Editorial Board



Editor in Chief

Scott Seaman Ohio University, USA
Dr. David F. Kohl is presently Dean and University Librarian, Emeritus, University of Cincinnati; his career as an academic librarian has included positions at the University of Colorado – Boulder, University of Illinois – Urbana, and Washington State University. He has helped found and remains active in a number of library consortia including OhioLINK, HEALLink, ANKOS, and SELL, served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, Greece, India and Taiwan and has been actively involved in international library consulting and speaking. Dr. Kohl is a past president of the Reference and Adult Services Division of ALA, a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Academic Librarianship and has published widely on library issues including a six volume series on library management and the section on “Collection Development in the ARL Library” in the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Ideas and suggestions for the journal are welcome and may be addressed to: david.kohl@uc.edu.


Associate Editor in Chief

Younghee Noh Konkuk University, Korea
Younghee Noh has an MA and a PhD in Library & Information Science from Yonsei University, Seoul. She has published more than 50 books, including 3 books awarded as Outstanding Academic Books by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism(Government) and more than 120 papers, including one selected as a Featured Article by the Informed Librarian Online in February 2012.
She was listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2012-2016 and Who's Who in Science and Engineering in 2016-2017. She received research excellence awards from both Konkuk University (2009) and Konkuk University Alumni (2013) as well as recognition by “the award for Teaching Excellence” from Konkuk University in 2014. She received research excellence awards from ‘Korean Library and Information Science Society’ in 2014. One of the books she published in 2014, was selected as ‘Outstanding Academic Book’ by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2015. She received the Awards for Professional Excellence as Asia Library Leaders from Satija Research Foundation in Library and Information Science (India) in 2014. She has been a Chief Editor of World Research Journal of Library and Information Science in Mar 2013~ Feb 2016.
Since 2004, she has been a Professor in the Department of Library & Information Science at Konkuk University, where she teaches courses in Metadata, Digital Libraries, Processing of Internet Information Resources, and Digital Contents. Before that, she taught courses in Using Information in a Knowledge-Based Society, Information Resources in Social Science, and Information Resources in Humanities in the Department of Library & Information Science, Yonsei University. From 1997 to 2004 she was Head of the International Information Center, Ewha Women’s University.


Professional Language Editor

Joel Winkelman Hamilton College


Editorial Board

Chul-Wan Kwak Kangnam University, Korea 
Diane H. Sonnenwald University College Dublin, Ireland
Hyuk-Jin Lee Texas Women’s University, USA
HyunJin Hong Chonnam National University, Korea
Jae.Hwang Choi Kyungpook National University, Korea
Jihyun Kim Chonnam National University, Korea
KP Singh University of Delhi, India
Mohinder P. Satija Guru Nanak Dev University, India
Namjoo Choi University of Kentucky, USA
Patrick Saint-Dizer CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), France
Nahyun Kwon Myongji University, Korea
Naresh Agarwal Simmons University, USA
Paul Gandel Syracuse University, USA
Robert M. Losee University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Sanghee Oh Chungnam National University, Korea
Seok-Hyoung Lee Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea
Sook Lim St. Catherine University, USA
Sung Jae Park Hansung University, Korea
Tom Dobrowolski University of Warsaw, Poland
Daniel Martínez-Ávila Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain
Yonggu Lee Keimyung University, Korea
Jong Wook Lee Kyungpook National University, Korea
Dr. Yanti Idaya Aspura Mohd Khali University of Malaya, Malaysia
Peter Sidorko The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dinesh K. Gupta Kurukshetra University, India
Dr. Samsul Farid Samsuddin University of Malaya, Malaysia
Kristen Totleben University of Rochester, United States
Rabinarayan Mishra Mizoram University, India
Chengzhi Zhang Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Abdul Manaf Bohari Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia


Professional Language Editor

Patricia R. Ladd University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Professional Language Editor (May 2011-present)
International Journal of Knowledge Content Development and Technology, Chungju, South Korea

Job Responsibilities
Working with authors to translate their articles into readable, academic English
Intern (May 2010-May 2011)
West Regional Library, Cary, North Carolina
Job Responsibilities
Aiding library patrons in finding and accessing materials, computer assistance, circulation duties, aiding in planning and putting on children’s programming, making displays, collection maintenance, making book lists
Private Tutor (March 2010-present)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Reading Program Instructor and Math Tutor (August 2009-February 2010)
Mathnasium, Cary, North Carolina
Student Assistant (Aug 2006-May 2007, Aug 2008-May 2009)
Woodson Research Center, Houston, Texas
Summer Children’s Programmer/Library Aide (May-August, 2005-2008)
Seminole Community Library, Seminole, Florida
Education
- Master of Science, Library Science (May 2011)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Bachelor of Arts, English Literature (May 2009)
- Rice University, Houston
  (Taught the first Student Taught Course, WIESS)
  ( 101: Zombies in Fiction and Film)


Ilene Freedman  
[Education]
BA, Psychology Douglass College of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
MA, Guidance and Counseling, NYU University, New York, NY
Certificate in English as a Second Language Instruction, Duke University, Durham, NC
Work Experience:
[Experience]
14 years experience working in the English as a Second Language field which includes:
Teaching ESL classes for Wake Tech Community College for 7 years
Editing papers for past 10 years.
Teaching classes for Wake Tech Community College for their Human Resource Development Department