Academic Vita
Martha M. Smith
Current Position
Auxiliary Associate Professor
Director of Distance Education for the Library and Information Science
Curriculum
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
19104-2875
marti.smith@cis.drexel.edu
Office #212
215-895-2475
FAX 215-895-6378
Home Address
114 Avon Road, Apt. B
Haddonfield, NJ
08033
H: 856-672-0504
Cell: 856-816-2100
msmith@infoethics.org
Work Experience
Director of Distance Education and Associate Professor, Department of
Library Science, Clarion University, Clarion, PA, 2001-2002
Assistant Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program, The Palmer
School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University,
Brookville, NY, 1998-2001
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana
University, Indianapolis, IN, 1997-1998
Director and Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information
Science, Indiana University, on the campus of IUSB, South Bend, IN,
1995-1997
Director of the Library, Saint Mary's College, Raleigh, NC, 1984-1995
Director of the Library, North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount,
NC, 1983-1984
Assistant Professor of Religion and Campus Minister, NC Wesleyan
College, 1979-1984
Instructor in Religion Department, Part-time, Meredith College,
Raleigh, NC, 1977-1979
Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church,
Nashville, TN, 1975-1976
Acquisitions and Cataloging Assistant, Perkins Library, Duke
University, 1970-1972
Student Assistant in the Duke Divinity School Library, Durham, NC,
1965-1970
Education
Ph.D. in Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, 1996
Ph.D. in Religion (Biblical Studies), Duke University, 1980
M.S.L.S. University of North Carolina, 1972
M.Div. The Divinity School, Duke University, 1970
B.A. (History) Duke University, 1967
Information Technology Competencies and Experience
" Distance education teaching and library support since 1981
" Teaching with Blackboard courseware since 1999
" Consulting both on and off campus in using Blackboard and virtual
library development
" Teaching online searching, such as Dialog, Lexis-Nexis, Web of
Science (citation searching), CD-ROM tools (Also years of reference
service and teaching traditional print sources and bibliographic
instruction)
" Teaching advanced Internet searching and the Invisible/Deep Web
" Currently using ebooks in teaching
" Exploring subject portal development in ethics and technology,
including Global Information Ethics and BioInfoEthics
" Promoted local and state-wide library automation and networking
" Envisioned and implemented academic library system (retrospective
conversion, bar coding, system configuration, LAN installation,
equipment purchasing, staff training and support)
" Served as the chair of a ten college consortium of independent
college libraries for co-operative automation project (including
federal funding)
" Provided leadership for a state-wide consortium of independent
college libraries in networking efforts (among 30+ colleges in North
Carolina)
Web Site Creation and Management
International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) http://icie.zkm.de
and http://www.infoethics.net
Smith involved with content development, personal contacts with
scholars,
global invisible college creation. Represented ICIE at Paris UNESCO
meeting,
November, 2000 and at INSEIT meeting in Lancaster, England
International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT)
http://www.inseit.org
Smith on planning committee for new society; Secured web domain and
planning for its use
Major Teaching Responsibilities (1994-2002)
Library and Information Science: Introduction to the Library and
Information Science Professions; Information Sources and Services;
Research Methods; Collection Development; Management; Internet for
Information Professionals; Human Resources; Humanities Sources and
Services; Social Science Sources and Services; Academic Libraries;
Technology and Society; Issues in Urban Libraries; Doctoral Seminar in
Qualitative Research Methods; Doctoral Seminar on Theory in Social
Science Research
Applied Ethics: (Undergraduates) Business Ethics; Legal and Ethical
Issues in Information Transfer; (Graduate programs) Information Ethics;
Questioning Technology: Identity, Knowledge, and Community;
Intellectual Freedom and Property Seminar
In preparation: Courses on Global Information Ethics and on
BioInfoEthics
Doctoral Dissertation in Information and Library Science
Information Ethics: An Hermeneutical Analysis of an Emerging Field of
Applied Ethics. Advisor: Elfreda A. Chatman University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1996.
Doctoral Dissertation in Religion
Feminine Images in the Shepherd of Hermas. Advisor: Franklin W. Young.
