Thomas Froehlich

Thomas Froehlich
	USA
Datum a místo úmrtí	- -
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	Kent, Ohio, USA
	americké
Vzdělání	University of Pittsburgh, magisterské studium: Informační věda, ukončeno v srpnu 1982
Pracoviště	Kent State University
	Delta Epsilon Sigma (National Catholic Honorary Scholastic Society)
Známý pro	Mezinárodní expert na informační etiku

Thomas J. Froehlich (*19--) je v současné době profesorem na Státní univerzitě v Kentu a vyučuje na Škole knihovnictví a informační vědy. Dále je od roku 2000 vedoucím magisterského studijního programu Informační architektura a znalostní management.

Život

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Vzdělání

• University of Pittsburgh, magisterské studium: Informační věda, ukončeno v srpnu 1982
• Duquesne University, doktorské studium: Filozofie, ukončeno v prosinci 1975
• Pennsylvania State University, magisterské studium: Filozofie, ukončeno v březnu 1964
• St. Vincent College, bakalářské studium: Anglická literatura, ukončeno v červnu 1962

Odborné zájmy

• Informační architektura
• Použitelnost informačních systémů, rozhraní, produktů a služeb
• Řízení znalostí
• Rozvoj vzdělávacích programů pro informační architektury a řízení znalostí
• Základy informační vědy, se zvláštním důrazem na sociální epistemologie a relevance kritéria v informačních systémech
• Etické zájmy informačních profesí
• Informační technologie v knihovnách a informačních střediscích

Praxe

• 2009 (září) – významný hostující profesor na fakultě v Kulliyyah, Informační a komunikační technologie, mezinárodní islámská univerzita v Malajsii.
• 2000 – vedoucí programu Informační architektura a znalostní management
• 1999 – 2000 – ředitel, Institutu informačního managementu a výzkumu (předchůdce institutu pro kyberinformaci)
• 1988 – Profesor na Státní univerzitě v Kentu (1995-), docent (1988 – 1995), Knihovnictví a informační věda
• 1995 – Univerzita Wuhan, výměnný profesor, Wuhan (Čína)
• 1984 – 1988 – Univerzita v Syracuse, odborný asistent, Informační studia
• 1981 – 1983 – Univerzita v Pittsburghu, odborný asistent, Informační věda
• 1982, 1983, 1985, 1988 (léto), Vysoká škola knihovnictví ve Walesu, hostující docent, Informační věda
• 1978 – 1981 – Ústav výpočetní techniky, Instruktor, Programování
• 1974 - Chatham College, odborný asistent, Filozofie a náboženství
• 1943 – Státní univerzita v New Yorku, odborný asistent, Filozofie
• 1968 – 1972 – Univerzita Duquesne, instruktor, Filozofie
• 1964 – 1968 – Státní univerzita v Pennsylvanii, instruktor, Filozofie

Kurzy

Základy informační vědy, Základy automatizovaných vyhledávacích systémů, Databázové systémy, COBOL, BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, Interaktivní programování, Problémy informační vědy, Návrh informačních systémů, Kompilační jazyk, Úvod do informační vědy, Filozofie informační vědy, Návrh informačních systémů, Curriculum rozvoje informační vědy, Koncepty Správy informačních zdrojů, Sociální epistemologie v přenosu informací, Online referenční služby, Etické úvahy informačních profesionálů, Informační technologie v knihovnách a informačních střediscích (Základní a pokročilé kurzy), Síťové a softwarové zdroje pro informační systémy, Návrh uživatelského rozhraní pro informační systémy

Výzkumné granty

• Květen 2002 - Vedoucí projektu: Development of a Website for Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health (PiPPAH)- financován.
• Leden 1995 - říjen 1996: UNESCO Contract for IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) "Survey and Analysis of Ethical and Legal Issues of Library and Information Professionals."- financováno 8000$.
• Červenec 1986: Syracuse University Senate Research Grant for "Identification of Factors Useful for Ranking Output of Information Retrieval Systems Based on Medical Researchers' Evaluative Processes."- financováno 4000$.

