Curriculum vitae:Dr. Johan KorenPage 1

Curriculum vitaeJuly 2008

Johan Holta Koren, PhD.
1301 Farris Ave
Murray KY 42071
E-mail:

Graduate Education

  1. School of Information & Library Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Degrees:1. Master of Arts in Library Science, December 1986
2. Doctor of Philosophy in Information & Library Studies, May 1992

Dissertation:“A Comparison of the Views of Selected Library and Information Studies Educators in the United States and Scandinavia Concerning the Image of the Information Professional.”

  1. Association Free Lutheran Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, MN

Degree:Master of Divinity, May 1983

Thesis: “A Teacher and Two Students: Some Aspects of Norwegian-American Lutheranism.”

Library & Information Services Experience

  1. Division DirectorNordland Regional Library, Rana division, January-May 1997
    Associate DirectorSouthern Nordland Regional Library, 1994-1996

Responsibilities:Administration
Evaluation of applications for R&D funding from municipal public libraries
Evaluation of applications for support for municipal library building projects
Coordination and teaching of professional development workshops

  1. Reference Librarian Purdy/Kresge Library, Wayne State University, 1992-1993
  2. TechnologyResources Mgr: School of Information and Library Studies, U. of Mich., 1989-1990

Responsibilities:Supervision of computer laboratory
Lab supervisor for online searching classes (July 1987-June 1990)
Teaching online searching components of reference classes (social sciences and humanities) (July 1987-June 1990)
Consultant to faculty and staff on use and maintenance of computers

  1. ResearchAssistant: Office of Research Services, School of Education, U. of MI, 1986-1988

Responsibilities:Researching grant information & maintaining a research resources collection.

  1. Student Library Aide: Bethel Theological Seminary & Luther-Northwestern Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN, 1979-81
  2. Elementary School Librarian: Prinsdal School, Oslo, Norway, 1975-76

Library Education Experience

  1. Associate Professor, Library Media Program2006-
    Assistant Professor2003-2006
    College of Education, Murray State University, Murray, KY
    Website:

Location:Murray, KY

Responsibilities:Development and administration of graduate program in school library media
Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in educationand library media

  1. Libra Professor of Library and Information Services2002-2003
    University of Maine at Augusta
    Website:

Location:Augusta, Maine and online

Responsibilities:Assessmentand curriculum reviewfor the Library Info.Serv. Program
Advising and recruitment of undergraduate students (AS and BS degrees)
Publication and presentation at conferences

  1. Assistant Professor, GSLIS, Dominican University1999-2002

Locations:On campus in River Forest, Illinois, at the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN, and Lake County Multi-University Center, Vernon Hills, Illinois

Courses:Reference and Online Services, Searching Electronic Databases, Reference Sources in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Delivery Methods:Classroom, VTEL and online with Blackboard

  1. Section Leader, Section for Collection Mgt, Division of Social Sciences
    NesnaUniversity College, N-8700 Nesna, Norway1997-1999

Location:Mo i Rana, Norway

Course:Administration of one-year undergraduate course in collection management for libraries, archives and museums; teaching of library component

  1. Curriculum& Course DevelopmentforNesnaUniversity College1994-1997

Course:Development of one-year undergraduate course in collection management for libraries, archives and museums to start fall 1997

  1. ContinuingEducation Coordinator,Nordland Regional Library & Nordland Region 1994-1997
    (in cooperation with NesnaUniversityCollege)

Course:Leadership for heads of municipal public libraries

  1. Adjunct Faculty, School of Lib. and Info. Mgt, Emporia State Univ., Emporia, KS.1992-1993

Courses: Online searching in Denver, CO
Social sciences information sources in Emporia

  1. Lecturer, Library and Info. Science Program., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI1990-1993

(On campus & distance education in Grand Rapids & Saginaw, MI),

Courses:General Reference
Bibliography (Information Sources and Reference) courses in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Honors and Awards

