Gabriel M. Peterson, PhD

Assistant Professor

School of Library and Information Sciences

North Carolina Central University

Durham, NC, 27713











2010-12-03
Gabriel Peterson
Assistant Professor, NCCU-SLIS
gpeterson@nccu.edu
http://www.nccuslis.org/people/peterson.html
919-530-6746


Curriculum Vita

Current Contract


Greetings,
It is with pride that I submit this portfolio of my accomplishments for review by the School of Library and Information Sciences and North Carolina Central University.  This packet contains information about recent research and publication, ongoing and pending research activities, information about my classroom responsibilities and my efforts to innovate and blend the face-to-face and distance education experiences.  Herein you will also find information about my ongoing efforts to engage with my professional colleagues at the departmental, national and international levels.

Since my last portfolio submission of October 2008, I have published research in the prestigious Journal of the Medical Library Association, (J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 Apr;98(2):135-9), and have presented research at the January, 2010, national conference of the Association for Library and Information Science in Education (ALISE), in Boston and at the October, 2010 conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), in Pittsburgh, PA.  In November, 2010, I submitted research for presentation at the May 2011 ALISE conference in Minneapolis, MN and am confident that those findings will be published soon.


 In addition to presenting research, I have also served as a grant and article reviewer for three different professional organizations, increasing both my exposure to current research literature and to other researchers in my area of expertise.  In addition to professional service, I have greatly increased my service to the University. Over the last two years I have served on numerous committees, both at the departmental and University levels, and have served as an alternate representative for SLIS to the faculty senate and (temporarily) as faculty senate parliamentarian.  Additionally, I am the manager of the electronic document repository established as a part of our successful ALA accreditation in late 2009, (http:///www.nccuslis.org/wiki) and I gladly assist SLIS colleagues with the development of web materials for projects such as the 2010 Serials Conference.


Teaching remains my primary focus, and I strive to make my classes engaging and meaningful. In my ongoing efforts to integrate face to face and distance teaching modes, I have pioneered the use of video and podcasting technologies in the classroom at SLIS. I have been invited by the University Center for Teaching and Learning to give a presentation on the topic, the recording of which can be found here: http://www.nccu.edu/facultyandstaff/cutl/gpicp.cfm

Students in my courses receive practical training, develop useful skills and make contacts with potential local employers.  I have made contacts for NCCU-SLIS in the RTP community and have taken our MIS students to tour the headquarters of Fortune 500 companies Cisco and RedHat.  In 2009, an invited speaker from RedHat came and spoke to LSIS 5115 (Intellectual Property) and other SLIS students.  Network Security has an active “lab” component that requires the use of professional tools in a real-world environment. LSIS 5451 (Database 1) students have the opportunity to install and populate a databases integrated with a webpage, creating a working, interactive website.

I am proud of the work we have accomplished in the preceding years and look forward to even better prospects for the future, as exemplified by the joint SLIS-Duke grant submission of earlier this year. PROPOSAL: (19_NCCU-DUKE-DHRP.pdf) ATTACHED

 I look forward to the upcoming semesters as SLIS’s role as a leader in distance learning at NCCU continues to grow, and as we maintain and enhance our role as an important member of the Research Triangle, the UNC system and the Library and Information Science communities.

Thank you for the continued opportunity to be a member of this community and for your ongoing support.



Gabriel Peterson, PhD.

Publication & presentation of research 2009-2010


Publications

“The effectiveness of the practice of correction and republication in the biomedical literature” J Med Libr Assoc. 2010 April; 98(2): 135–139. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.98.2.005. (06_mlab-98-02-135.pdf - ATTACHED)


Presentations:

“Introducing National Library of Medicine E-Health Tools to Communities.”

By Swain, Deborah; Peterson, Gabriel; Brinson, Derek; Fisher, Jamaal 
North Carolina Central University/School of Library and Information Sciences.

Presented at the 2009 iConference.

