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Adjunct Professor Loriene Roy
Professor Loriene Roy, from the University of Texas at Austin, has accepted our invitation to serve as an Adjunct Professor of SIM from 2012-2014. As an Adjunct Professor, Loriene will share her expertise with students, staff, and the wider professional community, including giving public presentations, co-supervision of postgraduate student research, and research collaboration.
We particularly value the information studies work she has done in bridging with indigenous communities -- Loriene is Anishinabe, enrolled on the White Earth Reservation, a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe -- and look forward to working more closely with her.
A frequent visitor to New Zealand, Loriene is a personal member of LIANZA and has participated in a number of LIANZA conferences. She is also an Associate Member of Te Rōpū Whakahau. These close relationships led to LIANZA and Te Rōpū Whakahau being selected to receive her newly-established ALA Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects award in 2008, in recognition of their commitment to partnership and the bicultural development of librarianship in this country.
Biographical Details
Dr. Roy's writing, research, and service is centered on indigenous cultural heritage development, and she also advocates for the inclusion and study of formal and informal service learning opportunities for graduate students. A Professor at the School of Information, University of Texas, Loriene teaches graduate courses in basic reference, library instruction and information literacy, reader's advisory, and indigenous librarianship.
She has adjunct appointments at the University of Texas at Austin in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education, and in the Native American Indigenous Studies Program. Loriene is also an Adjunct Professor in the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
Her interest in teaching LIS students in the area of public services is also expressed by her continuing contributions to writings on service learning, an area that crosses her main writing/research focus of indigenous cultural heritage development.
A past president of the American Library Association (ALA), Loriene is a highly-awarded member of the profession and has written widely and delivered over 500 formal presentations worldwide. She currently serves as the Convener of the Special Interest Group on Indigenous Matters for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and is Chair-Elect of the International Relations Round Table of ALA.
Adjunct Professor Benoit Aubert
Professor Benoit Aubert has had a lengthy association with SIM; as well as serving previously as Adjunct Professor, he has taught the honours course INFO 405, IT and the New Organisation for a number of years.
During his 2011 visit to Wellington, Benoit has also co-taught a new Honours course, INFO 409: IT, Innovation, Value & Productivity. Topics included research on the link between IT investments and productivity, innovation models, IT project and value management, and IT benefits realisation and measurement metrics.
Benoit is a Fellow of the CIRANO (Centre inter-universitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations) and holds the Professorship in Governance and Information Technology at HEC Montreal.
Biographical Details
Benoit Aubert was President and Chief Executive Officer of the CIRANO, Director of Research at HEC Montreal, and Director of the IS Research Group at HEC Montreal. He co-chaired the Outsourcing Track of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (1997-2007) and was President of the IS division of the Administrative Science Association of Canada. He was finalist for the Outsourcing World Achievement Award co-sponsored by the PricewaterhouseCoopers and Corbett and Associate.
Benoit's main research areas are outsourcing, risk management, and new organization forms (virtual, network, alliances, etc.). He published several articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, and reports on these topics. His work on risk management has led to software products and licensing agreements between the university and private organisations. He also published papers on trust, ontology, and health care information systems. He received funding from the Social Science and Humanities Council (SSHRC), the Fonds pour la Recherche Societe et Culture (FQRSC), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Benoit has a long record of collaborations with both private and public organisations. He frequently acts as expert consultant on outsourcing decisions, IT strategy and enterprise reorganisations, and collaborates on a regular basis with large private and public organisations, as well as with government agencies.