iSchool Blog

Dr Eva Hornung's PhD wins "Highly Commended" in Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards

2012-01-05T16:27:00.004Z

Dr Eva Hornung's PhD was chosen, by the editor of Journal of Documentation, as a Highly Commended Award winner of the 2011 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Eva (shown (left) with her PhD viva examiners), who gained her doctorate from the Information School last year, was the only winner from a British university out of the three in the Information Science category. Her

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer vacancy

2012-01-03T14:54:00.002Z

We are investing in a strategic appointment designed to enhance and expand our research and teaching in Information Management or Information Systems and related areas. Closing date: 16th January 2012Please see www.shef.ac.uk/is/about/jobs for full details.

Corrall and Lewis present at IDCC

2011-12-06T14:10:00.002Z

Prof Sheila Corrall and University Librarian Martin Lewis (a member of the iSchool's Advisory Panel) are attending the 7th International Digital Curation Conference in Bristol on 6-7 December, where they are jointly presenting a poster on Building Library Capacity for Managing Data. The poster depicts updated and new models that capture current thinking and emergent practice on roles and

Simon Wakeling discusses Library Bypass at Online

2011-11-29T17:40:00.002Z

iSchool PhD student Simon Wakeling joined a librarian, publisher and academic in a panel debate on "Library Bypass: Rational Response or Road to Nowhere?" at the 2011 Online Information Conference in London today. Simon, who graduated from our MSc Electronic & Digital Library Management programme in 2010, was selected for the event through a competitive process. The panel session was sponsored by

Research seminar: "Information, Technology and Research"

2011-11-07T07:36:00.001Z

Friday 4th November at 3:00, ICOSS Conference Room Information, Technology and Research: Adoption, Adaptation, and Innovation Across the Disciplines Dr. Eric MeyerResearch Fellow,Oxford Internet InstituteUniversity of OxfordOxford, UKWebsite: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=120 Bio:Dr Eric T. Meyer is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford since 2007.

Clough at Enterprise Search

2011-10-18T17:44:00.001+01:00

Dr Paul Clough is attending the Enterprise Search Summit 2012 conference in London, where he is chairing and presenting.

Health Informatics research students present at ISHIMR 2011

2011-09-06T20:11:00.004+01:00

Students from the Health Informatics Research Group are presenting their research at the 15th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011) which takes place on the 8-9 September 2011, in Zurich, Switzerland.Liz Brewster is presenting a poster on her work entitled "Concepts of bibliotherapy: from initial definitions to patient empowerment" in collaboration with

Information School organises the 15th ISHIMR conference

2011-09-06T20:04:00.005+01:00

Barbara Sen and Peter Bath, from the Information School, are organising the 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011) in collaboration with colleagues from the University Hospital Zurich and the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.The conference is being held in Zurich on 8-9th September 2011 and is being attended by over 70 delegates from different

Professor Ford at Umbrella

2011-07-14T09:21:00.003+01:00

On the 13th July Professor Ford spoke on "Technology, libraries and personalisation" at CILIP's Umbrella conference, a national event organized for all the special interest groups of the UK professional association for information professionals.

Speakers at i3

2011-06-30T02:54:00.004+01:00

Several iSchool members participated in the i3 conference that took place at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, last week. Two staff members presented: Dr Andrew Cox on Information in everyday practice and Sheila Webber presented a paper coauthored with Dr Phussadee Dokphrom (recent graduate and now Head of Department at Silpakorn University): Conceptions of Information literacy:

Carly Miller (MA Librarianship) wins the first CILIP Aspire Award

2011-06-26T12:44:00.001+01:00

Carly Miller, a student at the University of Sheffield, has won the first CILIP/IFLA Aspire Award. She will receive a free residential place at CILIP’s flagship conference, Umbrella 2011. The conference will take place at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield on 12-13 July.The Aspire Award was created in memory of CILIP’s Chief Executive Bob McKee, who died in August 2010. The Award will

Centre for Information Literacy Research event: SL journal club, 29 June

2011-06-25T04:02:00.000+01:00

The next meeting of the journal club in Second Life, the virtual world, will be on Wednesday June 29 2011, at 12 noon SL time (8pm UK time, see http://tinyurl.com/5so6eb9 for times elsewhere). We will be discussing:Webber, S., Boon, S. and Johnston, B. (2005) "A comparison of UK academics' conceptions of information literacy in two disciplines: English and Marketing." Library and Information

Goodale wins DREaM project place

2011-06-19T17:59:00.003+01:00

Information School researcher, PhD student and MA Librarianship graduate Paula Goodale has been awarded one of just 5 coveted places at the DREaM project launch conference.The conference, organised by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition, takes place at the British Library Conference Centre, London on Tuesday 19th July 2011. The theme of the conference is Out of the Comfort Zone.

