Director-at-Large, Julian Warner
Julian
Warner is a faculty member in information science at the Queen’s University of
Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he teaches courses in the human aspects of
modern information and communication technologies and in information policy. He
has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of California at Berkeley,
Illinois, and Edinburgh, and a visiting professor at Indiana University. He has
published a number of journal articles in information science and three books,
the first of which was translated into Japanese and selected as a recommended
reading by Microsoft Japan.
He has been a member of ASIS&T since 1991, has served as Chair of the
European Chapter, as a member and as Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws
Committee, and as Chair of the SIG History and Foundations of Information
Science (HFIS), and has acted as a juror for the ISI Dissertation Scholarship
Jury. He is currently Chair of SIG HFIS, a member of the ASIS&T Bulletin
Advisory Board, and is responsible for reporting on ASIS&T’s possibilities
for international development in Europe. He was active in beginning the
expansion of ASIS&T’s international remit and has served as an
International Liaison to the ASIS&T Board.
In a former life, he worked in industrial research, graduated with degrees in
English Literature from the Universities of Newcastle and Oxford, and
librarianship from Sheffield.
He is honored to have been selected by the ASIST Nominations Committee as a
candidate for Director-at-Large.