Linda L. Hill, Ph.D.

Email: lhill@alexandria.ucsb.edu
Webpage: http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill


Summary

Thirty years of accomplishments in the direction and development of library/information services and systems and research, including digital library research and development, consulting, federal government contracting in information and data management, information retrieval research, teaching at the graduate level, and management of a corporate research library, an abstracting and indexing operation, and a public library department. Activities have included gazetteer research and development, integration of knowledge organization systems into digital library systems, user needs analyses, design and implementation of information storage and retrieval systems, governance of a formal library network, workflow analysis, and thesaurus creation and management. Research interests include effectiveness of concept representation for online information retrieval, user behavior in information seeking activities, and representation and retrieval of georeferenced information through informal (placename references) and formal (geospatial location) methods.

Professional Experience

December 1996 - January 2005
Specialist V
Alexandria Digital Library Project (http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu)
Computer Science Department / Geography Department
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106

The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Project is focused on building a digital library of georeferenced information objects and the set of services to provide access to and support the use of these materials for a distributed set of independent collections. The ADL team includes faculty and students in geography and computer science, staff of the UCSB Library, and research and development staff for ADL itself. The ADL research program ended in 2004; the operational ADL continues as a service of the UCSB Library.

October 1994 - November 1996
Senior Research Scientist
College of Library and Information Services
University of Maryland at College Park
Room 4121A
Hornbake Library Building
College Park, Md 20742-4345

The responsibilities of the contractual position were to provide the necessary interface between the library science and services community and the federal government's Global Change Data Management Working Group (GCDMWG). Through the Universities Space Research Association's Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Science (CESDIS), I held a position with the Executive Secretariat for the GCDMWG with the responsibility of engaging the library community in the design and evaluation of systems to provide access to data sets from the federal agencies that are important for research into global change, and in the use of the library infrastructure to disseminate global change information to a wide audience. Typical issues include network access from libraries to the GCDIS (Global Change Data and Information Service), user interface development (gopher and home page), metadata requirements, access and retrieval methods, and user studies.

November 1991- September 1994
Senior Analyst
Information International Associates, Inc.
P.O. Box 4249
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831

The assignment, on a contractual basis, was a full-time staff position with the NASA STI Program Office, reporting to the Head of the Information Services Division and providing expertise in library and information sciences, information retrieval system design, and abstracting and indexing operations in the realm of science and technology. Project assignments required project management skills and the ability to work within a complex environment of government and contractor operations.

Responsibilities included (1) performing a work flow analysis of the input processing system of NASA's Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI); (2) leadership of the STIMS/RECON Replacement Project, which entailed the replacement of the current NASA information storage and retrieval system with a commercial off-the-shelf software package and the redesign of the record and database structures; (3) leadership of the NACA Document Database Project, which is a cooperative effort within NASA to build a definitive database of electronic records representing the NACA formal report series and the documents on early aviation developments collected by the NACA libraries; (4) leadership of a NASA-funded research project with the University of Maryland to compare the effectiveness of retrieval performance of Boolean systems and the WAIS vector-based retrieval system; (5) NASA STI Program representation to the Coalition on Networked Information; (6) NASA STI Program representation to the CENDI Cataloging Working Group; (7) organization of an all-day session on free text versus controlled vocabulary for indexing and retrieval; (8) advisory responsibility to other activities of the Information Services Department of the NASA STI Program, including acquisitions, standardization of cataloging practices, methods of measuring database quality, development and maintenance of the NASA Thesaurus, and the library student internship program.

Aug. 1986-September 1991
Assistant Director for Scientific and Technical Analysis
Division of Information Services (Petroleum Abstracts)
University of Tulsa
600 South College
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104
(Staff supervised: 8 full-time (+ farmout) indexers & abstractors)

Directed the staff of subject specialists who select, abstract, and index documents pertaining to petroleum exploration and production and related environmental subjects. Established policies, procedures, and tools for their activities and for the construction and maintenance of a set of thesauri. Implemented an enlarged custom search service with a new pricing structure. Designed and implemented an acquisition tracking system on a PC. Managed the transition from manual to computer-based indexing .

