Larry C. Dennis (Dean) earned his BS in Physics at the University of Michigan and his PhD in Nuclear Physics at the University of Virginia. Previously, he was Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director of the Office for Distributed and Distance Learning (ODDL) at FSU. He has taught physics at FSU since 1979 and has won a University Teaching Award and two State of Florida Teaching Incentive Program Awards. In his role as Director of ODDL, he has gained extensive experience developing online degree programs and applying technology to instruction. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Southeastern University Research Association and is a member of the EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee on Teaching and Learning.

Corinne Jörgensen (Associate Dean for Academics and Research) earned her MLS and PhD from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. She is a former member of the faculty at the University at Buffalo's School of Informatics, where for seven years she taught courses such as Introduction to Information Science and Services, Indexing and Surrogation, Digital Libraries, and Information Architecture. Her primary research interest is in the area of image description, indexing, and retrieval, with a focus on integrating human cognitive and perceptual factors in the design of image retrieval systems. She also performs research focusing on the impacts of technology on information seeking. Recent research concentrates on the relationship of the Internet to library use and services.

Robert F. Brooks (Associate Dean for Information and Administration) earned his PhD in Communication from FSU and MA in Communication from the University of Oklahoma. He retired from the Air Force in 1996 after 22 years of service. His teaching interests are in management, leadership, and research methods. He is a member of ALISE, ICA and NCA and Phi Kappa Phi. He has developed a model of information interaction and is currently testing its application to predicting success in online learning.

John Carlo Bertot is Professor and Associate Director of the Information Use Management and Policy Institute. His research interests are in the areas of public library use of, and involvement with, the Internet; telecommunications and information policy development with an emphasis on electronic network-based issues; organization and management of electronic network-based information; and development and implementation of electronic network performance measures. He serves as editor of Government Information Quarterly, and co-editor of Library Quarterly. He also serves as chair of the American Library Association's Library Research Round Table (LRRT), chair of the ISO 11620 Library Performance Indicator international standard, and is a member of the Florida Library Association's Legislative Committee.

Darrell Burke (Assistant Professor) earned his PhD in Health Services Organization and Research with a concentration in Information Systems from the Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. He was an information technology consultant and the Director of Systems and Procedures at St. Luke’s Hospital/Mayo Clinic Florida from 1991 to 1998. His teaching interests include medical informatics, information technology, information strategy and management, operations management, project management, and decision support systems. His research focuses on the development and quantification of organizational level healthcare information technology (HIT) strategies. He is also involved in the identification and quantification of antecedents and outcomes associated with HIT strategies.

Gary Burnett (Associate Professor) earned his PhD in English from Princeton University and his MLS from Rutgers University. He has worked as a bookseller, a librarian, and a small press publisher in addition to his professional experience as a Research Associate at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education. Prior to coming to FSU, he was an adjunct faculty member at Princeton University and Rutgers University. His teaching interests include subject analysis, Internet research, technical writing, and web development. His research examines online interaction and issues of textual interpretation in virtual communities and other CMC environments.

Kathleen Burnett (Associate Professor) earned her PhD and MLS from the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked in both academic and public libraries as a rare books cataloger, children's librarian, and reference librarian. She has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California State University, San Jose, and Rutgers University. Before coming to FSU, she was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, for seven years. She is a member of ALA, ASIST, ALISE, Educause, AoIR, and Beta Phi Mu. Her teaching areas include organization of information and academic information services. Her current research focuses on developing a theoretical foundation for understanding implications of gender and power in the interweaving of the technical and social that shapes information transfer at the beginning of the 21st century.

Maria Chavez-Hernandez (Associate in Information Practice) earned her PhD from FSU. Prior to coming to the College of Information, she worked at FSU Libraries as an interlibrary loan unit head for nine years. During her tenure at Strozier Library, her unit was awarded the 1997 Davis Certificate award for quality service, process improvement and streamlining workflow. Her teaching interests include collection management, organizational culture, and international information services. She coordinates the school's internship program.