Duke University, 1980.
Publications and Presentations
Smith, Martha M. 2002. Practical Ethics in Turbulent Times: Information
Ethics after 9/11. Highland Regional Library Cooperative. Morristown,
NJ. May, 23, 2002. Pp.
_____. 2002. Portal Development for Hypertext Learners. Presentation
for the annual Blackboard Users Conference. Phoenix, Arizona. March
17-21, 2002. Paper in proceedings and Pp.
_____. 2002. Practical Ethics for Public Librarians: Information Ethics
after 9/11. Annual meeting of the Public Library Association (PLA).
Phoenix, Arizona. March 12- 16, 2002. Pp.
_____. 2001. The Body as Information: A Prologue to BioInfoEthics in
Images. Conference Theme: IT and the Body. CEPE (Computer Ethics:
Philosophical Enquiry). December 14-16, 2001. University of Lancaster,
Lancaster, England. December, 2001. Pp.
_____. 2001. The Body as Information: A Prologue to BioInfoEthics.
Proceedings of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (pp. 207-221)
Conference theme: IT and the Body. Edited by Ruth F. Chadwick, Lucas
Introna, and Antonio Marturano. December 14-16, 2001. Lancaster
University, England.
_____. 2001. Rights, Responsibilties, and Caring Connections: The
Challenges of Information Ethics. Colloquium for the Department of
Library Science, Department of Library Science. Clarion University,
November 29, 2001. Pp.
_____. 2001. Information ethics. Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 25.
(29-66). New York: Academic Press.
_____. 2001. Global information justice. Library Trends, 49,3,519-537.
Ethical Issues of Information Technology.
_____. 2001. "Angeletics: Response to Rafael Capurro's Ethical
Challenges for the 21st Century." And Program Planning Committee. The
Ethics of Electronic Information. Memphis, TN. October, 2000.
_____. 2001. Selection not Censorship: A Global Perspective. Libraries
in the Digital Age. Dubrovnik, Croatia. May, 2001. Pp.
_____. 2001. Real Ethics for Real Librarians. Keynote for New Mexico
Library Association. April 19, 2001. Pp.
_____. 2001. Practical Ethics for Public Librarians. ALA Annual
Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Pp.
_____. 2001. Practical Ethics: The Journey and the Destination. Keynote
for the Annual Conference of the New Mexico Library Association. April
19, 2001. Pp.
_____. 2001. E-Books: The Future of Learning and Literacy. Long Island
School Media Association. Garden City, New York. February 27, 2001. Pp.
_____. 2001. International Information Management (In English). Course
for students in the Information and Library Science Program, Stuttgart,
Germany. January, 2001.
_____. 2001. Global Information Ethics. Public lecture. Stuttgart,
Germany, January 17, 2001. Pp.
_____. 2000. Angeletics: Response to Rafael Capurro's Ethical
Challenges for the 21st Century. International Information and Library
Review, 32, 3/4 (September/December, 2000).
_____. 2000. Information Ethics Is 12: Writing the Intellectual History
of a New Discipline. Doctoral Colloquium. The Palmer School of Library
and Information Science. October 26, 2000. Pp.
_____. 2000. Professor in a Box: Intellectual Property vs. Intellectual
Freedom in Distance/Online Teaching. Long Island Center for Ethics,
Long Island University, October 18, 2000. Pp.
_____. 2000. Privacy on the Internet. Long Island ACRL (Academic
Libraries). Long Island University. October 13, 2000. Pp.
_____. 2000. Higher Tech/Higher Touch: Teaching with New Technologies.
Technology Roundtable. CW Post. Long Island University. February, 2000.
Pp.
_____. 2000. The ALA Code and Beyond. Pre-conference Workshop for the
Connecticut Library Association. April, 2000. Pp.
_____. 2000. Information Ethics. Presentation for Scott Johnson's class
at Pratt Institute, Library and Information Science Program. March,
2000. Pp.
_____. 2000. Higher Tech/Higher Touch: Teaching with New Technologies.
Technology Roundtable. CW Post. Long Island University. February, 2000.
Pp.
