E-Science/E-Research: Challenges and opportunities for academic libraries. Presentation at:

• People’s University of China, Beijing, December 19, 2008
• Advanced Digital Library Seminar, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, December 16, 2008

The impact of digital technology on library technical services and skills required for technical services librarians. Presentation at Advanced Digital Library Seminar, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, December 16, 2008.

Staying relevant: Adopting trusted strategies for resource management. Presentation at the Central New York Science Librarians Meeting, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, October 17, 2008.

Balancing between Content Standards and Local Requirements for Scientific Metadata. Presentation at Cornell University Library, September 19, 2008. (http://metadata-wg.mannlib.cornell.edu/forum/index.php?date=2008-09-19)

Folksonomies and Taxonomies: Where the Two Can Meet. Presentation at the New Dimensions in Knowledge Organization Systems: A Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop, Washington, DC, September 11, 2008. (http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/2008workshop/JianQin.pdf)

Educational metadata and ontology development. Presentations at Department of Library and Information Science, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-España, May 5-16, 2008.

Developing ontologies for information representation and access. Invited presentation at KLA/KSMA Conference Louisville, Kentucky, September 21, 2007.

Digital library technologies and development in the U.S. Presentation at the Advanced Workshop for Digital Libraries, Guilin, Guangxi, China, August 13-16, 2007.

Design of ontologies. Presentation at the Advanced Workshop for Digital Libraries, Guilin, Guangxi, China, August 13-16, 2007.

Extracting vocabularies from query logs. Presentation at the Advanced Workshop for Digital Libraries, Guilin, Guangxi, China, August 13-16, 2007.

An overview of recent developments in digital library practices and technologies in the United States. Presentation given at the Open Forum for Digital Libraries, co-organized by Shanghai Library and National Library of Science Chinese Academy of Science, May 28, 2007, Shanghai, China. 

Committees

• Best Information Science Book Award Jury Committee, Chair, 2003
• Awards and Honors Committee, member, 2002
• ISI/ASIS&T Citation Research Grant Jury Committee, member, 1999-2001
• SIG/Scientific and Technology Information, Coordinator of Student Award, 1999-; Chair-elect, 2004-2005, Chair, 2005-2006
• Standards Committee, member, 2006-2007

Special Libraries Association

• Committee on Cataloging, Chair, 2002-2003; member, 2001-2003
• Upstate New York Chapter Advisory Board, member, 2001-

Panels Organized and Moderated

• Organizer for ASIST Annual Meeting 2006: “Access to Scientific Data: Challenges and Strategies.”
• Organizer for ASIST Annual Meeting 2006: “The Metadata Research Landscape.”
• Organizer and Moderator for the ASIST Annual Meeting 2005: “Managing Scientific Data and Information: A Technical Discussion.”
• Moderator for the ASIST Annual Meeting 2004: “Metadata and Standards.” (Paper session)
• Organizer and Moderator for the ASIST Annual Meeting 2002: “Deeper Representation of Digital Information: from Metadata to Semantic Data.”
• Organizer and Moderator for the ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2000: “Conquering the Babel: Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval.”
• Organizer of a panel for the ASIS Annual Meeting 1999: “The Metadata Architecture: Issues, Problems, and Future Research.”
• Organizer of a panel for ASIS Annual Meeting 1999: “Discovering Knowledge Networks: from Document Representation to Content Linkages.”
• Organizer and moderator of a panel proposal accepted by ASIS Mid-Year 1999. “Access to Scholarly Information via Professional Societies' Web Sites: Content, Means, and Uses.” (Withdrawn due to conflicting schedules)
• Organizer of a panel for the ASIS Annual Meeting 1997 “Multilingual Databases in the Networking Age: Strategies for Connecting Producers and Users.”