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Full-Time Faculty

Mailing Address for all GSLIS full-time faculty: Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science 7900 West Division Street River Forest  IL  60305 USA 708/524-6845 (voice) 708/524-6657 (fax) gslis@dom.edu www.dom.edu/gslis

Susan Roman Dean and Professor AB, Washington University MALS, Dominican University PhD, University of Chicago Office: Crown 300 708/524-6986 sroman@dom.edu

Bill Crowley Professor BA, Hunter College MS (LS), Columbia University MA, Ohio State University PhD, Ohio University Office: Crown 321 708/524-6513 crowbill@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Management, public libraries, academic libraries, readers advisory, organizational and multicultural communication, theory, marketing and advocacy

Gertrude Soonja L. Koh Professor BA, Sogang University MS, Catherine Spaulding College MLS, CAS, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Office: Crown 324 708/524-6867 kohgsl@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Organization of knowledge, cataloging, classification, information system design, metadata, encoding standards (MARC, XML), information architecture, taxonomy, ontology, Semantic Web, linked data, Web 3.0

Kate Marek Professor BA, University of Texas at Austin MALS, Dominican University PhD, Emporia State University Office: Crown 331 708/524-6648 kmarek@dom.edu

Academic Areas of Interest: Technology development in information services, including digital libraries and internet applications; information policy; global information issues

Mary Minow Follett Chair BA, Brown University AMLS, University of Michigan JD, Stanford University Office: Crown 314 708/524-5957 mminow@dom.edu Image made available through the courtesy of the Institute of Museum and Library Services ( IMLS ).

Academic Areas of Interest: Library legal issues, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Freedom, library legislation

Karen Brown Associate Professor BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison MA, MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD, New York University Office: Crown 341 708/524-6856 kbrown@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Academic libraries, collection management and leadership

Cecilia L. Salvatore Associate Professor BA, Nazareth College MLS, State University of New York at Buffalo PhD, University of Texas at Austin Office: Crown 312 708/524-6852 csalvatore@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Archives, libraries and cultural heritage institutions particularly in underserved communities and emerging and developing countries, information behavior; and global information ecology

Tonyia J. Tidline Director, PhD Program; and Associate Professor BA, The Ohio State University  MA, The Ohio State University MLIS, Kent State University PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office: Crown 345 - B  708/524-6604 ttidline@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Books, printing, publishing industry; critical perspectives on LIS; information needs and behaviors/practices; visual literacy; strategic planning, marketing, lobbying

Janice Del Negro Assistant Professor BA, Hunter College MLS, State University of New York at Geneseo PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office: Crown 345 - A 708/524-6871 jdelnegro@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Youth services in public libraries, including literature and other materials for young adults and children; storytelling; evolution and evaluation of folk and fairy tales; reviewing and criticism; programming for youth; and images of the feminine in folktales and children’s and YA literature

Mary Pat Fallon Assistant Professor  BS, University of Wisconsin-Menomonie MA, DePaul University MLIS, Dominican University EdD, Benedictine University Office: Crown Library 334 708/524-6602 mpfallon@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Academic libraries, collection management, information literacy, reference services and user instruction

Yijun Gao Assistant Professor  BA, Beijing Normal University MLIS, University of Western Ontario PhD, University of Western Ontario Office: TBD phone: TBD ygao@dom.edu Begins appointment in January, 2012.

Academic Area of Interest: Internet Content Development and Emerging Technologies; Digital Preservation (i.e., Digital Libraries); Data Curation and Cyberinfrastructures (i.e., Information Architecture and Systems); Information Retrieval; Webometrics, Online Media Analysis

Don W. Hamerly Director, School Library Media Program; and Assistant Professor BA, Lamar University MLIS, The University of Texas at Austin PhD, The University of Texas at Austin Office: Crown Library 311 708/524-6598 dhamerly@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: School media centers/libraries; role of the school library media specialist; new literacies; strategic planning, marketing, lobbying

Karen Snow Assistant Professor BA, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX MS, Library Science, University of North Texas PhD, University of North Texas  Office: TBD phone: TBD   gslis@dom.edu Begins appointment in January, 2012.

Academic Area of Interest: Organization, access, and control of information resources; classification systems; Metadata creation and control, Emerging technologies

Christopher Stewart Assistant Professor BA, University of Illinois at Chicago  MLIS, Dominican University MBA, Illinois Institute of Technology EdD, University of Pennsylvania  Office: Crown Library 342 708/524-6944 cstewart@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Academic libraries, management and leadership, organizational culture, library buildings (planning and design), bibliometrics, scholarly communication, marketing and outreach and assessment

Sujin B. E. Huggins Instructor BA, University of the West Indies, Trinidad MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office: Crown Library 343  708/524-6580 shuggins@dom.edu

Academic Areas of Interest: Library services to children and young adults; children's literature (specifically of the Caribbean and African Diasporas); critical pedagogy and the LIS curriculum; literacy (ideological and practical considerations); youth community informatics; storytelling; and the taxonomy of folktales

Thomas J. Barthelmess Curator, Butler Children's Literature Center; and Lecturer BA, Grinnell College  MLS, University of Pittsburgh Office: Crown Library 214 - A  708/524-6861 tbarthelmess@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Literature, programming and services for infants, children and young adults, collection development

Edward Valauskas Lecturer BA, University of Illinois at Chicago MA, University of Chicago Office: Crown Library 313 708/524-6562 ejv@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Internet publishing, rare books and scholarly communication

Mailing Address for all GSLIS full-time faculty: Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science 7900 West Division Street River Forest  IL  60305 USA 708/524-6845 (voice) 708/524-6657 (fax) gslis@dom.edu www.dom.edu/gslis

Senior Fellow

William Vernon Jackson
BA, Northwestern University
MS (LS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AM and PhD, Harvard University
Office: Lewis Annex 4C
708/524-6857
wjackson@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: International librarianship, great libraries along with their collections and Latin American Studies

Emeritus Faculty

Tze-Chung (Richard) Li
Professor and Dean Emeritus
Editor Emeritus, World Libraries
LLB, Soochow University
MCL, Southern Methodist University
LLM, Harvard University
MS, Columbia University
PhD, New School for Social Research

Theodore Spahn
Professor Emeritus
BS and MA, Northwestern University
MALS, Dominican University
PhD, University of Michigan