Christine L. Borgman

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Christine L. Borgman (b. 1951) is Professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She was previously visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University), Loughborough University, Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest), and Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. Borgman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interests include digital libraries, information seeking, information retrieval, information policy, infrastructure, and human-computer interaction, but she is best known for her work in scholarly communication, scientific information, and bibliometrics.

Borgman is the author of more than 150 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication. Her book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), won the Best Information Science book of the year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is a co-principal investigator for the Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS) and for the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) project, both funded by the National Science Foundation.

She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University, M.L.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, and B.A. in Mathematics from Michigan State University.

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Effective online searching : a basic text (M. Dekker, 1984)
Scholarly communication and bibliometrics (Sage, 1990)
From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure : access to information in the networked world (MIT Press, 2000)
Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007)