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Ph.D. in Information Science, Spring 2000.
Dissertation: Creating an information agent through data mining: Automatic identification of academic research on the World Wide Web.
Advisor: Mark Rorvig
Course Concentrations: Information Retrieval, Statistics, Decision Science
Master of Library and Information Studies, Summer 1996.
B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Winter 1992.
Associate Professor, August 2001 – present (tenure granted in 2007)
Program Director for the Masters of Science in Library and Information Science
Program, January 2007 - present
Robert Benjamin Faculty Research Award,
Jeffrey Katzer Professor of the Year,
Teaching:
Library Science Graduate Core Courses
Introduction
to the Library and Information Professions
Information Sources: Creation, Selection, and Use
Library Systems and Processes
Information Studies Graduate Electives
Digital Information Retrieval Services / Web Search Tools
Planning and Evaluation of Library and Information Services
Internet Architecture for Internet Services
Data
Mining
Undergraduate Electives
Information Retrieval Skills
Workshops and Seminars
Planning and Evaluation of Digital Library
Services in
Bibliomining across North America at 18 locations
Service:
MSLIS Faculty Planning Action Group (Chair)
Faculty Sponsor and Founder of the Syracuse University American Library Association student organization
Personnel Committee, Search Committee, Distance Education Committee
Research Interests:
Games and Gaming in Libraries
Measurement and Evaluation of Digital Library Services
Bibliomining Process – Collecting and analyzing data-based artifacts of behaviors in a library to aid in library management through data warehousing, traditional reporting, data exploration, data mining, and advanced statistical procedures.
Web Search Tools
Distance and Traditional Education in Library and Information Science
Administrative Highlights:
In charge of the 2007 American Library Association Re-accreditation process
Citigroup / The Associates – Las
Senior Modeler, April 2000 – July 2001
Defined modeling needs with clients;
Created data warehouse by gathering and cleaning data; Selected and applied
appropriate sampling and statistical techniques; Created response and fault
prediction models using logistic regression through SAS and classification
through Knowledge Seeker; Presented models to peer groups and clients
Adjunct Faculty/ Teaching Fellow, September 1997 - December 1999
Developed and presented course work for computer and statistical courses for the
business computing undergraduate program and library science graduate program.
Reference & Electronic Services Librarian, August 1996 – August 1997
Assisted faculty and students with research needs; developed training and
documentation for databases
Microcomputer Consultant, June 1993 - July 1996.
Programming, database administration, graphic design, training, and computer
support of several academic departments
(note – many articles are available at
http://bibliomining.com/nicholson/)
Peer-Reviewed Scholarly
Publications
(selected
preprints at http://bibliomining.com/nicholson/)
Nicholson, S. & Smith, C.A. (2007). Using lessons from health care to protect the privacy of library users: Guidelines for the de-identification of library data based on HIPAA. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(8), 1198-1206.
Nicholson, S. & Lankes, R. D. (2007). The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW) Project: Creating the infrastructure for digital reference research through a multi-disciplinary knowledge base. Reference and User Services Quarterly 46(3), 45-59.
Nicholson, S. (2006). Approaching librarianship from the data: Using Bibliomining for evidence-based librarianship. Library Hi-Tech 24(3). 369-375.
Nicholson, S. (2006). The basis for bibliomining: Frameworks for bringing together usage-based data mining and bibliometrics through data warehousing in digital library services. Information Processing & Management 42(3), 785-804.
Nicholson, S., Sierra, T., Eseryel, U. Y., Park, J., Barkow, P., Pozo, E., & Ward, J. (2006). How much of it is real? Analysis of paid placement in Web search engine results. Journal for the American Society of Information Science and Technology 57(4), 448-461.
Nicholson, S. (2005). Digital library archeology: Understanding library use through artifact-based evaluation. Library Quarterly 75(4). 496-520.
Nicholson, S. (2005). A framework for technology selection in a Web-based distance education environment: Supporting community-building through richer interaction opportunities. Journal for Education in Library and Information Science 46(3), 217-233.
Nicholson, S. (2005). Understanding the foundation: The state of generalist search education in library schools as related to the needs of expert searchers in medical libraries. Journal of the Medical Library Association 93(1), 58-65.
Lavender, K., Nicholson, S., & Pomerantz, J. (2005). Building bridges for collaborative digital reference between libraries and museums through an examination of reference in special collections. Journal of Academic Librarianship 31(2), 106-118.
