Gary Marchionini
Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science
Expertise
Information interaction, human-computer interaction, human-centered computing, information retrieval, digital libraries, information architecture, digital government, cyberspace identity, information policy.
Education
PhD, Wayne State University, 1981
MEd, Wayne State University, 1974
BA, Western Michigan University 1971
Biography
Dr. Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS). He joined the SILS faculty in 1998 and became dean in 2010.
He was previously professor in the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland and a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (1983-1998).
A recognized expert in human-information interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries, he has published over 200 articles, chapters and, reports in a variety of books and journals.
He has received grants and research awards from the National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, Bureau of Labor Statistics, NASA, Microsoft, Google, and IBM among others.
In 2007, he used a Google Research Award to develop the Information in Life Video Series, making UNC-Chapel Hill one of the first universities to have content on YouTube and establishing what would become the UNC-Chapel Hill YouTube channel.
He was Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transaction on Information Systems (2002-2008) and is the editor for the Morgan-Claypool Lecture Series on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services.
He was program chair for ACM SIGIR (2005) and ACM/IEEE JCDL (2002), as well as general chair of ACM DL 96 and JCDL 2006. He served as President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in 2010.
His professional contributions have been recognized by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology (2000) and the ASIS&T Award of Merit (2011), the association’s highest honor.
His current interests and projects are related to interfaces that support information seeking and information retrieval, and issues arising from data science and ubiquitous information.
He was elected to the iSchool Board of Directors for the North America region in 2018 and reappointed to another five-year term as dean of SILS in 2021.