Biography

Stuart Ferguson is an Assistant Professor in Information Studies, at University of Canberra, where he leads development of the librarianship specialisation in the Master of Information Studies (Online).  He has an academic background in politics, political theory and librarianship and holds a PhD in literary theory.

Stuart has professional experience of librarianship, indexing and library management in Scotland, South Africa and Australia, and has twenty years experience of teaching librarianship and information and knowledge management. He has published widely in the fields of information systems in libraries, knowledge management, information ethics, information literacy, information organisation and Marxist aesthetics, and is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Design’s Public Communication Research Cluster.

Book publications include joint authorship with Rod Hebels of Computers for Librarians: An Introduction to the Electronic Library , 3rd edition (Centre for Information Studies, 2003), editorship of Libraries in the Twenty-first Century: Charting New Directions in Information Services (Centre for Information Studies, 2007) and editorship of the Australasian section of Global Library and Information Science (IFLA publications, 2009).

Current research projects:

• with Professor Forbes Gibb (Strathclyde University), Professor John Weckert (Charles Sturt University) and Dr Clare Thornley (University College, Dublin); Radio Frequency Identification technology in libraries and client privacy;
  
•  with Sally Burford ( University of Canberra); use of knowledge management standards/frameworks in large knowledge intensive organisations (preliminary study into the contribution of KM standards to Australian industry, government and the economy).

Global Library and Information Science (International Federation of Library Associations, 2009) http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/bb/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783598220425-1&fg=BB-01

Libraries in the Twenty-first Century (Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 2007) http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/CIS/L21C/index.htm

Computers for Librarians (Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 2003) http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/CIS/2878/index.htm


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