  1. Elected to membership in Alpha Upsilon Alpha, the Honor Society of the International Reading Association.
  2. Invitation to lecture at the Library and Information Sciences Department of the Faculty of Philosophy at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. 26th-29th, 2004.
  3. Editor, World Libraries, publisher: Dominican University, April 2001-May 2005
  4. University of Michigan Beta Phi MuAward, March 1991

Presentations

  1. (2008, June). Alphabet Soup? School Libraries in Europe and the European Union. Panel presentation at theAmerican Library Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, 27 June, 2008.
  2. (2007, September). Making something out of nothing: A way to pursue excellence in online teacher education. Presentation at the Kentucky Association for Teacher Education Annual Conference, Georgetown, KY, 28 September, 2007.
  3. (2007, September). Building balanced advocates: The philosophy of an online program. Poster presentation at the Exploratorium during the Kentucky Library Association/Kentucky School Media Association Fall Conference, Lousville, KY, 21 September, 2007.
  4. (2007, September). Calibrate your balance! Developing an advocacy tool. Poster presentation at the Kentucky Library Association/Kentucky School Media Association Fall Conference, Lousville, KY, 20 September, 2007.
  5. (2007, July). Building a balanced collection for leading readers. Presentation at the Kentucky School Media Association Summer Refresher, Readers are Leaders, Bardstown, KY, 10 July, 2007.
  6. (2006). Blogs: Changing the New Century? Presentation at the Kentucky School Media AssociationAnnual Conference, Louisville, KY, 29 September, 2006
  7. (2006). Blogs: shapers of tomorrow? Presentation at the Kentucky Middle School AssociationFall Conference: Middle Level Education: Shaping Tomorrow, 25 September, 2006, Marriott Griffin Gate, Lexington
  8. (2006). Bridge builders on the reading river: Are you a wanna be LMS? Presentation at the Kentucky School Media Association Summer Refresher, Reading on the River, Henderson, KY, 11 July, 2006.
  9. (2005). Globalizing: are we globalizing, glocalizing or grobalizing? Presentation for International Education Week 2005, Murray State University, 17 November, 2005.
  10. Wall, R., Nix, B. C., DeBella, J., & Koren, J. (2005, October). Comparison and use of a variety of online learning strategies/courseware. Paper presented at the E-Learn World 2005 Conference on E-Learning, Vancouver, BC.(P)
  11. (2005). The ABCs of plagiarism: A primer for middle school educators. Presentation at the Kentucky Middle School Association Annual Conference, Erlanger, KY, 26 September, 2005.(P)
  12. (2005). The past, the present, and the future of plagiarism. Presentation at the Kentucky School Media AssociationAnnual Conference, Louisville, KY, 17 September, 2005.(P)
  13. (2005). The patchwork of knowledge: The media specialist’s crazy quilt. Presentationat the Kentucky School Media Association Summer Refresher, Paducah Tilghman High School, Paducah, KY, 12 July, 2005.(P)
  14. (2005). The library media program at Murray State University. Presentation to the 2nd District Kentucky School Media Association Spring Meeting, Owensboro, KY, 3 May, 2005.(P)
  15. (2004). Worldwide collaboration among libraries and librarians: are we globalizing, glocalizing or even grobalizing librarianship? Presentation at the Third Bi-annual Conference of Libraries, Globalization and Cooperation, Sofia, Bulgaria, 3 – 5 November, 2004.(P)
  16. (2004). This we also believe: Teaming with the media specialist yields lifelong achievement results.”Presentationat the Kentucky School Media Association Annual Conference, Louisville, KY, September 15-18, 2004 andKentucky Middle School Association Annual Conference, September 19- 21, 2004, Owensboro, KY.(P)
  17. (2003). Educating Christian librarians for the glocal portal. Paper presented at “Taming New Frontiers,” 47th Annual Conference of the Association of Christian Librarians, Asbury College, June 9-12, 2003.(P)
  18. (2002). Masters and mistresses or bachelors and spinsters? The role of the degree in education for the glocal portal. Paper presented at Globenet SOFIA 2002 “Libraries, Civil Society and Social Development.” Sofia, Bulgaria, 14-16 November 2002. (P)
  19. (2001). Reference relevance after 9-11? Invited presentation in Norwegian to Continuing Education Seminar for Digital Reference Librarians at the Royal College of Librarianship, Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 4th, 2001.
  20. (2001). Developing Trends and strategies in library and information science education in the United States and Norway. Invited presentation in Norwegian to the faculty at the Dept. of Library and Information Science Education, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway, November 26th, 2001.
  21. (2001). The Christian reference librarian: Porter, pathfinder or pedagogue—or pastor?
    Workshop presentation at Association of Christian librarians’ Annual Conference June 13th, 2001, Bourbonnais, IL.(P)
  22. (2001). The reference professional in the glocal portal: Porter, pathfinder or pedagogue? Paper presented at 11th Nordic Conference on Information and Documentation, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 30-June 3, 2001 (

