Lynne M. Rudasill

Lynne Marie Rudasill

rudasill@uiuc.edu

 

Center for Global Studies

302 East John Street

Suite 1705 – MC-429

Champaign, IL  61820

217-265-6879

Education and Social Science Library

1408 W. Gregory Dr.

Room 100 – MC-522

Urbana, IL  61801

217-244-1868

 

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Associate Professor of Library Administration

Global Studies Librarian

Subject Specialist for Political Science and Speech Communication

 

Current Position:  Serve as half-time subject specialist for political science and speech communication in the Education and Social Science Library where my duties include collection development, instruction, and reference.  The other half of my position is as Global Studies Librarian.  There I work directly with the Center for Global Studies to support research, scholarship, and programming for the many projects this Center has undertaken.

 

Research Interests:  Exploration of human-computer interaction through web page design in order to facilitate access to library resources is the area in which I have done most of my applied research.  At the more theoretical level, I have been researching the effects of government policies on the informational aspects and resources of non-governmental organizations.

 

Previous Academic Positions Held:

 

Assistant Education and Social Science Librarian, Reference Coordinator, Education and Social Science Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1998-December 2003.

Assistant Librarian for Instruction and Educational Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 1997-October 1998.

Reference/Instructional Services Librarian, Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, August 1991-August 1997.

 

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.S.L.S., 1991

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  Distinction in Political Science, B.A., 1976

 

Selected Publications:

 

2004   “Cyber-Security, Cyber-Attack, and the Development of Governmental Response” with

            Jessica E. Moyer, New Library World, Vol. 105, No 7/8 (July)

 

2002        "Tradition vs. Technique: The Changing Complexion of Journal Publication in Political

Science," Serials Librarian, Vol. 43 (No.2):49-62.

 

2002 - Rudasill, Lynne.  2002.  Journals of the Century in Sociology.  Chapter 3 in Journals of the Century edited by Tony Stankus.  New York: Haworth Information Press.

 

2001 - Rudasill, Lynne, Lori DuBois, and Susan E. Searing.   “Hype, High Hopes, and Damage Control Facilitating End-User Learning During a System Migration.”  In:  Library User Education:  Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships.  Edited by Barbara I. Dewey.  Metuchen, NJ:  Scarecrow Press, 2001.

 

1998    “The Distance between Us:  Information Literacy and the Developing World  in

The New Review of Information Networking. Vol. 4:93-104.

 

Selected Lectures and Conference Presentations:

 

2004 – “Servicios de entrega de articulos extraidos de bases de datos,” VIII Simposio Nacional de Bibliotecologia,  Convencion ABLA 2004, Instituto  Guatemalateco Americano, Guatemala City, Guatemala. (45 minute lecture in Spanish, 15 manuscript pages)

 

2004 – “Automatizacion de los procesos y servicios,” VIII Simposio Nacional de Bibliotecologia,  Convencion ABLA 2004, Instituto  Guatemalateco Americano, Guatemala City, Guatemala. (2 three-hour workshops on user-centered design)
 

2004 -  “NGO, Information Flow and Nation:  An Exploration in Relationships,”  Social Science Committee,  International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, August 26, 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina.  

 

2004 - “Navigating the Web for Materials and Data Impacting on Global Studies,”  Prisms of

Globalization Conference, Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 30

 

2004 -  “Website Design and Evaluation: A Hands-On Workshop,” with JoAnn Jacoby, for

Human Information Behaviour and Competencies for Digital Libraries, Libraries in the Digital Age, May 25-29, 2004, Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia

 

2003 -  "The Globalization of Threat:  Cyber-security in a Shared Environment," with Jessica E. Moyer at the Eleventh Bobcatsss Symposium: Information Policy and the European Union, Torun, Poland, February 3-5.

 

2002 -  "Learning to Teach to the Virtual World,” Continuing Professional Education for the Information Society: The Fifth World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for the Library and Information Professions, Aberdeen, Scotland, August 14-16.

 

2002  - "The Inexact Science of Informing Ourselves," with  James Jacobs at Informing Science + IT Education Conference, Cork, Ireland June 19-21.

 

2002 - "Collection Development in the Social Sciences,"  Making Difficult Decisions in Difficult Times, Collection Development Forum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

February 6.

 

1999 - “User studies, library response: providing improved instructional services,”  Annual

Conference of the International Association of Technical University Libraries (IATUL), Chania, Crete, May 17-21.

 

1998 - "Global Information Literacy: The United States and Developing Nations,"  Annual Conference of the International Association of Technical University Libraries (IATUL), Pretoria, South Africa, June 1-5.

 

Instructional Experience

 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

 

            LIS523 – Information Sources and Services in the Social Sciences, Graduate School of

Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2005.

            LIS413 - Social Science Resources and Service, Graduate School of Library and

Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2004

LIS390 – Information, Libraries, and Society at the Graduate School of Library and

Information Science, University of Illinois-Urbana, Fall 1999.

           

Membership in and Service to Professional Organizations

 

American Library Association 1991-1996; 1997 - to date

            Association of College and Research Libraries

                        Law and Political Science Section –

Chair – 2004-2005

Vice Chair/Chair Elect – 2003-2004

            Reference and User Services Association – 1997-2003

                                   

American Political Science Association - 2001 - to date

           

University Service

 

Campus:

Faculty Senate –  2000 to date

            Military Education Council – 2003 to date

            Student Discipline Committee - 2000 - 2004

            Academic Freedom Committee – 2000/01;2004/05

European Union Studies Center Board – 2003 to date

 

University Library:

Stacks Reconfiguration Task Force – 2004 to date

Library Executive Committee – 2003 to date

            Secretary – 2004 to date

Advisory Committee to the Associate University Library for Services – 2003 to date

Collection Development Committee Intern - 1999-2000

Collection Development Committee - Division Representative - 2000-2001

User Education Committee – 1997 - 2002

Mortenson Center Committee Member - 1999 - 2001

Gateway Committee - 1999-2001

Illini Guides Orientation - 1999, 2001, 2002

Gateway Redesign Task Force - 2000 - 2002

 

Honors and Awards

 

Alpha Psi Omega, National Theater Honor Society - Honorary Member 1997

Nominated for Helen Cleaver Distinguished Teaching Award, Eureka College, 1992,

1997

Pi Sigma Alpha - National Political Science Honor Society - 1975