joanne twining, M.L.S., Ph.D

Education:

• Ph.D. 1999. Texas Woman’s University. Denton, Texas. School of Library and Information Studies. HEA Title IIB Fellowship, 1996-1998.
• M.L.S. 1995. Texas Woman's University
• B.S. 1994. (cum laude) Texas Woman's University. Mass Communication / Political Science.
• A.S. 1993. Grayson County College, Texas Journalism (significant coursework 1971-73).

Publications:

• Dissertation:

  twining, joanne. 1999. A Naturalistic Journey into the Collaboratory: In Search of Understanding for Prospective Participants. Dissertation Abstracts #AADAA-19954255. First dissertation to be simultaneously published traditionally and in html and pdf formats.) http://intertwining.org/dissertation

  citations:

  • Shelton, Kaye.  2010.   A QUALITY SCORECARD FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF ONLINE EDUCATION PROGRAMS: A DELPHI STUDY.   Ph.D. DISSERTATION. Major: Educational Studies (Educational Leadership and Higher Education). University of Nebraska, Lincoln.  http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=cehsedaddiss
  • BROKES, JOY CUNNINGHAM.  2010.   THE EFFECT OF USING A PROBLEM/PROJECT-BASED, DOCUMENT DRIVEN UNIT OF INSTRUCTION, ON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT ON THE DATA ANALYSIS CLUSTER OF THE HSPA AND ON THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD MATHEMATICS AND DATA ANALYSIS.  Ed.D DISSERTATION. Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ. http://ti-researchlibrary.com/Lists/TI%20Education%20Technology%20%20Research%20Library/Attachments/210/Brokes%20Dissertation%204-23%20-2010%20TI-Nspire%20+%20TI-84.pdf
  • Collins, Daniel L.  2009. THE INTERACTIVE WATERSHED: MAPPING PLACE-BASED CULTURAL PRACTICES USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION TOOLS.  Ph.D. Dissertation. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY.  http://vizproto.prism.asu.edu/watershed/Collins_PhD_dissertation_5-8-09.pdf
  • CANHAM, ANDREW A. 2008. EVALUATING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND OUTREACH EFFORTS: CHANGES IN PERCEPTIONS OVER A THREE-YEAR PERIOD. DISSERTATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY. Texas Tech University. http://etd.lib.ttu.edu/theses/available/etd-02262008-113346/unrestricted/Canham_Andrew_diss.pdf
  • King, Russel J. 2007. A DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK FOR TOTAL OWNERSHIP COST MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: A DELPHI STUDY. A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Business Administration. University of Phoenix. UMI Number: 3302636. http://gradworks.umi.com/3302636.pdf
    
  • Mohammadian, Abolfazl.  2007.  Investigating Transferability of National Household Travel Survey Data.  Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Volume 1993 / 2007.(67-79).  Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. ISSN    0361-1981  DOI    10.3141/1993-10. http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/archive/committees/AB000/1/07-2030.pdf
  • Martini Angelita.  2005. Engaging the Decision Makers: Planning With Rural and Remote Communities for the Delivery of Health Services Using Telecommunications Networks.  Paper http://www.engagingcommunities2005.org/abstracts/S35-martini-a.html presented at International Conference on Engaging Communities (An initiative of the United Nations and Queensland Government) http://www.engagingcommunities2005.org/ab-day-mon.html 14-17 August. Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.Queensland, (Australia).
  • Domingus, Marlon. 2005. OAI, Google Scholar and Wikipedia are the answers, but what is the question? Leiden University Library (Netherlands). CERN Worshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OA14) http://eprints.rclis.org/bitstream/10760/8137/1/OAI4_MDomingus.pdf
  • LEIST, JAMES ERNEST. 2005. EXEMPLARY RURAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE PRESIDENTS: A CASE STUDY OF HOW WELL THEIR PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES MIRROR JOB ADVERTISEMENTS.  Ph.D. DISSERTATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION. Texas Tech University.  http://dspace.lib.ttu.edu/bitstream/handle/2346/1057/Leist_Jay_Diss.pdf.pdf?sequence=1
  • Fernandes, Jorge, et al.  2004.   Researching Globalization: Re-thinking the Future of Collaborative Research.  Journal of Futures Studies, May 8(4): 31 - 46.(University of Hawai'i at Manoa USA).  http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/8-4/A03.pdf
  • Cynthia Fowler Hernandez. 2003.  ELIMINATING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP: THE STUDY OF ONE TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT.  Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Texas at Austin.  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2003/hernandezcf032/hernandezcf032.pdf

  other scholarly uses:

