Academic Qualifications
Diploma of Teaching. Riverina College of
Advanced Education 1978
Bachelor of Arts. Macquarie University
1982
Graduate Diploma in
Information (Teacher/ Librarianship). Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education 1988
Master of Librarianship (by research).
University of N.S.W. 1993
Doctor of Philosophy PhD. University of N.S.W.
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Academic Appointments
The Information School, University of
Washington
(Formerly the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science)
Dean, January, 2006–present
Professor,
September 2005–present
Associate
Professor, 1999–September 2005
Associate
Dean for Research, 2001–December 2005
Program
Chair, Ph.D. in Information Science, 2001–July 2004
Associate
Director for Research and Program Development, 1999–2001
Department of Information Studies, Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
Acting Head of Department, Department of
Information Studies, 1998
Director, Master of Arts in Information;
Graduate Certificate in User Documentation 1995–1998
Senior Lecturer 1995–1998
Lecturer 1991–1995
Part-time Lecturer 1989–1991
Research
Awards
§
UMI
ASIS Doctoral Dissertation Award
Funded
Projects
National Science Foundation – Intelligent
Information Systems – Collaborative Systems ($605,000) 2006-2009: “Structuring Personal Information Collections”
Microsoft ($75,000) 2005-2006: “The Encarta Project”
National Science Foundation - Information and
Data Management ($428,389) 2001, 2002, 2003: "Keeping Found Things Found"
Supplementary
award ($70,000), 2004-2005
National Science Foundation – Information and
Data Management ($34,361) 2004, 2005: “Sponsored
workshop on personal information management”
National Science Foundation - Information and
Data Management ($246,208) 2003: “Information
Retrieval and Databases: Synergies and Syntheses” – PI workshop, Seattle,
September 2003.
Institute for Museum and Library Services
($212,023) 2003, 2004, 2005: "Project Athena: Spinning the Web of our
Future"
Institute for Museum and Library Services ($74,
801) 2005, 2006: “Extending the Web”
National Science Foundation - Computation and
Social Systems ($444,947) 1999, 2000, 2001:
"Collaborative Information Retrieval"
Washington State Library ($7,995) 2000: "Information Literacy Project"
Washington State Library ($19,568) 1999: "Statewide Database Licensing User
Study"
State Library of N.S.W. ($5,000) 1997, 1998: "Community access to the Internet via
the local public library"
University of Canberra Internal Research Grant
($7,000) 1996: "Internet and academic work - a quantitative study"
DEET Evaluation and Investigations Program
($21,905) 1994, 1995: "AARNet and academic work: A longitudinal
study"
Committee of Australian Directors of
Information Technology (CAUDIT) ($6,300) 1993: "AARNet and academic work -
an exploratory study"
University of Technology, Sydney Internal
Research Grant ($1,235) 1992: "Information
professionals' assumptions about the user: Developing and measuring behavioural
indicators"
PhD Thesis
"A
user oriented view of Internet as information infrastructure"
Master of Librarianship,
M.Lib (by research) Thesis
"A
cognitive view of the situational dynamism of user centered relevance
estimation"
Publications
Books
Bruce, H. The user's view of
the Internet. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2002.
Bruce, H., Fidel, R., Ingwersen, P., & Vakkari,
P. (Eds.).
Emerging frameworks and methods: Proceedings of the fourth international
conference on conceptions of library and information science (CoLIS4).
Greenwood Village: Libraries Unlimited, 2002.
Applebee,
A., Bruce, H., Clayton, P. Pascoe, C., and Sharpe, E. Academics Online: A
nationwide quantitative study of Australian academic use of the Internet.
Melbourne: Auslib Press, 1998.
Bruce,
H. Internet, AARNet and academic work: A longitudinal study. Canberra:
Australian Government Printing Service, 1996.
Book
Chapters
Bruce, H. The PAIN Hypothesis.
In Fisher, K E., Erdelez, S., & McKechnie, E. F. (Eds.).
Theories of information behavior: A researcher's guide. Medford, NJ:
Information Today, 2005.
Pettigrew, K., Fidel, R. and Bruce, H.
"Conceptual frameworks in information behavior." The
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 35, 2001, 43-78.
