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New Faculty at GSLIS

Filed under GSLIS Administrative
Posted by GSLIS, August 21, 2005
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BOSTON (Aug. 18, 2005) - The Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) in Boston announces the appointment of a new faculty member and two distinguished visiting professors.

Daniel N. Joudrey, an expert in organizing information, joins the Simmons faculty as an assistant professor and will teach the organization of information, including cataloging and classification. Joudrey was previously a metadata policy intern at the Library of Congress and a teaching fellow and research assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, to Dr. Arlene Taylor, a well-known expert in the field. Joudrey was chosen to assist Dr. Taylor in writing the forthcoming third edition of The Organization of Information.

Joudrey is a Ph.D candidate in Library and Information Science and has his MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, and his B.A. from George Washington University.

Amy J. Warner, a visiting associate professor at Simmons, is an internationally recognized expert in information architecture, controlled vocabularies, and metadata and thesaurus design. Warner will teach database management and information technology for information professionals. She has been a consultant for a number of years for numerous national organizations, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Hewlett Packard Inc., and the United States Geological Survey. A former professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, Warner has co-authored two books and written numerous articles on controlled vocabularies and database design.

Warner received her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois and her M.A. from Indiana University.

Martha R. Mahard, a visiting assistant professor at Simmons, will teach photographic archives and photographic preservation. Mahard has more than three decades of professional experience with the Harvard College Library System, including work in photography and visual collections at the Fine Arts Library, visual resources at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Harvard Theatre Collection of The Houghton Library. She has written numerous publications and presentations in the field of photographic archives and visual information.

Mahard received her D.A. and M.S. from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science.