jonathan furner
Current positions
- 2005-: Associate professor, DIS, GSEIS, UCLA
- 2006-: Vice-chair, DIS, GSEIS, UCLA
- 2006-: Chair, Doctoral Program Committee, DIS, GSEIS, UCLA
- 2008-: Faculty-in-residence, Delta Terrace, UCLA
- 2010-: Associate editor, Advances in Information Science, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
- 2009-: Member, Editorial Policy Committee, Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2008-: Series co-editor, History and foundations of information science, MIT Press
- 2008-: Partner representative, Steve in Action
- 2008-09: Member, standing committee, Classification and Indexing Section, IFLA
- 2007-: Affiliate, Collections Management Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 2006-: Member, advisory group, Working Group on Functional Requirements of Subject Authority Records, IFLA
Honors and awards
- 2009: Harold and Lois Haytin Award for Outstanding Research in Teaching and Learning, UCLA GSEIS
- 2008: Invited keynote speaker at ISKO 2008: 10th International ISKO Conference
- 2008: Faculty-in-Residence of the Year Award, UCLA ORL
- 2004: Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA DIS
- 1996: Younger Researcher Award, SRHE
- 1991: Dawson Prize for Information Management, University of Sheffield DIS
Current memberships
- AAM: American Association of Museums
- ASA: American Society for Aesthetics
- ARLIS/NA: Art Libraries Society of North America
- ICOM's CIDOC: International Committee for Museum Documentation
- IFLA's Classification and Indexing Section
- SIG/CR: ASIS&T's Special Interest Group on Classification Research
- SIG/HFIS: ASIS&T's Special Interest Group on the History and Foundations of Information Science
- ISKO: International Society for Knowledge Organization
- ALA's LHRT: Library History Round Table
- SAA's Visual Materials Section
- VRA: Visual Resources Association
Employment
- 2005-: Associate professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- 2006: Visiting fellow, School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
- 2005-06: Assistant editor, Dewey Decimal Classification, Washington, DC
- 1998-2005: Assistant professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- 1995-98: Lecturer, School of Information and Media [now Department of Information Management], Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
- 1994-95: Research fellow, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
- 1991-94: Research assistant, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
- 1989-90: Customer services executive, Maxwell Online [now Questel], London, UK
- 1988-89: Library assistant, University of London Library, UK
- 1987-88: Analyst/programmer, Midland Montagu Treasury Management [now HSBC], London, UK
Education
- 1994: Ph.D., Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK
- 1991: M.Sc., Information Management, University of Sheffield, UK
- 1987: B.A. (now M.A.), Philosophy / Social and Political Sciences, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK
Last updated 2010.01.13