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Affiliated Faculty

The faculty members listed below are affiliated with GSLIS through a joint appointment with their home departments. Faculty are designated as "affiliated" when their work extends the teaching and research of GSLIS: affiliated faculty may be regular attendees of our research group meetings, cross-list their courses with GSLIS and their home departments, or serve on advisory committees for our doctoral students. To become a GSLIS affiliated faculty member, a candidate must first be nominated by a current GSLIS faculty member. The prospective candidate then gives a brown-bag or lecture, after which the faculty votes in executive session. All nominations are confidential until the vote is concluded.

Valerie Hotchkiss

Professor
Home Department:
Office: 346 Library
(217)333-7292
-vhotchki, at uiuc.edu-

Paula Kaufman

University Librarian
Home Department: University Library
MS (Library Service) Columbia University

Office: 230 Library, MC-522
(217)333-0790
-ptk, at uiuc.edu-

Research Interests

Scholarly communication; copyright; privacy; future of academic libraries

Bruce Schatz

Professor
Home Department: College of Medicine
Ph.D. Arizona

Office: 6 Animal Sciences Laboratory
(217)244-0651
-schatz, at uiuc.edu-

Research Interests

Network information systems, national information infrastructure; digital libraries, semantic retrieval, electronic communities.

Sue Searing

Librarian
Home Department: LIS Library
AMLS Michigan

Office: 244 LIS
(217)333-4456
-searing, at uiuc.edu-

Research Interests

Gender issues in information sources and services; library services for distance education; and library support for interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Marc Snir

Professor
Home Department:
Office: 123 LIS
(217)244-6568
-snir, at uiuc.edu-

Brenda Trofanenko

Assistant Professor
Home Department:
Office: 303 LIS
(217)244-9741
-brenda, at uiuc.edu-

Terry von Thaden

Assistant Professor
Home Department: Human Factors Division
Ph.D. Illinois

Office: Human Factors Division, Rm 105, 1 Airport Road, Savoy, IL 61
(217)244-8667
-vonthade, at uiuc.edu-

Research Interests

Terry von Thaden's research combines principles from information science and human factors to study distributed information practice in safety and time critical environments. Special Interests: Information Exchange and Standard Operating Procedures; Individual and Group Decision Processes; Organizational Safety Culture; Crew Resource Management; Distributed Knowledge/Distributed Collective Practice; Social Informatics; Critical Incident Response, Stress, and Debriefing; Error Analysis; Design and Use of Everyday Things; Aviation History

Scott Walter

Professor
Home Department: University Library
M.L.S Indiana Ph.D. Washington State University

Office: 246E Main Library, MC522
(217)333-0318
-swalter, at uiuc.edu-

Research Interests

Information literacy instruction; academic libraries and librarianship; professional and continuing education in library and information science; faculty development

ChengXiang Zhai

Assistant Professor
Home Department: Computer Science
Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon

Office: 2116 Siebel Center
(217)244-4943
-czhai, at uiuc.edu-

Research Interests

Text processing and management; statistical natural language processing; machine learning; and bioinformatics.