Service

HOD activities
Timetabling for IS Division programmes; assignment of teaching responsibilities.
Advertising and interviewing of potential applicants for part-time positions.
Mentoring of Assistant Professors in the Division.
Faculty Appraisal for the members of the Division.
Representation of the Division/School to external parties and visitors.
Examination of budget requests.
Examination of conference and annual leave applications.
Examination of sabbatical leave applications.
Participation in alumni outreach activities.
Oversight of undergraduate exams for division members teaching undergraduate courses.
Collection of feedback from current students through informal lunches.
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Specific activities for Evaluation period
Mentor, Humanities & Social Science Research Programme (HSSRP).
Co-ordinator for Critical Inquiry Projects for the Division of Information Studies.
Co-editor of LIBRES journal.
Programme committee member for: ALIEP, ISIC, and COLIS conferences.
Member of the Executive Library Management Programme (ELMP) design team.
Member of the Curriculum review committee for the Information Studies Programme.
Member of the Curriculum review committee for the Information Studies Undergraduate Minor Programme.
Mentor, Humanities & Social Science Research Programme (HSSRP).
Co-ordinator for Critical Inquiry Projects for the Division of Information Studies.
Co-editor of LIBRES journal.
Member of the editorial boards of Journal of Documentation, and Library & Information History, LIBRES, and Asia-Pacific Journal of Library and Information Science.
Reviewer for: Journal of Contemporary Asia, JASIST, Journal of Documentation.
Reviewer for a special thematic issue (Changing orders of knowledge? Encyclopaedias in transition) of Culture Unbound.
Reviewer of conference papers for: Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conference 2012 to 2013.
Reviewer of conference papers for: Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference 2009 to 2013.
Guest lecturer in A9011 Philosophy of Research.
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Previous activities
Reviewer for: JASIST, Journal of Documentation, Libri, New Media & Society and Journal of Information Technology & Politics.
Reviewer of conference papers for: A-LIEP 2011.
Reviewer of conference papers for: 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations 2009.
Editor of Courtyard, a quarterly e-publication of the NLB & NTU, 2008 – 2011.
Invited talk for NUS University Scholars’ Seminar, January 26th, 2011: Wikipedia, credibility and disciplinary conventions: the case of history.
Invited talk for NLB librarians, February 2, 2010: Wikipedia, credibility and disciplinary conventions: the case of history. Another is planned for September 20, 2010.
Invited guest lecturer for COM202 Information Literacy, A9011 Philosophy of Research, and H6733 Social Computing.
Organizer of 2010 & 2011 internship programme for Information Studies students.
Instructor at NLB research seminar 2009.
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