Refereed
Journal Articles
Bruce,
H. “Personal Anticipated Information Need.” Information Research, Vol. 10 No. 3, April 2005.
Fidel,
R., Pejtersen, A.M., Cleal, B., and Bruce, H. "A multi-dimensional
approach to the study of human-information interaction: a case study of
collaborative information retrieval." Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology 55(11), 2004, 939-953.
Bruce,
H., Jones, W. and Dumais, S. “Information behavior that keeps found things
found” Information Research, Vol. 10 No. 1, October 2004.
Bruce, H., Fidel, R., Pejtersen, A.M., Dumais,
S., Grudin, J. et al. "A comparison of the collaborative information
retrieval of two design teams." The New Review of
Information Behavior Research. 4, 2003, 139-153.
Bruce, H. and Lampson, M. "Information
professionals as agents for information literacy." Education
for Information. 20(2), 2002, 81-106.
Pettigrew, K., Fidel, R. and Bruce, H.
"Conceptual frameworks in information behavior." The
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 35, 2001, 43-78.
Applebee,
A., Bruce, H., Clayton, P. and Pascoe, C. "Australian academic use of the
Internet: Implications for university administrators." Internet Research:
Electronic Networking Applications and Policy. 10(2), 2000, 141-149.
Reprinted:
"Australian academic use of the Internet: Implications for university
administrators." Library Computing: Internet & Software Applications
for Information Professionals. 19(3/4), 2000, 198-206.
Bruce, H. and Clayton, P. "An Internet
role for the academic librarian." Australian Academic and Research
Libraries, 30(3), 1999, 171-187.
Bruce,
H. "A new perspective on information education from Australia." Education for Information. 17(3), 1999, 187-198.
Bruce,
H. "Perceptions of the Internet: What people think when they search the
Internet for information." Internet Research: Electronic Networking and
Applications. 9(3), 1999, 187-199.
Bruce,
H. "The PhD process - torture, tension and triumph." Education for
Library and Information Science: Australia. 15(2), 1998, 57-60.
Edwards, S., Bruce, H. and Coombs, M. "Internet
use via the local public library." Internet Research: Electronic
Networking Applications and Policy. 8(5), 1998, 468-471.
Bruce,
H. "User satisfaction with information seeking on the Internet." Journal of the American Society for Information Science.
49(6), 1998, 541-556.
Bruce, H. and Todd, R. "Indicators of
assumptions and orientations that underpin the reference process." Australian
Academic and Research Libraries. 26(4), 1995, 217-228.
Bruce,
H. "A methodology for researching AARNet use." Australian
Academic and Research Libraries. 26(2), 1995, 76-85.
Bruce,
H. "Internet and developing countries." Development
Bulletin. 35, October, 1995, 11-13.
Bruce,
H. "Internet and academic teaching in Australia." Education
for Information. 13(3), 1995, 171-191.
Bruce,
H. "Internet: an information infrastructure." Library Automated
Systems Information Exchange. 24(4&5), 1994, 77-83.
Bruce,
H. "Internet services and academic work: an Australian perspective."
Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy. 4(2), 1994,
24-34.
Bruce,
H. "Media center automation: a watershed for the school library media
specialist." School Library Media Quarterly.
22(4), 1994, 206-212.
Bruce,
H. "A cognitive view of the situational dynamism of user-centred relevance
estimation." Journal of the American Society for
Information Science. 45(3), 1994, 142-148.
Bruce, H. and Paull, N. "Networking drives
your dollar further." Scan. 8(6&7), 1989, 24-25.
Refereed
Conference Papers
Jones,
E., Bruce, H., et al. (2008). I Give Up! Five Factors that
Contribute to the Abandonment of Information Management Strategies. 68th Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2008). Columbus,
OH.
Civan,
A., Jones, W., Klasnja, P., Bruce, H. (2008). Better
to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags?:
The Devil Is in the Details. 68th Annual Meeting of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2008), Columbus,
OH.[1]
Jones, W., Bruce, H., Foxley, A., and Munat, C.
“Planning Personal Projects and Organizing Personal Information.” Annual meeting of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Austin,
Texas, November 2006.
Jones, W., Bruce, H., and Foxley, A. Project contexts to situate
personal information. Paper presented at SIGIR 2006; August, 2006, Seattle,
WA
Bruce,
H., Richardson, D.J., and Eisenberg, M. “The I-Conference: Gathering
of the Clans of Information.” Bulletin of the American
Society of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 32 (No. 4), April-May, 2006
pp.9-23.
