Information
- College Unit
- School of Information Sciences
- Position
- Lecturer
- sandusky(at)utk.edu
- Web Page
- http://web.utk.edu/~rsandusk
- Education
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S., Computer Science, Northern Illinois University
B.A., English, Northern Illinois University
- CV
- http://web.utk.edu/~rsandusk/vita.html
- Publications
- https://www.sis.utk.edu/biblio/author/Sandusky
- Biography
Dr. Sandusky's research centers on the investigation of the information practices employed by distributed/virtual communities as they collaborate to achieve their goals. He has performed his research in multiple domains including open source software engineering, digital libraries, and the management of distributed infrastructure on projects funded by NSF, DARPA, and NASA. His research into software engineering as an information-intensive socio-technical enterprise continues, and he is developing new projects in distributed biodiversity informatics, community informatics, and undergraduate education in the library and information sciences.
Grants and contracts secured include an internal grant for the development of a set of online learning modules contributed by faculty from across the college for use in the college’s gateway course for undergraduates and a contract from CSA to conduct a field study and assess the utility of a new approach to indexing scientific literature.
His teaching is centered on information and communications technologies and human-centered approaches to the development, design, evaluation, and management of information systems and services. Sandusky teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Sandusky has had a distinguished professional career in computing and data communications, gaining more than 15 years of professional experience in software development, digital library development, project management, and management of critical national-scale distributed systems. He rose to the position of systems officer with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Prior to earning his Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005, he earned an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in English from Northern Illinois University. He also attended the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business in the mid-1980s. Sandusky also was a paraprofessional in the library at NIU, performing cataloging and participating in the implementation of the library's first online public access catalog.
- Research Interests
The investigation of the information practices employed by distributed/virtual communities as they collaborate to achieve their goals.
Domains studied include: - open source software engineering - digital libraries and electronic journals - management of distributed infrastructure - distributed biodiversity informatics - community informatics
He also is conducting research into undergraduate education in the library and information sciences.
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