Význam pro informační vědu a knihovnictví

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Publikace

• článek 2013 "Feminist Considerations for African Information Ethics,", International Journal of Information Ethics

• 2013 "Ethical Aspects of Library and Information Science," spoluautor Richard R. Rubin, v Allen Kent, ed., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 2nd edition (in press)

• článek 2007 "Nadie dice que fuera fácile. Algunas reflexiones acerca del desarrollo del marco ético en la prŕtica del trabajo bibliotecario [Nobody Said It Was Going to Be Easy: Some Reflections on the Evolving Ethical Framework in the Practice of Librarianship]," Educación y Biblioteca, Revista mensual de documentación y recursos didácticos, (19), 159

• "Old Principles, New Applications: The Evolution of the Information Professions," in Proceedings of the IV Simpósio Internacional em Cięncia da Informaçăo Professor Paulo Tacísio Mayrink (2005)

• článek 2004 "A Brief History of Information Ethics," Textos Universitaris de Biblioteconomia i Documentació (BiD) (Catalan Digital Journal)

• článek 2004 "Feminism and Intercultural Information Ethics," International Journal of Information Ethics (IJIE), Vol 2

• 2002 "Information Ethics," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 2nd Edition, Routledge

• 2002 "Animation," Encyclopedia of Computer Science, Macmillan Reference

• 2001 "Library and Information Professions," Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition, ed. Lawrence C. and Charlotte Becker. 2 vols. New York and London: Garland Publishing

• 2001 "Developing Search Engine Evaluation Criteria" in Library Evaluation: A Casebook for Library Managers, ed. Danny P. Wallace and Connie van Fleet. Libraries Unlimited, Inc.

• 2000 "Rafael Capurro and the Challenge of Information Ethics," International Information and Library Review, 32, 277-282.

• 2000 "Kryteria Oceny Systemów Wyszukiwawczch w Internecie," Polish translation by Wieslaw Glinski, Zagadnienia Informacji Naukawej 2 (76) (Warszawa), pp. 3-20.

• článek 2000 "Intellectual Freedom, Ethical Deliberation and Codes of Ethics," IFLA Journal 26, 4, pp. 264-272.

• článek 1999 "Las preocupaciones éticas de los profesionales de la información acerca de Internet," tr. Paco Vidarte, Educación y Biblioteca: Revista mensual de documentación y recursos didácticos, (11), 106, November

• "Are Internet Tools and Resources Ethical?" In A. D'Atri, A. Marturano, S. Rogerson, T. Ward Bynum, eds., Proceedings of the 4th ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (Rome, Italy: Centro di Ricerca sui Sistemi Informativi, LUISS Guido Carli, 1999).

• "Un marco general para pensar acerca de las cuestiones éticas en bibliotecas y en centros de información,"Educación y Biblioteca: Revista Mensual de Documentación y Recursos Didácticos, vol. 11, no. 99 (Marzo 1999), pp. 46-56.

• "Ethical Considerations Regarding Library Nonprofessionals: Competing Perspectives and Values," Library Trends, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Winter, 1998), pp. 444-466.

• "Ethical Aspects of Internet Tools and Resources: Are Search Engines Ethical?" in The Ethics of Electronic Information in the 21st Century (in press).

• "Caveat Web Surfer! Social Responsibility and Internet Resources," National Online Meeting: Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Online Meeting, May 13-15, 1997 (Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1997), pp. 125-134.

• Executive Summary of "Survey and Analysis of Legal and Ethical Issues for Library and Information Services," UNESCO Report (Contract No. 401.723.4), for the International Federation of Library Associations, published as a background document for "Ethical and Legal Issues of Digital Information," UNESCO Conference, March 9, 1997, Monaco.

• "Survey and Analysis of Legal and Ethical Issues for Library and Information Services," UNESCO Report (Contract No. 401.723.4), for the International Federation of Library Associations. IFLA Professional Series. Munich: G. K. Saur, 1997.

• "Ethical Considerations of Information Professionals," Cadernos de Biblioteconomia, Arquívistica e Documentação (Cadernos BAD) (1) (1996), pp. 15-36.

• With Richard R. Rubin (co-author), "Ethical Aspects of Library and Information Science," in Allen Kent, ed., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Volume 58, Supplement 21, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1996.

• "Ethical Considerations in Technology Transfer," and "Ethics, Ideologies, and Practices of Information Technology and Systems," in Rafael Capurro, Klaus Wiegerling, Andreas Brellochs, editors, Informationsethik, Konstanz, Germany: UVK-Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1995.

• "Ètica e información," tr. into Spanish by Tomas Baiget, Information World en Español, no. 37, September, 1995.

• "Rethinking Ethical Issues in an Online Environment," Proceedings of the 18th International Online Information Meeting, 6-8 December, 1994, London, United Kingdom.

