Saturday, October 17, 2009
9:00 am - 4:15 pm (lunch will be provided)
Golda Meir Library, West Wing, 4th Floor Conference Center
2311 E Hartford Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211

KEYNOTE

COMPARISONS ARE ODOROUS:
Comparison in Science and the Science of Comparison

Peter J Lor, D.Phil.
Visiting Professor, School of Information Studies
Past Secretary General, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
Past National Librarian of South Africa

Featured speakers:

• Lucio Campanelli & Dan Rude, MLIS Students
  Adaptive Browsing for a Community Database
• Kun Lu, PhD Student
  Ideal Matching, Real Matching: A Model
• Tim Blomquist, MLIS Student
  Findings from a Survey of Wisconsin Public Library Services for the Homeless Population
• Lauree Garcia Hart, PhD Student
  The Efficacy of Infodemiology in Tracking H1N1
• Jo Ellen Darnton, BSIR Student
  Wikipedia
• Chunsheng Huang, PhD Student
  Digital Archives of Taiwan Agricultural History During the Japanese Colonial Period: Phase I
• Jihee Beak, MLIS Student
  The relationship between the school library media specialist’s working environment and the level of information organization in a visual search in an OPAC system
• Taryn Sauer, PhD Student & Recent MLIS Graduate
  Asking Smart Questions: How Question Type and Form Affect Answer Quality on Q&A Web Sites
• Hohyon Ryu, MLIS Student & Kun Lu, PhD Student
  Building an Augmented Index for Genomic Information Retrieval

Please RSVP by: October 07,2009

The SOIS Student Research Day is generously sponsored by the UWM Libraries and the School of Information Studies.

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