Jason Farradane Award 2016: Hazel Hall

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Hazel Hall

Last week UKeIG announced that I am the winner of the 2016 Jason Farradane Award. For me it is a huge honour even to have been nominated for this prize. The news that I am the actual recipient caught me somewhat off-guard last Wednesday – on a day disrupted by a fire at work that resulted in the closure of campus at 2pm. I have since been overwhelmed with congratulatory messages by email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and in person from friends, family, and colleagues. Thank you all! Continue reading →

The future of library and information science education and research: a view from Barcelona #liser2015

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Hazel Hall

I spent Thursday 4th and Friday 5th June 2015 in Spain as a guest of the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Barcelona. Here I was one of many academics from across the world invited to join the Faculty in the celebrations of its one hundredth anniversary. These were organised around an event billed as the Third International Seminar on Library and Information Science (LIS) Education and Research (LIS-ER).

Blaise Cronin keynote speaker

The main theme of the meeting was education and research in library and information science. The opening keynote presentation was delivered by Dr Blaise Cronin, Emeritus Professor at Indiana University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University. There then followed a series of sessions on: LIS education in Europe; LIS education in America; LIS research in general; LIS academic journals; and research data. There was also an opportunity for those who contributed to a poster display to introduce their work in plenary. In this session the speakers invited delegates to visit an exhibition that displayed work on themes that ranged from open science to beach libraries for summer tourists.
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All set for LIS-ER 2015

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Hazel Hall

The Third International Seminar on LIS Education and Research (LIS-ER), organised by the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Barcelona, takes place this week on Thursday 4th and Friday 5 June 2015.

The meeting’s theme of education and research in library and information science will be covered in conference presentations, panels, and a poster session. On Friday morning I’m speaking on the theme of challenges in LIS research, drawing on my experience of leading the implementation of the UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition between 2009 and 2012. For a preview of my presentation Meeting the challenges of LIS research: a national coalition approach, please see the slides below.
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Looking forward to the Third International Seminar on LIS Education and Research (LIS-ER), Barcelona, June 4-5 2015

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Hazel Hall

The Third International Seminar on Education and Research (LIS-ER) is organised this year by the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Barcelona as part of its centenary celebrations. The meeting is supported by the European Association for Library and Information Education and Research (EUCLID) and the Red Universitaria de centros de Información y Documentación (RUID). It takes place 4-5 June 2015 on the University of Barcelona campus.

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Congratulations Professor Blaise Cronin, a winner of Jason Farradane Award 2014

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Hazel Hall

Professor Blaise Cronin

Many congratulations to Blaise Cronin, Visiting Professor to the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University, who has today been named as one of the winners of the 2014 Jason Farradane Award.

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Blaise Cronin to deliver guest lecture at Edinburgh Napier University, 24 June 2014

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Hazel Hall

Professor Blaise Cronin

Dr Blaise Cronin, Rudy Professor of Information Science, Indiana University is Visiting Professor to the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University. Next week he will be on our Merchiston campus to deliver a presentation entitled “Beethoven vs. Bieber: On the meaningfulness of (alt)metrics” (abstract below) as part of the School of Computing/Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Tech Talk series.

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An afternoon of advice from Thesis Whisperer Dr Inger Mewburn

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Hazel Hall

The home page of the Thesis Whisperer web site

What do you do when you hear that the Thesis Whisperer, Dr Inger Mewburn, is coming to town? If you’re my colleague Karen Strickland, you do all you can to tempt her onto the Edinburgh Napier University campus to share with colleagues her enthusiasm for social media as a means of marketing academic research.

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Altmetrics: achieving and measuring success in communicating research in the digital age

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Hazel Hall

Tracking scholarly digital footprints

Like many I communicate my scholarly research over multiple platforms in a range of activities that have now become routine for research-active academics. These include, for example:

Screen shot of Hazel Hall's About.me page

Screenshot of link listings on Hazel Hall’s About.me page

maintaining a personal archive of my publications, presentations and research reports – accessible through the publications and presentations tab on this web site
uploading papers to open access repositories – mine go to the Edinburgh Napier repository, and are also listed with links from the web pages of the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation
uploading videos of conference presentations – see for example the output from the AHRC-funded DREaM project in 2011-12 on the Library and Information Science Research Coalition Vimeo account
sharing PowerPoint presentations – I maintain a SlideShare account
blogging about research – here at hazelhall.org, and between 2009-2012 at http://lisresearch.org
submitting papers to open access journals – I have submitted, for example, to Library and Information Research and Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
tweeting links to my work – as @hazelh

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Bookings now open for the alt-metrics workshop at the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science summer school

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Hazel Hall

A month ago I blogged that I was busy setting up a one day training course as part of the the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science summer school on behalf of the Information Science pathway. The details of this event, which takes place in Edinburgh on Thursday 20th June, are now live.

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ASIST2012 – and Hurricane Sandy

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Hazel Hall

ASIST2012 was a conference experience like none other. I’d been so busy with my work that before I set off from Edinburgh for Baltimore last Saturday I hadn’t paid heed to the news reports of a hurricane about to hit the east coast of America. In fact, the first I heard of it was when I bumped into fellow UK academic Dr Christine Urquhart at the reception of the conference hotel. Thereafter we heard tale after tale of delegates who had abandoned their plans to come to the conference for fear of becoming stranded, and of others who had arrived, stayed a short while, then turned around again to head home before the hurricane hit. I had no option but to ride out the storm with the few delegates who actually made it to Baltimore and stuck it out.

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Hazel Hall

Emeritus Professor, Edinburgh Napier University

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Jason Farradane Award 2016: Hazel Hall