Information Literacy Education, Library & Media Science
CO-Chair election
Hi Everyone,
Our annual SITE conference this year is in Austin, TX, and will begin in just a few of weeks! I hope to see many of your there.
As you may know, all SITE SIGs each have 2 co-chairs to support the SITE organization, the SIG and conference planning. The co-chairs each serve for 2 years with overlapping terms. This year I'm rotating out and we need to elect a co-chair to replace me. This new co-chair will serve for 2 years, working with Shelia who is the other co-chair for another year.
In preparation for the election of a new co-chair at our SIG meeting on Tuesday March 7th (12:30) {come and bring your lunch} we would like to solicit nominations. This is not an overwhelming position (it will typically require 15-25 hours of your time over each of the next 2 years), but it is a great opportunity to get more involved in the SITE organization and to add to your list of professional contributions. If you are interested, or are interested in nominating someone (with their permission), please send me an email with the nominee's name, professional association, and a short bio (<1 page) including a brief summary of experience with SITE.
Thanks, Terry Cavanaugh
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Candidate: Haihong (Helen) Hu is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA). Helen joined the Department of Leadership Studies of at UCA in August 2011. She earned her PhD in Instructional Systems from the Florida State University in 2007. Before joining UCA, Helen was a visiting assistant professor in Educational Technology at the University of North Florida. Her research interests are in Instructional Systems, with an emphasis on Distance Education, Media Design and Development, and Technology Integration.
In recent years, Helen has published 7 peer- reviewed journal articles, 2 book chapters and 13 referred conference proceedings papers. She has also presented at fourteen International/National, 4 Regional and 10 State conferences. Helen has been awarded two “No Child Left Behind” grants (a total of $214,018) through the Arkansas Department of Higher Education and Arkansas Department of Education. She serves on various committees on the department, college, or university level at her institutions and in the state of Arkansas, and volunteers at AECT, AERA, and SITE organizations to be a reviewer, session chair, or poster judge. And, she is a reviewer for the Journal of Educational Technology and Society, the (Merlot) Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, and the Journal of Online Learning Research.
SITE has always been a professional organization for Helen. When she was a graduate student, she started presenting at SITE since 2004. In recent year, Helen has presented at SITE almost every year, and is serving as a Reviewer for the Journal of Online Learning Research and Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education – General. Helen would like to give back to the organization through her service in the SIG.
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Candidate: Daniella L. Smith, Ph.D.
Daniella has been a classroom teacher on multiple levels and a school librarian in elementary and middle schools. She received her doctoral degree (2009) and MLIS (2000) from the School of Information in the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University, Tallahassee. She is an Associate Professor of Information Science at the University of North Texas, Denton where she teaches a variety of courses for the school librarianship program. The school librarianship program is currently ranked 8th in the country by U.S. News and Reports.
Her research interests include school librarian leadership and youth information seeking behaviors. Her publications about these topics include 11 peer-reviewed articles, 9 conference proceedings, 8 book chapters, and 2 professional journal articles. In addition, Daniella writes for the AASL Knowledge Quest blog at http://knowledgequest.aasl.org/author/dsmith/ .
Daniella has been the recipient of the ALA Diversity Grant and the AASL Research Grant. Recently she shared her expertise for the IMLS funded ELMS – Educating Librarians in the Middle South – Diversifying Librarianship for our Digital Future Grant ($498,363).
Service to the profession has always been a priority. She has chaired and served on numerous state, national, and international committees for organizations that include the American Library Association (ALA), American Association of School Librarians (AASL), Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), the International Association of School Librarians (IASL), the Texas Library Association (TLA), and the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME). She is currently an elected ALA Councilor at Large.
Daniella has published several papers in AACE related conferences that include SITE. She believes in the importance of serving the professional community and learning from the experience provided by interaction with peers. She would like the opportunity to play an integral role in the Information Literacy Education SIG and the larger SITE community through service. Daniella believes that service makes her a stronger advocate for education, her students, youth, and libraries.
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