The UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science is pleased to announce that Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz has joined its faculty and will begin teaching a course on retrieving and analyzing information this fall. His interest areas are the integration of digital reference services into digital and physical libraries, automation of library services, classification and information retrieval.

A new Syracuse University Ph.D., his dissertation analyzed the triage process in digital reference and developed specifications for automated question systems. He has been a research associate for the Information Institute of Syracuse since 2001, and has been closely involved in the institute's work on developing user services for the NSF's National Science Digital Library. His previous research includes document genre on the Web and electronic scholarly publishing.

Pomerantz has a master’s degree in library science from Simmons College in Boston and a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. We warmly welcome him on board.