_____. 1999. Information Ethics: From Theory to Practice. Presentation
for the Library Staff at Yale University. December, 1999. Pp.
_____. 1999. The Ethics of Medical Information. Long Island Librarians'
Resources Council. Hospital Librarians. December, 1999. Pp.
_____. 1999. The Ethics of Information: Human Values in a Computer
Society-- Identity, Community, and Schools. Eastern Suffolk School
System. BOCES. October, 1999. Pp.
_____. 1999. Information Ethics at Ten: Information Ethics Goes Global.
Presentation at the conference on The Ethics of Electronic Information.
University of Memphis. October, 1999. Pp.
_____. 1999. Ethics and Information: Access, Ownership, Privacy,
Security, and Community. LILRC (Long Island Library Resources Council).
Farmingdale Public Library, June, 1999. Pp.
_____. 1998. Global Information Ethics. Paper delivered at the session
on Global Perspectives on Ethics and Technology. TIS SIG. ASIS Annual
Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. November, 1998. Program organized by Smith.
_____. 1997. Information ethics. In Annual Review of Information
Science and Technology. Volume 32, pp. 339-366. Edited by Martha E.
Williams. Medford, NJ: Information Today for the American Society for
Information Science.
_____. 1994. Survival and service: The ethics of research on the uses
of information provided by librarians. Libraries and the economy. North
Carolina Libraries, 52 (2), 64-67.
_____. 1994. Decisions in real-time and hard times. In Proceedings of
the ACM Conference on Computers and Ethics.
_____. 1994. Online information ethics: Information ethics and the
searching self. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Online Meeting
(M. E. Williams, Ed.), pp. 399-405. Learned Information.
_____. 1993. Educating for information ethics: Information ethics 101:
Sources for faculty and students. Journal of Information Ethics, 2 (2),
5-10.
_____. 1993. Educating for information ethics: Assumptions and
definitions. Journal of Information Ethics, 2 (1), 5-9.
_____. 1993. Information ethics. Editor of special issue of North
Carolina Libraries, 51 (1). Introduction, article (Information ethics:
Freedom, democracy, responsibility), bibliography, and ethics quiz by
Smith.
_____. (1992). Infoethics for leaders: Models of moral agency in the
information environment, Library Trends, 40 (3),553-570. This article
is included in Informationsethik (1995). Edited by Rafael Capurro,
Klaus Wiegerling, and Andreas Brellochs. Konstanz: UVK.
Current Projects and Commitments
Smith, Martha M. 2002. Invited to present a position paper and to
participate in a panel on Information Ethics. Society for Philosophy
and Computing of the American Philosophical Association. Pittsburgh,
PA. August 8-10, 2002.
_____. 2002. Paper accepted for IFLA (International Federation of
Library Associations). Global Information Ethics: A Mandate for
Professional Education. Glasgow, Scotland. August 18-24, 2002.
_____. 2002. Paper accepted on: Online Hypertext Learning and the
Transformation of Higher Education: Perspectives from Global
Information Ethics. ETHICOMP (Ethics and Computing), Lisbon, Portugal.
November, 2002.
_____. 2002. Paper accepted on: Information Ethics One Year after 9/11.
Ethics of Electronic Information. University of Memphis. Memphis, TN.
October, 2002.
_____. 2002. Information Ethics in Turbulent Times: Practical Ethics
for Librarians after 9/11. Northern Ohio.
Library Association. October, 2002.
_____. 2002. Paper accepted on: Online Hypertext Learning and the
Transformation of Higher Education: Perspectives from Global
Information Ethics. ETHICOMP (Ethics and Computing), Lisbon, Portugal.
November, 2002.
_____. 2002. Information Ethics in Turbulent Times: Practical Ethics
for Librarians after 9/11. Arizona Library Association. December, 2002.
_____. (In preparation). 2003. Global Information Ethics. Scarecrow
Press.
_____. (In planning). 2003. Guest editor of Special Issue on Ethics.
The Reference Librarian.
_____. (In planning). 2004. Guest editor of a Perspectives issue on
Global Information Ethics for The Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology.
MMS/July, 2002