  • Used by Joze Rugelj, Ph.D., Associated Professor and Vice Dean, Podiplomski University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, (Slovenia). In Course: študij ISO, Računalniško podprto skupinsko delo in sodelovanje na daljavo predavatelj. (Computer supported collaborative work and remote collaboration) http://hrast.pef.uni-lj.si/~joze/lessons/cscw/
  • Used by Professor Dr.-Ing M. Nagl, Department of Computer Science, Aachen University of Technology (Germany): In Seminar: Die Zukunft des Publizierens. (The future of publishing).
  • Used by A. Beaulieu, University of Bath (UK) in computer science courses.

• Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

  • Collaboration on the Information Front. 2001. Survey of School Library Media Specialists and School Technology Specialists serving Colorado Independent Schools. SchoolLibrary Media Research. (Entirely online edition). Association of School Librarians. American Library Association. Volume 4. Fall. http://www.ala.org/cfapps/archive.cfm?path=aasl/SLMR/vol4/infofront/infofront_main.html

    citations:

    • Roberta L. Waldner. 2006. COLLABORATION AMONG TEACHERS AND TEACHER LIBRARIANS: WORKING TOWARDS FULL IMPLEMENTATION. Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, EDMONTON, ALBERTA. http://tldl.pbworks.com/f/waldner.pdf
    • Brown, Carol. 2004. america's most wanted: teachers who collaborate. Teacher Librarian; Oct. Vol. 32 Issue 1, p13-18, 6p http://www.libs.uga.edu/cloc/readings/brown.pdf
  • Comprehension by Clicks: D'Angelo Standards for Successful Web Page Design, and Time, Comprehension, and Preference. Information Technology and Libraries. American Library Association. Volume 19, Number 3. (p.125-135). September. (With John D'Angelo) http://archive.lita.org/ital/ital1903.html#anchor156707 Abstract:http://www.lita.org/ital/ital1702.htm#dangeloarticle
    Author's fulltext: http://www.intertwining.org/twining/clicks.htm

    citations:

    • Cherry, JM, et al. 2006. Bibliographic Displays in Web Catalogs: Does Conformity to Design Guidelines Correlate with User Performance? INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | SEPTEMBER. Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, Canada http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/ital/252006/number3september/cherry.cfm
    • Warden, CA,. et. al. 2006. Online Shopping Interface Components: Relative Importance as Peripheral and Central Cues. CyberPsychology & Behavior. June, 9(3): 285-296. cpb.2006.9.285. (Department of Marketing, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City, Taiwan).  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16780396. fulltext: http://cwarden.org/warden/personalPage/papers/onlineShoppingInterfaceComponents.pdf
    • Magda Ezzat Strange. 2006. (Lecturer at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia; PhD student at the University of Astrazqlajd Glasgow, Scotland). Sites of university libraries on the Internet: A Comparative Study of the locations of some Arab and Western libraries. Cybrarian's Journal No. 9, June.  http://tinyurl.com/24d9mh4 .(English translation). From the Arabic portal for librarianship and information science. http://www.en.cybrarians.info/
    • Perez, Pedro.  2005.  Using Developmental Methodology to Create or Enhance  Your Counseling Center Web Site: A Collaborative Research Based Model. Journal of Technology in Counseling.  Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia.  Vol 4, Issue 1.  http://jtc.colstate.edu/Vol4_1/Perez/Perez.htm
    • Barbee, M. A. (2004). Web design and usability testing for school web sites. Instructional Technology Monographs 1 (1). http://projects.coe.uga.edu/itm/archives/fall2004/BarbeeAppProj.htm
    • Xie Bao. 2003. Research of the University library website achievements appraisal. National Taiwan University Department of Library and Information Science. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw%2Fbitstream%2F246246%2F20416%2F1%2F902413H002012.pdf (translated).
    • Kaoru.  2002.  Screen design of University Research Libraries WebPAC.  Master's Thesis. National Taiwan University. Institute of Library and Information Science.  National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-TW&u=http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login%3Fo%3Ddnclcdr%26s%3Did%3D%2522090NTU00448012%2522.%26searchmode%3Dbasic&ei=xUEPTanKLImesQO9t6mICg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ7gEwAzgK&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Comprehension%2Bby%2BClicks:%2BD%25E2%2580%2599Angelo%2BStandards%2Bfor%2BWeb%2BPage%2BDesign%2522%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divns (translation).
  • Dimensional Advances for Information Architecture.1999. Library Practice and Philosophy.  Vol 1. No. 2. Spring.  http:/www.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/twining.htm

