Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Fields	Information science
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Alma mater	Stanford University, University of Pittsburgh, Michigan State University
Known for	Work on scholarly communication, scientific information, and bibliometrics
Notable awards	American Association for the Advancement for Science Fellow, Best Information Science book of the year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Christine L. Borgman (born 1951) is Professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She was previously visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University), Loughborough University, Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University, and Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. Borgman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interests include digital libraries, information seeking, information retrieval, information policy, infrastructure, and human-computer interaction, but she is best known for her work in scholarly communication, scientific information, and bibliometrics.

Borgman is the author of more than 150 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication. She has twice won the Best Information Science Book of the year award from American Society for Information Science and Technology for From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000) and Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007). She is a co-principal investigator for the Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS) and for the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) project, both funded by the National Science Foundation.

She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University, M.L.I.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, and B.A. in Mathematics from Michigan State University.

Partial bibliography

• Effective online searching : a basic text (M. Dekker, 1984)
• Scholarly communication and bibliometrics (Sage, 1990)
• From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure : access to information in the networked world (MIT Press, 2000)
• Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007)

External links

• Borgman's Faculty Website
• UCLA Department of Information Studies

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Name	Borgman, Christine L.
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Date of birth	1951
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