Position/Role: Lecturer

Schools/Unit: Information Systems, Technology and Management

Contact Details:

• Phone: +61 2 9385 7124
• Fax:  +61 2 9662 4061
• Email: f.cole@unsw.edu.au

Qualifications:

• PhD UNSW, MLib UNSW, BSc  Canterbury
  

Background:

• 1999 -          School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, UNSW, Lecturer
• 1998 - 1999: School of Information, Library and Archive Studies, UNSW, Lecturer
• 1994 - 1997: Department of Information Studies, University of Technology , Sydney, Tutor
• 1991 - 1992: School of Information, Library and Archive Studies, UNSW, Occasional Lecturer, Tutor
• 1978 - 1989: University of Waikato Library, New Zealand, Head of the Reference
• 1971 - 1978: General Library, University of Auckland, NZ, Assistant Librarian / Senior Librarian
• 1970 - 1971: U.E.B. Industries, Auckland, NZ, Library Database Designer
  

Research Interests:

• Anthropological and language aspects of information-related technologies (social informatics)
• Information-related aspects of organizations
• Information management / Information science / Information retrieval
• Data management and data quality issues
• GIS and other specialist information systems
• The information professions and the formulation of 'professional identity'

Publications:

• Data realities in plural contexts: Appraisal of a definition [of social informatics]. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, November 2006 [in press]
• (With Kennan, M.A., Willard, P., Wilson, C.S. & Marion, L.) Changing workplace demands: What job ads tell us. ASLIB Proceedings, vol.58(3), 2006: 179-196.
• (With Kennan, M.A., Willard, P., Wilson, C.S.) Changes in the workplace: transformation of the information professional? 2nd Research Applications in Information & Library Studies Seminar, Canberra, 16-17 September 2005 [Published refereed proceedings]
• Book review, Online Ecological and Environmental Data. / V. Baldwin (ed.) Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press, 2004. The Electronic Library, vol.23(5), 2005: 616-617.
• Book review, Stacey, A. & Stacey, A. Effective Information Retrieval from the Internet: An Advanced User’s Guide. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2004. Online Information Review, vol.29(4), 2005: 434-435.
• The discourse of data: Data-related vocabularies in geographic information systems description. Journal of Information Science, vol.31(1), 2005: 44-56.
• (with Willard, P. & Wilson, C.S.) Changing employment patterns: An Australian experience. Education for Information, vol.21(4), 2003: 209-228.
• How to do things with assumptions: James G March & researching the intelligent organization. School of Information Systems, Technology & Management, University of New South Wales, 2003. (BIRG working paper No.1).
• Book review, Assessing Service Quality : Satisfying the Expectations of Library Customers. / P. Hernon & E. Altman. Chicago: American Library Association, 1998. International Journal of Information Management, 20, 2000: 87-88.
• Book review, Quality Management and Benchmarking in the Information Sector : Results of Recent Research. / J. Brockman (ed.) London: Bowker Saur, 1997. International Journal of Information Management, 19, 1999: 99-101.
• Organization as Interpretive Action: A Study of Client/Service-Provider Relations at a National Government Archives. Thesis (PhD). University of New South Wales, 1996.

Courses Taught:

• Database and systems analysis and design
• Organization of knowledge
• Information sources and services
• Information retrieval
• Data communications