    citations:

    • KAMENICKÝ, JM. 2006. Metalibrarianship: Analysis of the model Nitecki. Bachelor thesis. Masaryk University. Department of Czech Literature and Library. Information and Library Studies. (Czech Republic ). http://tinyurl.com/46dypfg ( translation).

• Scholarly Publishing:

  • The Nitecki Trilogy, 1997. Three volumes on Philosophy of Librarianship. (©1993-1997 by J.Z. Nitecki.), Including Metalibrarianship: A Model for Intellectual Foundations Of Library Information Science, Philosophical Aspects of LIbrary Information Science in Retrospect, and Philosophical Ancestry of American Library Information Science. Founding volumes of Texas Woman's University Blagg-Huey Library Online Book Collection.  http://www7.twu.edu/library/Nitecki.

    citations:

    • Fallis, D. & Whitcomb, D. 2009. Epistemic Values and Information Management. The Information Society: An International Journal, 25(3), 175-189. doi:10.1080/01972240902848831.  http://prod.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a910771630~tab=content
    • MYBURGH, S. 2009. DEFINING INFORMATION: THE SITE OF STRUGGLE. A THESIS PRESENTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHIILOSOPHY IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATIION SCIENCE. UNIVERSIITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, ADELAIDE. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/101716
    • Alkan, Nazli. 2008. (Ankara University, Turkey) The Importance and Influence of Philosophical Thinking for Librarians. Library Philosophy and Practice. September. ISSN 1522-0222. http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/%7Embolin/lpp2008.htm
    • LEMOS, R, SANTAELLA, L.   2008. Levels of Convergence.  Transdisciplinarity in Science and Religion No. 4. pp. 95-116.  Eric Weislogel, Guest Editor. SCIENCE AND RELIGION.  ISSN 1843 – 3200. Curtea Veche Publ., Bucharest, Romania.  http://www.unipg.it/difilile/Etruscan/TSR_08_Bucarest.pdf#page=95
    • Šercar, Tvrtko-Matija & Igor Brbre. 2007. CONTRIBUTION TO PHILOSOPHY librarianship and information science ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE. ISSN 1580-9803  Volume 12, Number 3. Institute of Information Science, Maribor (Slovenia). doi: 10.3359/oz0703119. http://tinyurl.com/4axcd72 (translation).
    • Dizdar, Senada. 2007. Change in Library Paradigm: from identification to bibliographic function of catalog. BOSNIACA - Journal of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Issue 12, Pg 20-29. http://tinyurl.com/4837tja (translation).
    • Ramón Antonio Rodríguez-Piña. 2007. Bibliometric approach to the services provided by information professionals. Information Sciences.  Vol 38, No. 3, Sept-Dec. Pages 39-50.  Institute of Scientific and Technological Information (IDICT), Havana, Cuba.  http://tinyurl.com/47zs4f4 (translation).
    • Romanov, Peter S. 2006. Analytical characterization of document flow Anglophone theses in the field of library science: Based on materials from the U.S. and Canada.   (doctoral dissertation in Library science, bibliography and book science, Moscow, Russia) http://tinyurl.com/4toqusj (translation).
    • "alpha-beta-gamma or mystery mysterious bottle" [ a play in three acts (honoring Nitecki's Theory)] for the theater of Ethical and philosophical foundations of information science, Program Information and Library Studies, Department of Information and Library Studies, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) Faculty of Arts, Dept. of Czech Literature and Library, Department Library. http://tinyurl.com/49zz3wc (translation).
    • Yeates, Stuart A. 2006. Text Augmentation: Inserting markup into natural language text with PPM Models. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand. http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/10289/2600/1/thesis.pdf.txt