Nicholson, S. (2005) A framework for Internet Archeology: Discovering use patterns
in digital library and Web-based
information resources. Short paper for First
Monday 10(2). Available online at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/nicholson/.
Nicholson, S. (2004). A conceptual framework for the holistic measurement and cumulative evaluation of library services. Journal of Documentation 60(2), 164-182.
Pomerantz, J., Nicholson, S., Belanger, Y., & Lankes, R. D. (2004). The current state of digital reference: Validation of a general digital reference model through a survey of digital reference services. Information Processing & Management. 40(2), 347-363.
Kaarst-Brown, M., Nicholson, S., von Dran, G. & Stanton, J. (2004). Organizational cultures of libraries as a strategic resource. Library Trends. 53(1), 33–53.
Nicholson, S. (2003). Bibliomining for automated collection development
in a digital library setting: Using data mining to discover web-based scholarly
research works. Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology 54(12), 1081-1090.
Nicholson, S. & Stanton, J. (2003). Gaining strategic
advantage through bibliomining: Data mining for management decisions in
corporate, special, digital, and traditional libraries. In Nemati, H. &
Barko, C. (Eds.). Organizational data
mining: Leveraging enterprise data resources for optimal performance (pp.
247-262).
Variants in encyclopedias by the same publisher:
Nicholson, S. & Stanton, J. (2005).Bibliomining for Library Decision-Making: Data
mining and data
warehousing for libraries. In
Khosrow-Pour, M. (Ed.). Encyclopedia
of Information Science and Technology
(pp. 272-277).
Nicholson, S. & Stanton, J. (2005).Bibliomining for Library
Decision-Making. In Wang, J. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Data Mining (pp. 100-106).
Pomerantz, J., Nicholson, S., & Lankes, R. D. (2003).
Digital reference triage: An investigation using the
Nicholson, S. (2002). Socialization in the "virtual hallway": Instant messaging in the asynchronous Web-based distance education classroom. The Internet and Higher Education 5(4), 363-372.
Nicholson, S. (2000). Raising reliability of Web search tool research through replication and chaos theory. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(8), 724-729.
Nicholson, S. (2000). A proposal for categorization and nomenclature for Web search tools. Journal of Internet Cataloging 2(3/4), 9-28.
Also published in monograph form:
Nicholson, S. (2000). A proposal for categorization and nomenclature for Web search
tools. Internet Searching and Indexing: The Subject Approach, ed. Thomas, A. and
Shearer, J, 9-28.
Nicholson, S. (1997). Indexing and abstracting on the World Wide Web: An examination of six Web databases. Information Technology and Libraries 16(2), 73-81.
Peer-Reviewed Conference
Presentations
Nicholson, S. & Smith, C. (2005, October). Using Lessons from Health Care to Protect
the Privacy of Library Users: Guidelines for the De-Identification of Library
Data based on HIPAA. Presented at the American Society for Information
Science and Technology 2005 conference.
Nicholson, S. (2005, January). Seeking a core literature: The current state
of search education in top LIS schools. Presented at the Association for
Library and Information Science Education 2005 conference.
Nicholson, S. (2004, November). A Conceptual Framework for the Holistic Measurement and Cumulative
Evaluation of Library Services. Presented at the American Society for
Information Science and Technology 2004 conference.
Nicholson, S. & Lankes, R.D. (2004, November). Creating a
Multi-Disciplinary Knowledge Base to Preserve Human Intermediation: The Digital
Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW) Project. Presented at the American
Society for Information Science and Technology 2004 conference. Providence, RI.
Nicholson, S. & Lankes, R.D. (2004, November). Archiving Human Intermediation: The Digital Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW) Project. Presented at the 2004 Virtual Reference Desk conference. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Lavender, K., Nicholson, S., & Pomerantz, J. (2003,
November). Crossing the Bridge between Museums and Academic Special Collections:
An Analysis of the Digital Reference Function. Presented at the 2003 Virtual Reference Desk
conference.
Nicholson, S. (2003, October). The Bibliomining Process: Data Warehousing and Data Mining for
Libraries. Presentation at the American Society for Information Science and
Technology 2003 conference.
Nicholson, S. (2003, June). The
Bibliomining Process: Seeking Behavioral Patterns for Library Management using
Data Mining. Presentation at the 2003 Evidence Based Librarianship
conference.
