Meet the Moderator and Panelists for this Event
Moderator
Paul Jones, Director
ibiblio.org, UNC-Chapel Hill
Paul Jones is the Director of ibiblio.org, a contributor-run, digital library of public domain and Creative Commons media and Open Source technology. He is also Clinical Associate Professor with appointments in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and in the School of Information and Library Science, both at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Jones was the first manager of SunSITE.unc.edu, one of the first World Wide Web sites in North America. He is the author of "The Web Server Book" (Ventana, 1995), and of numerous articles about topics such as digital libraries and the Open Source movement. He is an actively publishing poet."
Jones holds a BS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University (1972) and a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College (1993).
ibiblio.org, which began as SunSite.unc.edu in 1992, is an information
commons and contributor-run digital library housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Considered "the internet's public library," ibiblio provides its services free to visitors and users of the site's information libraries. Originally a way to share and support all kinds of free software, ibiblio now hosts over 1,600 non-software related sharing projects on almost every conceivable subject. One of the oldest and largest digital libraries on the Internet, ibiblio handles over 12 million requests per day. With over 500,000 incoming links listed in Altavista, ibiblio is UNC's greatest contribution to the global Information Commons and UNC's strongest Internet brand.
Jones was one of the founders of the Triangle Linux Users Group and the Internetworkers and has been one of the lead organizers of the Triangle Bloggers Convention (2005), the Red Hat - UNC Symposium on Intellectual Property, Creativity and the Innovation Process (2005), Podcastercon (2006), and BarCampRDU (2006). In 2006, Jones was one of three judges of the first Lulu Blooker Prize, a literary prize for the best book to have begun life as a blog.
Jones serves on the Board of Trustees of the Chapel Hill Public Library and on the Academic Board of the University of North Carolina Libraries.
Since 2001, Jones has been a member in good standing of The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.
Panelists
Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, Dean and Professor
School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
José-Marie Griffiths is the Dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Griffiths has a research and leadership career that spans over 30 years. She was recently appointed to the United States National Science Board by President George W. Bush for a six year term. She has held two previous presidential appointments, one to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and the other to the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. Griffiths also has served on blue-ribbon panels and committees for several national agencies.
Griffiths' research spans information science, technology and leadership. She has done groundbreaking work in return on investment analysis of information systems and libraries, including multiple approaches to cost/benefit assessment; the influences of the digital revolution on the conduct of research, especially focused on similarities and differences among researchers in different countries, sectors and disciplines, and the implications for providing resources and support to research efforts; success criteria and best practices for information technology in higher education; and the development of protocols and policies for resource sharing across organizations on local, state and regional levels, including both public and private institutions.
At the University of Michigan (1996-2001) Griffiths was University CIO, with strategic and operational responsibility for the University's information technology activities totaling over $200 million in annual expenditures, Executive Director of the Information Technology Division, Founding Director of the Collaboratory for Advanced Research and Academic Technologies (CARAT) and Professor in the School of Information.
Prior to her tenure at Michigan, Griffiths held positions at the University of Pittsburgh (2001-2005) and the University of Tennessee (1989-1996).
Griffiths' accomplishments have been recognized by several prestigious appointments and awards. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was named one of the Top 25 Women of the Web, and received the American Society for Information Science and Technology's Award of Merit and Research Award, to name a few. She has a B.Sc. in Physics and Ph.D. in Information Science from University College London.
Carol G. Jenkins, Director
Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Carol Jenkins has been the Director of the Health Sciences Library since 1986. She has provided leadership to the library during an exciting period of growth and change, including an extensive renovation completed two years ago.
Jenkins is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a long history of engagement within the University community, serving on numerous task forces and selection committees.
Prior to coming to North Carolina in 1986, Jenkins held library administrative positions at the University of Maryland, University of Virginia, and Oregon Health Sciences University. She won management traineeships at the University of Cincinnati and the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration at Bryn Mawr College. She is a graduate of Kalamazoo College and received her MLS degree from the University of Oregon.
Jenkins is active in a number of professional organizations, including the
American Medical Informatics Association, (AMIA), the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL), the Medical Library Association (MLA) and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter Medical Library Association (MAC).
Her publications, consulting, and professional presentations are in the areas of information outreach, changes in scholarly publication , new library buildings and preparing health sciences librarians for future roles. She is a past president of two national library associations, and immediate past Chair of the National Library of Medicine Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee (NIH Study Section). From 2003-2004, she served as a mentor in the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows program and currently co-chairs that program.
In January of 2006, Jenkins was appointed by Dan Reed, Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), Chancellor's Eminent Professor and Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, to lead the campus-wide UNC Information Technology Strategic Planning Committee, a campus-wide task force on the future of IT at UNC at Chapel Hill.
Jenkins and her family live on an old Orange County farm just outside of Chapel Hill.
Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH, Dean
School of Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
Barbara K. Rimer, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, became dean of the School of Public Health on June 1, 2005. Dr. Rimer received an MPH (1973) from the University of Michigan, with joint majors in Health Education and Medical Care Organization, and a DrPH (1981) in Health Education from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Previously, she served as Deputy Director for Population Sciences at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC-Chapel Hill (2003-2005), as Director of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, one of four extramural divisions at the National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health), from 1997-2002; as Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University (1991-97); and as Director of Behavioral Research and a full member at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia (1987-91). Dr. Rimer has conducted research in a number of areas, including informed decision-making, long-term maintenance of behavior changes (such as diet, cancer screening and tobacco use), interventions to increase adherence to cancer prevention and early detection, dissemination of evidence-based interventions and use of new technologies for information, support and behavior change. She currently leads an NIH-funded study to increase regular use of mammography and a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to assess the impact of cancer-related listservs on cancer patients/survivors and caregivers.
Dr. Rimer is the author of over 250 publications and serves on several journal editorial boards. Her numerous awards and honors include the Healthtrac Foundation Award for Health Education (2004), the Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2000), the Director's Award from the National Institutes of Health (2000) and the American Cancer Society Distinguished Service Award (2000). Dr. Rimer was the first woman and behavioral scientist to lead the National Cancer Institute's National Cancer Advisory Board, a Presidential appointment. She currently is Vice-Chair for the Task Force on Community Preventive Services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fred Stutzman, Ph.D. Student
School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, and co-founder of
ClaimID.com. Previously, he spent five years as a researcher, project
manager and director of technology for ibiblio.org, one of the web's
largest hubs of open source technology. Prior to ibiblio, Fred worked for
The Motley Fool and Nortel Networks in senior systems engineering and
project management roles. Fred has provided strategic executive and
technological consulting to a number of companies, including members of the
Fortune 500, established consumer-oriented software and telecommunications
firms, web 2.0 startups, and the presidential campaigns of John Kerry and
Wesley Clark. He conceived and continues to manage the Lyceum project, the
premier Wordpress-based multi-user blogging services software.
As a researcher, Fred often speaks on the topic of social networking and
social software; he has been invited to present his research at both Google
(Mountain View, CA) and Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA). He is sourced frequently on
the topic of social networking in local, national and international news
stories. In addition to his academic publications, he blogs frequently
about related topics at http://chimprawk.blogspot.com. Fred's research
interests include identity, social software and networks, and the effects
of social technologies; he approaches these areas from an information needs
perspective.
