Charles Sturt University
Charles Sturt University

Associate Professor Mary Anne Kennan

Associate Professor Mary Kennan

BA (UNE), GradDipLib (RCAE), MBT (UNSW), PhD (UNSW)

Dr Mary Anne Kennan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, where she is Higher Degree by Research Coordinator. Mary Anne principally teaches the subjects Foundations for Information Studies, Research Data Management and Research Methods. Her previous experience includes 25 years working in libraries and the information world, including serving as Director of the Frank Lowy Library at the Australian Graduate School of Management. For the Information Online Conference she was on the Program Committee in 1997, Program Chair in 1999, Convenor 2001 and member of the Executive Committee 2003. She has also taught at the University of New South Wales and the University of Technology Sydney. She is co-editor (with Dr Gaby Haddow of Curtin University) of Australian Academic and Research Libraries and serves on the editorial board of Webology and the International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation.

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Mary Anne's research interests focus broadly on scholarly communication including open access, institutional repositories, e-research, research data management, citizen science and increasingly on the practices of information sharing and collaboration.

Other recent investigations include working with CSU colleagues to investigate how information can play a part in the social inclusion of refugees. More broadly Mary Anne is interested in research methodology and methods, and investigates using a variety of approaches, including interpretivist/constuctivist and post positivist, and a variety of methods from field research to survey.

Research Grants

2012: Building community knowledge for environmental sustainability

$9,822 Wettenhall Foundation Small Environmental Grant and
$10,000 Australian Plants Society, Victoria
Kirsty Williamson (Monash University and Charles Sturt University), Graeme Johanson (Monash University), Mary Anne Kennan (Charles Sturt University).

2012: Research program funding for the Information Practices Research Program

$62,000 Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Education Research Program Funding.
Co-applicants: Prof L. Given, Drs. Annemaree Lloyd, Mary Anne Kennan, Kim Thompson, Asim Qayyum and Ms. Suzanne Lipu, School of Information Studies

2011: Corralling Wild Data: Analysis of Needs and Exploration of Creative Solutions for Environmental  Voluntary Groups

$6,000 CSU Faculty of Education Small Grant
Mary Anne Kennan, Kirsty Williamson.

2010: Information, social exclusion and informed  participation: exploring the information literacy practices of settlers

$23,000 CSU Competitive Grant
Annemaree Lloyd, Mary Anne Kennan, Asim Qayyum, Suzanne Lipu

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Mary Anne's teaching portfolio includes "INF404 Foundations for Information Studies", "INF449 Research Data Management", "INF461 An Introduction to Data Management: Governance, Standards and Ethics" and "INF462 Data Curation". She also at times teaches the various research methods subjects.

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Principal Supervision

Paul Kloppenborg, Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, PhD, "How is the scholarly information behaviour of Higher Education (HE) lecturers in TAFE institutions supported by TAFE libraries?" (Co-supervisors Drs Asim Qayyum and Bob Pymm).

Helen Reid, Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, PhD, "Learning on the job: How can academic librarians keep up to date with emerging technologies" (in progress).

Co-supervision

Lily Gao, Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, PhD, "Information Seeking and Use of Chinese Offshore Students Studying in Australian University Programs" (Completed)

Wade Kelly, Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, PhD, "Outreach activities of early career academics: An inter-disciplinary cross-cultural examination of alternative research dissemination pressures and priorities [working title]" (in Progress, Principal supervisor Professor Lisa Given).

Completed Co-supervision

Dr Lily Gao, Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, PhD, "Information Seeking and Use of Chinese Offshore Students Studying in Australian University Programs" (Completed, Principal supervisor Associate Professor Philip Hider and Co-supervisor Dr Lisa Soon)

Dr Jacob Wallis, Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia (PhD) – "#digitalactivism: networks, new media and political action" (Completed, Principal supervisor Professor Lisa Given)

Mary Anne has acted as external examiners for Honours, Masters and PhD theses at multiple universities.

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Mary Anne is involved in many professional activities including:

Editorial activities

Professional Associations

  • Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
  • Australian Library and Information Association  (ALIA)
  • Association of Information Systems (AIS)

Professional Activities

  • Member of the ALIA Research Committee 2006-2014; Presenter annual "Research for practitioner" workshops  2010-2014
  • Joint guest editor - special issue on "E-Democracy - Online Youth Participation and engagement," 2010 International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP) http://www.igi-global.com/Files/Ancillary/jep.2010.1.3 preface.pdf
  • Program Committee, 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 2009.
  • DOCAM 2015 Co-Chair with Maureen Henninger, University of Technology, Sydney and Paul Scifleet, Swinburne University
  • Reviewing (e.g. JASIST, Program, First Monday, Sage Open, IJANNTI, Webology, Leverhulme Trust grant applications (UK), ERA 2012)

CSU Committees

  • CSU Research Advisory Committee 2009-2013
  • School of Information Studies School Board 2009+
  • School of Information Studies Communications Committee 2013-2014
  • School of Information Studies Ethics Committee 2009-2014
  • School of Information Studies Research Committee Chair 2009-2011 (intermittent), Member 2011+
  • Faculty of Arts and Education Ethics Committee 2015+
  • Faculty of Arts and Education, Faculty Board 2014+
  • RDM Policy Implementation Group meeting 2015+
  • CSU eResearch Coordination Committee  2011+
  • CSU Data Governance Committee 2009+

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Refereed Book Chapters

  • Pymm, B, Carroll, M., McCausland, S. & Kennan, M.A (2016) Big data: Opportunities and barriers across cultural heritage sectors in Annual Review of Cultural Heritage  Informatics Arms, J.W (ed.) Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD. pp 119-128.