Aug. 1988-Dec. 1990
Doctoral Student/Candidate
School of Library and Information Science
University of Pittsburgh
135 N. Bellefield
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260

Assisted in a funded research project on "Planning for a Children's Information System." Provided support for course on uses of microcomputer for library operations. Member of the Faculty Selection Committee for the Department of Library Science, 1988-89, for three open positions. Assisted in a funded project on Geographic Information Systems as User Interfaces for Bibliographic Retrieval, 1989-90. Received the ISI/SLA Doctoral Award of $1000 for beginning doctoral students. Established the SLIS Doctoral Research Forum, 1989. Elected President of the School's Doctoral Guild, 1989-90. Chosen for one of four student leadership awards for the School of Library and Information Science, March 1990. Winner of the Best Paper Award at the ASIS Student Conference, 1990.

Oct. 1985-June 1986
Library and Statistical Services Manager
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
P.O. Box 70240
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74170

Prepared the monthly Seismic Crew Count and the annual Geophysical Activity Report. Established a library & information service. Implemented a microcomputer management system for library operations including Inmagic, Lotus, and WordPerfect.

1979-1985
Technical Information Service Manager
Applied Research & Technology
Exploration & Production
Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation
(Staff supervised: 7 full-time, 1 part-time; Budget: $640,000)

Designed layout and facilities for new library. Designed positions and job responsibilities for expanded service. Trained and supported staff in cataloging, indexing, reference, and circulation procedures. Established policies and procedures. Developed inhouse automated catalog, with programming help. Selected, implemented and maintained DATALIB integrated library system. Wrote user documentation. Implemented OCLC use.

1972-1979
Head, Business & Technology Department
Tulsa City-County Library
400 Civic Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103
(Staff supervised: 8 full-time, 1 part-time)

Established one of the first fee-based reference services in a public library. Established a health information program in the public library in cooperation with the local health/medical organizations. Established a city-county government documents collection.

Teaching Experience

June 1991
Facilitator, Introduction to Information Science
University of Oklahoma, School of Library Science
University Center at Tulsa classroom

Classroom facilitator at the University Center at Tulsa for course taught by compressed video from the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, Oklahoma. Taught two of the three-hour sessions.

1990
Sessions taught as a doctoral student
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Library Science
School of Library and Information Science

Developed and taught a session on cognitive psychology for course on Behavioral Foundations of Librarianship and an introduction to DOS for a class on Applications of Microcomputer Technologies.

June-July 1981
Instructor, Special Libraries Course
School of Library Science, University of Oklahoma

Redesigned course and taught it through Talkback Television facility in Tulsa, with students on the Norman campus and in Tulsa.

Education

PhD - University of Pittsburgh, Library Science, 1990
MLS - University of Michigan, Library Science, 1971
BA - Baker University, Biology/Chemistry, 1958

Professional Activities

ACM Digital Libraries Conference and the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

1996 Registration Chair
1997 Corporate Sponsor Chair (also held the same position for ACM SIGIR Conference which met jointly with DL'98)
1998 Program Committee
1998 Organized an all-day workshop on Networking Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) (http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/)
2001-2002 Program Committee
2002 - Organized an all-day NKOS workshop on digital gazetteers as components of digital libraries http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/DL02workshop.htm
2003 - Tutorial on Introduction to Georeferencing in Digital Libraries

European Conference on Digital Libriaries

2001 - Program Committee
2003 - Co-chair for posters
2003 - Tutorial on Introduction to Georeferencing in Digital Libraries

American Society for Information Science

Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship Jury, Member 1993
Documentation Abstracts Board, Alternate representative for ASIS, 1994-96
Standards Committee, Member 1994-
Storage and Retrieval Technologies SIG, Chair-elect, 1992-93; Chair, 1993-94

AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, Inc., Board of Trustees

Member, 1981-84
Chair, 1983-84

Special Libraries Association

Networking Committee: Speaker, 1984: Program Chair, 1985
Nominating Committee: Member, 1990-92
Oklahoma Chapter: President, 1973-74; Editor of Bulletin, 1981-82; Consultation Chair, 1987-88
Petroleum & Energy Resources Division: Chair-elect, 1985-86; Chair, 1986-87; Past-Chair, 1987-88
Research Committee: Member, 1994-95

University of Pittsburgh, School of Library and Information Science

SLIS Doctoral Guild: President, 1989-90

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Last update: August 17, 2004