Director-at-Large, Katherine McCain
Kate McCain is Professor and Associate Dean at the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. She currently teaches a course in Content Representation and the introductory doctoral seminar, Topics in Information Science while also serving as a full-time administrator with curricular responsibility for the MS(LIS) program. In past years she has also taught courses in science and engineering reference, serial literature, scholarly communication, among others. Her research interests are squarely within information science as represented by ASIS&T. Her primary focus for the past 25 years has been quantitative studies of scholarly fields and literatures using the tools of bibliometrics and knowledge domain visualization –but she has also published on information retrieval systems evaluation and communication in the life sciences. In 1998 she and her senior co-author, Howard White, won the ASIS Best Paper award for their author cocitation mapping of Information Science. She has a PhD in Information Studies from Drexel University, and two degrees, BS and MS, in the life sciences. Her involvement with ASIS&T is of long standing. She attended her first ASIS&T meeting in 1985 and has only missed one or two since then. She has been most active in SIG/STI (formerly SIG/BC), serving as chair-elect/program chair and chair and then, for a number of years, organizing and chairing the student travel award jury that oversaw the awards from Chemical Abstracts Service (until fairly recently) BIOSIS. She has also been a member of SIG/ED and served on and chaired the SIG/ED Doctoral Forum jury, the Student Chapter of the Year jury and the Student Paper award. She has served on the Annual Meeting Program Committee and reviewed technical program proposals for many years and has organized panels and presented at annual meetings. She is a member of the Editorial Board of JASIST as well as several other information science journals.