• "User Assumptions about Information Retrieval Systems: Ethical Concerns," in Joseph M. Kizza, ed., Ethics in the Computer Age Conference Proceedings. (New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1994).

• "The Development of a Model to Facilitate Ethical Decision-Making in the Information Professions," Proceedings of ISI '94 (Internationales Symposium für Informationswissenschaft, November 2-4, 1994) Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria.

• "Ethical Concerns of Information Professionals in an International Context," in New Worlds in Information and Documentation: Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth FID Conference and Congress held in Madrid, Spain, J. R. Alvarez-Ossorio and B. G. Goedegebuure, eds. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1994.

• "Dilemmas in the Integration of Information Technologies into the Curriculum," National Online Meeting: Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Online Meeting, May 5-7, 1994 (Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1994).

• "Relevance Reconsidered--Towards an Agenda for the 21st Century," Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), Special Topics Issue, also organized and edited by Thomas J. Froehlich, 45(3), (April, 1994), pp. 124-134.

• "Dilemmas in the Incorporation of Information Technologies into the Curriculum: An American Experience," Proceedings of CONSAL IX, Congress of Southeast Asia Librarians: Future Dimensions and Library Development, Bangkok, Thailand, 1993.

• "Ethical Considerations of Information Professionals," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, ed. Martha Williams. Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1992, pp. 291-324.

• "Ethical Issues in Consultant-Library Relationship," in Using Consultants in Libraries and Information Centers: A Management Handbook, ed. Edward D. Garten, Greenwood Press, 1992.

• "Library and Information Professions," Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Lawrence C. and Charlotte Becker. 2 vols. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1992.

• "On the Bleeding Edge: Implementing, Maintaining and Teaching CD-ROM Networks and Databases at a School of Library and Information Science," National Online Meeting: Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Online Meeting, May 5-7, 1992 (Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1992).

• "Towards a Better Conceptualization of Relevance for Information Science Research, Systems Understanding People: Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 28, Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1991, pp. 118-125.

• "Ethical Considerations in Technology Transfer," Library Trends, ed. Robert Hauptman, vol. 40 (2) (Fall, 1991), pp. 275-302.

• "Ethical Considerations in End-User Searching and Training End-Users of Online and On-Disc Databases," The Proceedings of the National Online Meeting (NOM). Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1991.

• "Ethics, Ideologies, and Practices of Information Technology and Systems," Information in the Year 2000: From Research to Applications, Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Volume 27, Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1990, pp. 245-255.

• Co-author with Dean Rosemary Du Mont, "Educating Librarians to be Trainers of End-Users of Online or On-Disk Databases," in the Proceedings of the IOLS Conference, 1990 (Integrated Online Library Systems), Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1990.

• With Marta Dosa, coeditor, Seminar on Education and Training for Information Manpower Forecasting In Espoo, Finland, 24-27 August 1988. The Hague: Nederlands (With introductory article and overview).

• "The Foundations of Information Science in Social Epistemology," Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Science Press, 1989, pp. 306-315. (chosen as the best paper of the mini-track, "Communication and Information Science: An Emerging Discipline").

• "Relevance and the Relevance of Social Epistemology," Proceedings of the International Conference of Federation Internationale de Documentation, Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki: The Finish Society for Information Services, 1988.

• With Marta Dosa, coeditor, Seminar on Education and Training for Technology Transfer: Papers Presented at the FID/Education and Training Workshop in Montreal, September 8-11, 1986. The Hague: Nederlands, 1987.

• "Challenges to Curriculum Development in Information Science," Education for Information 4 (4), 1986, pp. 1-25.

• With Marta Dosa, coeditor, Curriculum Development in a Changing World: Papers Presented at the FID/Education and Training Workshop. The Hague: Netherlands, 1986.

• With Marta Dosa, "Conference Report of Curriculum Development in a Changing World: FID Education and Training Committee Workshop, The Hague, September 17-20, 1984" in Education for Information 3 (1985), pp. 151-158.

• "Challenges to Curriculum Development in Information Science," in A Informação em Tempo de Mudança, Proceedings of the First National BAD (Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas) Conference, in Porto, Portugal, June 19-21, 1985 (revised and published in Education for Information, above).

• "A Critique of Models of Man-Machine Interface," Proceedings of ASIS, May, 1983.

• "Phenomenological Considerations on the Design of Information Systems," Proceedings of ASIS, October, 1982.

• "On Dialoguing with Users about their Needs," Proceedings of ASIS June, 1982.