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Affiliated Faculty

The faculty members listed below are affiliated with GSLIS through a joint appointment with their home departments. Faculty are designated as "affiliated" when their work extends the teaching and research of GSLIS: affiliated faculty may be regular attendees of our research group meetings, cross-list their courses with GSLIS and their home departments, or serve on advisory committees for our doctoral students. To become a GSLIS affiliated faculty member, a candidate must first be nominated by a current GSLIS faculty member. The prospective candidate then gives a brown-bag or lecture, after which the faculty votes in executive session. All nominations are confidential until the vote is concluded.

Valerie Hotchkiss	Brenda Trofanenko
Paula Kaufman	Terry von Thaden
Bruce Schatz	Scott Walter
Sue Searing	ChengXiang Zhai

Valerie Hotchkiss

Professor
Home Department:
Office: 346 Library
(217)333-7292
-vhotchki, at illinois.edu-

Paula Kaufman

University Librarian
Home Department: University Library
MS (Library Service) Columbia University

Office: 230 Library, MC-522
(217)333-0790
-ptk, at illinois.edu-

Research Interests

Scholarly communication; copyright; privacy; future of academic libraries

Bruce Schatz

Head of Dept of Medical Information Science, Coll of Med
Home Department: College of Medicine
Ph.D. Arizona

Office: Rm 2101 IGB, 1206 W Gregory, MC-195
(217)244-0651
-schatz, at illinois.edu-

Research Interests

Network information systems, national information infrastructure; digital libraries, semantic retrieval, electronic communities.

Sue Searing

Librarian
Home Department: LIS Library
AMLS Michigan

Office: 244 LIS
Office Hours: Fall 2009: Mondays 7:00pm-9:00pm; Tuesdays 2:30pm-5:00pm; Wednesdays 10:00am-Noon; Thursdays 2:30pm-5:00pm; Fridays 11:00am-12:30pm and by appointment.
(217)333-4456
-searing, at illinois.edu-

Research Interests

Gender issues in information sources and services; library services for distance education; and library support for interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Brenda Trofanenko

Assistant Professor (affiliated)
Home Department:
Office: 303 LIS
(217)244-9741
-brenda, at illinois.edu-

Terry von Thaden

Assistant Professor (affiliated)
Home Department: Human Factors Division
Ph.D. Illinois

Office: Human Factors Division, Rm 105, 1 Airport Road, Savoy, IL 61
(217)244-8667
-vonthade, at illinois.edu-

Research Interests

Terry von Thaden's research combines principles from information science and human factors to study distributed information practice in safety and time critical environments. Special Interests: Information Exchange and Standard Operating Procedures; Individual and Group Decision Processes; Organizational Safety Culture; Crew Resource Management; Distributed Knowledge/Distributed Collective Practice; Social Informatics; Critical Incident Response, Stress, and Debriefing; Error Analysis; Design and Use of Everyday Things; Aviation History

Scott Walter

Professor
Home Department: University Library
M.L.S Indiana Ph.D. Washington State University

Office: 246E Main Library, MC522
Office Hours: Fall 2009: By appointment.
(217)333-0318
-swalter, at illinois.edu-

Research Interests

Information literacy instruction; academic libraries and librarianship; professional and continuing education in library and information science; faculty development

ChengXiang Zhai

Assistant Professor (affiliated)
Home Department: Computer Science
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon

Office: 2116 Siebel Center
(217)244-4943
-czhai, at illinois.edu-

Research Interests

Text processing and management; statistical natural language processing; machine learning; and bioinformatics.

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