February 8-11, 2009 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

POSTER: (07_Iconf_E-health_Posterrev1.pdf - ATTACHED)

ABSTRACT: (07.1iConfposterAbstract – ATTACHED)

“A Collaborative Approach to Fighting Health Disparities Through E-Health Training”

By Swain, Deborah; Peterson, Gabriel; North Carolina Central University/School of Library and Information Sciences.

January 12-15, 2010 Boston, MA

(08_eHealthAbstractALISE – ATTACHED)

STATUS: Revising for resubmission for publication

Anomalous literature and open-access publishing, a comparative analysis.

By Gabriel Peterson, PhD

Presented at the annual conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, October 30th, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.

ABSTRACT: (09_OpenAccessAnomalyAbstractJul2010.doc – ATTACHED)

POSTER: (10_AnomalousOpenAccessLiterature.201010221000.1)

STATUS: Finalizing data collection for publication

Submitted Research


“How Similar is Similar? An evaluation of “related articles” applications among health literature portals.”

By Gabriel Peterson, PhD. (North Carolina Central University, School of Library and Information Sciences), and Rebecca S. Graves, MLS (University of Missouri, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library)

(11_How Similar is Similar_ An evaluation.pdf – ATTACHED)

Submitted for consideration for the annual conference of the Medical Library Association, May 13–18, 2011, Minneapolis, MN

Publication & presentation of research pre-2009

By Gabriel Peterson, PhD. (North Carolina Central University, School of Library and Information Sciences), and Rebecca S. Graves, MLS (University of Missouri, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library)

POSTER & AWARD: (17_How Similar is Similar_ An evaluation.pdf) – ATTACHED


TEXT: (12_ASISTBookChapter12.doc) – ATTACHED



POSTER: (13_C&RPoster.pdf) - ATTACHED

ABSTRACT: (14_C&RAbstract.pdf) – ATTACHED


ARTICLE: (15_PetersonetalALA.pdf) – ATTACHED

ABSTRACT: (16_ehealthAbstract.pdf) – ATTACHED



Grants & awards 2009-2010

2010 was an active year for grant writing. I received one grant, participated in the application for another, and as a part of my service to national organizations, reviewed several. This experience has better prepared me for the next part of my career development, the writing for grant to support my research and employ MIS students as Research Assistants.


PROPOSAL: (19_NCCU-DUKE-DHRP.pdf) ATTACHED



ABSTRACT & AWARD LETTER: (18_OIAGrant2010.pdf) ATTACHED

Sadly, while in the process of making the appropriate purchases for the project, the University collapsed the budget and withdrew the funding. The grant will be re-submitted at the next opportunity.

Teaching and advising: 2009-2010

COURSE SYLLABI: (20_Syllabi2010FallGPeterson.doc)

My role as instructor is the most important part of my work for NCCU-SLIS and I pride myself on my efforts to make the curriculum useful, engaging and innovative. I consider my task as instructor to be a facilitator rather than an obstacle the students must overcome. Specifically, my tasks as instructor are to provide useful skills & information and to help students develop the excellent communication skills required in the workplace. MIS core courses are thus heavily focused on practical application of theory and electives place a heavy emphasis on critical thinking and writing.

I have focused on three areas to promote excellence in the classroom: Pedagogy, Practicality, and Praxis. One major challenge is to integrate and exploit the opportunities presented by the presence of distance learning technologies in the face-to-face teaching environment and to simulate the social aspects of the classroom experience in the online learning environment.

In the area of pedagogy, I typically review multiple offerings from publishers each semester in an effort to find a text that contains both the printed content required and excellent supplemental electronic documents. If such a combination cannot be found, I will supplement the selected text with readings on reserve in the NCCU library databases. My students are shown how to access the literature databases (such as Books24X7 and Web of Science) and are made to use them as a part of the coursework. Courses offered in both modes are podcasted and online tools are used to distribute all course materials and documents.

