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Miriam Matteson PhD Candidate |
Professional Goal
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Affiliations American Society for Information Science and Technology |
Research My research focuses on management and administration issues in libraries. I am interested in organizational communication, shared cognition, organizational learning, and teams and group behavior. My disciplinary home is library and information science; my research is informed from work in small group communication, business and management, industrial and organization psychology, and social psychology. My dissertation ( in progress) is a study of how group communication influences the development of shared mental models. My data come from interviews and transcripts of meetings of an ad-hoc group of public librarians serving on a task force in a suburban public library system in the mid-atlantic. I expect to graduate in May, 2008.
Teaching With my background as a practicing librarian in a variety of positions and library types I feel comfortable teaching in several areas of the LIS curriculum, including access to information in general and in several specialized areas (music, business, social sciences); library management; introductory organization of information; and special and academic libraries. My teaching experience includes working as an adjunct instructor at Catholic University School of Library and Information Science where I taught Organization of Information and Business Information. I am also an adjunct instructor at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) where a teach an undergraduate library skills course in a distance education format. I also designed and co-taught a masters level course at UMUC on information literacy skills for teachers.
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Background My undergraduate degree is in music performance (french horn) from Indiana University (IU) School of Music. I earned a Master's degree in Library Science from IU School of Library and Information Science in 1995, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Library Science from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2001. At the IU Music Library I worked as a sound recordings cataloger and a circulation supervisor from 1992-1995. I lived in Caracas, Venezuela from 1996 to 1998 and worked for a year at the Universidad Simon Bolivar library leading the staff training initiative for their library automation system. In Venezuela, I also worked as a solo special librarian in the Caracas office of the U.S. based consulting firm, A. T. Kearney. In that position I created a classification system for the project documents and provided reference service to the consultants. Returning to the U.S., I was an intern at the National Public Radio Reference Library in Washington, D.C. in 1998. Next I worked as a reference and instruction librarian at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) from 1999 to 2002. |