Nicholson, S. (2003, May). Bibliomining for Automated Collection Development in a Digital Library:
Using Data Mining to Discover Web-based Scholarly Research Works.
Presentation at the 2003 Libraries
in the Digital Age conference.
Peer-Reviewed Poster Sessions
Nicholson, S. and Lankes, D. (2005). Creating the Infrastructure for
Collaboration between Digital Reference Services and Researchers: The Digital
Reference Electronic Warehouse (DREW) Project. Poster presented at the 2005 Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries.
Nicholson, S. (2003, August). A Theoretical Framework for the Holistic Evaluation of Digital Libraries. Poster presented at the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Trondheim, Norway.
Funded Research
Senior Researcher for Eisenberg, M. and Lankes, D. (2006-2008). Credibility Commons, $250,000 MacArthur Foundation grant.
Research Scientist for Croft, B., Lankes, D., and Koll, M. (2002-2003). Question Triage for Experts and Documents: Expanding the Information Retrieval Function of the NSDL, $450,000 National Science Digital Library, National Science Foundation grant.
Senior Personnel for Lankes, D. (2001-2004). Integrating Expertise into the NSDL: Putting a
Human Face on the Digital Library. $356,428 National Science Foundation grant.
Non Peer-Reviewed Publications
Nicholson, S. (2007). The Role of Gaming in Libraries: Taking the Pulse. White paper published July 23, 2007 at http://boardgameswithscott.com/pulse2007.pdf
Lankes, R.D., Silverstein, J., and Nicholson, S. (2007). Participatory Networks: The library as
conversation. Produced for the American Library Association’s Office for
Information Technology Policy. Retrieved
Nicholson, S. (2006). Writing your first scholarly article: A
guide for budding authors in librarianship.
Information Technology and Libraries
25(2), 108-111.
Nicholson, S. (2006, January 15). Proof is in the Pattern. Library Journal netConnect, Supplement to Library Journal, Winter 2006, 2-6.
Lankes, R. D.
and Nichoson, S. (2005). Reference Extract: Extending the Reach of Digital
Reference through Collaborative Data Warehousing. IEEE Technical Committee on Digital
Libraries Bulletin 2(1). Available
online at http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/v2n1/nicholson/nicholson.html
Nicholson, S. (2003) Avoiding the Great Data-Wipe of Ought-Three: Maintaining an Institutional Record for Library Decision-Making in Threatening Times. American Libraries 34(9), 36.
Nicholson, S. (2003). The bibliomining process: Data warehousing and data mining for library decision-making. Information Technology and Libraries 22(4), 4-9.
Translated and published as:
Nicholson, S.
(2004). O processo da
bibliomineração: repositório de dados e mineração
de dados para tomada de decisão em bibliotecas. Transinformação 16(3), 253-261.
Nicholson, S. (2003). Exploring the future of digital reference through scenario planning. In Lankes, R.D., Nicholson, S. & Goodrum, A. (Eds.) The Digital Reference Research Agenda (ACRL Publications in Librarianship, no.55).
Nicholson, S. (2003). Review of the book Models for Library Management, Decision Making, and Planning. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 54(4), 359-360.
Nicholson, S. (2000). Using search tools, Using directories, Boolean search strategies, Natural language search strategies, and Evaluating web sites. NetSearch Video Series [videocasette]. Denton, TX: Texas Center for Educational Technology.
Nicholson, S. (1999). Review of the book Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice (2nd edition). Information Processing & Management 35(2), 209-210.
Nicholson, S. (1998). GIF versus JPEG: Choosing a graphics compression format for Web publications. Information Technology and Libraries 17(2), 109-110.
Non Peer-Reviewed
Presentations (Invited)
Nicholson, S. (2007, December). Gaming Trends in Libraries. Presentation to the E-Info Global Symposium, Huntsville, Alabama.
Nicholson, S. (2007, November). Introduction to the Bibliomining Process – Data Mining for Libraries. Web-based conference for the Education Institute.
Nicholson, S. (2007, November). Games in Libraries and Schools. Presentation at the Chicago Toy and Game Fair (CHITAG).
Nicholson, S. (2007, September). Exploring the Intersection of Libraries and Games. Web-based conference for the Education Institute.
Nicholson, S. (2007, August). Shall We Play a Game? Gaming and Libraries Presentation to the Public Library System Directors Organization (PULISDO).