    • Guzman Majela.  2005. (University of Havana, Cuba) The phenomenon of interdisciplinarity in information science: context of appearance and central positions. ACIMED, Journal of the National Center of Medical Information. Vol.13, n.3. ISSN 1024-9435.http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1024-94352005000300005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
    • Vonjobi. 2005. An Alternative to chaos. Filipino Librarian (blog) (Philippines). http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/09/alternative-to-chaos.html
    • Brewerton, Anthony. 2003. (Oxford Brookes University Library, UK) The creed of a librarian: a review article. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. March. vol. 35 no. 1; 47-55. doi: 10.1177/096100060303500105. http://lis.sagepub.com/content/35/1/47.abstract
    • Herold, Ken.  2003.  An Information Continuum Conjecture.  Minds and Machines. Volume 13, Number 4:553-566 , November.  DOI: 10.1023/A:1026204901999. Kluwer Academic Publishers Hingham, MA, USA. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=947761
    • Holsapple, CW. (Ed). 2003. Handbook on Knowledge Management 1: Knowledge Matters. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-540-20005-5. http://tinyurl.com/4k7p35g
    • McGrath, William E. 2002: Current Theory in Library and Information Science. Explanation and Prediction: Building a Unified Theory of Librarianship, Concept and Review. Library Trends 50 (3) Winter. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/8417
      PDF:   https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/8417/librarytrendsv50i3_opt.pdf?sequence=3
    • Floridi, Luciano. 2002. On defining library and information science as applied philosophy of information.  SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY, VOL. 16, NO. 1, 37–49. http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/publications/pdf/isaspi.pdf
    • Herold, Ken. R. 2001. Librairianship and the Philosophy of Information. Library Philosophy and Practice. Vol. 3, No. 2. Spring. http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/herold.html

      • other scholarly uses:

      • 2007. The Nitecki Trilogy added to Wikipedia entries for  "Library Science"  and "Information Science":
        http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library_science&diff=102114999&oldid=prev
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_science
      • Themecraft.net, a website usability research project reports that the twu.edu domain (Texas Woman's University), where "The Nitecki Trilogy" is hosted, has a maximum of 54142 indexed pages, and The Trilogy front page, http://www.twu.edu/library/nitecki/ , is the 6th most visited page on the entire twu.edu domain. http://themecraft.net/www/twu.edu
      • Additionally, "The Nitecki Trilogy" is used in various undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate courses in university, library, information, and computer science settings and environments, including at: Western Maryland College School Library Media Program, Unvirsity of Arzona, Syracuse University, St. Cloud STate University, University of North Texas Philosoophy of Information Group, Minnesota State University, University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science, Queensland (AU) University of Technology School of Information Systems, Univerzita Karlova v Prazel (Czech Republic), Wolfson College, Oxford (UK), New Jersey Inst. of Technology College of Computing Services, University of Montreal, Zhejiang University (China), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

    Translations:
    

    • Portuguese translation and print publication in collaboration with Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil. http://ufc.br, for use in their graduate library information sciences school.
    • Spanish translation and online publication in collaboration with Faculty of Communication, University of Havana (Cuba) http://www.uh.cu/ for use as a core reading in their undergraduate information major ( "...the primary resource we have to inform the emerging post-USSR Cuban information theory...")

