Gary Marchionini

Email: march@ils.unc.edu

Position: Cary C. Boshamer Professor, School of Information and Library Science.

Research interests: Information interaction, human-computer interaction, human-centered computing, information retrieval, digital libraries, information architecture, digital government, information policy

Gary Marchionini is Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina where he teaches courses in human-information interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at SILS. His Ph.D. is from Wayne State University in mathematics education with an emphasis on educational computing. He was previously professor in the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland and a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.

He was the PI for a collaborative project funded by the National Cancer Institute to develop usability guidelines for personal health records (PHRs). He received an IBM Faculty Research Award for 2006-07 to work on digital video surrogate creation and metadata evaluation. He also received a Google Research Award to develop the Information in Life Video Series for the UNC-CH YouTube Educational Video Channel. He leads the development of a digital video repository, The Open Video Project and was PI for a NSF-funded project to develop and test interfaces for video retrieval and browsing (Agile Views for video browsing: Advanced surrogates, control mechanisms, and usability). He is the PI for a NSF-Library of Congress grant (Preserving Video Objects and Context: A Demonstration Project) to develop strategies for preserving digital video context. He also lead a project "Annotating Structured Documents" supported by Microsoft. He was PI for multiple grants from the National Science Foundation's Digital Government Program that focused on helping people find and understand government statistical data, Integration of Data and Interfaces to Enhance Human Understanding of Government Statistics: Toward the National Statistical Knowledge Network. He was PI for a U.S. Department of Education Challenge Grant project, the Baltimore Learning Community.

Professor Marchionini served for ten years as the Director of Evaluation for the Perseus Project (a digital library devoted to classical culture) and served for two years as the General Editor of Hypertext Publications for the Association of Computing Machinery. He was the Conference Chair for ACM Digital Library '96 Conference and for the 2006 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. He was program chair for the 2002 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and Americas-chair for the ACM SIGIR 2005 Conference. He served as an at large member of the board of directors for the American Society for Information Science & Technology from 1998-2001. He currently is serving a four-year term (2006-2010) on the Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine

He is Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transaction on Information Systems. Professor Marchionini has had grants or contracts from the National Science Foundation, Council on Library Resources, the National Library of Medicine, the Library of Congress, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Kellogg Foundation, and NASA, The National Cancer Institute, Microsoft, among others. He has published over 180 articles, chapters and reports in a variety of books and journals. He is author of a book titled Information Seeking in Electronic Environments published by Cambridge University Press.

He serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Information Processing and Management, Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration, Library and Information Science Research, Information Retrieval, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Digital Information, Educational Technology, ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia, and the International Journal on Digital Libraries.

Current intests and projects are related to: interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval; usability of personal health records;WWW-based statistical information; alternative representations for electronic documents; multimedia browsing strategies; digital libraries; information architecture; personal identity in cyberspace; and evaluation of interactive media, especially for learning and teaching

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yes, i've got more gray hair now ;-)

march at ils.unc.edu
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
919 966-3611 919 962-8071 (fax)
updated 1/07/08