Jones, W., Bruce, H., Foxley, A., and Munat, C. The universal labeler:
Plan your project and let the information flow. “Sparking
Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together” ASIST Annual Meeting, October.
28-November 2, 2005, Charlotte, North Carolina
Jones, W., Bruce, H., Gill, R., and Phuwanartnurak, J.
“Don’t take my folders away! Organizing personal information to get things
done” Annual CHI
conference, Portland,
OR. April, 2005.
Bruce, H., Jones, W., and Dumais, S.
"Keeping and Re-finding information on the Web: What do people do and what
do they need?" ASIST 2004: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Managing and
enhancing information: Cultures and conflicts. Providence, RI, November 13-18,
2004.
Bruce, H. and Delap, A. Building an
Interdisciplinary Research Community and Culture in an Information School. The Society for Research Administrators International. Salt Lake
City, Utah, October 23-27, 2004. pp.89-99
Bruce, H., Jones, W., and Dumais, S.
"Information behavior that keeps found things found." ISIC 2004: the
5th Annual Information Seeking in Context Conference. Dublin, Ireland,
September 2004.
Jones, W., Dumais, S., and Bruce, H. "Once
found, what then?: A study of "keeping"
behaviors in the personal use of web information." ASIST 2002:
Proceedings of the 65th ASIST Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
November 20, 2002.
Jones, W.,
Bruce, H., and Dumais, S. "Keeping
found things found on the Web." Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management. Atlanta, Georgia, November 6,
2001.
Efthimiadis,
E., and Bruce, H. "A study of the impact of statewide database licensing
on information provision in the state of Washington." The Annual Conference of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology. Knowledge innovations: Celebrating our
heritage, designing our future. Chicago, November 11-16, 2000.
Fidel, R., Bruce, H., Pejtersen, A.,
Dumais, S., Grudin, J., and Poltrock, S. "Collaborative Information
Retrieval" In L. Hoglund (Ed)., The New Review of
Information Behaviour Research: Studies of Information Seeking in Context.
Papers from Information Seeking in Context 2000: The Third International
Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts.
Goteborg, Sweden, August 16-18, 2000. London & Los Angeles: Taylor Graham,
pp. 235-247.
Clayton, P.,
Applebee, A., Bruce, H., Pascoe, C., and Sharpe, E. "Australian Academic
Use of the Internet." In Pathways to Knowledge:
Conference Proceedings, ALIA 5th Biennial Conference, Adelaide. 1998.
Bruce, H. "A user oriented view
of Internet as information infrastructure." Information
Seeking in Context Conference. Tampere, Finland, August 1996 pp.
319-334.
Meloche, J. and Bruce, H.
"Inhouse CD-ROM publishing: local development and network accessibility."
Drinking from a fire hose: managing networked information;
Proceedings of the 7th Biennial Conference of the Victorian Association for
Library Automation. Melbourne, November, 1993, pp. 209-218.
Bruce, H. and
Meloche, J. "An Australian perspective on education for information and
document retrieval." NIT '93;
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New Information Technology.
Puerto Rico, November, 1993, pp. 33-39.
Bruce, H. and Todd, R. "Cultural
dimensions of the reference service: Is their unity in diversity?"
Infobridges: Linking Australia and Asia; Proceedings of the 1993 RAISS National
Conference. Darwin, July, 1993, pp. 85-95.
Bruce, H. and Mattick, B.
"Developing a hypertext package for self directed learning of information
technology. "A Future Promised; Proceedings of
the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Sydney,
December, 1992, pp. 220-228.
Bruce, H. "Developing
application of AARNet to acquisition of software for units in information
technology." A Future Promised: Proceedings of the Australian Society for
Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Sydney, December, 1992, pp.
260-266.
Research Reports
Bruce, H.,
Lampson, M. and Klein, R. Information Literacy Project Report. Final report to the State Library Information Literacy Committee.
Efthimiadis,
E.N., Bruce H., James L. and Merrigan, K. A study of the
impact of Statewide Database Licensing on Information Provision in the State of
Washington. Final Report to the Washington State
Library. February 2000.
Major Book Reviews
Arnold, S. Publishing on the Internet
(in) Australian Academic and Research Libraries 28(2), 1997, pp.173-4.
Kahin, B. and Keller, J. (eds), Public Access Agenda for the Internet (in) Prometheus
14(1), 1996, 116-118.