(P) = Peer reviewed.

Publications

  1. (2006, November/December). An analysis tool for global thinking. Knowledge Quest, 35, 2: 26-30.
  2. (2006, April). Plunging into the SPA: educating school librarians in the USA. IFLA Newsletter for Section 11: School Libraries and Resource Centres, issue 42, 17-18.
  3. (2006, Spring). The ABCs of plagiarism: A primer for middle school educators.Kentucky Middle School Journal, 7 (1). (P)
  4. (2005). Comparison and use of a variety of online learning strategies/courseware. Joint paper with Brenda Nix, Joe DeBella and Russ Wall at E-Learn World Conference to be published in proceedings of E-Learning, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 24-28, 2005. (P)
  5. (2004). Masters and mistresses or bachelors and spinsters? the role of the degree in education for the glocal portal. In Libraries, Civil Society and Social Development: Papers from the International Conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 14-16 November 2002. Herbert K. Achleitner and Alexander Dimchev, editors (pp. 220-229). Sofia: “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of Sofia, 2004.(P)
  6. (2002). Editorial: Library Services and Indigenous Identity. World Libraries 12 (2002):
  7. (2001). September 11th, 2001 and libraries: forging a professional persona. World Libraries 11 (2001), 57-66.(P)
  8. (1999). Knowledge mobilization in rural regions: a proposed study of the public library as knowledge catalyst. World Libraries v. 9, no. 2 (Fall 1999): 37-50. (P)
  9. (2001). Thereference professional in the glocal portal: porter, pathfinder or pedagogue? Proceedings of 11th Nordic Conference on Information and Documentation, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 30-June 3, 2001. (
  10. (2000). The glocal portal: the public library as a partner in rural knowledge cooperatives. In: Rural Communities and Identities in the Global Millennium: An International, National, and Provincial Conference on Issues Affecting Rural Communities. Proceedings of Conference at Malaspina University College, Nanaimo, B.C., Canada May 1-5, 2000. (Also available through ERIC as ED455054).(P)
  11. “På jakt etter mening eller brobygging? Valgets kvaler i dokumentasjonsvitenskapsforskningen” [Seeking meaning or building bridges? dilemmas for research in documentation science] Norsk tidsskrift for bibliotekforskning, no. 13 (1998). English abstract at:
  12. “Nasjonalbibliotekordninger i Norden og forholdet til folkebibliotekene.” [National Library organisation in the nordic countries and relations with public libraries] Norsk tidsskrift for bibliotekforskning v. 2., no. 3 (1995-96): 55-69, 123-124. English abstract at:
  13. “Nordic national libraries and public libraries: partners or parasites?” Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly, v. 28, no. 2 (1995): 12-14.
  14. (1995). “Bibliotekaren og profesjonaliseringssyklusen: en sammenligning av bibliotekpedagogers syn på image og status i USA og Norden.” [The librarian and the professionalisation cycle: a comparison of the views of library educators in Scandinavia and the United States.] Norsk tidsskrift for bibliotekforskning[Norwegian Journal for Library Research] v. 2, no. 1 (1995): 54-70. English abstract at:
  15. (1991). Towards an Appropriate Image for the Information Professional: An International Comparison. Libri. 41 (1991): 170-182. (P)

(P) = Peer reviewed.

