Awards

Editor, ASIS&T Monograph Series published by Information Today, Inc., 2005

Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award, University of South Florida, 2004

President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2004

Nomination for the Richard W. Lyman Humanities Award, National Center for the Humanities, 2003 & 2004

Invited, founding member of the OCLC Digital and Preservation Cooperative, 2002- 2003

Honors Professor 2002, University of North Texas, Student Government Association Award.

Commencement Speaker, University of North Texas, Summer 1997: Faculty elected.

Developing Scholars Award, University of North Texas, 1999.

Grants and Proposals

Institute for Museum and Library Services for Changing the Next Generation of Teacher Scholars for Library and Information Science Education in the Area of Children, Families, and Literacy. Inherited from Dr. D. Barron, USC. Submitted, Fall 2005 ($720,655) FUNDED – PI

Investigating the Third Dimension: UNT Regional 3D Image Center. Submitted May 2005, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ($500,000) Pending.

Photographic Preservation Society for Cowgirl Museum of Fort Worth Goes Digital. Submitted, Fall 2004 – revised and resubmitted Spring 2005 ($100,000) Pending. Received $15,000 for support of digital imaging internships

Arius3D Company for Arius3D and University of North Texas, TXCDK Partnership to Develop Regional 3D Scanning Center. Submitted, Fall 2004 ($350,000) Not Funded.

Institute for Museum and Library Services for Standing at the Digital Crossroads: Thinking About the Ph.D. Extension for 10 additional fellowships. Submitted, Fall 2004 ($192,000) FUNDED – Co-PI

Institute for Museum and Library Services for Standing at the Digital Crossroads: Thinking About the Ph.D. Submitted, April 2003 ($444,344) FUNDED – Co-PI

Library of Congress, National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program for CDL & UNT Preserve Government Information. Submitted, October 2003 ($433,205) Funded 2004 – Co-PI with Cathy Hartman.

Ministry of Culture, Qatar for A Plan for Services for the New National Library of Qatar. Submitted, June 2003 ($1,270,000) CONTRACT WENT TO THE FRENCH

Institute for Museum and Library Services for Meta-Play: Player Structured Game Platform for Informal Broadband Learning in an Art Environment. Submitted, April 2003 ($491,093) NOT FUNDED

Institute for Museum and Library Services for Adding the Third Dimension in Image Retrieval Research. Submitted, April 2002 ($499,360) NOT FUNDED

National Science Foundation for ITR: Enhancing Instructor and Learner Interactions Using Created Realities Technologies. Submitted, December 2002 ($496,788) NOT FUNDED.

Arius3D Software Company, matching funds and services of $900,000 for 3D image research, December 2002. NOT FUNDED

Dallas Women’s Foundation for Evaluation of the Topocam ($10,000) September 2002.

Institute for Museum and Library Services for Digital Image Managers: A Library- Museum-University Collaboration Fostering Specialists from Masters to Ph.D. Submitted, April 2000 granted ($870,093) September, 2000 for two years.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Internships. Submitted, May 2000 granted ($120,000) September 2000.

Institute for Museum and Library Services for Digital Image Managers for the New Millennium: A Museum / University Collaboration. Submitted, April 17, 1998 and received full funding ($408,000) October, 1998.

UNT Faculty Research Initiation Grant for User Evaluation in the Retrieval of Digital Art Images. Submitted, April 1, 1998 and received September, 1998.

UNT Teaching with Technology Grant Proposal for SLIS 5600 (Information and Access Services) Goes Remote with Drs. A. Cleveland and Y. Chandler. Received February, 1998.