joanne twining, M.L.S., Ph.D.
Adna, Washington 98522

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Curriculum Vita

Education
Publications
Presentations and Conferences
Research

Teaching
Students' Publications and Awards
Service
Creative Work

Other Relevant Engagement

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Education:

Ph.D. 1999. Texas Woman’s University. Denton, Texas
                    School of Library and Information Studies 

HEA Title IIB Fellowship, 1996-1998.

Dissertation:  A Naturalistic Journey into the Collaboratory: In Search of Understanding for Prospective Participants. http://intertwining.org/dissertation Dissertation Abstracts #AADAA-19954255

citations:

M.L.S. 1995. Texas Woman's University, School of Library and Information Studies.
B.S. 1994.  (cum  laude) TWU.  Mass Communication / Political Science.
A.S. 1993. Grayson County College, Texas.  (significant coursework 1971-73).

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed

Collaboration on the Information Front: Survey of School Library Media Specialists and School Technology Specialists serving Colorado Independent Schools. 2001.  School Library Media Research.  Association of School Librarians.  American Library Association.  Volume 4. Fall. http://www.ala.org/aasl/SLMR/vol4/infofront/infofront.html
(principal investigator in collaboration with DU LIS /collab participants)

Comprehension by Clicks: D'Angelo Standards for Successful Web Page Design, and Time, Comprehension, and Preference. 2000.  Information Technology and Libraries. American Library Association. Volume 19, Number 3. (p.125-135). September.  (With John D’Angelo).
Abstract: http://www.lita.org/ital/ital1702.htm#dangeloarticle
Author's fulltext: http://www.intertwining.org/twining/clicks.htm  

citations:

Literatuurattendering 41e week: 9 t/m 13 Oktober 2000
http://lib.ua.ac.be/WGLIB/ATTEND/2000-41.html

Dimensional Advances for Information Architecture. 1999. Library Practice and Philosophy.  Vol 1. No. 2 Spring.  http://www.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/twining.htm

citations:

  Producer and Publisher:

The Nitecki Trilogy, 1997. Three volumes on Philosophy of Librarianship
(©1993-1998 J.Z.Nitecki.). Founding volumes of TWU Blagg-Huey Library’s Online Book Collection.  http://www7.twu.edu/library/Nitecki.

citations:

The Nitecki Trilogy is used in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses in the following University, Library, Information, and Computer Science Settings:: 

International Translations Underway:

Portuguese translation and print publication with Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil. http://ufc.br , for use in their graduate library information sciences school.

Spanish translation and online publication by Faculty of Communication, University of Havana (Cuba) http://www.uh.cu/ for use as a core reading in their undergraduate information major "the primary resource we have to inform the emerging post-USSR Cuban information theory."

The  Young Gazette.  1979-1990.  Founding Owner and Publishing Editor.
Federal 2nd Class community newspaper. ISSN 10404910. LCCN sn2424.

Microformed as part of Arizona Newspaper Project (ANP),
Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, Phoenix http://www.lib.az.us/anp/index.html, in partnership with the United States Newspaper Project at the Library of Congress and the National Endowments for the Humanities.

White Papers and Reports:

Options, Opportunities and Choices in Services, Sources and Systems for a "Library for the 21st Century." 1999.  Report to the City Manager and City Council, City of Colleyville, Texas http://intertwining.org/colleyville/default.htm

Used by LSSI (Library Systems and Services, Inc.) as a model in their corporate training program.

Beyond Boolean Logic and Hypertext: Alternative Dimensions of Information Space. 1998. http://intertwining.org/twining/vsm&xml.htm

...from media, Hot & Cool ...to metaphoric Tetrads ...to the awakening of collective intelligence : A BackWORD Look At Marshall McLuhan's Critics: Toward the looking glass in the rear view mirror. 1997. 

