Show Me the Data

摘要

Many librarians have been concerned with the unintended consequences of new technologies, but Kristin Eschenfelder—librarian, scholar, and social scientist—gathers the data to enable rational policy decisions about technology's ramifications. As assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at University of Wisconsin—Madison (UWM), Eschenfelder studies information systems from a social perspective. The school's director, Louise Robbins, says Eschenfelder "is not yet well known, but she will be. She uses a social informatics framework to look at web-based information and information policies, particularly in state and federal government. She is beginning to draw the interest of the American Library Association Washington office for her research."