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Professional Activities
Denise A.D. Bedford, School of Library and Information Science, and Unnatti Mishra, graduate student in the School of Library and Information Science, presented "Knowledge Audits from A to Z (SIG/KM)" at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) in Seattle, Washington, on Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, 2014.
Summary: This was a workshop Bedford presented. She also is the incoming chair of the SIG KM.
Meghan Harper, School of Library and Information Science, presented "In Search of Wonder: Common Core and More" at the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance in Perry, Ohio, on Oct. 17, 2014.
Summary: Harper served on a panel at the event, discussing classic and contemporary books that can be used across all academic disciplines to enhance students' learning experiences.
I. Richmond Nettey, associate dean of the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology, at the invitation of the Association of Technology Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE), delivered a peer-reviewed presentation on “Technology Alumni and Employer Surveys for Program Accreditation: Findings and Feedback to Tomorrow’s Gateway” at the 2014 ATMAE Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
Lala Hajibayova, School of Library and Information Science, presented a poster titled "Investigation of Level of Abstraction of Tags: What is Basic Across Basic Resource Genres?" at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) in Seattle, Washington on Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, 2014.
Carolyn Brodie, School of Library and Information Science, was awarded the 2014 Presidential Award by the Ohio Education Library Media Association. Brodie is a retired Kent State professor. The award honors individuals in the library field for their service to the School of Library and Information Science.
Thomas J. Froehlich, School of Library and Information Science, presented "A Brief History of Information Ethics: A New Outlook 10 Years Later (2004-2014)" at the Information Seeking in Context Conference in University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in October 2014.
Summary: Froehlich’s paper is the most heavily cited article from the University of Barcelona's online journal, bid, and appears as a second entry in a current Google search on "information ethics."
Publications
Ken Sayers, a Kent State University alumnus, and C. Owen Lovejoy, Department of Anthropology, published “Blood, Bulbs, and Bunodonts: On Evolutionary Ecology and the Diets of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Early Homo” in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 89, 4 (December 2014); pp. 319–357.
Web link: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678568
Kiersten Latham, School of Library and Information Science, and Corina Iannaggi, graduate student in the School of Library and Information Science, authored a magazine article, "Instantiation: Academia's Pop-Up Museum" in Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, Vol. 1, Article 2, 2014.
Summary: The paper was presented at the 2014 DOCAM conference at Kent State University in August 2014. Latham served as co-chair of the 2014 DOCAM conference.
Web link: http://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol1/iss1/2/
Additional comments: The article provides an overview of the creation and installation of the Document Academy (DOCAM) 2014 Instantiation, an experimental exhibition intended to develop a three-dimensional representation of the DOCAM 2014 participants’ spoken presentations. During the installation process, it was evident that the Instantiation resembled a current trend in the museum profession known as “The Pop-Up Museum.” An evaluation of the Instantiation in the context of the Pop-Up Museum uncovered a similar core objective, the ability to create meaningful conversations centered around the participants’ documents on display. This objective was supported by participants’ responses to follow-up questions about their experience participating in and conversing about the Instantiation while attending the conference. It is believed that other academic conferences could benefit from a project similar to the Instantiation and the process outlined in this article can be used as a model for its creation.