Academic Employment

Assistant Professor, January 2009-present.
School of Information, University of Texas, Austin.

Education

PhD in Information Science, December, 2008.
Information School, University of Washington.

Master’s in Information Management and Systems (MIMS), May 2004.
University of California at Berkeley

B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature with Honors in the Humanities, June 1992.
Stanford University

Publications

Dissertation. (2008) Classification as Communication: Properties and Design

Refereed Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

Feinberg, Melanie, Gary Geisler, Eryn Whitworth, and Emily Clark. (In press.) Understanding personal digital collections: an interdisciplinary exploration. DIS 2012, June 11-15, 2012, Newcastle, UK.

Feinberg, Melanie. (In press.) Writing the experience of information retrieval: digital collection design as a form of dialogue. Proceedings of CHI 2012, May 7-10, 2012, Austin, TX.

Feinberg, Melanie (2012). Information studies, the humanities, and design research: interdisciplinary opportunities. iConference 2012, Toronto, Canada, February 7-10, 2012.

Brown, Pat, Mark Harniss, Katherine Schomer, Melanie Feinberg, Nora Cullen, and Kurt Johnson. (in press, 2012) Conducting systematic evidence reviews: Core concepts and lessons learned. Archives of Rehabilitation Medicine.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2011) How information systems communicate as documents: the concept of authorial voice. Journal of Documentation 67(6), 1015-1037.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2011) Compiler to author: a process for designing rhetorically aware document collections. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 62(9): 1784-1796.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2011) Personal expressive bibliography in the public space of cultural heritage institutions. Library Trends 59(3).

Feinberg, Melanie. (2011) Expressive bibliography: personal collections in public space. Knowledge Organization 38(2): 123-134. .

Feinberg, Melanie. (2010) Designing collections for storytelling: purpose, pathos, and poetry. Conceptions of Library and Information Science conference, June 22-25 2010, London, UK. (Also appears as Information Research 15[3]. )

Feinberg, Melanie. (2010) An integrative approach to the design of knowledge organization schemes. International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) conference 2010, Rome, Italy, Feb. 23-26, 2010.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2010) Two kinds of evidence: how information systems form rhetorical arguments. Journal of Documentation 66(4): 491–512.

Feinberg, Melanie (2009) Information system design for communication: the use of genre as a design element. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, BC, November 6-11.

Matter, B., Feinberg, M., Schomer, K., Harniss, M., Brown, P., Johnson, K. (2009). Information needs of individuals with spinal cord injuries. Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine 32(5):545–554.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2009) Ethos and the construction of a believable character for information systems. iConference 2009, February 9–11, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2008) Classificationist as author: the case of the Prelinger Library. In Arsenault, C., & Tennis, J. T. (Eds.). (2008) Culture and identity in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Tenth International ISKO Conference (Montréal, Canada, August 5–8, 2008). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 11. Würzburg: Ergon.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2007) From hidden bias to responsible bias: an approach to information systems based on Haraway's situated knowledges. Conceptions of Library and Information Science conference, August 12–17 2007, Boras, Sweden. Also in Information Research 12 (4), October, 2007.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2007) Beyond retrieval: a proposal to expand the design space of classification. In Tennis, Joseph T., ed. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007, June 14–15, 2007, Toronto, Canada.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2006) An examination of authority in social classification systems. In Furner, Jonathan and Tennis, Joseph T., eds. Proceedings 17th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research, November 4, 2006, Austin, TX.

Feinberg, Melanie. (2005) Expression of feminism in three classifications. In Andersen, Jack, ed. Proceedings 16th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research, October 29, 2005, Charlotte, NC.

Edited Book Chapters

Feinberg, Melanie. (2011) Organization as expression: classification as digital media. In Bill Aspray and Megan Winget (eds), Digital Media. Scarecrow Press.

Conference Presentations

Feinberg, Melanie. Synthetic ethos: the believability of collections at the intersection of classification and curation. (2011) ASIST SIG-CR Classification Research Workshop, New Orleans, LA, October 12.

Mai, Jens-Erik, Don Fallis, Melanie Feinberg, Soo-Young Rieh, and Pnina Schahaf. (2010) Authority and Trust in Information. Panel presentation at ASIST Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 22-27.

Marty, Paul, Sheila Carey, Melanie Feinberg, and Scott Sayre. Involving Users in the Co-Construction of Digital Knowledge in Museums. Panel presentation at Museum Computer Network Annual Conference, Austin, TX, Oct. 27-30.

Teaching

At the University of Texas:

• INF 380E, Perspectives on Information (Fall, 2011; Spring 2011)
• INF 384C Organizing and Providing Access to Information (Spring, 2009; Fall, 2009; Spring, 2010; Fall, 2010).
• INF 384E Description and Metadata (Fall, 2009, Spring 2011)
• INF 385U Digital Media Collections (Spring, 2009, Spring 2011)
• INF 385T Classification Theory (Fall, 2010)

At the University of Washington:

• Construction of Indexing Languages (Winter, 2007) Face-to-face class in thesaurus construction.
• Information in Social Context (Summer, 2006) Distance (online) class in information ethics, law, and policy.

Grants and Awards

Faculty development program, Center for Women and Gender Studies, Unversity of Texas (201-2012)

Alumni fellowship (with Gary Geisler), School of Information, University of Texas (2011-2012)

Summer Research Assignment, University of Texas Graduate School (2011)

Commons teaching fellowship (with Gary Geisler), School of Information, University of Texas (2010-2011)

Emerald Publishing Best Student Presentation award, Conceptions of Library and Information Science Conference, Boras, Sweden. (2007)

Academic Service

Co-Chair (with Joseph Tennis) for SIG-CR workshop on classification research at the ASIST conference. (2011) Workshop theme: Collections, classification, and curation.

Peer reviewer for the following conferences:

• American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 2010
• iConference 2010, 2011
• International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) 2008, 2010
• ASIST Information Architecture Summit 2007

Peer reviewer for the following journals:

• JASIST
• Libraries and the Cultural Record
• Library Quarterly

Professional Experience

Senior Developmental Editor. (PeopleSoft, Pleasanton, California; 2001-2004)

Lead Content Strategist. (Scient, San Francisco, California; 2000-2001)

Senior Editor. (eHow, Inc., San Francisco, California; 1999-2000)

Developmental Editor. (IDG Books Worldwide, Foster City, California; 1999)

Editor. (Internal & External Communication, Inc., Marina del Rey, California; 1997-1998)

Senior Developmental Editor, Instructional Designer, Editorial Assistant. (Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California; 1994-1997)