MARY E. BROWN Information and Library Science

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

Editor. People Hold Balloons Softly. Gypsy Press, 1981.

Co-editor. Mommy, Help Me. Gifted Child Association, 1978.

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:

"Design for a Bibliographic Database for Non-professional Users." Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 26 (1991): 276-282.

"A General Model of Information Seeking Behavior." Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 26 (1991): 9-14.

"Library Attractibility Based on Social Styles of Users." Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 26 (1991): 295-301.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"By Any Other Name: Accounting for Failure in the Naming of Subject Categories." Library and Information Science Research 17 (1995): 347-385.

With Kumon-Nakamura, S. and Glucksberg, S. "How About Another Piece of Pie? The Allusional Pretense Theory of Verbal Irony." Journal of Experimental Psychology--General 124:1 (1995): 3-21.

With Glucksberg, S. and McGlone, M. "Conceptual Metaphors Are Not Automatically Accessed During Idiom Comprehension." Memory and Cognition 21 (1993): 711-719.

"Developmental Patterns in Children's Generation of Subject Categories: Proposal of an Autopoietic Theory of Conceptual Development for Information Retrieval." New Jersey ASIS Key Words (Spring 1992): 10-19 (1992 Henry Voos Paper Award).

BOOK REVIEWS:

"Knowledge, Concepts, and Categories" by Koen Lamberts and David Shanks (Eds.), in Library and Information Science Research 21(1), 131-134.

"Electronic Publishing and Libraries: Planning for the Impact and Growth to 2003," by David J. Brown, in Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48(3), 276-278.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

With McGlone, M. S. and Glucksberg, S. "Idiom Use: A Matter of Semantic Appropriateness or an Artifact of Lexical Priming?" Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, April 1992.

With McGlone, M. S. and Glucksberg, S. "When is Love a Journey? What Metaphors and Idioms Mean." 32nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, November 1991.

"Design for a Bibliographic Database for Non-professional Users." 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC, 1991.

"A General Model of Information Seeking Behavior." 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC, 1991.

"Library Attractibility Based on Social Styles of Users." 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC, 1991.

"Bibliographic Database for Small Reference Collections." ASIS Conference for Graduate Research, College Park, MD, 1989.

"Analysis: A Rapid Prototype of an Expert Database for Guidance in Selection of Chemical Analyses." Computers in Research, Wilmington, DE, 1987.

WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:

Young Poet's Workshop, Wilmington, DE, 1980.

Conference on Gifted Education, DE, 1978.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

With Dennis DeLong et al., CSU. "Pilot A Graduate Degree Online (Master of Library Science)." eCollege.com, 1999.

With Carolyn Marcato, Fairfield Public Schools. "Collaborative Action Research to Assess a K-12 Library Media Curriculum for Information Literacy and Technology Skills." Connecticut State Department of Education, 1998.

With Judith Mills. "Accepting Electronic Scholarly Publications: A Study of Attitudes of Promotion and Tenure Committees." University Research Grant, 1997. Interdisciplinary with Department of Finance.

With Elsie Okobi and Nancy Disbrow. "Fellowships in Library Science for Minorities." U. S. Department of Education, 1996.

Speaker Series. Minority Faculty Recruitment/Retention Initiatives, 1996.

Lateral Thinking in Librarianship (monograph). Curriculum Related Project, 1996.

"Application of Classic Studies in Cognition to the Understanding and Naming of Subject Categories." University Research Grant, 1996.

"Video, CD-ROM, and Beyond," a summer institute, National Video Resources & MacArthur Foundation, 1995.

"Literacy Support through Connecticut Libraries: Problem Definition." University Research Grant, 1995.

With Nancy Disbrow. "Eisenberg Workshop." Faculty Development Fund, 1995.

One-day "Dialog with Employers." Faculty Development Fund, 1994.

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

Categorization; Information-seeking behavior; Libraries and literacy; Reading and readers in digital environments

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Naming of subject categories; Literacy support; Non-verbal communication

DISSERTATION TITLE:

Children's Naming of Subject Categories: Developmental Differences in the Invariant Properties of Category Labeling

INSTITUTION GRANTING PH.D.:

Drexel University