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Curriculum Vitae

Fullerton: PLS 55
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Teaching & Professional Interests

• Database and Other Retrieval Systems
• Indexing and Abstracting
• Information Retrieval Theory and Practice
• Organization of Information
• Scholarly and Scientific Communication
• Socio-Technical Studies
• Online Searching

Research Interests

• Classification and Subject Analysis
• Scholarly and Scientific Communication
• Social / Community Informatics
• Knowledge Production
• Work Practice

Dr. Judith Weedman

Professor

Professor Judy Weedman received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Colorado, an M.L.S. from the University of Oregon, and a Ph.D. in information and library science from The University of Michigan. Within the field of information science, her area of specialization is knowledge production. Her research has explored the growth of knowledge in the sciences, humanities, and professions. She has studied communication patterns of scholars (invisible colleges), use of electronic media for professional socialization, interdisciplinary collaboration in large scale research projects, and the design of vocabularies for information retrieval.

Dr. Weedman's work has been published in journals of several disciplines, including information science, communication, and computer science. She regularly presents at conferences such as those of the American Society for Information Science and the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Current research projects focus on design as professional practice and definitions of success in large scale technical design.

Courses Taught

• > [202] Information Retrieval
• > [244] Online Searching
• > [247] Vocabulary Design
• > [287] Seminar in Information Science

Education

• Ph.D. (Information & Library Science) The University of Michigan (1989)
• M.L.S. University of Oregon (1976)
• B.A. University of Colorado (1972)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Professor, San José State University, School of Library and Information Science (1999-; Associate Professor, 1995-1999)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (August 1993-July 1995)
• Assistant Professor, University of California at Berkeley, School of Library and Information Studies (August 1987 - July 1994)
• Lecturer, The University of Michigan, School of Library and Information Studies (1983-1987; part-time, 1982-1983)
• Thesaurus design and indexing: Public Health, Business, History, Multimedia, Veterinary Medicine, Criminal Justice, Education (1973-)
• Special libraries, Information retrieval and analysis (1981-1990)
• School library media teacher (1974-1980)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF above.

• Weedman, J. (under review). Design science in the information sciences. In M. Bates & M. N. Maack (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd ed. Oxford, UK: Taylor & Francis.
• Weedman, J. (2008). Client as designer in collaborative design science research projects: What does social science design theory tell us? European Journal of Information Systems 17, 476-488.
• Weedman, J. (2008). Information retrieval: Designing, querying, and evaluating information systems. In K. Haycock & B. Sheldon (Eds.), The Portable MLIS (pp. 112-126). Westport, CT:Libraries Unlimited.
• Weedman, J. (2005). Designers, clients, and knowledge production. D-Lib 11 [Special section: Mick Khoo and David Ribes (Eds.), Studying digital library users in the wild. JCDL Workshop Report]. Retrieved August 14, 2005,from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/khoo/10_weedman.pdf
• Weedman, J. (2004). The professional practice of design: Local vocabularies. In Mikel Breitenstein (Ed.) Advances in classification research 15. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.
• Weedman, J. (2002). Thinking with images: an exploration into information retrieval and knowledge generation. In Elaine G. Toms (Ed.), Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 39, (pp. 376-382). Medford, NJ: Learned Information.
• Weedman, J. (2000). Local Practice and the growth of knowledge: Decisions in subject access to digitized databases. In Hanne Albrechtsen and Eric-Jens Mai (Eds.) Advances in Classification Research 10, (pp. 125-146). Medford, NJ: Learned Information.

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