Issues Presented by Chaos Theory For Library and Information Studies Research: So what? So why? So how? 1996. Doctoral Colloquy, Texas Woman’s University. http://www.intertwining.org/chaos.html

Interdisciplinarity : The Meme for The Space Between the Books.1996. http://www.intertwining.org/meme.html

citations:

Book Reviews:

Tapping the Government Grapevine. 3rd Edition: The user-friendly guide to US government information sources.  Public Library Quarterly. November 2000. 18(1): 65-66.

Books for the Internet: Six Reviews. 1999. Public Library Quarterly 7(4):41-6.

Communicating Professionally, 2d ed. How-To-Do-It Manual for Library Applications. Journal for Education in Library Information Science. 40(2) Spring 1999. pp 127-128.

Secrets of the Super Net Searchers: The reflections, revelations, and hard-won wisdom of 35 of the world's top Internet searchers. Public Library Quarterly. 17:1 November 1998.

Presentations & Conference Activity:  

INVITED PLENARY SPEAKER : FOUNDATIONS OF THE FORMAL SCIENCES IV
History of the Concept of the Formal Sciences. Potsdam (Germany),
February 15-17, 2003.

Invited Keynote Speaker. Architecture for Metalibrarianship.   20TH Brazilian Congress on Librarianship, Documentation and Information Science.  University of Cerea, Brazil.  June 2002.

Library Information Science in Context:  Panel Presentation. Emerging Frameworks and Methods: Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4) Seattle, Washington, Summer 2002,

Collaboration: Choice, Chance, Change. Research presentation. 
Colorado Library Association, Fall 2001.

Who wants to be a librarian?  Alternative Careers for School Library Media Specialists.  
Colorado Educational Media Association.  Winter 2001.

Track Chair, Collaboration Technologies, Summer 2001 
Informing Science Conference, Krakow, Poland.  Cracow University of Economics.

Collaboration: On the Information Front: Online collaboratory platform.
Colorado Library Association, Fall 2000.

Finding Order: Chaos in Information, Information in Chaos.
Invited Lecturer, Spring 1998 Lecture Series, Texas Woman's University, Department of Nursing, Center for Nonlinear Science.

Metalibrarianship.   Moderator, 1997, Online Discussion: University of Michigan, School of Information's Kellogg CRISTAL-ED Forum (Coalition on Reinventing Information Science, Technology, and Library Education).

The Nitecki Trilogy : Metalibrarianship.  Moderator, 1997, Virtual Conference on  
Howard Rheingold's Electric Minds Virtual Community. http://www.minds.com/

Online International Women Writers’ Conference. (Launch of TWU MOO and “Living Women Writers” Virtual Library). 1997.

Teaching:  

2003-  Virtual Professor (independent)
            San Jose State University, School of Library and Information Science

2000- 2002 - Graduate University, Private
University of Denver Library and Information Science Program http://www.du.edu/LIS 
Thirteen courses, including nine new course developments. Archived Coursesites

-         Library Information Science Master's Core:
 Organization of Information 
 Management of Information Organizations
 Research Methods in Library and Information Science

-         Library Information Resources and Technology Concentration:
 Information Access and Retrieval
 Library Automation Systems & Software
 Library Computer Systems & Networks

-         Knowledge Management Advanced Certificate:
 Web Content Management 
 Knowledge Management
 Knowledge Technologies

-         Special Topics:
Foundations of Information Science
Information Architecture

1997-2000   Graduate & Undergraduate University, Public.
 Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas

1992 – 2000   College and Community College, Public and Private

Students’ Publications, Awards, Activities (Select):

Kehl, Marcia. 2000. Managing Library Education.  Colorado Library Association October 2000. Referenced in Sloan, Bernie. 2000. Changes in LIS Education, a comprehensive online bibliography about LIS education.  Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/edbib.htm)
Written for DU LIS 4040, Management of Information Organizations.
Full text: http://www.du.edu/LIS/collab/library/student/marcia.html

Austin, Brice. 2001. Mooer's Law: In and out of context.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), v.52 no.8, June. 
Written for DU LIS 4316, Library Automation Systems and Software.
Full text: http://spot.colorado.edu/~norcirc/Mooers.html

Collaborative Journal of Systems and Networks. Vol. 1, no. 1. 2000. Student-created electronic journal. Collection of papers written, peer-reviewed, and published by DU LIS 4336, Library Systems and Networks, using ontological organization design for scholarly journals developed by the class.  http://www.du.edu/LIS/collab/4336w01/

Janne Cookman.  2001 Student Travel Award, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), to attend Annual Conference. (One awarded nationally, essay based.)