McClure, C.R. and Lopata, C.L. Assessing
the academic networked environment: strategies and options. (in)
Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy 6(4), 1996.
Workbooks Published for Teaching and
Learning
Bruce, H.
Internet and electronic information networking. UTS, 1997.
Bruce, H. Using the Internet for
Research. UTS, 1996 (a workbook prepared for the Institute for Interactive
Multimedia).
Bruce, H. An Introduction to the Internet. UTS, 1996, 1997 (a workbook
prepared for the Summer Institute - Department of Information Studies).
Bruce, H. Searching Dialog. UTS, 1994.
Bruce, H. and
Meloche, J. Selected and suggested readings in information retrieval. UTS, 1993.
Bruce, H. An
introduction to DOS, WordPerfect 4.2, Firstpublisher, dBASE III Plus and Lotus
123 with suggested and selected readings in information technology for
information professionals UTS, 1992.
Presentations
Keynote Addresses
Bruce, H. "Educating information
specialists in a digital age." Information technology: Second Sino-U.S.
Symposium on Library and Information Science Education in Asia.
School of Information
Management, Wuhan University,
China, October
2006.
Bruce, H. “Keeping Found Things
Found”. Spring meeting of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of
the Special Libraries Association, Seattle,
May 26, 2005.
Bruce, H. "Does OASIS Library
represent a watershed for the profession?" Information technology: The
wider educational perspective The Australian Library and Information
Association and the School Library Association of N.S.W. Sydney May 1993.
Unpublished Presentations
Bruce, H. “The iSchool and the future of LIS
Education,” Summer Institute for Chinese Studies Librarianship in the
Electronic Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, July 21-August
1, 2008.
Bruce, H. “A vision for Global
Research Libraries in 2020,” (Position paper) 2nd Global Research
Library 2020 Workshop (GRL2020): "Shaping a Roadmap for the Future of
Research Libraries,” Tirrenia Pisa, Italy 27-28 March 2008.
Bruce, H. “Information
schools and the future of LIS education and research” University of Hangzhou, Xixi
Campus, Hangzhou, China, May 21, 2007.
Bruce, H. “Personal Information
Management” University of Hangzhou, Xixi Campus, Hangzhou, China, May 23, 2007.
Bruce, H. “Personal Information
Management” Shanghai Jiaotong
University, May 24, 2007
Bruce, H. “The i-School Movement (panel session)” Annual meeting of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Austin, Texas, November 2006.
Bruce, H. “Keeping found things found and other
challenges of Personal Information Management” Pressing Questions of the
Information Age Series, hosted by The Digital Media Working Group, The
Institute for International Policy’s Center for Internet Studies, and The
Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, June 2,
2005.
Bruce, H. “Personal Information
Management in Theory and in Practice.” Presented at ASIS&T
Annual Conference in Long Beach, California, October 19, 2003.
Bruce, H. and
Jones, W. “Now Do You Know Where Your Information Is?:
Perspectives on the Present and Future of Personal Information Management.” Presented at ASIS&T
Annual Conference in Long Beach, California, October 19, 2003.
Bruce, H. “Keeping Found Things Found.” Presented at
Center for Human Information Interaction Workshop, Risoe, Denmark, February 12, 2003.
Bruce, H.,
Fidel, R., Pejtersen, A., Dumais, S., Grudin, J. and Poltrock, S. "A
comparison of the collaborative information retrieval (CIR) behaviours of two
design teams." Information Seeking In Context: The Fourth International
Conference on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use in Different Contexts.
Lisbon, Portugal, September 13, 2002.
Bruce, H. “The
Information Schools: Impact of name change.” Presented at the
Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information
Science: Emerging Frameworks and Methods, Seattle, July 23, 2002.
Bruce, H. “New Academic Structures
Involving Computing, Information Science, and Technology.” Presented at the Computing Research Association Conference at
Snowbird, July 16, 2002.
Bruce, H. “Recruiting IT faculty.”
Presented at ALISE Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, Jazz Mosaic: Faculty
Recruitment in a New Key, January 16, 2002.
Bruce, H. “Content management and the
information professional.” Chase Bobko Seminar on
Content Management. West Seattle on July 19th, 2000.
Efthimiadis,
E. and Bruce, H. “Statewide Database Licensing.” Presented
at the Washington Library Association Conference, Tacoma. Revolution,
May 17–20, 2000.
