at the University of Maryland after serving for two terms as President of the Graduate Student Government, following a B.S. He served as Mayor of College Park from 2009-2015, and has over 30 years of grassroots organizing and management experience, including as Chesapeake Regional Director for Clean Water Action from 1999 through 2014.
Senior Personnel ANDREW MACKENZIE FELLOWSĪndrew Fellows coordinates Campus Community Connection at the University of Maryland, in a joint appointment to the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education/School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the College of Information Studies. She is especially interested in work as collective action and the interplay between institutions and individuals. Her research interests are on the post-industrial relationship between information, technology and new forms of work. Susan received her PhD from the University of Arizona and her MA from the Claremont Graduate University. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Information Technology, Information and Organization, and Group and Organization Management. Winter is the Associate Dean for Research and co-Director of the Center for Advanced Study of Communities and Information at the University of Maryland’s School of Information Studies. Evaluate the impact of the services on community development.Train the staff of the partner libraries to use the analytics dashboard and run DA&BI scenarios.Create a platform and GUI dashboard for libraries to provide DA&BI services to the community using machine learning, data mining, web mining, and text analytics.Identify sources of useful data (national, state, county) and consolidate data in a repository for long-term access and delivery.Further develop our coalition of academia, public libraries, small business development centers, small businesses, and community advocates.Identify the social and institutional barriers to integrating advances of DA&BI into the practices of small businesses and community advocates.Identify the range of DA&BI services that can best serve the needs of small businesses and community advocates by assessing current services and analyzing unmet needs.The project follows a participatory applied research approach to engage with the community and inform its design through their feedback while investigating its overarching research questions. Development and Initial Implementation,.Needs Assessment and Pre-Development Research,.
KNEXT is implemented in three phases (over three years): Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ National Leadership Grants for National Digital Platform, this research project addresses the question: How can we integrate advances in big data and data analytics into libraries as essential community anchors in a way that empowers those communities while encouraging economic development and well-being? Hence, this project addresses two strategic goals of the IMLS: to “promote the use of technology to facilitate discovery of knowledge” within local communities through libraries and promote libraries as community anchors “to enhance civic engagement and economic vitality.” KNEXT is a three-year collaborative project between Kent State University (KSU-SLIS) and the University of Maryland (UMD-CIS), which partners with local public libraries, small business development centers, economic development organizations, and community advocacy groups to bring advanced data analytics and business intelligence (DA&BI) services to public libraries in order to support small businesses, entrepreneurs, and community advocates within two recovering communities in Ohio and Maryland.
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