Director-at-Large, Barbara Wildemuth
Barbara Wildemuth is a Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having joined the UNC-CH faculty in 1988. While at UNC-CH, she has served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs (2002-2005) and held the Frances Carroll McColl Term Professorship (2004-2006). She is currently a member of the UNC-CH Faculty Athletics Committee, and has also served on the UNC-CH Educational Policy Committee. In addition, she has chaired a number of SILS committees, including (most recently) the Undergraduate Program Committee and the Personnel Committee. Her research projects at UNC-CH currently include a collaborative digital library curriculum development project (with Virginia Tech); a test of the feasibility of recruiting and training medical informationists (with the Duke University School of Medicine); the Open Video project, examining people’s interactions with a digital video collection and representations of the objects in the collection; an assessment of people’s needs for personal health records; and a Delphi study of research priorities for studies of online searching behaviors. She has been recognized for both her teaching (the ASIST and the UNC-CH SILS teaching awards) and her research (for the best paper at JCDL 2003 and the 2001 ALISE Research Methodology Award). Prior to completing her Ph.D. at Drexel University, she held several positions at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ. Barbara has been active in ASIST since 1976, most recently serving as program co-chair of the 2005 ASIST Annual Meeting. She helped to establish the Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use (SIG USE), has organized the Doctoral Seminar for Research and Career Development for over a decade, and has served on a number of ASIST committees and award juries.