About
Me (in third person):
Jens-Erik
Mai is Associate Professor in the
Faculty of Information at
the University of Toronto, where he previously served as Vice Dean
and Acting Dean.
Jens-Erik
is interested in basic questions about the nature of information
phenomena; he has explored these from a variety of conceptual points
(e.g. semiotics, cognitive work analysis, late-modernity, philosophy of
language) often with a focus on issues and questions in the
organization of information. He has contributed conceptual
constructions as well as methodological and programmatic papers that
have helped forward thinking about the organization of
information. His most recent publications explore authority and
trust in information systems and services, and contemporary
classification theory's conceptual foundation in modernity.
He teaches courses on
representation of information, classification, design of controlled
vocabularies, and the theoretical foundation of information studies.
Jens-Erik
currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, as Consulting Editor of the Knowledge
Organization journal, as member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Aslib Proceedings, and he is the Conference Chair the 2012
iConference to be held in Toronto in Feb., 2012.
Jens-Erik was previously on the
faculty at the Information School of the University of Washington where
he also co-directed the Center for Human-Information Interaction;
prior
to that he was a faculty member at the Royal School of Library and
Information Science, Denmark. He earned his
Ph.D. in Library and
Information Science from the
University of Texas at Austin as a Fulbright Scholar and his Master and
Bachelor degrees from the Royal School of Library and Information
Science, Denmark. |
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What I have written:
Links to my publications
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What
I teach:
INF 1002 Rep., Org., Class., and
Meaning-Making [ROCM] | Winter 2012
INF 1320 Introduction to Bibliographic Control | Winter
2010
INF 2142 Theories of Classification and KO | Winter
2010
INF 3001 Research in Information: Foundations | Fall 2011
Where
I have been:
Faculty
of Information, University
of Toronto
Associate Professor, 2006 -
Vice Dean, 2006-2009
Acting Dean, Fall 2008
Information
School, University
of Washington
Assistant Professor, 2000-2006
Co-Director, Center for Human-Information
Interaction, 2003-2006
Royal School of
Library and
Information Science, Denmark
Lecturer, 1996-2000
What
I have done:
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, 2000
School
of Information, University of
Texas at
Austin
Master of Library and Information Science, 1994
Royal
School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark
Librarian (Bachelor degree in LIS), 1992
Royal
School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark
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