Nicholson, S. (2007, July). Who
Else Is Playing? The Current State of Gaming in Libraries. Featured
presentation for the 2007 Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium. Chicago,
IL.
Nicholson, S. (2007, May). Particpatory Librarianship. Presentation for the 2007 Annual Beta Phi Mu Meeting.
Nicholson, S. (2007, January). Best Practices for Online Pedagogy: Preparing WISE Scholars Workshop,
Panel Member for the WISE Workshop on Online Pedagogy.
Nicholson, S. (2006, May). Balancing Evidence-Based Librarianship and Protecting Patron Privacy through the Bibliomining Process. Keynote speaker for the Eastern New York Association for College and Research Libraries. Hamilton, NY.
Nicholson, S. (2006, January) Pedagogy for Online Teaching , Panel Member for the WISE Workshop
on Online Pedagogy. Charlotte, NC.
Nicholson, S. (2005, June and 2006, January). Teaching Online Searching Online. Presentation to the WISE Workshop on Online Pedagogy. Charlotte, NC. and Chicago, IL.
Nicholson, S. (2002, October). Bibliomining: A Brief Introduction.
Presentation to the NorthEast Research Libraries library
consortium.
Nicholson, S. (2002, February). Bibliomining: Possibilities, Plans, and Pitfalls. Two-day workshop for the Rappahannock Country
Library System Administration.
Non Peer-Reviewed
Presentations (Volunteer)
Nicholson, S. (2005, September). This Web isn’t so Wide: Going Beyond the Web of Knowledge for Citation
Searching. Presentation to the Syracuse University School of Information
Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series.
Nicholson, S. (2005, January).
Nicholson, S. (2004, June). Bibliomining as Evidence-Based Librarianship. Presented at the 2004 American Library Association annual conference.
Nicholson, S. (2004, May). Teaching
Online.. Presentation at the Future Professoriate Project and Preparing
Future Faculty Conference at the Minnowbrook Conference Center.
Nicholson, S. (2002, May). How to Teach with Technology. Presentation at the Future Professoriate Project and Preparing Future Faculty Conference at the Minnowbrook Conference Center. Blue Mountain Lake, NY.
Nicholson, S. (2002, September). Bibliomining: Possibilities, Plans, Pitfalls, and Potential. Presentation to the Syracuse University School of Information Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series. Syracuse, NY.
Nicholson, S. (2002, November). Data Management, Organization, and Systems for Digital Reference Assessment. Presentation to the Virtual Reference Desk Pre-Conference 2002: Preparing for Administering, and Using Statistics and Measures for Digital Reference Evaluation: Practical Approaches. Chicago, IL.
Nicholson, S. (1996). HTML in an Hour. Presented at the 1996 American Library Association midwinter and annual conferences. San Antonio, TX and New York City, NY.
Non Peer-Reviewed Poster Sessions
Nicholson, S. (2002, May). Bibliomining:
Data Mining in Libraries. Poster presented at the Spring 2002 Conference of
the Western New York / Ontario Association of College and Research Libraries.
White Plains, NY.
Nicholson, S. & Pomerantz, J. (2002, December). Question Triage for Experts and Documents: Expanding the Information Retrieval Function of the NSDL. Poster presented at the National Science Foundation NSDL Annual Meeting 2002. Washington, DC.
Invited Course Lectures
Nicholson, S. (2006, February). Introduction to Library Science. Guest lecture for the Syracuse University School of Information Studies doctoral seminar, Crowston, K., (instructor). Syracuse, NY.
Nicholson, S. (2005, September). Introduction to Library Science. Guest lecture for the Syracuse University School of Information Studies doctoral seminar, Crowston, K., (instructor). Syracuse, NY.
Nicholson, S. (2005, January). Introduction to Journal Indexing and Commercial Databases. Guest
lecture for Syracuse University School of Information Studies; Introduction to the Library and Information
Professions, Kwasnik, B. (instructor).
Nicholson, S. (2004, October). Careers in the Information Professions. Guest lecture for the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Science; The Information Environment, Lester, J.(instructor). Norman, OK.
Nicholson, S. (2004, September). Teaching Online. Guest lecture for the Syracuse University School of Information Studies doctoral seminar, Crowston, K., (instructor). Syracuse, NY.