Teresa Schaefer, Intranet Web Site developed for LIS4206, Web Content Management. Named “Best of the Best on the Web” by Chief Information Officer (CIO) Magazine, Fall 2001.

Che Freauff and James Morgan. 2001.  Collaborative design (grant funding) of prototype web portal for Community Based Research Network.  Special project for Nick Cutforth, Ph.D., College of Education, University of Denver.

Janne Cookman. 2002.  Survey of Technology and Technology Use by Faculty, College of Education.  Special Project for Dean, College of Education, University of Denver.

Library of Student Papers:  http://www.du.edu/LIS/collab/library  

Academic Employment:

May 2000 – 2002

Assistant Clinical Professor
(non tenure track, nine month annual contract)
Library and Information Science Program
College of Education, University of Denver, Colorado

1999 – 2000

Associated Professor, Business and Computer Science Division
Collin County Community College, Plano, Texas.

1997- 2000  Texas Woman's University

·         Adjunct Professor, School of Library and Information Studies  

·         Graduate Assistant, School of Library and Information Studies

·         Graduate Research Assistant, School of Library and Information Studies

·         Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Library and Information Studies

·         Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mass Communications

·         Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Economics.

·         Graduate Assistant and Consultant to Faculty, Department of Family Science


1994 –1999

Adjunct Faculty and Faculty Consultant, Learning Resource Center and
Instructor, Workforce Development Program
Grayson County College, Denison, Texas

1990 – 1994
           
            Special Faculty, International Business School, Sherman, Texas

Relevant Other Employment:

Information entrepreneur

1990-present:

Owner and principal consultant, intertwining.org, a virtual information consultancy.

intertwining information, communication, technology, knowledge management and philosophy of librarianship for projects and endeavers in public, school, and academic libraries, public schools and school systems, higher education, business, government, nonprofits, corporations, and individuals.

1979-1990:

Founding Owner and Publishing Editor, The Young Gazette.
Federal 2nd Class Community Newspaper. ISSN 10404910. LCCN sn2424.

Academic Service:

2000 - 2002

1998-2000. TWU Outreach Office, Student Admissions Counselor Team
1997. Graduate Student Representative Texas Woman's University Curriculum Committee
1994-2000. Texoma Council of Governments' Grantwriter Pool  

Creative Work:

Academic Grants

Winter 2002. (in faculty collaboration) University of Denver, Center for Teaching and Learning.  Wireless Laptop LAN Equipment.  $25,000. Funded.

Fall 2001. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S. Public Library Interns Program (tuition, income, expenses for six student interns, one year).  University of Denver LIS Program.  $250,000. Fully funded.

Center for Teaching and Learning Small Grant Proposals University of Denver

Fall 2001 -  “Laptops for Labrats” to fund technology for six LIS students to serve as technological intermediaries, or “bridges” to facilitate transfer of technology skills to students (and through them, to faculty) in the five other programs of the College of Education.

Spring 2001 – Summer training workshops for LIS and College of Education faculty, for technology uptake, skills transfer, development of technology-based teaching skills, and collaborative development of web-based resources. 

1997-2000. National Science Foundation / Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Program (using online FastTrack system), including:  collaboratories : why do scientists/scholars collaborate online? (not funded) and Eureka! Architecture for Collaboration in Medical Environments (not funded).

Non-Academic Grants

2002 - US Department of Agriculture; Washington Department of Agriculture, to provide knowledge management, information architecture and project support for emerging cooperative for Pacific Northwest Organic Family Farms, Family Farmers, Small Family Farms.

