[OPLINLIST] SLIS at Kent State Welcomes Dr. Tomas A. Lipinski as New Director

[Cunningham, Flo]

The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University welcomes Tomas A. Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., as its new director. In his announcement of the appointment, Stanley T. Wearden, Ph.D., dean of the College of Communication and Information, said, "Dr. Lipinski's prominence in the field will help to elevate the reputation of an already highly regarded school."

Lipinski most recently served as executive associate dean and professor at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He had previously been director of the Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) degree program and professor at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he also was co-director (and founder) of the Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR).  In 2007 and 2009 he received the WISE (Web-based Information Science Education) Faculty of the Year Award for Excellence in Online Education from the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). His library experience includes being a librarian at Milwaukee Public Library (1992-1994) and associate librarian/associate director at H. Douglas Barclay Law Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. (1990-1992).

A leader in copyright education, Lipinski is a member of the American Library Association, Office of Information Technology Policy, Copyright Education Subcommittee, member at large, and is vice-chair/chair elect for 2013-2014. He also serves as chair of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Copyright Discussion Group (2012-2013) and as a member of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Board, Task Force on The Future of JELIS (Journal of Education for Library and Information Science) and its possible release online. Lipinski annually gives numerous talks, presentations and seminars to librarians and educators, and most recently delivered the keynote address at the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries Annual Conference in this past May. He has been a Global Law Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & ICT (ICRI) and the Centre for Intellectual Rights (CIR), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), Belgium (2006), and was named to the Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster (2005-2010). He has testified at several United States Copyright Office public roundtables and field hearings and provided copyright-related legal services to libraries and schools.

Read more at http://www.kent.edu/slis/news/newsdetail.cfm?newsitem=15E7CE34-EC81-9BA7-AB8840D1556A96B8. 




All the best,

Flo

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Flo Cunningham
Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
330-672-0003
fcunning at kent.edu

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