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Harry Bruce is the Dean of the
University of Washington Information School. His
research and teaching focus on human information behavior,
information seeking and use, and personal information
management in networked information environments. Dr. Bruce’s research has been funded by the National Science
Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS), the Washington State Library, and the Australian
Department of Employment Education and Training.
Research Highlights
- National Science Foundation— Information & Intelligent Systems ($24,484) 2010-2011: “Workshop: 2011 iConference Doctoral Research Colloquium”
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National Science Foundation — Intelligent Information
Systems – Collaborative Systems “Structuring Personal
Information Collections” ($605,000) 2006-2009
- Microsoft ($75,000) 2005-2006 "The Encarta Project"
- National Science Foundation - Information and Data
Management ($428,389) 2001, 2002, 2003 "Keeping Found Things
Found" Supplementary award ($70,000), 2004-2005
- National Science Foundation – Information and Data
Management ($34,361) 2004, 2005 "Sponsored workshop on
personal information management"
- National Science Foundation - Information and Data
Management ($246,208) 2003 "Information Retrieval and
Databases: Synergies and Syntheses" – PI workshop, Seattle,
September 2003.
- Institute for Museum and Library Services ($212,023)
2003, 2004, 2005 "Project Athena: Spinning the Web of our
Future"
- Institute for Museum and Library Services ($74, 801)
2005, 2006 "Extending the Web"
- National Science Foundation - Computation and Social Systems ($444,947)
1999, 2000, 2001 "Collaborative Information Retrieval"
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Dean and Professor
The Information School
University of Washington
P: 206-616-0985
F: 206-616-3152
E:
harryb@uw.edu
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Recent Presentations
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Bruce, H. “The Audacious Vision of Information Schools.” 2010 International Symposium on the Transformation &
Innovation of Library and Information Science, November 16-17, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Bruce, H. "High Impact Leadership Roles for the 21st Century Academic Librarian." Academic Librarian 2: Singing in the Rain;
The Conference Towards Future Possibilities; March 11-12, 2010, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
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Bruce, H. ”The Emerging Role of Libraries in an Information
Age.“ Friends of the Seattle Pacific University Libraries,
SPU, Seattle, WA; March 25, 2009.
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Bruce, H. “Leadership in Higher education: iSchools
and the 21st Century Librarian.” NW Academic Library
Directors Symposium, Portland, OR; November 6, 2008.
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Keeping Found Things Found and Other Challenges of Personal
Information Management. Pressing Questions of the
Information Age Series, University of Washington, June,
2005.
Recent Publications
- Bruce, H., Wenning, A., Jones, E., Vinson, J., and Jones, W. Seeking an ideal solution to the management of personal information collections.
Information Research, 16(1) March, 2011.
- Jones, E., Bruce, H., et al. (2008). "I Give Up! Five Factors that Contribute to the Abandonment of Information Management Strategies."
68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2008). Columbus, OH.
- Civan, A., Jones, W., Klasnja, P., Bruce, H. (2008). "Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags?:
The Devil Is in the Details." 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2008), Columbus, OH.[1]
- Jones, W., Bruce, H., Foxley, A., and Munat, C. "Planning Personal Projects and Organizing Personal Information."
Annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Austin, Texas, November 2006.
- Bruce, H., Richardson, D.J., and Eisenberg, M. "The I-Conference: Gathering of the Clans of Information."
Bulletin of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 32 (No. 4), April-May, 2006 pp.9-23.
- Bruce, H. Personal anticipated information
need. Information
Research, 10(3) paper 232. April, 2005.
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