Join us during the week of Canadian Thanksgiving for a double-feature that will feed your curiosity. Dr. Carolyn Hank from McGill University School of Information Studies will be coming to Halifax as a special guest of the Social Media Lab. Dr. Hank has done some very interesting research in the area of digital curation and social media.

During her visit to Dalhousie University, Dr. Hank will be giving two talks: “Digital Curation in Context” and “Investigating Blogs & Facebook in Academe“. Both talks are free and open to the public; see details below. I hope to see you there at both events!

Speaker’s Bio:
Carolyn Hank is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at McGill University. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Her dissertation research looked at scholars who blog, and how blog characteristics and blogger behaviors, preferences, and perceptions impact digital preservation. Currently, she is PI on an OCLC/ALISE grant funded study, “The Biblioblogosphere: A Comparison of Communication and Preservation Perceptions and Practices between Blogging LIS Scholar-Practitioners and LIS Scholar-Researchers.” She is also PI on another ALISE-funded study looking at information and library science faculty and students interactions via Facebook. She serves as the North American academic expert on BlogForever, a co-funded European Commission project on blog preservation. Previously, she served as project manager for the DigCCurr I project (2007-2009) and program manager for the UNC-CH Digital Curation/Institutional Repository Committee (2005-2008), and Carolina Digital Repository (2008-2009). She teaches in the areas of digital preservation and access, digital curation, human information interactions, and research methods.