Fidel, R. and
Bruce, H. “Collaborative
Information Retrieval.” Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Information Science in Washington D.C.
Knowledge: Creation, organization and use, October 31st to November 4, 1999.
Bruce, H. “Use, users and using the Internet—What do we know about academic users?” Presented
at ASIS Mid-year meeting in Pasadena, California, Evaluating and Using
Networked Information Resources and Services, May 24-26, 1999.
Bruce, H. “Internet, AARNet and
academic work—a longitudinal study.” Presented at the
doctoral program for Science Technology and Economic Progress (STEP) Queensland
University of Technology and the University of Queensland December 1996.
Bruce, H.
AARNet and academic work. Poster Session, Australian Association for Social Research Conference, Launceston,
January 1994.
"Relevance
and the value of information—Directions for exploration: 3rd annual workshop on
relevance research." The American
Society for Information Science Annual Meeting Washington, October 1994.
"Libraries
of the future" panel session. Catholic Secondary School Teacher Librarians'
Conference Sydney, October 1993.
Conference Organization
ISIC 2008:
Program Committee, Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference held
at Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania, September 17-20, 2008.
ISIC 2006: Program Committee, Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference held
at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, 19-21 July 2006.
The PIM
workshop 2005: Co-chair, An NSF sponsored invitational workshop
on Personal Information Management, Seattle, Washington, January 27-29, 2005
CoLIS 2005: Program Committee, The 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library
and Information Science. Glasgow, Scotland, June 6-9, 2005.
ISIC 2004: Program Committee, The
Fifth International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use in
Different Contexts. Dublin, Ireland, September 1-3, 2004.
IDM 2003: Co-Chair and member of the program Committee, National
Science Foundation Information and Data Management Workshop. Seattle,
Washington, September 14-17, 2003.
ISIC 2002: Program Committee, Information
Seeking In Context: The Fourth International Conference on Information Needs,
Seeking, and Use in Different Contexts. Lisbon, Portugal, September 13,
2002.
COLIS4: Program Chair, Fourth
International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information
Science: Emerging Frameworks and Methods. University of Washington,
Seattle, July 21–25, 2002.
STEP 1997: Program Chair, The doctoral program for Science Technology and
Socio-Economic Progress. University of Technology, Sydney, December 8-14, 1997.
Editorial Appointments
Editorial Board Member
Internet
Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy (1994-2000)
An international, refereed, quarterly journal published by M.C.B. University
Press Ltd. that aims to describe, assess and foster understanding of the role
of telecommunications networks in society.
Journal
of the American Society for Information Science (1997-2008)
An international, refereed scholarly journal published 12 times per year. The
journal is devoted to the various fields of documentation and information
science and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation.
Research and Reviews Editor
Internet
Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy (1997-2000)
Editor
FID/ET
Newsletter published in English, Italian and Spanish (1997/98)
Director
Education
and Training Clearinghouse for the International Federation for Information and
Documentation (FID/ET) (1997-1998).
University of Washington Committee Appointments
Board of Deans and Chancellors (2006-present)
The Information Management Advisory
Committee (I-MAC) (2006-present)
University of Washington Press
Committee (1999-present)
Advisory Review Committee on the Dean
of University Libraries, Chair (February-June 2008)
Information Technology Advisory
Committee (2003-2006)
Research Advisory Board (2003-2005)
(Chair) Review Committee for the Program for
Educational Transformation Through Technology, PETTT
(January-April 2004)
Accreditation Committee (2001-2003)Task Force Reviewing the
Reorganization within the Provost’s Office (January-March 2002)
Graduate School Council (1999-2002)
Libraries Facilities Committee
(1999-2000)
National Committee Appointments
External review of the School of
Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(February 2009)
Reviewer, New York State
Accreditation, Program Review Team, Doctor of Professional Studies in
Information Science and Technology, School of Information Studies, Syracuse
University (April 2007)
Member, Computing Research Associations Information Technology Group
(CRA-IT Deans)
Agenda
Leader, iSchools Steering Committee, iSchool Deans
Group (2008)
Member, Workforce Issues in Library
and Information Science (WILIS) Advisory Board (2008‑present)
Chair elect; iSchool Caucus
(2008-2009)
Member, Association for Library and
Information Science Education (ALISE) Statistical Advisory Board (2007-2008)
Member, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
Taskforce on Employment (2008)