Chemoinformatics Research Group at conference in Holland

2011-06-07T10:28:00.005+01:00

Eight current members of the School's Chemoinformatics Research Group are participating in the 9th International Conference on Chemical Structures in The Netherlands June 5-9th - the major conferences in the field in 2011. 9th International Conference on Chemical Structures Sheffield has a very strong presence at the meeting. The group is contributing two oral presentations: Richard Sherhod (

iSchool launch day in Second Life

2011-06-04T10:55:00.001+01:00

On 13th June starting 11am Second Life time (which is 7pm UK time, 2pm EST, see http://tinyurl.com/5uf9wvk for times elsewhere) we are celebrating the fact that we became an iSchool with a full programme of events in Second Life. You will need a SL avatar and the SL browser installed on your computer to participate.- 11:00 SLT: Sheila Webber (Sheila Yoshikawa in SL), Senior Lecturer, the iSchool,

Sheila Corrall wins Outstanding Paper Award

2011-06-02T17:39:00.002+01:00

Prof Sheila Corrall's paper on 'Educating the Academic Librarian as a Blended Professional' has won a 2011 Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence, having been judged the best paper published in the journal Library Management during 2010. The paper is freely available on open access until 1 September 2011 at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?show=abstract&articleid=1891435&.

Webber presents in the UK and Estonia

2011-05-26T12:27:00.001+01:00

Sheila Webber gave a presentation at the UK University Science and Technology Librarians' Group (USTLG) meeting on May 9th held in Sheffield. Her powerpoint on Information Literacy and the role of the supervisor: a supervisor's perspective can be viewed here: http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/information-literacy-and-the-role-of-the-supervisor-a-supervisors-perspectiveSheila also presented (

Peter Bath interviews broadcast on ScanTV and News24

2011-05-26T06:59:00.002+01:00

Peter was interviewed by the national TV stations in Albania, ScanTV and News24.During these interviews, Peter discussed how health informatics can benefit patients and the public. The interviews were broadcast on Albanian television on Wednesday 25th May 2011.

Peter Bath and Panos Ketikidis meet Deputy Ministers

2011-05-26T06:48:00.004+01:00

Peter Bath and Professor Panos Ketikidis, Vice Principal for Research, Innovation and External Affairs at City College, an International Faculty of the University of Sheffield had meetings with Dr. Visho Ajazi Lika, Deputy Minister for Technology, Information and Communication, and with the Deputy Minister for Health in Albania, Mr. Albert Gajo in Tirana.The photograph shows Peter and

Deputy Minister introduces Peter Bath's seminar on Health Informatics

2011-05-25T11:25:00.006+01:00

The Deputy Minister for Health in Albania, Mr. Albert Gajo, introduced Peter Bath's seminar entitled "Health Informatics: opportunities and challenges for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in health care" at the International Hotel, Tirana on Tuesday 25th May.The picture shows Mr. Gajo introducing Peter Bath's talk; during his introduction Mr. Gajo stressed the

Peter Bath gives seminars on Health Informatics in SE Europe

2011-05-22T14:32:00.003+01:00

This week, Peter Bath is visiting Tirana in Albania and Skopje in F.Y.R. of Macedonia to give seminars on Health Informatics to healthcare professionals, service mangers and and health planners. These visits are in collaboration with Professor Panos Ketikidis, Vice Principal for Research, Innovation and External Affairs at City College, an International Faculty of the University of Sheffield.

Webber, Corrall and McKinney at the LILAC conference

2011-05-06T23:37:00.002+01:00

There was strong participation from the iSchool at the LILAC (Information Literacy) conference that took place 18-20 April 2011 in London. Sheila Webber copresented a talk on Fostering health information literacy through use of a virtual world with US librarian Elizabeth Marripodi (it was also co-autored by Rossana Barrios, University of Puerto Rico), presented a poster on Developing concepts of

Student newsletter is launched

2011-05-06T11:47:00.002+01:00

The students on the MA Librarianship programme have launched their own student newsletter available at http://issuu.com/theregentlibrarianNews and reviews from the students.

Laura Williams awarded BIALL bursary

2011-04-21T09:46:00.001+01:00

Laura Williams MA Librarianship student has been awarded a bursary to attend the BIALL 2011 conference in Newcastle. Congratulations to Laura.