Pamala J. Doffek (Associate Librarian) earned her master's degree in Library Science from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, is in Industrial Technology. Pam has a background working with military libraries supporting their academic, special, and public library needs. Her interests include library as “place” in the virtual diaspora, and practical application of library theory. She is a member of ALA, SLA, NFLA, FLA and PLAN.

Ian Douglas (Assistant Professor) earned his PhD (1996) in Computer Science from Glasgow Caledonian University, M.Sc. (1985) in Computing and Cognition from the University of Warwick, and an MA (hons) (1984) in Psychology from the University of Glasgow. He holds a joint appointment as faculty in both College of Information and the Learning Systems Institute (LSI). He is director of LSI’s Knowledge Communities Research Group (KCRG), which is a interdisciplinary group of full-time researchers and graduate students. His research interests are centered on discovering new ways to support and improve human performance through technology. He is concerned with issues such as domain understanding, computer supported collaborative work, user-centered design, knowledge management and creative problem solving.

Eliza T. Dresang (Professor) earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MLS from the University of California at Los Angeles. She taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as Director of Library Media and Technology for the Madison (WI) Metropolitan School District before joining the FSU faculty. Her research and teaching interests include management, evaluation, intellectual freedom, information seeking behavior, and information services and sources for children and young adults. She has published extensively and often speaks at national and international conferences about digital age transformations of resources and services for youth and intellectual freedom in the digital age. She has served on the ALA Council, ALSC Board of Directors, and chaired the ALA Newbery Award Committee.

Nancy Everhart (Associate Professor) earned a B.S. from Kutztown University, M. Ed. from the University of Central Florida, and Ph.D. from Florida State University where she was the recipient of the Madge Hutcherson Fellowship. She has been employed as a high school library media specialist in Pennsylvania and as a faculty member at St. John's University, New York. She serves as the Director of the school media program at FSU and co-directs Project LEAD an IMLS initiative that prepares school library media specialists for leadership roles via National Board Certification. Winner of the 1990 ALISE Outstanding Dissertation Award, her research interests are in the area of the impact of technology on the role of the school library media specialist, evaluation of school libraries and staffing. She is the author of Evaluating the School Library Media Center and Controversial Issues in School Librarianship as well as over 60 articles in the school media field. Dr. Everhart is active in the American Association of School Librarians where she serves as research editor of Knowledge Quest, associate editor of School Library Media Research, and is a former member of the Board of Directors. She is also a current member of the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME) Board of Directors.

Melissa Gross (Associate Professor) received her PhD and MLS from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998, received the prestigious American Association of University Women Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars in 2001 and the Outstanding Faculty Member Award for 2002-2003. Dr. Gross has published extensively in the areas of information seeking behavior, library program and service evaluation, and information resources for youth. Her teaching interests include research methods, the information needs of children and young adults, reference, and the development and evaluation of information programs and services. Her research specialty is information seeking behavior and concentrates on understanding user information seeking behavior as a basis for the design, evaluation, and improvement of information resources, programs, services, and systems. She is actively working on further explication of the implications and predictive ability of her imposed query model. Other current projects include investigations into the information literacy needs of undergraduates and the HIV/AIDS content of materials developed for a young adult audience.

Peter Jörgensen (Director of Academic and Research Technologies) earned his PhD from the University at Buffalo’s School of Informatics while he worked as a Senior Applications Analyst UB’s Advanced Technology Skunkworks for Computing and Information Technology. His research interests include usability of computer systems, media informatics, metadata and measurement. He is currently working on an investigation into the speed at which people can browse images, a method for sampling the web, and scientific community annotation issues.

Michelle Kazmer (Assistant Professor) earned her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her MLS at the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS in mechanical engineering at Columbia University. She worked at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, as a technical information specialist, and prior to that as an engineering librarian and electronic documents coordinator at the University of Illinois. Her research interests include online social worlds, mediated information sharing, online community departures, and distributed knowledge building and maintenance. Topics of study include temporary online social worlds and community-embedded distance learning.

