Current Research Interests: Bibliometrics and international STM communication; new technologies and how they interplay with each other; social networking communities; local community networks; Universal Design and the Americans with Disabilities Act; how to interpret information technologies.

Current Readings: Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers. David Weinerger, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. Don Tappscott and Anthony Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.

Current Teaching: Information Network Applications, IS 567: How to understand and work with Internet applications. Information Seeking, IS 310: an undergraduate course on information literacy. Inheirited.

In development: Information Sciences through Popular Culture - an exciting course about 20 years in the making that introduces the undergraduate to information science topics using popular culture works including books and music. Universal Design: Desigining cities, living rooms, libraries, and web sites so that they are accessible for everyone.

In the past, teaching has included: the information environment, information retrieval, information policy, microcomputer applications, library automation, online information systems, introduction to the information sciences, and various independent studies on international librarianship, community information networks, IT topics, information access, and the like. IS 490, Information Environment: How technologies inform an informed society.

Current YOUTUBE Offerings I've Noticed (beyond videos taken by cell phone cameras, and ressurected old videos of music legends, and wannabees immitating (with minimal success) established performers: Simon and Garfunkel, 7 O'clock News. Lenny Breau, Summertime. Whoa. Multimedia. What a new word. But for young folks, it is. A new word, combining media from many forms and going beyond sitting a camera phone video of your kids jumping at Applebee's with a few words of text. It could be a serious form of expression, given the chance. If folks recognized the fact that "multimedia" means "combine many media into one expression of creativity." A "mashup". But think about IP implications and your skills.

Current television aggregator: hulu.com - just videos, some semblance of a sense of provenance and organization.