Alice Schofield winner at Vitae Conference

2011-04-07T16:22:00.003+01:00

Alice Schofield PhD student was awarded first prize for her Pecha Kucha presentation at the Vitae Yorkshire and NE Humberside Hub conference on "Communication to the Public" in Durham on 6th April. Her presentation gave an overview of the early stages of her study: "Evaluating the intellectual assets of the Scholarship and Collections Directorate at the British Library". Alice was awrded first

Peter Bath speaks at HC2011

2011-04-04T17:56:00.003+01:00

Peter Bath is an invited speaker at the HC 2011 conference on Tuesday 5th April 2011.The HC 2011 conference is organised by the British Computing Society (BCS) / Chartered Institute for IT, and is the leading conference in the UK for IT managers in the National Health Service. Peter's talk is entitled "The interface between information, health and healthcare delivery".Other invited speakers at

Willett's 500-th publication

2011-04-01T10:12:00.002+01:00

Late March saw a personal milestone for Peter Willett with the appearance in print of his 500-th publication, which was based on an MSc Chemoinformatics dissertation project: Gardiner, E.J. et al. (2011) “Effectiveness of 2D fingerprints for scaffold hopping”, Future Medicinal Chemistry, 3, 405-414.

MA Librarianship student awrded SLA Europe Early Career Award

2011-03-17T12:14:00.002Z

Congratulations to Sam Wiggins MA Librarianship student on this award. Sam will be attending the SLA Conference in Phildelphia in June as part of this award. He also receives a one year membership of SLA, and will gain experience in co-ordinating SLA events throughout the year.

Paul Clough speaks in Glasgow

2011-03-15T17:02:00.002Z

Dr Paul Clough gave a research seminar at Glasgow University on Monday, March 14th. His topic was Providing Personalized Access To Cultural Heritage Information. His abstract was as follows."In this talk I will describe a new European project called PATHS (Personalized Access To cultural Heritage Spaces) that aims to support information exploration and discovery through digital cultural heritage

Lauren Smith: mover and shaker

2011-03-15T16:55:00.001Z

Lauren Smith, a graduate of last year's MA Librarianship course, has been identified as a "mover and shaker 2011" on the Library Journal website. It notes that "the "one-woman library-saving machine," campaigned tirelessly throughout 2010 against the closure of libraries in Great Britain ... The actions of this self-described "library campaigner" are a lesson in commitment for the rest of us."

Peter Bath wins photographic award

2011-02-20T16:35:00.008Z

Peter Bath has been awarded the Horton Cup for the Best Figure/Portrait study for his print "Watching" (shown left) in the Sheffield Photographic Society annual exhibition. Peter's other print "A Quiet Moment" (shown right) received a "Highly Commended" award in the Small Prints section.The Sheffield Photographic Society was established in 1864 and is one of the oldest photographic societies in

New departmental prize

2011-02-15T17:36:00.001Z

We are pleased to announce that OCLC are to sponsor a new annual £100 prize forthe best postgraduate dissertation on a digital library theme.Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership,computer library service and research organization dedicated to the publicpurposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing the rateof rise of library costs.

Reception/award ceremony for IS graduates

2011-02-07T13:13:00.003Z

The School recently welcomed back its 2010 graduates on the MA and MSc programmes. Students arrived back in Sheffield for the Graduation Ceremony and attended a reception hosted by the School, during which prizes were presented to individual students for their achievements in the dissertation and/or programme overall.A sample of photos taken at the reception/award ceremony can be viewed at:http:/

Journal club in Second Life

2011-02-03T02:50:00.002Z

The 5th meeting of the Centre for Information Literacy Research's innovative information literacy/ information behaviour journal club, which takes place in the virtual world Second Life, was on 2nd February 2011. Participants from the UK, USA and Poland were discussing: Corrall, S. (2007). "Benchmarking strategic engagement with information literacy in higher education: towards a working model".

Distinguished colleagues honoured by room naming

2011-01-21T15:27:00.003Z

The School paid tribute to Professor Wilf Saunders, founder of the Postgraduate School of Librarianship (now the Information School) and Professor Tom Wilson, Head of Department for some 15 years and world leading academic in information studies, during a special event to name iSchool rooms in their honour.Find out more and view pictures of the event athttp://www.shef.ac.uk/is/staff/

MSc Chemoinformatics paper published in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

2011-01-04T12:18:00.003Z

Rabab Al Jishi, who completed our MSc Chemoinformatics programme in September, has had a paper on chemical bibliometrics published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, the leading chemoinformatics journal. Rabab's paper is based on her dissertation project, and the full reference is: Al Jishi, R. & Willett, P. “The Journal of Chemical Documentation and the Journal of Chemical

MA Librarianship paper published in Brio

2011-01-04T12:11:00.002Z

Vanessa Fuidge, who completed our MA Librarianship programme in September, has had a paper on music librarianship published in Brio, the journal of the UK and Ireland Branch of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres. Vanessa's paper is based on her dissertation project: the full reference is: Fuidge, V. & Willett, P. ''The role of the music

Richard Sherhod wins award at Young Modeller's Forum

2010-12-20T12:20:00.003Z

Richard Sherhod, postgraduate research student in the chemoinformatics research group, has won an award at the Young Modeller's Forum, held on 10th December 2010. The award was for his poster entitled "