Spectrum Initiative Longitudinal Study
Loriene Roy
Glendora
Johnson-Cooper
Loriene Roy
Cynthia Tysick
Daisy Waters
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- In 1987 I completed a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). While there I worked three years in the Library Research Center. During that time I was involved as a partner or principal investigator for research projects funded by the Illinois State Library, including a statewide study of children's librarians, unobtrusive studies of reference service, and an experiment investigating methods to increase the stock turnover of books in small rural public library collections. All these projects were approved by the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Library Research Center, and participating parties, including the Illinois State Library and the Illinois Library Association's children's services division. In addition, my own research included conducting a statewide survey of use of volunteers in Illinois public libraries and use of personnel records in the UIUC University archives. I conducted all studies with prior approval.
- I was appointed to the University of Texas at Austin School of Information (formerly, Graduate School of Library and Information Science) in January 1987. During that time I developed and taught a graduate course in "Measurement and Evaluation of Library Services" and once taught our required "Research in Library and Information Science" class. We discussed research ethics within the course content. I have served as the Chair of the School of Information's Research and Colloquia Committee and as Chair of the Departmental Review Committee (DRC) since Fall 2001. As DRC chair I am the signatory of Applications for the review of projects involving human subjects to UT Austin's Institutional Review Board (IRB).
- I have reviewed these documents:
- University of Texas Policies and Procedures Manual
- NIH's Protection of Human Research Subjects
- NIH Bioethics Web site
- My own research includes the development and management of oral history programs and work with indigenous populations. I managed an oral history program for the Texas Library Association and designed one for the Association for Library Services to Children. I have used the guidelines for oral history research developed by the national Oral History Association and the documents for conducting research developed by the Alaska Native Knowledge Network and the Hopi Cultural Center. I have given several presentations at national conferences on intellectual and cultural property rights.