Christine L. Borgman
Professor & Presidential Chair in
Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
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Biographical Summary
Christine L. Borgman holds the
Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. She is a Professor in the Department of Information Studies
and in the Communication Studies Program at UCLA From 1996-2002 she was also Visiting Professor in the
Department of Information Science at Loughborough University in England. She
was Chair of the Department of Library and Information Science (since renamed
Department of Information Studies) from 1995 to 1997. Her teaching and research
interests include digital libraries, human-computer interaction,
information-seeking behavior, learning in science, scholarly communication,
electronic publishing, bibliometrics, and information technology policy. Her research has been funded by the
National Science Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Council on Library Resources, the
British Library, and UCLA sources, including the Center for European and Russian
Studies, International and Overseas Programs, Center for the Study of Women,
and the Academic Senate. She was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the
University of Economic Sciences and at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest,
Hungary, and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and
Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. She has lectured or conducted research in
more than 20 countries.
Prof. Borgman has published over 150
articles, conference papers, reports, and books in the fields of information
studies, computer science, and communication. Her most recent book, From Gutenberg to
the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked
World (MIT Press, 2000), won the Best
Information Science book of the year award from the American Society for
Information Science and Technology. Currently, she serves on the Study
Committee on Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System: Technical
Alternatives and Policy Implications (Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board, National Academies, the Advisory Board to the Electronic Privacy
Information Center, and the Association for Computing Machinery Public Policy
Committee. She previously served
on the Advisory Committee to the Computer, Information Sciences, and Engineering
Directorate of the National Science Foundation (1998-2001),the Board of
Directors of the Council on Library and Information Resources (1992-2000), and
on the International Advisory Board to the Soros Foundation Open Society
Institute Regional Library Program (1994-1997). In 1989, she was elected as
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a member of the editorial boards
of Journal of the American Society for
Information Science & Technology, Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication, The Information Society, and the Journal of Digital Information, and was on the editorial boards of
the Journal of Communication Research (1986-1999)
and the Journal of Documentation (1992-2002). She was Program Chair for the First
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (ACM and IEEE) in June, 2001. She also serves on the program
committees for the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, the
Second Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and the Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Her educational background includes the
Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University (1984), coursework in
Management Information Systems at University of Texas at Dallas (1979-1980),
Master of Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh (1974), and a
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, with honor, from Michigan State University
(1973).