Students in my courses receive practical training, develop useful skills and make contacts with potential local employers.  I have made contacts for NCCU-SLIS in the RTP community and have taken our MIS students to tour the headquarters of Fortune 500 companies Cisco and RedHat.  In 2009, a senior intellectual property attorney from RedHat came and spoke to LSIS 5115 (Intellectual Property) and other SLIS students.(Please see 22_Visit to Red Hat.pdf and 23_IP Class at NCCU.pdf (ATTACHED) for more information.) As another example, Network Security has an active “lab” component that requires the use of professional tools in a real-world environment. (Please see the 5442 syllabus for more information) Teaching remains my primary focus, and I strive to make my classes engaging and meaningful.

The use of technology in the classroom is an exciting aspect to modern instruction. In the last two years, I have made concerted efforts to more closely align the distance and traditional classroom experiences, and have pioneered the use of video and podcasting technologies in the classroom at SLIS. I have demonstrated these technologies one-on-one and as a training session for the University Center for Teaching and Learning. To hear the mp3 recording of the presentation, click here: http://www.nccu.edu/facultyandstaff/cutl/gpicp.cfm

(See 25_PodcastingFlyer.pdf for more information.) In the upcoming semester, I intend to integrate the elluminate classroom technology into my LSIS 5110 (Information Policy) Course.

Service: 2009-2010

2009-2010 was a period of considerable service, at the departmental, University and professional levels. In 2009, I was part of the team that shepherded SLIS through the ALA accreditation process. Particularly, I was the member responsible for maintain the electronic archive for SLIS, available via www.nccuslis.org/wiki. The wiki is part of the www.nccuslis.org departmental website, of which it is my privilege to be the administrator. I also have shared my use of classroom technologies at the University level, and was invited to speak about podcasting in the classroom for the Center for University Teaching and Learning in March of 2010. (Please see 25_PodcastingFlyer.pdf and 26_PodcastingIntro2Mar2010.ppt ATTACHED)


Additionally, I serve on a number of committees, including the SLIS MIS committee, the SLIS Curriculum Committee, and as a Faculty member of the SLIS Student Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). At the University level, I have served as an alternate representative for SLIS to the faculty senate and (temporarily) as faculty senate parliamentarian. In 2009-2010, I was the SLIS faculty representative for the University Academic Technology Assessment Committee (ATAC). (31_WELCOME_ATAC.pdf ATTACHED) In 2010 I was appointed to the SLIS search committee headed by Dr. Pauletta Bracy. (27_SearchComm.pdf ATTACHED)


At the national level, I became an active participant in the review process for articles and grants for three of the major professional organizations (ASIS&T, ALISE, MLA) relevant to my area of study. (Please see 28_JMLAReview.pdf, 29_ASISTReview.pdf and 30_ALISEResearchGrantCompetition.pdf ATTACHED)


Locally, I have made contacts in the Research Triangle community, particularly with RedHat and Cisco, both of which are Fortune 500 companies based in RTP. The School of Library and information Sciences enjoys strong connections to the technical community in Research Triangle Park (RTP).  Currently MIS students and graduates are employed by local companies such as Cisco. (Jainor Palma, Dec. 2010) Over the last year, MIS students have had the opportunity to visit the campus of Red Hat, a leader in Open Source software and a strong advocate for openness in education.  During the Spring 2010 semester, Intellectual Property attorney Pamela Chestak from the Red Hat corporation visited NCCU and spoke at length with students in the MIS program. (23_IP Class at NCCU.pdf) We hope to have Attorney Chestak speak again, either as part of a course or as an invited speaker for a student chapter meeting of a national organization such as the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) or the Special Libraries Association (SLA). During the visit to the Red Hat campus, MIS made the acquaintance of Greg DeKoenigsberg, a project coordinator and specialist in open education.  Mr. DeKoenigsberg has expressed interest in stronger ties with NCCU. (22_Visit to Red Hat.pdf) SLIS MIS students have also taken the opportunity to visit the Cisco campus in RTP and to meet with scientists and engineers who are involved in the development of Internet infrastructure. In 2009, and again on December 3, 2010 Mr. Rene Daughtry was Cisco's gracious representative and our host.  We hope to have another tour for SLIS graduate students in the upcoming year, continuing our annual practice.


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