  • Cecez-Kecmanovic, D. & Kennan, M.A. (2013) Chapter 5. The methodological landscape: Information systems and knowledge management in Research Methods: Information, Systems, and Contexts Williamson, K. & Johanson, G. (eds.). Tilde Publishing, Prahran, Victoria. pp113-138 ISBN 978-0-7346-1148-2
  • Kennan, M.A. (2013) Chapter 21: Managing research data in Research Methods: Information, Systems, and Contexts Williamson, K. & Johanson, G. (eds). Tilde Publishing, Prahran, Victoria. pp 465-47
  • Kennan, M.A. & Thompson, K. (2013) Chapter 22: Research Writing and Dissemination in Research Methods: Information, Systems, and Contexts Williamson, K. & Johanson, G. (eds). Tilde Publishing, Prahran, Victoria. pp 476-491
  • Markauskaite, L., Kennan, M.A., Richardson, J. , Aditomo, A., & Hellmers, L. (2012) "Investigating eResearch: collaboration practices and future challenges" In Collaborative and Distributed E-Research: Innovations in Technologies, Strategies and Applications Edited by Juan, A., Daradoumis, T., Roca, M., Grasman, S., & Faulin, J. Information Science Reference, IGI Books, Hershey PA. pp 1-33
  • Wilson, C.S., Kennan, M.A., Boell, S. & Willard, P. (2012) From practice to academia: 50 years of LIS education in Australia. In Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Asia-Oceania edited by Spink, A. & Singh, D. Emerald Library and Information Science Book Series. Pp16-45

Published Data

Refereed Journal Articles:

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Kennan, M.A. (2016) Data Management: Knowledge and skills required in research, scientific and technical organisations, IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly 13–19 August 2016, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America  http://library.ifla.org/1466/1/221-kennan-en.pdf
  • Pymm, R, Carroll, M., McCausland, S.& Kennan, M.A. (2014). Big data: Opportunities and barriers across the cultural heritage sectors. Theory and research on the convergence of professional identity in cultural heritage institutions (Libraries, Museums, and Archives) beyond technology. IFLA Library Theory and Research Section, Satellite Meeting, 13-14 August. http://satelliteturin2014.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/iflaltrsatellite2014_pymm-et-al.pdf
  • Johanson, G., Williamson, K. & Kennan, M.A. (2013) Multiple communities: botanical data from citizen scientists for digital repositories at Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives meets Community Informatics Subtitle: Prato CIRN Conference Oct 28-30 2013 edited by Larry Stillman, Amalia Sabiescu, & Nemanja Memarovic, Centre for Community Networking Research, Centre for Social Informatics, Monash University Monash Centre, Prato Italy. ISBN 978-0-9874652-1-4.
  • Kennan, M.A., Williamson, K and Johanson, G. (2013) Environmental Voluntary Groups: Towards Curating Data for Sharing, Access and Preservation, 76th Annual ASIST Annual Meeting "Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking information boundaries", Montreal Canada. November 1-5 2013 https://iasummit.org/asist2013/proceedings/submissions/papers/66paper.pdf
  • Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., Kennan, M., Hull, D., & Nagm. F. (2009) "Youth Online Participation in Government Decision Making – Challenges for E-Democracy" 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2-4 Dec 2009, Melbourne.

Other

  • Corrall, S. & Kennan, M. (2013) Assessing library capacity to manage research data: An international capital perspective. The 9th Annual International Conference on Knowledge Management; 1-2 November, Montreal Canada.
  • Corrall, S., Kennan, M.A. & Salo, D. (2013) Research Know-How for Research Support Services: Preparing Information Specialists for Emerging Roles, 76th Annual ASIST Annual Meeting "Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking information boundaries", Montreal Canada. November 1-5 2013.
  • Kennan, M.A., Williamson, K and Johanson, G. (2013) Building community knowledge with environmental voluntary groups University of Pittsburgh iSchool Colloquium Series, 21st October, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information sciences, Monday 21st October 2013.
  • Kennan, M.A., Williamson, K. And Johanson, G. (2013) Contributions from volunteers of 'little data' to 'big data' repositories? Invited Lecture 28th October, School of Information Sciences, College of Communication & Information, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and also Invited Lecture, 29th October, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division.
  • Kennan, M.A., Corrall, S. & Afzal, W. (2013) Emerging Trends in Library Support for Research presentation at Research Support Community Day pre-conference workshop. ALIA Information Online conference, Brisbane February 2013.
  • Corrall, S., Kennan, M.A. & Afzal, W. (2013) Emerging and Innovating Research Support in Academic Libraries: The Datametrics Agenda Poster presentation at the 8th International Digital Curation Conference, 14th – 17th January 2013.
  • Kennan, M.A, Afzal, W, & Corrall, S. (2012) Innovating and Evolving Roles: Research Support Services in Academic Libraries Presentation at Research Applications in Library and Information Studies (RAILS). Adelaide, University of South Australia June 25, 2012.
  • Kennan, M.A, Afzal, W, & Corrall, S. (2012) Innovating and Evolving Roles: Research Support Services in Academic Libraries Presentation at Research Applications in Library and Information Studies (RAILS). Adelaide, University of South Australia June 25, 2012.

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