  • White Papers and Reports:

    • Options, Opportunities and Choices (in Services, Sources and Systems) for a "Library for the 21st Century." 1999.
      Commissioned report to the City Manager and City Council, City of Colleyville, Texas http://intertwining.org/colleyville/default.htm.
      Used by LSSI (Library Systems and Services, Inc.) as a model in their corporate training program.
    • Beyond Boolean Logic and Hypertext: Alternative Dimensions of Information Space. 1998.http://intertwining.org/twining/vsm&xml.htm
      
      ...from media, Hot & Cool ...to metaphoric Tetrads ...to the awakening of collective intelligence : A BackWORD Look At Marshall McLuhan's Critics: Toward the looking glass in the rear view mirror. 1997.
    • Issues Presented by Chaos Theory For Library and Information Studies Research: So what? So why? So how? 1996. Doctoral Colloquy, Texas Woman»s University. http://www.intertwining.org/chaos.html
    • Interdisciplinarity: The Meme for The Space Between the Books.1996. http://www.intertwining.org/meme.html

  • Book Reviews:

    • Tapping the Government Grapevine. 3rd Edition: The user-friendly guide to US government information sources.  Public Library Quarterly. November 2000. 18(1): 65-66.
    • Books for the Internet: Six Reviews. 1999. Public Library Quarterly 7(4):41-6.
    • Communicating Professionally, 2d ed. How-To-Do-It Manual for Library Applications.Journal for Education in Library Information Science. 40(2) Spring 1999. pp 127-128.
    • Secrets of the Super Net Searchers: The reflections, revelations, and hard-won wisdom of 35 of the world's top Internet searchersPublic Library Quarterly. 17:1 November 1998.

Presentations & Conferences:

• INVITED PLENARY SPEAKER: FOUNDATIONS OF THE FORMAL SCIENCES IV. History of the Concept of the Formal Sciences. Potsdam (Germany),
  February 15-17, 2003.
• Invited Keynote Speaker. Architecture for Metalibrarianship.   20^TH Brazilian Congress on Librarianship, Documentation and Information Science.  University of Cerea, Brazil.   June 2002.
• Library Information Science in Context:  Panel Presentation. Emerging Frameworks and Methods: Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4) Seattle, Washington, Summer 2002.
• Collaboration: Choice, Chance, Change. Research presentation.
  Colorado Library Association, Fall 2001.
• Who wants to be a librarian?  Alternative Careers for School Library Media Specialists.
  Colorado Educational Media Association.  Winter 2001.
• Track Chair, Collaboration Technologies, Summer 2001  Informing Science Conference, Krakow, Poland.  Cracow University of Economics.
• Collaboration: On the Information Front Online collaboratory platform.
  Colorado Library Association, Fall 2000.
• Finding Order: Chaos in Information, Information in Chaos.
  Invited Lecturer, Spring 1998 Lecture Series, Texas Woman's University, Department of Nursing, Center for Nonlinear Science.
• Metalibrarianship.   Moderator, 1997, Online Discussion: University of Michigan, School of Information’s  Kellogg CRISTAL-ED Forum (Coalition on Reinventing Information Science, Technology, and Library Education).
• The Nitecki Trilogy : Metalibrarianship.  Moderator, 1997, Virtual Conference on
  Howard Rheingold's Electric Minds Virtual Community. http://www.minds.com/
• Online Online International Women Writers’ Conference. (Launch of TWU MOO and “Living Women Writers” Virtual Library). 1997.

Teaching and Course Development:

• 2002 - present (27 consecutive semesters, frequently multiple sections)
  • San Jose State University, School of Library and Information Science (entirely online). .
    Developed 3-credit-hour core couse, LIBR 202 - Information Retrieval, for entirely online delivery.
    
