Catherine L. Smith

Service

Kent State University

College of Communication and Information – Committee:

  • Resource and Creative Activity Funding Committee, 2010 – present

School of Information – Standing Committees:

  • Faculty Affairs Committee; Co-chair, 2018-present
  • Systematic Planning Committee, Co-chair, 2017–2018
  • Technology Committee, 2010 – present, chair 2013-2016
  • Student Academic Complaint Committee, 2010 – 2017; Chair 2011 – 2016

Ad-hoc service:

  • Search Committee, Goodyear Professor of Information Architecture and Knowledge Management, Co-chair, 2017–2018
  • Ad-hoc Working Group on Data Sciences Synergies, 2016
  • Search Committee, Goodyear Professor of Information Architecture and Knowledge Management, 2015–2016
  • Ad hoc Committee on Online Student Orientation: 2016 - 2017
  • Ad hoc Committee on Revisions to SLIS FAC Handbook: 2012 - 2014
  • Ad hoc Committee on Learning Outcomes, 2012
  • Sub-committee on Administration & Financial Support, Committee on Accreditation, 2010 – 2011
  • "Cognition and Technology", group member for course outline for Digital Studies Task Force, Fall 2010

Service to the profession

Peer review and editorial activities: journals

  • Information Processing & Management, Special Issue on HCIR, co-guest editor, 2012; article reviewing, 2015 – 2017
  • Journal of Information Science, 2015
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2014
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2012
  • Information Retrieval, 2009

Peer review activities: conferences

  • Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), 2016 – 2019
  • Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2009 – 2010, 2013 – 2016, 2018 – 2019
  • Information Interaction in Context Conference (IIiX), 2010, 2012, 2014
  • Knowledge Maps and Information Retrieval (KMIR) workshop, at JCDL, 2014
  • American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, 2009
  • Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010, 2011
  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2005

Peer review activities: funding

  • Panel reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2014, 2016

Committee memberships:

  • Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), Organizing Committee, 2019
  • Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, Organizing Committee, 2018
  • Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '17), Senior Program Committee Member, 2017 – 2019
  • Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), Steering Committee Member, 2014 – present;
  • Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T), Award Nomination Committee, 2016
  • Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Doctoral Consortium Co-chair, 2015
  • IIiX/HCIR Ad hoc Merger Taskforce, Committee Member, 2014
  • Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR)
    • Steering Committee Member, 2010 – 2014
    • Local Arrangements Chair, 2010, 2012

Board Memberships:

  • Information Processing & Management, Editorial Board, 2016 – present
  • Northern Ohio Chapter of The American Society for Information Science and Technology (NORASIS&T)
    • Chair, 2017–present
    • Co-chair, 2015 - 2017
    • Treasurer, 2011 – present
    • Chair, 2014 - 2015