About i-Conference 2006: Speakers
Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman is professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a co-principal investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), and for two CENS projects: CENSEI, for research on data management and policy, and Women@CENS, all funded by the National Science Foundation. From 1999-2005 she also led the education and evaluation team of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype Project (ADEPT). She is the author of more than 150 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication.
Prof. Borgman's research interests and teaching areas include digital libraries, information retrieval, electronic publishing, information-seeking behavior, scientific data use and policy, scholarly communication, bibliometrics, and information technology policy. Her book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), won the Best Information Science Book of the Year Award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Her next book, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, will be published by MIT Press in 2007.
Current professional activities include memberships on the U.S. National Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and the Advisory Board to the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Prior service includes membership on the Study Committee on Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System (National Academies); the Advisory Committee to the Computer, Information Sciences, and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation; the Board of Directors of the Council on Library and Information Resources; and the International Advisory Board to the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute Regional Library Program. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and served as chair of Section T, Information, Computing, and Communication.
Prof. Borgman was a visiting scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford, U.K.); visiting professor in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, U.K.; Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Economic Sciences and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary; and a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. She was chair of the UCLA Department of Library and Information Science (1995-1997).
She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, The Information Society, and the Journal of Digital Information, and was on the editorial boards of the Journal of Communication Research (1986-1999) and the Journal of Documentation (1992-2002). She was program chair for the First Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (ACM and IEEE) and serves on the program committees for the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, the Joint Conferences on Digital Libraries, the European Conference on Digital Libraries, and American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and Conceptions of Library and Information Science (COLIS) conferences.
She holds the Ph.D. in communication from Stanford University, an M.L.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. in mathematics from Michigan State University.
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