Nicholson, S. (2004, June). Bibliomining: An Exploration. Guest lecture for Syracuse University School of Information Studies; Managing Libraries, Bradley, J. (instructor).Syracuse, NY.
Nicholson, S. (2004, April). Classification through Data Mining. Guest lecture for Syracuse University School of Information Studies; Indexing and Classification, Kwasnik, B. (instructor). Syracuse, NY.
Nicholson, S. (2003, October). Careers in the Information Professions. Guest lecture for the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Science; The Information Environment, Lester, J.(instructor). Norman, OK.
Nicholson, S. (2002, October). Predictive Modeling. Guest lecture for Syracuse University School of Information Studies; Data Mining, Liddy, E. (instructor). Syracuse, NY.
Nicholson, S. (2002, November). Web Search Tools: An Introduction. Guest lecture for Syracuse University School of Information Studies; Introduction to the Library and Information Profession, Bradley, J.(instructor). Syracuse, NY.
Awards and Honors
Emerald Highly Commended
award, 2007, for “Approaching librarianship from the data: Using
Bibliomining for evidence-based librarianship”.
Robert Benjamin Junior Faculty Research award, 2005, Syracuse University School of Information Studies – This award goes to a junior faculty member for outstanding research.
Professor of the Year,
2003, Syracuse University School of Information Studies – This award is based
on a vote of the students for outstanding teaching and service.
Who’s Who in America,
2006.
Reviewing and Editorial Activities
Editorial activities:
Lankes, R.D., Nicholson, S., Radford,
M., Silverstein, J., Westbrook, L., and Nast, P. (2007). Virtual Reference Service: From Competencies to Assessment. Neal-Schuman
Publishers:New York City, NY.
Nicholson, S. (Guest Editor) (2003). Special
issue on the Bibliomining process. Information Technology and Libraries. 22(4).
Lankes, R.D., Nicholson, S. & Goodrum, A. (Editors) (2003). The Digital Reference Research Agenda (ACRL Publications in Librarianship, no.55).
Peer Reviewer for
Journals:
Information
Processing and Management
Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Library
Quarterly
Human
Resource Management Journal
Information Technology and
Libraries
Journal of Information Science
Library Quarterly
Peer Reviewer for Grants:
National
Science Foundation, Information and Intelligent Systems, 2005
Israel
Science Foundation, 2005
Peer Reviewer for Conferences:
American
Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference 2005,2006
I-Conference
2005
Virtual Reference Desk Conference 2004, 2003
Peer Reviewer for Monographs:
Bell, S. (2006). Librarian's Guide to Online Searching. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
Wang, J. (2005). Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.
Khosrow-Pour, M. (2005). Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.
Other Peer Review Activities:
Pratt Severn Best Student Research Paper Award (Chair) 2005, 2004
Organizational Activities
Nicholson, S. (Organizer) (2005,
June). Understanding Scholarly Literature
through Visualization and Citation Analysis. Presented at the American Library Association
annual conference. Chicago, IL.
Nicholson, S. (Panel organizer) (2004,
June). Evidence-Based Librarianship:
Charms, Challenges, and Choices. Presented at the American Library
Association annual conference.
Web-based Publications
Board Games with Scott (http://boardgameswithscott.com) – Video series of explanations and reviews of modern board games.
Bibliomining: Data Mining for Libraries (http://www.bibliomining.org) – Research center for bibliomining
AskScott - Your Guide to Finding It on the Internet (http://www.askscott.com) – Virtual reference library designed to help users with selecting and using the most appropriate Web search tool.
Publicity
Nicholson, S. (Television Interview) (2003, February 26). Catching cheaters with the Web. CNN Headline News. Atlanta, GA: CNN.
Member of the Diversity Research Grant Advisory Committee for the American Library Association, 2007 – present.
Editorial board of Information Technology and Libraries,1996-2000, 2002-2006.
Member of the Committee on Research and Statistics for the American Library Association, 2003-2006.
Faculty sponsor and founder of the Syracuse University student American Library Association organization
Organizing committee for the 2008 Central New York Library Unconference
1997-98 President for the North Texas chapter of the American Society for Information Science.
1995-96 President of the Associated Library Students of Oklahoma at the University of Oklahoma.
Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Phi Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, and Alpha Phi Omega.
Member of the American Library Association, Association for
Library and Information Science Education, Association of Computing Machinery,
American Society for Information Science and Technology.