Christine
L. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information
Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
She is a co-principal investigator for the Center for Embedded
Networked Sensing (CENS), and for two CENS projects, CENSEI,
for research on data management and policy, and Women@CENS,
all funded by the National Science Foundation. From 1999-2005
she also led the education and evaluation team of the Alexandria
Digital Earth Prototype Project (ADEPT). She is the author of
more than 150 publications in the fields of information studies,
computer science, and communication.Prof.Borgman's research
interests and teaching areas include digital libraries, information
retrieval, electronic publishing, information-seeking behavior,
scientific data use and policy, scholarly communication, bibliometrics,
and information technology policy. Her book, From Gutenberg
to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information
in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), won the Best Information
Science Book of the Year Award from the American Society for
Information Science and Technology. Her next book, Scholarship
in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet,
will be published by MIT Press in 2007. Current professional
activities include membership on the U.S. National CODATA (Committee
on Data for Science and Technology) and Advisory Board to the
Electronic Privacy Information Center. Prior service includes
membership on the Study Committee on Internet Navigation and
the Domain Name System (National Academies), Advisory Committee
to the Computer, Information Sciences, and Engineering Directorate
of the National Science Foundation, the Board of Directors of
the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the International
Advisory Board to the Soros Foundation Open Society Institute
Regional Library Program. She is an elected Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and served
as Chair of Section T, Information, Computing, and Communication.
Prof. Borgman
was a visiting scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute (University
of Oxford, U.K.), Visiting Professor in the Department of Information
Science at Loughborough University, U.K., Fulbright Visiting
Professor at the University of Economic Sciences and at Eötvös
Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and a
Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and
Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. She was Chair of the UCLA
Department of Library and Information Science (1995-1997).
She is
a member of the editorial boards of Journal of the American
Society for Information Science & Technology, Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, The Information Society, and
the Journal of Digital Information, and was on the editorial
boards of the Journal of Communication Research (1986-1999)
and the Journal of Documentation (1992-2002). She was Program
Chair for the First Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (ACM
and IEEE) and serves on the program committees for the International
Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, the Joint Conferences
on Digital Libraries, the European Conference on Digital Libraries,
American Society for Information Science and Technology, and
Conceptions of Library and Information Science (COLIS) conferences.
She holds
the Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University, M.L.S.
from the University of Pittsburgh, and B.A. in Mathematics from
Michigan State University.