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Elisabeth A. Jones
The Information School ⋅ University of Washington
Mary Gates Hall, Box 352840 ⋅ Seattle, WA 98195
eaj6 [at] uw [dot] edu
EDUCATION
PhD Candidate, Information Science (in progress)
The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
MSI, Information Economics, Management, and Policy, 2007
School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
AB, Anthropology, 2003
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
- Jones, Elisabeth A. (Forthcoming). “Network Television Streaming Technologies and the Shifting Television Social Sphere.” In What Next in Media, ed. by Christopher Harper. San Diego: University Readers.
- *Bruce, Harry, Abraham Wenning, Elisabeth Jones, Julia Vinson, and William Jones. (2011). “Seeking an Ideal Solution to the Management of Personal Information Collections.” Information Research 16, no. 1 (March).
- *Jones, Elisabeth A. and Joseph W. Janes. (2010). “Anonymity in a World of Digital Books: Google Books, Privacy, and the Freedom to Read.” Policy and Internet 2, no. 4.
- Jones, Elisabeth A. (2009). “Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes From the ARL-CNI Forum.” Research Library Issues, no. 262 (February).
- Jones, Elisabeth A. (2006). “Pushing the Digitization Debate Forward: ‘Scholarship and Libraries in Transition’ at the University of Michigan.” Journal of Electronic Publishing 9, no. 2 (Summer).
CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS
- *Jones, Elisabeth A. and Joseph T. Tennis. (2012). “Facets of Access: A Typology of Information Dissemination Systems.” Poster presented at iConference 2012, Toronto, ON, February 7-10. (Best Poster Award.) Poster image (original was interactive).
- Jones, Elisabeth A. (2011). “Large-Scale Book Digitization in Historical Context: Outlines of a Comparison.” Poster presented at iConference 2011, Seattle, WA, February 8-11. (Presented as an element of participation in the iConference Doctoral Colloquium.)
- *Jones, Elisabeth A. (2010). “Conceptualizing Large-Scale Information Access Efforts: The Case for Historical Context.” Paper presented at ASIS&T 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, October 22-29.
- *Bruce, Harry, Abe Wenning, Elisabeth Jones, and William Jones. (2010). “Seeking an Ideal Solution to the Management of Personal Information Collections.” Paper presented at Information Seeking in Context 2010, Murcia, Spain, September 28 – October 2.
- *Jones, Elisabeth A. and Joseph W. Janes. (2010). “Anonymity in a World of Digital Books: Google Books, Privacy, and the Freedom to Read.” Paper presented at Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment, Oxford, UK, September 16-17, 2010.
- *Jones, Elisabeth A. (2010). “The Imagined User of ‘Universal’ Information Access Efforts: Ingrained Assumptions in Early American Public Libraries and Large-Scale Digitization Initiatives.” Poster presented at iConference 2010, Champaign, IL, February 3-6.
- Furlani, Cita, Jane Greenberg, Joe Hourclé, Gail Hodge, Elisabeth Jones, and Jian Qin. (2009). Panel on “Standards and Best Practices in Scientific Data Management: Promoting Interoperability and Re-Use.” ASIS&T 2009, Vancouver, BC, November 6-11.
- *Jones, William, Harry Bruce, Elisabeth Jones, and Julia Vinson. (2009). “Providing for Paper, Place, and People in Personal Projects.” Paper presented at PIM 2009, Vancouver, BC, November 7-8.
- Jones, Elisabeth A. (2009). “Network Television Streaming Technologies and the Shifting Television Social Sphere.” Paper presented at Media in Transition 6, Cambridge, MA, April 24-26.
- *Jones, Elisabeth A., Harry Bruce, Predrag Klasnja and William Jones. (2008). “I Give Up! Five Factors that Contribute to the Abandonment of Information Management Strategies.” Poster presented at ASIS&T 2008, Columbus, OH, October 24-29. Published simultaneously in Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 45, no. 1.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE MATERIALS
- Jones, Elisabeth A., Wendy Lougee, Neil Rambo, and Eric Celeste. (2008). “E-Science Talking Points for ARL Deans and Directors.” Washington, DC: Association for Research Libraries, October.
