Information Science research meetings a.k.a Brown Bag meetings primarily focus on improving the quality of scholarly work at the department. They are meant to support faculty and PhD students in their research careers therefore it is open to all faculty and students who wish to share their ideas in the field of Information Science or Library Science. We meet every Friday at noon during a regular long semester and the participants are free to bring their lunch/snacks to the meetings.
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Every Friday)
Location: Information Science Conference Room at the UNT Discovery Park Campus.
Bring your lunch and participate in an intellectual conversation with your fellow researchers.
You may also join these meetings remotely. Please email your interest, prior to each meeting to xiaoyuzhang@my.unt.edu.
Spring 2019
DATE | Topic | Discussion Leader |
18-Jan | A Brief Bibliometric Analysis of Information Science & Library Science Publications in 2018 | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
25-Jan | Finding Research Topics | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
1-Feb | Information Organization and Metadata Research | Dr. Oksana Zavalina |
8-Feb | Establishing a User Experience Lab at UNT-COI | Dr. Xin Wang |
15-Feb |
Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS) - Scholarly communication and abstract writing workshop Call for collaboration: Catapulting the data of today into the environment of tomorrow |
MIRS Committee
Chinami McLain |
22-Feb | Productivity: An Eternal Balance for Scholars | Dr. Jeff Allen |
1-Mar | "Something that feels like a community": The role of personal stories in builidng community-based participatory archives | Dr. Jeonghyun "Annie" Kim and Ana Roeschley |
8-Mar | When Failure is Success | Dr. Daniella Smith |
22-Mar | Software Engineering Process & Practices for Data Science | Dr. Junhua Ding |
5-Apr | Cybersecurity Research & Updates | Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh & Dr. Hsia-Ching "Carrie" Chang |
12-Apr | Video & Meaning | Dr. Brian O'Connor |
26-Apr | An overview of the 2019 iConference | iConference attendees |
Fall 2018
DATE | Topic | Discussion Leader |
14-Sept | A Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Groundwater Runo Connectivity | Dr. Ding |
21-Sept | Dynamic capabilities of a smart city: An innovative approach to discovering urban problems and solutions |
Miyong and Habib |
5-Oct | Mirror with a Memory: Why Did Photography Explode into 19th Century America | Dr. O’connor |
12-Oct | A Typology of Public Knowledge | Dr. Miksa |
19-Oct | Deep Changes in law librarianship 1979 - present time | Mary Voegtle |
26-Oct | Life in the round: Investing intersection between digital world and ethnic minorities in Yunan, China | Dr. Ming Zhu and Dr. Yunfei Du |
16-Nov | ASIS&T Conference Experience | ASIS&T 2019 Attendees |
30-Nov | ASIST Presentation: The Current State of Data Governance in Higher Education | Dr. Chang and Cary Jim |
An Overview of Data Governance, Information Governance and IT Governance | ||
7-Dec | Deep Transfer Learning for Classification | Dr. Shuyi Wang |