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LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE Also "Research-practice-policy intersections in the Pathways to Prevention Project..." in INTEGRATION & IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCES below. Measuring the Global Research Environment: Information Science Challenges for the 21st Century - Paper and presentation at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Charlotte, NC, USA, 1 November 2005. [with Dr. Gabriele Bammer] ABSTRACT: "What does the global research environment look like?" This paper presents a summary look at the results of efforts to address this question using available indicators on global research production. It was surprising how little information is available, how difficult some of it is to access and how flawed the data are. The three most useful data sources were UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Research and Development data (1996-2002), the Institute of Scientific Information publications listings for January 1998 through March 2003, and the World of Learning 2002 reference volume. The data showed that it is difficult to easily get a good overview of the global research situation from existing sources. Furthermore, inequalities between countries in research capacity are marked and challenging. Information science offers strategies for responding to both of these challenges. In both cases improvements are likely if access to information can be facilitated and the process of integrating information from different sources can be simplified, allowing transformation into effective action. The global research environment thus serves as a case study for the focus of this paper - the exploration of information science responses to challenges in the management, exchange and implementation of knowledge globally. Grand challenges: The shift from information retrieval to synthesis. - Paper and presentation at the 1st meeting of "i-schools" (i-Conference 2005) in State College, PA, 28-30 September 2005. [with Dr. Catherine Blake] INTRODUCTION: Grand challenges such as public health, security, genomics, environmental protection, education, and economics, are characterized by complexity, interdependence, globalization, and unpredictability. Although the unprecedented quantity of information surrounding these challenges can provide users with a new perspective on solutions, the data surrounding complex systems vary with respect to levels of structure and authority, and include vastly different contexts and vocabularies. To be successful in this domain we must extend our models of information science such that they operate successfully in environments where the quantity of relevant information far exceeds our human processing capacity. For example, the well-accepted precision and recall metrics break down when hundreds of thousands of documents are relevant. Solutions to grand challenges require that information scientists shift their focus from information retrieval towards information synthesis. Managerial leadership as an area of doctoral study. - Chapter describing the PhD program focused on lanagerial leadership in the information professions, initiated in 2005. In the 2006 publication edited by Hernon, P. and Rossiter, N., Making a difference: Leadership and academic libraries [with Peter Hernon and Candy Schwartz] No Number Stands Alone... - a synthesis of the NFAIS October 2004 program entitled "Online Usage Statistics: Current Trends and Future Directions in Meeting User Needs" The Future in Person: A Student Member's View of ASIS&T 2003 - a synthesis of developing information science technologies and theories, published in the February/March 2004 issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Three essays published in the November/December 2003 issue of "New England Libraries," the newsletter of the New England Library Association. The issue covered the Annual Conference held in Worcester, Massachusetts, US, in October 2003, featuring Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky. Newsletter not available electronically - text reproduced and linked below.
INTEGRATION & IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCES Also "Measuring the Global Research Environment..." in LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE above. Research-practice-policy intersections in the Pathways to Prevention Project: Reflections on theory and experience. - Chapter summarizing the Australian early intervention crime prevention project through five theoretical lenses. In the 2006 publication edited by France, A. and Homel, R., Pathways and crime prevention: Theory, policy and practice. [with Marie Leech and Catherine Mahoney] ABSTRACT: Pathways to Prevention is a multi-dimensional, early intervention crime prevention project integrating family support programs with preschools and school based programs in a highly disadvantaged suburb of Brisbane. It is a partnership between Mission Australia, a practice-based, direct service provider, and Griffith University, a research institution. As well as providing sound practice and policy relevant research, the project constituted a unique resource for generating much-needed new knowledge about organisational learning, integration and implementation in multi-disciplinary environments, and knowledge management specific to the areas of inter-sectoral, inter-organisational collaboration and research-practice-policy partnerships. This paper examines the Pathways to Prevention Project through five different theoretical lenses to stimulate awareness of theories that others may find useful and to identify opportunities for studying the structures and processes involved in complex, public good partnerships. The lenses used to explore the project are organisational learning, knowledge management, integration and implementation sciences, public policy transformation, and practice research engagement. For each lens we present key intellectual foundations, discuss relevant learning experiences from the Pathways project, and suggest future lines of study and experimentation to develop new knowledge pathways in each area. Central America: An Alchemy of the Spirit - Travel article published on the STA Travel web site in 2002 I-n-I da Source - Letter to the editor published in Parabola Magazine in 2001 in response to the issue on "The Ego and the 'I'" |
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