  • Teleport to "ion merlin"'s Second Life Office and Lab at SJSU SLIS Second Life Campus: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/44/145/33
• 2000 - 2002 University of Denver Library and Information Science Program http://www.du.edu/LIS
  • Developed and taught eleven new courses (traditional, hybrid web-based, and entirely online courses) , including:
• • Library Information Science Master's Core:
    Organization of Information
    Management of Information Organizations
    Research Methods in Library and Information Science
  • Library Information Resources and Technology Concentration:
    Information Access and Retrieval
    Library Automation Systems & Software
    Library Computer Systems & Networks
  • Knowledge Management Advanced Certificate:
    Web Content Management
    Knowledge Management
    Knowledge Technologies
  • Special Topics:
    Foundations of Information Science
    Information Architecture
  • Archived Coursesites (links not maintained)

Select Student Publications, Awards, Activities

• Kehl, Marcia. 2000.Managing Library Education.  Colorado Library Association October 2000.
  Referenced in Sloan, Bernie.  2000. Changes in LIS Education, a comprehensive online bibliography about LIS education.  Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2000-December/034452.html
  Written for DU LIS 4040, Management of Information Organizations.
• Austin, Brice. 2001. Mooer's Law: In and out of context.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), v.52 no.8, June. 
  Written for DU LIS 4316, Library Automation Systems and Software. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.1114/full
  
• Collaborative Journal of Systems and Networks. [defunct] Vol. 1, no. 1. 2001. Student-created electronic journal. Collection of papers written, peer-reviewed, and published by DU LIS 4336, Library Systems and Networks, using ontological organization design for scholarly journals developed by the class. 
• Janne Cookman.  2001 Student Travel Award, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), to attend Annual Conference. (One awarded nationally, essay based.)
• Teresa Schaefer, Intranet Web Site developed for LIS4206, Web Content Management. Named “Best of the Best on the Web” by Chief Information Officer (CIO) Magazine, Fall 2001.
• Che Freauff and James Morgan. 2001.  Collaborative design (grant funding) of prototype web portal for Community Based Research Network.  Special project for Nick Cutforth, Ph.D., College of Education, University of Denver.
• Janne Cookman. 2002. 2002.Survey of Technology and Technology Use by Faculty, College of Education.  Special Project for Dean, College of Education, University of Denver.
• 1997-2000 Texas Woman's University

  Positions Held:
  Adjunct Professor, School of Library and Information Studies
  Graduate Assistant, School of Library and Information Studies
  Graduate Research Assistant, School of Library and Information Studies
  Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Library and Information Studies
  Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mass Communications
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Economics.
  Graduate Assistant and Special Consultant to Faculty, Department of Family Science

  • Courses Taught:
  • Web Design. Library Science 5903 / Mass Communications 4903. Cross-listed interdisciplinary Graduate/Undergraduate Special Topics Course. Spring 1999; Spring 2000. http://www.intertwining.org/LS5903. School of Library and Information Studies.
  • Applications in Libraries.  Library Science 5433. Fall 1999. School of Library and Information Studies.
  • Electronic Information Retrieval. Mass Communications 4903- Fall 1998. Mass Communications Program. http://www.intertwining.org/mcom4903
    School of Library and Information Studies.
  • Management Information Systems.  Business & Economics 3533 - Spring 1998 - http://www.intertwining.org/bus3533 Department of Business and Economics, School of Arts and Sciences.
  • Information Storage & Retrieval. Library Science 5013 (Teaching Intern) - Fall 1997 http://www.intertwining.org/isr/isr.html School of Library and Information Studies.

• 1992 - 2000   Community College, Public and Private, Executive Training, Continuing Education Courses developed and taught::
  • Computer Essentials.  Computer Science 1300. Collin County Community College. Plano, Texas. Spring 2000.
    Microcomputer Concepts.  Computer Science 1304. Collin County Community College, Frisco, Texas.  Fall 1999.
    Internet and Information Literacy for College administrators, faculty, and staff.  Grayson County College. 
• 1995-1996 - Entrepreneurially. Courses developed and taught:
  • Internet I, II & III, Corporate-sponsored, community seminar for regional educators, librarians, administrators, staff, students.
    Technology For The Working Woman (various courses). International Business School. Sherman, Texas 1992-1993.
    Technology In the Workplace Corporate Education Series. Various Clients. 1990-1996.