1979 – 2000 – Total $5 million in individual and collaboratively written community-based grants (15 grants) from various corporations, foundations, government, and individuals for: schools, library, museums, medical center, fire district, other community-based initiatives (food banks, food coops, weatherization, satellite education, web-based programs, etc.)

Research Instruments

1999.  Full automated (to statistical analysis) Web-based Delphi (Second Round):  Implementation of Flexible Scheduling in Elementary School Libraries http://intertwining.org/DELPHI/RndTWO.htm (prototype, not maintained) With Dr. Joy McGregor, Texas Woman’s University.

2000.  Full automated (to statistical analysis) Web-Based Survey, School Library Media Specialists and Technology Specialists.  First online research approved by University of Denver Human Subjects Review Board.

Software Development

2001.  With James Elturk, student.  
Add-New, web-based collaborative literature review software

Webmaster & LIS Program Technology

Designer, Creator, and Webmaster for first generation UNIX-based Web portal for Library and Information Science Program, University of Denver.  Included distributed email lists, threaded forums, virtual library, online research laboratory, course websites, multipoint audio- and video-teleconferencing system, archives, and primary responsibility for Program’s Technology Laboratory (15-station Win NT LAN, wireless laptop LAN).

Collaborative Virtual Research Platform

Designer, creator, and principal investigator, /collab, a self-organizing UNIX-based  "common information space" for student-centered inter-quarter, intercourse learning, research, outreach, and projects. 

Proposals

Winter 2000 - “Wyoming Proposal” - Principal author and architect, DU LIS Program’s proposal for delivery of library information science education for the virtual.

Winter 2001- Principal designer and author of College of Education’s proposed undergraduate Information Studies minor, University of Denver.

Other Collaborative Activities

With University of Denver, Multimedia Services: Design and development of ontology and architecture for delivery of (streaming) audio / video course clips university-wide.

With University College, Women in Computer Science (WICS) Program: Collaborative web-based course design, Information Architecture, a cross-listed and collaboratively taught Special Topics course

With DU LIS Faculty: Collaborative development of DU LIS Program budget (Primary contribution: spreadsheet-based advanced scenario, contingency, and projection planning visualization tool incorporating multidimensional expansion via established marketing and recruiting plans.

Collaborative design and delivery of annual new student orientation. Design and delivery of  virtual technology boot camp for new students.

Continuing Education:

2002 -  Effective Interactive Techniques in the Virtual Classroom. 
2001 -  Workplace Law. Human Resources Management, University of Denver
2001 -  Teaching Assessment. Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group, U of Denver

Administrative Experience:

Business owner - 25 years information / knowledge

consultant for top level administrators of public and private schools, colleges, universities, and libraries in matters related to administration of information and technology, including systems analysis and design and implementation, organizational uptake and migration to new systems, development of policy and procedures, budgeting, vendor negotiations, funding, and facilitation of innovative collaborative agreements and partnerships, international negotiations and collaborations.

Employer – Up to 40 individuals in highly diverse inter-governmental, interagency collaborations.

Fiscal – Private, government, nonprofit, inter-organizational budgeting and administration, $2.5 mil+; design, authority, accountability; allocation of resources, fundraising. Traditional, revenue-based, entrepreneurial, and information (intangible) accounting systems. 

Marketing and Public Relations – all media (print, television, radio, online) for private, government, nonprofit, corporate, inter-organizational, and international clients, including traditional, hierarchical, and collaborative organizations.

For details about administrative aspects of consulting and entrepreneurial practice,
 see http://intertwining.org

Research Interests:

Personal Research Agenda:

Nitecki’s (1993) metaphorical Metalibrarianship model as a knowledge-focused alternative to subject-assigned organization and retrieval to inform the architecture and design of collaborative learning and knowledge environments.  

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joanne twining, M.L.S., Ph.D.
Adna, WA 98522

email

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Curriculum Vita

Education
Publications
Presentations and Conferences
Research

Teaching
Students' Publications and Awards
Service
Creative Work

Other Relevant Employment

virtual portfolio

 

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