Kyung Kim (Assistant Professor) earned her PhD (2002) from Rutgers University, majoring in Information Systems and Services. Information seeking behaviors of web users, usability of digital libraries and academic library websites, and metacognition in information searching are foci of her research interests. She teaches Web design and online information searching. Her professional experience includes medical librarian, business librarian, and research assistant. She is a member of ALISE & ASIS&T.

Christie Koontz (Director of GeoLib) pioneered the critical need to understand the spatial customer markets of individual libraries. In a decade of research projects, she collected data which describe diverse populations and how they use a single library, with a goal to optimize collection development and service delivery at a single library. Koontz' research is the basis of the U.S. Public Library Geographic Database (www.geolib.org.) The database includes relevant US census data and library use data from 16,000 communities. Koontz teaches and conducts marketing activities for the College, is a columnist for Marketing Library Services, published by Information Today www.infotoday.com, and co-authored a virtual campus marketing course utilizing geographic information system software (GIS) which can be found at www.esri.com. Koontz serves on committees of state, national and international library and information organizations and has won numerous awards for her research.

M. Bowie Kotrla (Coordinator, Information Services and Associate in Information Practice) earned her PhD. in Biological Science and her M.S. in Information Studies from FSU. She taught for 11 years in the Department of Biological Science and the Program in Medical Sciences at FSU. Her teaching interests include database management, research methods, and scientific information sources. She is a member of ACM, ALA, and ASIS&T. Her research interests focus on policies that promote access to information. She leads the school's Database practice.

Don Latham (Assistant Professor) earned his PhD in English from the University of Georgia and his MS and Specialist degrees from Florida State University. He teaches Information Needs of Young Adults and Introduction to Information Services. He is a member of ALA, YALSA, ALSC, the Children's Literature Association, ASIST and ALISE. His research interests include information resources for youth, information behavior of youth, and information literacy. He has published articles on Lois Lowry, David Almond, Francesca Lia Blck, Isabel allende, and the cultural work of magical realism in young adult novels, and has authored a book entitled David Almond: Memory and Magic (Scarecrow Press, 2006).

Hongyan Ma (Assistant Professor) received a BS in Information Science, a BS in Economics, a minor in Law, and a MS in Management from PeKing University, China. She completed her MLIS in Informatics from the University of California, Los Angeles where she is ABD on her Ph.D. degree. She was the recipient of the prestigious Chun Hui Plan Fund from Ministry of Education, China and the Chancellor's Fellowship from University of California, Los Angeles. Her research and teaching interests include user-centered design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, digital libraries, scientometrics, and technology innovation. Her research specialty is context sensitive retrieval, Human-Computer Interaction, user modeling and personalization, and digital library Architecture.

Mia Lustria (Assistant Professor) earned her BS and MS in Development Communication from the University of the Philippines and her PhD in Communication at the University of Kentucky. Before joining FSU, she taught for 10 years at the College of Development Communication at the University of the Philippines Los Banos and was also an affiliate faculty of the University of the Philippines Open University. Dr. Lustria is a member of ASIST, ALISE, ICA, NCA, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society, and the Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society, among others. Her primary research interests are in the areas of consumer health informatics, health communication, health information seeking, scholarly communication, and the social shaping of information and communication technologies. A more detailed description of her research interests is found at http://ci.fsu.edu/research/faculty_interests/lustria.asp.

Paul F. Marty (Assistant Professor) earned his PhD from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His educational background is in Computer Engineering and Classics. From 1996 to 2002, he was Director of Information Technology at the University of Illinois' Spurlock Museum. His research and teaching interests include museum informatics, computer-supported cooperative work, and usability engineering. He specializes in the study of museums as sociotechnical systems, and is particularly interested in the social implications of introducing new technologies into the museum environment. His current research focuses on the evolution of collaborative work practices in museums, the usability of museum websites, the evolving roles of information professionals in museums, and the digital museum in the life of the user.

