
  • Information Retrieval Theory and Practice
  • Information Systems and Technologies
  • Information Technology Management
  • Licensing
  • Reference and Information Services
  • Research Methods
  • Serving Multicultural Populations
  • Users and Uses of Information Systems

Research Interests

  • Bibliometrics / Informetrics / Webometrics
  • Distance Education in LIS
  • Evaluation of Service
  • Information Literacy and Instruction
  • Research Methods
  • Serving Multicultural Populations

Dr. Johanna Tunon

Lecturer

Johanna Tunon is Director of Distance and Instructional Library Services in the Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her most recent research on using citation analysis to assess the quality of doctoral reference lists were presented at American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Montreal and IFLA in Norway. Past research has focused on distance library services and included presentations at ACRL and the Off-Campus Library Services Conference.

She has served as chair of the Distance Learning Section of ACRL (2006-2007), presented at a variety of conferences including SLA, PLA, ALA, LOEX, ACURIL, and CADE, and co-edited two reference books as well as contributing several book chapters on distance library services, instructional technology, and library instruction.

Courses Taught

Education

  • Ed.D. (Instructional Technology and Distance Education) Nova Southeastern University (1999)
  • MLS (Special Libraries) Texas Woman's University (1989)
  • BA (History and Education) Valparaiso University (1970)

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Director of Distance and Instructional Library Services, Alvin Sherman Library, Nova Southeastern University (2007- )
  • Head of Distance and Instructional Library Services, Alvin Sherman Library, Nova Southeastern University (1994-2007)
  • Head of Reference, Einstein Library, Nova Southeastern University (1993-1994)
  • Reference librarian, Einstein Library, Nova University, (1990-1993)
  • Corporate librarian, Bell Northern Research (1988-1989)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

  • Tunon, J., & Ramirez, L. (2010). ABD or EdD: A model for training of distance doctoral students. In Fourteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings. Mt. Pleasant, MI: Central Michigan University.
  • Tunon, J., & Brydges, B. (2009). Expanded assessment study examining the citation patterns from traditional and nontraditional institutions and their effect upon the quality of doctoral dissertation reference lists. Journal of Library Administration, 49(1-2), 137-159.
  • Tunon, J., & Brydges, B. (2008). Expanded assessment study examining the citation patterns from traditional and nontraditional institutions and their effect upon the quality of doctoral dissertation reference lists. In S. M. Mathson & J. A. Garrison (Eds.), Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings. Mt. Pleasant, MI: Central Michigan University.
  • Ramdial, S., & Tunon, J. (2007). Equivalent library services for international students?: A comparison of student responses in Jamaica and the Bahamas with the results of a university-wide survey. In Caribbean libraries in the 21st century: Changes, challenges, and choices (pp. 242-256). Medford, NJ: Information Today.
  • Tunon, J., & Brydges, B. (2006). A study on using rubrics and citation analysis to measure to measure the quality of doctoral dissertation reference lists from traditional and nontraditional institutions. In J. A. Garrison (Ed.), Twelfth Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings. Mt. Pleasant, MI: Central Michigan Press.
  • Quinlan, N., & Tunon, J. (2005). Providing reference in a joint-use facility. Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 9(1/2), 111-128.

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