Academic Service:

2000 - 2002 Library and Information Science Program, University College, then Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, Colorado
Assistant Clinical Professor

Non-teaching Responsiblities:

Director, DU LIS Knowledge Management Advanced Certificate
Webmaster, DU LIS Web Portal (first generation web presence development)
Director of Program Technologies & Computer Laboratory
Member "Colorado Coalition" Design Team for NSF, National Biological Information Infrastructure "Mother Node"
Faculty Advisor, Library Information Student Association
Faculty Participant, SOAR - DU undergraduate orientation technology bootcamp
Contributor, "Tips & Tools for Educators" Interdisciplinary faculty colloquium

Faculty Committees: Curriculum, Research and Scholarship. Community Engagement; Diversity, Human Subjects Review.

Collaborated with faculty and staff during review, realignment, and develpment of program's MLIS and Knowledge Management curriculum in preparation for ALA reaccreditation review. Assisted the migration of the LIS program from University of Denver's University College (post grad professional school) to University of Denver's College of Education. Served as academic advisor to students, established and oversaw student collaborative research lab (collaboratory), worked collaboratively with university grant writers, librarians, faculty in other disciplines.

• 1997- 2000 Texas Woman's University
  • Faculty Committees:
    • 1998-2000. TWU Outreach Office, Student Admissions Counselor Team
      1997. Graduate Student Representative Texas Woman's University Curriculum Committee
  1994 - 1999 Grayson County College
  • Adjunct Faculty, Learning Resource Center;
    Special Consultant to the Administration and Faculty;
    Instructor, Workforce Development Program;
    Grayson County College, Denison, Texas
• 1990 - 1994
  • Special Faculty, International Business School, Sherman, Texas

Grants and Funding

• Academic Grants

  • Winter 2002. (faculty collaboration) University of Denver, Center for Teaching and Learning.  Wireless Laptop LAN Equipment.  $25,000. Funded.
  • Fall 2001. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S. Public Library Interns Program (tuition, remuneration, expenses for eight students, one year).  University of Denver LIS Program.  $250,000. Funded. Wrote and administered the grant.
  • Center for Teaching and Learning Small Grant Proposals University of Denver:
    • Fall 2001 -  "Laptops for Labrats" to fund technology for six LIS students to serve as technological intermediaries, or ‘bridges’ to facilitate transfer of technology skills to students (and through them, to faculty) in the five other programs of the College of Education. $25K funded.
    • Spring 2001-  To develop and present summer workshops for LIS and College of Education faculty, for technology uptake, skills transfer, development of technology-based teaching skills, and collaborative development of web-based resources. Funded.
  • 1997-2000. National Science Foundation / Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Program (using online FastTrack system), including: collaboratories: why do scientists/scholars collaborate online? (not funded) and Eureka! Architecture for Collaboration in Medical Environments (not funded).

• Non-Academic Grants

  • 2002 - US Department of Agriculture; Washington Department of Agriculture, Grant proposal to provide knowledge management, information architecture and project support for emerging cooperative for Pacific Northwest Organic Family Farms and Farmers network. Funded.
  • 1994-1999. Member, Texoma Council of Governments' Grantwriter Pool. Participated in several community based grant writing projects and proposals focused on local intergovernmental NGO collaboration. (approx $12M funded.)
  • 1979 - 1990 Est. $1M in individual and collaboratively written community-based grants (15 grants total) awarded from various corporations, foundations, governments, and individuals for: schools, library, museums, medical center, fire district, other community-based initiatives (food banks, food coops, weatherization, literacy, satellite education, web-based programs, etc.)

• Unfunded Proposals:

  • Winter 2000 - “Wyoming Proposal” - Principal author and architect, DU LIS Program’s proposal for delivery of library information science education for the virtual.
  • Winter 2001- Principal designer and author of College of Education’s proposed undergraduate Information Studies minor, University of Denver.

Research Instruments

• 1999.  Full automated (to statistical analysis) Web-based Delphi (Second Round):Implementation of Flexible Scheduling in Elementary School Libraries http://intertwining.org/DELPHI/RndTWO.htm ’s University LIS..
• 2000.  Full automated (to statistical analysis) Web-Based Survey, School Library Media Specialists and Technology Specialists.  First online research approved by University of Denver Human Subjects Review Board.