* Peer-reviewed.
RESEARCH WORK
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- Research Associate II (Post-doc), University of Michigan Libraries
September 2011 – June 2013; Principal Investigator: Dr. Paul Courant
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
- Library Cyberinfrastructure Initiatives, University of Washington Libraries & the Association of Research Libraries
June – September 2007 & June 2008 – June 2009; Supervisors: Neil Rambo & Eric Celeste - “Keeping Found Things Found” (NSF Grant 0534386), University of Washington Information School
September 2007 – October 2008; Principal Investigators: Dr. William Jones & Dr. Harry Bruce - Knowledge Management in IT Projects, University of Washington Information School
June – September 2007; Principal Investigator: Dr. Hazel Taylor
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (University of Washington)
PREDOCTORAL/GUEST LECTURERSHIPS (INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD)
- Intellectual Foundations of Informatics (INFO 200): Summer 2011 (19 students), Summer 2010 (18) & Summer 2009 (23)
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS
- Intellectual Foundations of Informatics (INFO 200): Spring 2011 (100 students) & Autumn 2010 (105)
- Information Resources, Services, and Collections (LIS 520 – Online): Winter 2011 (77 students) & Winter 2010 (70)
- Information Services and Resources (IMT 520): Spring 2010 (62 students)
- Research Methods in Informatics (INFO 470): Autumn 2009 (68 students)
TEACHING PRACTICA
- Information in Social Context (LIS 550 – Online): Spring 2009 (23 students)
- Intellectual Foundations of Informatics (INFO 200): Winter 2009 (45 students)
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Best Poster Award (top 5 out of 95), iConference 2012, Toronto, ON, 2012
- Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation Travel Award, University of Washington, 2010
- Paul Evan Peters Fellowship, Coalition for Networked Information, 2008 – 2010
- Cultural Politics of Technology Consumption Summer Research Grant, Intel Corporation, 2009
- Irving Lieberman Intellectual Freedom Endowed Fund Travel Grant, University of Washington, 2009
- Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation, 2008
- Top Scholar Award, Graduate School, University of Washington, 2007
- Margaret Mann Award, School of Information, University of Michigan, 2007
- Merit Scholarship, School of Information, University of Michigan, 2005 – 2007
- Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago, inducted in 2003
WORKSHOP & COLLOQUIUM PARTICIPATION
- American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Doctoral Seminar, October 11, 2011
ASIS&T Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) Doctoral Colloquium, October 10, 2011
Internet Research 12.0: Performance and Participation, Seattle, WA - iConference Doctoral Colloquium, February 11, 2011
iConference 2011, Seattle, WA - Information, Communication & Power: A Graduate Workshop with Manuel Castells, April 9, 2010
The Information School and Department of Communication, University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Cultural Politics of Technology Consumption Workshop, October 15-16, 2009
People and Practices Research Group, Intel Corporation, Beaverton, OR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
COMMITTEES
- Student Representative, PhD Admissions Committee
University of Washington Information School, 2010 – 2011 - All-School Meeting Representative, Doctoral Student Association
University of Washington Information School, 2008 – 2010 - Treasurer/Secretary, Special Interest Group for Science and Technical Information
American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008 – 2009 - Member, Joint Library-Information School Research Program Steering Group
University of Washington, 2007 – 2008
JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES REFEREED
- Policy and Internet, 2010
- Annual Meeting, American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
- Google Library Partnership Research Intern, January 2006 – April 2007
Media Relations & Public Affairs, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - Student Reference Assistant, September 2005 – April 2007
Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - Collections Analysis Intern, September – December 2006
Center for Library Initiatives, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Urbana, IL - “Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere” Intern, May – July 2006
Social Science Research Council, New York, NY - Administrative & Bibliographic Assistant, November 2003 – July 2005
Collection Management Department, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL - Map Collection Student Assistant, July 2002 – July 2003
Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MEMBERSHIPS
- American Library Association, 2005 – present
also Library History Round Table; Library Research Round Table - American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008 – present
also Special Interest Group for Information Policy; Special Interest Group for Digital Libraries - Association for Computing Machinery, 2009 – present