Charles McClure (Francis Eppes Professor and Director of the Information Use Management and Policy Institute) received his PhD in Library and Information Services from Rutgers University. His teaching areas include information policy, management, and evaluation. He is a member of ALA, ASIST, ALISE and the Software and Information Industry Association. He is a frequent speaker at professional meetings. His research focuses on planning and evaluation of information services and technology including the development of e-metrics and performance measures; public library management and services; virtual reference and interactive web services; federal information policy, E-government, and federal web-based services and transactions.

David Miner (Assistant In Information Practice) earned his MLS from FSU. His teaching areas include subject analysis, database management, and systems analysis. He is a member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. He leads the school's Network Services practice.

Lorri Mon (Assistant Professor) received a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington at Seattle in 2006 and the Master's degree in Information and Library Science from the University of Michigan in 1998. As a lecturer at the University of Washington, she taught classes in reference and information services, digital reference theory, collection development, government documents, and e-government. She worked as a government documents librarian with the Unviersity of Illinois at Chicago answering online questions for the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Affairs Network (DOSFAN) from 1998-2001, and served as a digital reference coordinator for the University of Michigan's Internet Public Library from 1997-2001. Her research focuses on informational interviews in which people seek help from others by asking and answering questions, and how intermediated help-seeking can best be adapted to different information technologies and professional domains including e-government and digital libraries.

Ebrahim Randeree (Assistant Professor) received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He completed his MBA in Health Administration and Management Information Systems from the University at Buffalo where he is ABD on his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems. His research and teaching revolves around three broad areas: Outsourcing (adoption, innovation, diffusion, knowledge transfer, decision-making), Health Informatics (EMR adoption, information assurance, IT security, risk management, trust), and Knowledge Management (security, strategic advantage, tacit knowledge, information seeking, knowledge transfer).

Gregory Riccardi (Professor) is a senior faculty member who coordinates the undergraduate program. Dr. Riccardi taught for FSU's Computational Science Department from 1981 until he transferred to the College of Information in 2005. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at FSU (1974), as well as a Master's (1974) and Doctorate (1980) degree in computer science at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Riccardi is the author of Database Management with Web Site Development Applications (Addison-Wesley, 2003).

Besiki Stvilia (Assistant Professor) received his B.A. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Tbilisi State University, Georgia in 1989, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Library and Information Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1997 and 2006. He studies and teaches about Information Quality Assurance, Metadata Design and Social Informatics. In particular he studies the evolving patterns of collaborative work organization and technology use in large community based open information systems, and develops models for information and metadata quality measurement, dynamics and effective intervention. He has more than 10 years of professional experience working as a systems librarian, information manager and software engineer. He has also been actively involved in developing library education and advocacy programs in Georgia and the Caucasus region.

Lisa M. Tripp (Assistant Professor) earned a PhD in Communication from the University of California, San Diego and a BA in Community Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.Prior to coming to FSU, she was Associate Director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include youth culture, youth-produced media, educational equity, and media literacy. She is also a documentary videographer interested in new forms of media scholarship and pedagogy. Over the past 15 years Lisa has worked as an action researcher, ethnographer, and curriculum/program developer on projects with many different organizations. Her current research focuses on the role of digital media in young peoples' informal learning and social relationships, and how media authorship and critical media analysis activities can be integrated into progressive education, and she collaborates on the multi-site ethnographic study, ["Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" (http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu)].

Wayne A. Wiegand (Professor) is F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and Professor of American Studies at Florida State University. He received a BA in history at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (1968), an MA in history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1970), an MLS at Western Michigan University, and a PhD in history at Southern Illinois University (1974). He currently serves as Co-Editor of Library Quarterly, Executive Director of Beta Phi Mu, and Director of the recently established Florida Best Books Awards. In September, 2007, the University of Oklahoma Press will publish Books On Trial: Witch Hunt In The Heartland And A Nation's Response, which he coauthored with Shirley A. Wiegand.