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Department of Library and Information Studies


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Julie Hersberger,Ph.D.

Contact Info:
349-D Curry Building
phone #: (336) 334-3482
jahersbe@uncg.edu
Faculty website
Vita

Teaching areas : Management courses, Public Library Course, and Intellectual Freedom
Research areas : Information needs of the homeless, library embezzlement

Selected Publications and Presentations

Publications:

Hersberger, J.A. (2003) Are the economically poor information poor? Does the digital divide affect the homeless and access to information? Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 27(3) September: 44-63.

Hersberger, J.A. (2003) A qualitative approach to examining information transfer via social networks among homeless populations. The New Review of Information Behavior Research: Studies of Information Seeking in Context [in press].

Hersberger, J.A. (2003). Internet Censorship in The Internet Encyclopedia, John Wiley and Sons [in press].

Research publications in process:

"Information Sharing and Community Building in an Internet-based Learning Environment" with Kevin Rioux and Ray O'Keefe Cruitt, UNCG

"The diffusion of AIDS information among the homeless via social networks" with Dr. Alden Klovdahl, Australian National University and Dr. Dean Behrens, University of Toronto.

"Social capital as embedded in the social support networks of homeless populations" with Dr. Karen Fisher, University of Washington.


Presentations:

"Chatman's Theory of Information Poverty" session presenter at the 3rd Annual ASIS&T SIG USE Research Symposium: Theoretical Frameworks of Information and Behaviors: Research Implications, October 18, 2003, Long Beach, CA.

"Managing in the New Millennium: Libraries as Learning Organizations" session presenter at SIG MGT: Management and Information Studies: Exploring the Connections, ASIS&T (American Society of Information Science and Technology), October 20, 2003.

Session Convener: Social Networks as Information Exchange Networks, Sunbelt XXIV (International Network of Social Network Analysts) May 12-16, 2004, Portoro, Slovenia.

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Department of Library and Information Studies, UNCG
349 Curry Building, PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
Tel: (336)334-3477
FAX (336)334-5060
EMAIL cpfelts@uncg.edu