Selected Services
Offices Held/Committees Served
- ASIST International Relations Committee member, 2007-
- SIG Representative on the ASIST Nominations Committee, 2005-2007
- ASIST SIG of the Year Jury, 2006
- ASIST SIG III
- SIG Alternate Cabinet Representative (2006-2008)
- Immediate Past Chair, ASIST Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG III), 2005-2006 (SIG III won the 2006 SIG of the Year Award.)
- Chair, ASIST Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG III), 2004-2005 (SIG III won the 2005 SIG of the Year and 2005 SIG Publication of the Year. I received the SIG Member of the Year award.)
- Chair-Elect and Communications Officer, ASIST Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG III), 2003-2004
- Communications Officer, ASIST Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG III), 2001-2003 (winner of the 2002 SIG-of-the-Year Award; winner of the 2003 SIG Publication of the Year Award for the SIG's website where I served as the site's webmaster)
- Webmaster, SIG III website, 2001-2005 (the website won 2003 and 2005 SIG Publication of the Year Award)
- SIG III listserv administrator (2001-present)
- NORASIST (Northern Ohio Chapter of ASIST)
- Co-webmaster for the Northern Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NORASIST) website, 2004-present
- NORASIST Chapter Assembly Representative, 2006-2008
- NORASIST Alternate Chapter Assembly Representative, 2004-2006
- Website committee member, Northern Ohio Chapter of the American Society for Information Science (NORASIS), 1999-2001
Conference Programs/Sessions Organized
- Organizer of a panel presentation for the ED-MEDIA 2007-World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications: "A Heterogeneous Online Education Portal for K-12 Students: Perspectives of Developer, Service Provider, Researcher, and User" (accepted)
- Organizer and moderator of a panel presentation for the 2005 ASIST Annual Meeting: "Multilingual Digital Libraries: Research and Practice" (Co-sponsored by SIG III and SIG DL)
- Organizer and moderator of a panel presentation for the 2004 ASIST Annual Meeting: "Important Technical Issues for Digital Libraries with Multiple Collections, Different Languages, and Diverse Audiences" (Co-sponsored by SIG III and SIG DL)
- Organizer and moderator of a panel for the 2003 ASIST Annual Meeting: "Sharing and Accessing Internet Resources Across Barriers of Nation, Language, and Collection"
- Organizer and moderator of a panel for the 2002 ASIST Annual Meeting: "Multicultural Aspects of Information Organization and Access"
- Organizer and moderator of a panel on digital reference "Digital Reference in Action: Perspectives from Librarians and Educators" for NORASIST, April 3, 2003
- Organizer and moderator of a panel on web-based surveys for NORASIST, October 18, 2000
Referee/Journal Editor Board Served
- ASIS&T Bulletin Advisory Board Member, 2004-
- ASIST SIG USE Elfreda A. Chatman Research Proposal Award Jury, 2007
- Editor Advisory Board member, OCLC Systems & Services, 2000-2002
- Referee for The Information Society, 2007
- Referee for International Information and Library Review, 2003, 2004, 2005
- Referee for Information Processing & Management, 2003
- Referee for Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2001, 2003, 2004
- Referee for Library and Information Science Research, 2002
- Referee for Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 2000
- Referee for Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2004, 2005
- Juror for the ASIST and SIG III International Paper Contest on Digital Libraries in Developing Countries, 2005, 2006, 2007
- Reviewer the Canadian Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence (ORF-RE) program competition, 2006
- Juror for 2001 John Wiley & Sons Best JASIST Paper Award
- Juror for 2000 American Society for Information Science/Institute of Scientific Information (ASIS/ISI) Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
- Referee of contributed papers, ASIS 2000 Annual Meeting
- Referee for the International Conference "Information Technology in Education: Learning from Different Cultures," Beijing, P.R. China, July 19-21, 2004. http://www.evergreeneducation.org/evergreen2004/
University Services
- Institutional Review Board (IRB) Representative, 2007-present
- Kent State University Research Council
- Council member, 2005-2008
- URC Representative to FPDC, 2007-2008
- Chair, Screening committee for selecting Kent State University 2008 Summer appointments and 2008-2009 Academic Year leaves, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Group 1
- Chair, Screening committee for selecting Kent State University 2007 Summer appointments and 2007-2008 Academic Year leaves, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Group 3
- Chair, Screening committee for selecting Kent State University 2006 Summer appointments and 2006-2007 Academic Year leaves, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Group 2
- Member, 2006 Distinguished Scholar Award Committee
- Reviewer, Screening committee for selecting Kent State University 2003 Summer appointments and 2003-2004 Academic Year leaves
- Kent State University Council on Technology, alternate, 2005-2006
- Kent State University Teaching Council
- Council member, 2002-2005
- Kent State University Teaching Council, Summer Teaching Development Award reviewer, 2003, 2004, 2005
- Committee on UTC Award Outcome Evaluations
- Kent State University Teaching Council 2005 Celebrating College Teaching Conference, Moderator for a mini-breakout session, October 21, 2005
- Kent State University Teaching Council 2004 Celebrating College Teaching Conference, Moderator for a mini-breakout session on international issues in curriculum and service learning, October 22, 2004