Software Development

• 2001.  With James Elturk, student.   Add-New, web-based collaborative literature review software
• Designer, creator, and principal investigator, /collab, , a self-organizing UNIX-based  "common information space" for student-centered inter-quarter, intercourse learning, research, outreach, and projects. (defunct).

Entirely Online (Virtual) Collaborative Research and other Collaborative Scholarly Activities

• (Entirely Online) with Dr. C. Zins (Isreal), et al: an entirely online international collaborative mapping study, "Knowledge Map of Information Science," research supported by a grant from the Isreal Science Foundation (an organ of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities), This was an entirely online Critical Delphi study with an interdisciplinary panel composed of 57 leading scholars from 16 countries. http://www.success.co.il/is/overview.html . The study was presented at the ASIST (American Society for Information Science & Technology) 2005 Annual Meeting, and at the Ninth ISKO (International  Society for Knowledge Organization) Conference in Vienna, 2006. Four JASIST articles resulted from the study:
• With University of Denver, Multimedia Services Team: Designed ontology and architecture for delivery of (streaming) audio / video course clips university-wide.
• With University College, Women in Computer Science (WICS) Program, University of Denver: Collaborative web-based course design, Information Architecture, a cross-listed and collaboratively taught Special Topics course
• With DU LIS Faculty: Collaborative development of DU LIS Program budget.
  Collaborative design and delivery of DU LIS annual new student orientation.
  Design and delivery of virtual technology boot camp for new students.

Continuing Education:

• 2006 - Wise Consortium, Online teaching (via SJSU)
  2002 -  Effective Interactive Techniques in the Virtual Classroom.
  2001 -  Workplace Law. Human Resources Management, University of Denver
  2001 -  Teaching Assessment. Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, U of Denver

Research Agenda:

• current, longterm research : metaphysics of information; actualization of Nitecki’s (1993) Metalibrarianship model in vitual space for use as a diagnostic and prescriptive tool and use as an "experience engine" for entirely online cognition.

Career/Service Highlights:

• 1985 - Helped establish and served on the LIbrary Board of Trustees, Young Public Library, Young, Arizona during formation, construction and opening of community's first public library. Responsiblities included grantwriting/fund raising for (and negotiations with county and county library district for inclusion), library building design and construction, collection development, library automation and cataloging, service oversight. Also established and managed award-winning annual library summer reading and arts program for kids in collaboration with community concert series and artists- and writers-in-residence events.
• 1988 - Helped establish and served on the Board of Trustees for Houghland's General Store Museum, an authentic early 1900's general store, including museum organization, curation, collection development, promotion, and facilitated for the grand opening, the first ever "community-wide" (18 organizations) "harmony event" and celebration festival for "...the site of the bloodiest fued in the history of the west."...
• 1993 - While Director, Eisenhower Birthplace State Park, Museum, and National Park, Denison, Texas, established Eisenhower Birthplace Research LIbrary, including acquistiion, cataloging and curation of collection.
• 1994 - facilitated the first electronic document filing to the US Supreme Court.
• 1997 - Prepared and positioned "The Nitecki Trilogy" as founding volumes for Texas Woman's University Blagg-Huey Virtual Library Collection, including first use of 856|4|1 MARC field for hypertext (online only) book.

Non Academic Employment:

Information entrepreneur

• 1990-present
  • Owner and principal consultant, intertwining.org, a virtual information consultancy.

    intertwining information, communication, technology, knowledge management and philosophy of librarianship for projects and endeavers in public, school, and academic libraries, public schools and school systems, higher education, business, government, nonprofits, corporations, and for individuals.

• 1979-1990.
  • Founding Owner and Publishing Editor, The Young Gazette, an award-winning, federal 2nd class newspaper.

    LCCN: sn 88002424. OCLC: 18433741. ISSN: 1040-4910. MARC Record. Included in The Library of Congress (National Endowment for the Humanities)
    " Chronicling America Project" http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88002424/. Microfilmed by the Arizona Newspaper Project (ANP), Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, Phoenix http://www.lib.az.us/anp/newspaper_Detail.aspx?ID=1111in partnership with the United States Newspaper Project at the Library of Congress and the National Endowments for the Humanities.