Service

a.Service to Murray State UniversityDepartment of Early Childhood and Elementary Education
Development and coordination of the Library Media Program, 2003-
Participation in faculty meetings
Participation in planning of curricula, especially for graduate programs

b.Service to the College of Education
Participation in Program Coordinators’ meetings
Chair,Curriculum Materials Center Committee 2003-
Member, Multicultural Committee2004-2006
Member, Academic Policy Review Committee, 2006-
Member, adhoc Committee for Folklore Festival, 2005-2006

c.Service to the University
Faculty senate representative from ECE, Fall 2004-
Chair, Faculty Senate Academic Policy Committee (Co-Chair 2004-2005, Chair 2005-2006)
Member, Faculty Senate Rules, Elections, and Bylaws Committee 2004-2005
Proxy, Graduate Committee, Academic Council, Spring 2005
Fac. Senate Repr., Library Acad. Support Systems Committee, Academic Council, 2006-2007

d.Service to the profession
Member of American Library Association 1986-
Appointed by ALA President-Elect James Rettig to International Relations Cttee 2008- 2010
Member, ALA International Relations Roundtable (IRRT) 2003-
IRRT Member-at-Large on Executive Board,June 2007- 2009
Chair,ALA IRRT International Exchanges Committee, January 2004-June 2007
Member, ALA International Relations Committee Europe Subcommittee, 2004-2008
Member, ALA division Young Adult Library Service Association, 2004-
Member, ALA division Association for Library Service to Children, 2006-
Member of ALA division, American Association of School Librarians (AASL), 2003-
Chair, AASL International Relations Committee, January 2005-June 2006
Member, AASL Educators of Library Media Specialists Section (ELMSS) 2003-
Member, American Indian Library Association, 2000-
Chair,AILA Publications and Communications Committee, June 2004-June 2005
Member, AILA Publications and Communications Committee 2005-2006
Member, Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1988-
Chair, ALISE International Relations Committee, 2002-2003
Member, Kentucky Library Association and Kentucky School Media Association, 2004-
Member, KentuckyFirst District Librarians’ Association, 2004-

Member, Editorial Board, Kentucky Libraries (journal of Kentucky Library Association)
Member, Kentucky Middle School Association, 2004-

e.Service to the community
Member, Kiwanis Club of Murray, Kentucky, March 2007-.

References

  1. Murray State University:
    Dr. Yancey Watkins, Email:
    College of Education
    Murray State University
    3201 Alexander Hall
    Murray KY 42071
    Telephone:270-762-2854
    Fax:270-762-3799
  2. University of Maine-Augusta:
    Dr. Tom AbbottEmail:
    Dean of Libraries and Instructional Support
    Bennett D. Katz Library
    46 University Drive
    Augusta, ME 04330
    Telephone:207-621-3342
    Fax:207-621-3311
  3. Dominican University:
    Dr. Bill Crowley, ProfessorEmail:
    Graduate School of Library and Information Science
    Telephone: 708-524-6513
    Fax: 708-524-6657
  4. Nesna University College:
    Arna Meisfjord, College LecturerEmail:
    Høgskolen i Nesna
    8700 Nesna
    Norway
    Telephone:011-47-75 05 78 00
    Fax:011-47-75 05 79 00
  5. Nordland Regional Library:
    Lars Hansen Juvik, DirectorEmail:
    Nordland fylkesbibliotek
    8607 Mo i Rana
    Telephone:011-47-75 14 61 52
    Fax:011-47-75 14 61 01
  6. Wayne State University:
    Dr. Ronald R. Powell, ProfessorEmail:
    Library & Information Science Program
    Wayne State University, 106 Kresge Library, Detroit MI 48202
    Telephone: 313-577-6199
    Fax: 313-577-7563