SILS - Key Persons
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- Diversity Representative of SILS Alumni Board
- Member of Committee
An Associate Professor at Drexel University's College of Computing and Informatics, Alex H. Poole studies archives and records management, diversity, equity, and inclusion, information practices, digital curation, and digital humanities. Poole received both the Donald G. David Award and the Justin Winsor Prize from the American Library Association (ALA) in 2022, the Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research from ALA in 2019, the Bob Williams History Fund Research Paper Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in both 2018 and 2017, the Arline Custer Memorial Award for Best Article from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in 2018, and the Theodore Calvin Pease Award from the Society of American Archivists (SAA) in 2013. Poole was educated at Williams College (BA, Highest Honors in History), Brown University (MA), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MLS) (Beta Phi Mu), and PhD.
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- Immediate past President of SILS Alumni Board, Senior Director of Product Management for Data & Analytics, Senior Director of User Experience ( Interim ), ModMed
- Member of Committee
- Technology and Product Executive
Anita Jotwani is a technology and product executive with over 15 years of data and analytics experience across finance, retail, HR, and healthcare. She currently works at ModMed, a health tech company focused on building solutions for specialty practices as the Senior Director, Product Management for Data & Analytics. Previously she worked at Walmart, Inc where she was the head of product for their global people analytics team and worked on data commercialization strategy across healthcare and merchandising. Prior to that, she led engineering transformation and product development across several areas of finance and risk with a specific focus on analytics transformation, regulation adoption, reducing technology friction and elevating end user usability across both Thomson Reuters and Goldman Sachs. Anita is a certified professional coach and holds her MBA from Duke Fuqua School of Business. She is UNC-CH alum, with a BS in Information Science from SILS with a second major in Economic.
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- Lead Multimedia Engineer, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
- Member of Committee
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- Educational Ethics Consultant
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- Member of Committee
- Senior Research Librarian, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
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- Professor at the UNC School of Information
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- Professor Emeritus, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
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- Research Scientist, Über Tech Lead, Search Quality & User Happiness, Google
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- Member of Committee
- Teaching Assistant Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Archival science, academic librarianship, Digital Humanities, academic writing, qualitative research, critical theory.
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- Dean
- Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Dr. Gary Marchionini is the Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS).
Capra, R., Marchionini, G., Velasco-Martin, J., and Muller, K. 2010. Tools-at-hand and learning in multi-session, collaborative search. In Proceedings of the 28th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010). CHI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 951-960
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- Professor at the UNC School of Information
- Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Dr. Jaime Arguello, Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), teaches courses and conducts research in the areas of information retrieval, data mining, and machine learning. His main area of research is aggregated search, where the goal is to develop search systems that integrate results from multiple independent sources. He develops algorithms and evaluation methodologies for deciding which sources to select and how to display them. His most recent research studies how users interact with aggregated search displays and how differences in display affect users' expectations and behaviors. He received a 2015 NSF CAREER Award for a five-year project titled "Making Aggregated Search Results More Effective and Useful."
Jiaming Qu, Jaime Arguello, and Yue Wang. A Deep Analysis of an Explainable Retrieval Model for Precision Medicine Literature Search. Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR'21), 2021.
Information retrieval, aggregated search systems and evaluation, search behavior, text data mining, machine learning, task-based search, search assistance.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of the Practice
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- Member of Committee
- Professor and Diversity Coordinator, University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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- Member of Committee
- SAID Chair Dean and Professor ( Retired ), School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University
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- President of SILS Alumni Board ( SILSAA ) and Product Development Lead at AARP Services
Jamin is a Product Development Lead at AARP Services on the Emerging Businesses Team. He previously worked in product and innovation roles at PNC Financial Services and Ally Financial, and finance-related roles at Flagstone Heritage and Ullico through a fellowship at Georgetown University. Prior to joining AARP Services, he held a few extracurricular roles on campus including President of the Accounting Club and serving on the Kenan-Flagler Student Leadership Council. He also has experience working for campus libraries/technology services, and completed the SILS Field Experience Program during his time as a Carolina Research Scholar.
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- Member of Committee
- Undergraduate Student Representative
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- Member of Committee
- Senior Research Librarian Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
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- Principal / Founder, FarView Insights Retired Digital Strategies & Partnerships Librarian / Intellectual Property Consultant, Appalachian State University
Joyce Ogburn is the former University Librarian and Dean of the Marriott Library at the University of Utah and former Dean of libraries and Distinguished Professor at Appalachian State University. She has a strong background in leadership, information literacy, academic administration, nonprofit finances, research, and teaching. Her volunteer work includes serving as president of the Association of College and Research Libraries, member of the Board of the Center for Research Libraries, and committee memberships in the Association of Research Libraries. She also served as treasurer and is at present co-chair of the investment committee of a community nonprofit. She obtained a master's degree in library science from UNC SILS, and a master's degree in anthropology from Indiana University.
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- Assistant Vice Chancellor & State Librarian, Georgia Public Library Service, University Systems of Georgia
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- Member of Committee
- Student
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- Graduate Programs Assistant Director
Graduate admissions, academic advising, enrollment, and administrative matters
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- Chief Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries
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- Member of Committee
- Principal Software Developer, SAS Institute Inc
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- Academic Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Member of Committee
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- Director of Student Services
- Member of Committee
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- Assistant Director of the Donald
- Assistant Director of the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library and the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions at the University of Cincinnati
- Member of Committee
Assistant Director of the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library and the Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions at the University of Cincinnati
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- Library Director, Winston - Salem State University ( Retired )
- Member of Committee
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- Graduate Student Representative
- Member of Committee
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- Director of Center on Technology Policy and Professor of Practice, UNC School of Information and Library Science
- Member of Committee
Technology, antitrust, online expression, political advertising, Section 230, foreign policy and technology (including US-China).
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- Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
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- Teaching Associate Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Public libraries in North Carolina, visual language, user-centered design, public library policy.
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- Associate Professor
- Member of Committee
Knowledge organization, philosophy of information, pragmatic sociology, social epistemology, documentation, periodization, semiotics, hermeneutics, the Web, linked data, knowledge graphs
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- Director of Informatics, Lineberger Cancer Center
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Multi-cultural children's literature, children's services, school library media, social justice issues in youth library services, role of school librarians in education reform.
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- Member of Committee
- Strategic Advisor, Nunam
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean for Development