University Library Faculty Profile

PETER HEPBURN

Digitization Librarian and Assistant Professor
Systems Group

Richard J. Daley Library
University Library M/C 234
801 S. Morgan St.
Chicago, IL 60607

312.996.6633
phepburn (at) uic (dot) edu
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Publications and Presentations | Service

 

Research Statement

My research interests focus on issues of language and access to digital information: storage and retrieval of information in electronic formats, especially images; relationship between indexing of images and their storage and retrieval and the implications for digitization; use and navigation of web pages, especially as it applies to managing the pages.

 

Publications and Presentations

Refereed Articles

Hepburn, Peter and Krystal M. Lewis. "What's in a name? Using card sorting to evaluate branding in an academic library's Web site". College & Research Libraries 69 (3) (May 2008) pp. 242-250.

Hepburn, Peter and Joan B. Fiscella. "Constructing Descriptive Records For An Art Image Database: What Do Use Statistics Tell Us?". College & Research Libraries 67 (4) (July 2006) pp. 334-353.

Hepburn, Peter and Francis Kayiwa. "Creating Web Portals for a Multi-type Library System: the use of open source code in the Chicago Library System". Public Services Quarterly 1 (4) (Summer, 2003) pp. 81-88.

Non-refereed Articles and Columns

Hepburn, Peter, Kathryn Deiss, and Scott Collard. "Library Hot Groups: how academic libraries can harness maverick groups". Library Administration & Management 17 (3) Summer, 2003) pp. 141-143.

Hepburn, Peter. "Work in Progress - My Chicago Library". Feliciter 48 (3) (2002). P. 104.

Hepburn, Peter. "Residency Programs as a Means of Nurturing New Librarians". Feliciter 47 (3) (2001) pp. 142-144.

Hepburn, Peter. "Wireless in Chicago (transmitting library information to students by means of wireless technology at the University of Illinois at Chicago)". Feliciter 47 (2) (2001) p. 77.

Hepburn, Peter. "Safely home from Toronto: a student at the CLA Conference (1999)". Feliciter 45 (5) (1999) p. 272-273.

Book Reviews

From 2001 to 2006 I wrote approximately three-dozen book reviews that were published in E-STREAMS and eight reviews published in Library Journal. One E-STREAMS review was subsequently reprinted in Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review 3 (3) (November 2002).

Presentations

Sharon Hogan Management Symposium (co-presenter with Anne Beaubien). Pre-conference presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) National Conference, Baltimore MD, March 29, 2007.

Sharon Hogan Management Symposium (co-presenter with Anne Beaubien). Pre-conference presented at the ACRL National Conference, Minneapolis MN, April 7, 2005.

Sharon Hogan Management Symposium (co-presenter with Anne Beaubien). Pre-conference presented at the ACRL National Conference, Charlotte NC, April 9, 2003.

The Residents' Program @ UIC Libraries: Reflections on possibilities and opportunities for new librarians (co-panelist with Bob Daugherty, Annie-Marie Ford, Li Fu). Presented at the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians conference, Milwaukee WI, April 3, 2003. Revised re-presentation of the session from the Illinois Library Association (ILA) conference, Chicago IL, September 26, 2002. (Invited)

Residents' seminar. The Residents' Program @ UIC Libraries: Reflections on possibilities and opportunities for new librarians (co-presenter with Bob Daugherty, Annie-Marie Ford, Li Fu). Presented the UIC resident librarians' seminar, Chicago IL, October 25, 2002. The seminar was based on the ILA presentation but included a discussion of the process of developing such presentations. (Invited)

The Residents' Program @ UIC Libraries: Reflections on possibilities and opportunities for new librarians (co-panelist with Bob Daugherty, Annie-Marie Ford, Li Fu). Presented at the ILA conference, Chicago IL, September 26, 2002.

Making Collaborative Connections: Innovative partnerships in the academic library (co-panelist with Scott Collard and Kathryn Deiss). Presented at the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries conference, Oak Brook IL, April 4, 2002.

Creating Web Portals for a Multi-type Library System (co-presenter with Francis Kayiwa). Presented at the Online NorthWest Conference, Eugene OR, March 1, 2002.

Poster Sessions

Implications of Multi-Institution Collaboration for Retrieval of Digitized Images from a Database. Presented at the ACRL 12th National Conference, Minneapolis MN, April 8, 2005.

Internalizing Blackboard: using Course Management Systems to create staff training modules. Presented at Imagining an Integrated Future: library content, library services and the campus Course Management System, a CIC conference for librarians and information technology professionals, Chicago, IL, February 24, 2004.

 

Service

American Library Association, 2000-present

• ACRL, member, 2001-present
  • ACRL Instruction Section (IS), member, 2001-present
  • ACRL University Libraries Section, member, 2003-present
  • ACRL Anthropology and Sociology Section (ANSS), member, 2001-2003
• Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA), member, 2004-present
  • LAMA Human Resources Section, member, 2004-present
  • LAMA Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation Section (MAES), member, 2004-present
• RUSA, member, 2003-2004
  • RUSA MOUSS, member, 2003-2004
• New Members Round Table (NMRT), member, 2002-present
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT), member, 2000-present

Committee work

• ALA Elections Committee, 2008-2010; chair, 2008-2009
• ALA Task Force on Electronic Member Participation, 2007-2009
• ALA Committee on Organization (COO), member. 2004-2008 ; intern, 2002-2004
  
• LAMA MAES Using Measurement Data for Library Planning Assessment Committee, member, 2005-2007
  
• IS Local Arrangements Committee, member, 2004-2005
  
• Liaison from NMRT to GLBTRT. 2003-2004
• NMRT Leadership Development Committee, chair, 2004-2005; member, 2003-2005
  
• ANSS Conference Program Planning - Toronto, 2003 Committee, member, 2001-2003
  

Library Committees and Task Forces

• Lectures and Forums Committee, chair, 2005-2006; member, 2004-2008 (elected)
• Nominations and Elections Committee, member, 2005-2007

• Digital Strategy Task Force, member, 2008
• Digital Collection Software Management Task Force, chair, 2006-2007
• LibQual+ Task Force, member, 2006-2007
• Web Oversight Committee, member, 2005-9
  
• Marketing Task Force, member, 2005-7
  
• Team Vision 2010 Committee, co-chair, 2004-2005
  Question Point Administration Team, member, 2004-2005
  
• Search and Screen Committee, member, 2003-2004
• E-Reserves Task Force, member, 2002-2005
  
• ILL Works Plus Task Force, member, 2002-2005
  
• LibQual+ Task Force, member, 2002-2003
  
• Digital Services for Users Task Force, Circulation Department liaison, 2002-2004
  
• CD/DVD Task Force, member, 2001-2002