Audience Tools

Specializations

  • Human Information Behavior
  • Personal Information Management

Biography

Dr. Harry Bruce is a Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of the Information School of the University of Washington. His teaching and research focus is on human information behavior, information seeking and use and personal information management. Harry’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Library and Museum Studies, and the Australian Department of Employment Education and Training.

Education

  • Ph D, Information Science, University of New South Wales, 1996
  • Mlibr, University of New South Wales, 1993
  • BA, Macquarie University, 1982

Awards

  • 2022 ASIS&T Award of Merit - ASIS&T, 2022

Memberships

  • Association for Information Science & Technology
  • Association for Library and Information Science Education
  • iCaucus

Publications and Contributions

  • Conference Paper
    The vision, successes and challenges of the iSchool movement (2017)
    8th Annual Conference of the Saudi Association for Library Information Author: Harry Bruce
  • Conference Paper
    How Do People Re-find Files, Emails and Web Pages? (2014)
    Proceedings of iConference 2014 Authors: William Jones, Abe Wenning, Harry Bruce
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Seeking an ideal solution to the management of personal information collections (2011)
    Information Research, 16(1), pp. paper 462 Authors: Harry Bruce, A G Wenning, Elisabeth Jones, Vinson Julia, William Jones
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    The Audacious Vision of Information Schools (2011)
    Journal of Library and Information Science, 37(1), pp. 4-10 Author: Harry Bruce
  • Conference Paper
    Providing for Paper, Place and People in Personal Projects (2009)
    PIM - Personal Information Management Workshop Authors: J Vinson, William Jones, Harry Bruce
  • Conference Paper
    I Give Up! Five Factors that Contribute to the Abandonment of Information Management Strategies (2008)
    ASIS&T Annual Meeting, ISBN/ISSN: 1550-8390 Authors: Harry Bruce, E. Jones Editors: J.-M. Griffiths, A. S. Grove
  • Conference Poster
    I Give Up! Five Factors that Contribute to the Abandonment of Information Management Strategies (2008)
    ASIS&T Annual Meeting Authors: Elisabeth Jones, Harry Bruce, Predrag Klasnja, William Jones
  • Conference Paper
    Planning Personal Projects and Organizing Personal Information (2006)
    ASIS&T Annual Meeting Authors: A Foxley, C Munat, William Jones, Harry Bruce
  • Conference Paper
    Project Contexts to Situate Personal Information (2006)
    SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA Authors: A Foxley, William Jones, Harry Bruce
  • Conference Paper
    The I-Conference: Gathering of the Clans of Information (2006)
    32(4), pp. 9-23, ISBN/ISSN: 0095-4403 Authors: Harry Bruce, D. J. Richardson, Michael Eisenberg
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Personal anticipated information need (2005)
    Information Research, 10(3), ISBN/ISSN: 1368-1613 Author: Harry Bruce
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    The PAIN Hypothesis (2005)
    Theories of information behavior: A researcher's guide, ISBN/ISSN: 978-1573872300 Author: Harry Bruce
  • Conference Paper
    The Universal Labeler: Plan the Project and Let Your Information Follow (2005)
    ASIS&T Annual Meeting Authors: C Munat, William Jones, Harry Bruce
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    A multidimensional approach to the study of human-information interaction: A case study of collaborative information retrieval (2004)
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 55(11), pp. 939-953 Authors: Raya Fidel, A. M. Pejtersen, B. Cleal, Harry Bruce
  • Conference Paper
    Building an Interdisciplinary Research Community and Culture in an Information School (2004)
    pp. 89-99 Authors: Harry Bruce, Alpha Delap
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Information behavior that keeps found things found (2004)
    Information Research, 10(1) Authors: Harry Bruce, William Jones, S. Dumais
  • Conference Paper
    Keeping and Re-finding information on the Web: What do people do and what do they need? (2004)
    ISBN/ISSN: 0044-7870 Authors: Harry Bruce, William Jones, S. Dumais
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    A comparison of the collaborative information retrieval of two design teams (2003)
    The New Review of Information Behavior Research, pp. 139-153 Authors: Harry Bruce, Raya Fidel, A. M. Pejtersen, S. Dumais, J. Grudin
  • Conference Position Paper
    Information Seeking and Sharing in Design Teams (2003)
    Proceedings of the 2003 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, pp. 239-247 Authors: S. Poltrock, J. Grudin, S. Dumais, Raya Fidel, Harry Bruce, A. M. Pejtersen
  • Book Editor, Scholarly
    Emerging frameworks and methods: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on conceptions of library and information science (CoLIS4) (2002)
    Editors: Harry Bruce, Raya Fidel, P Ingwersen, P Vakkari
  • Book, Scholarly-New
    The User's View of the Internet (2002)
    pp. 228, ISBN/ISSN: 978-0810843660 Author: Harry Bruce
  • Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
    Conceptual frameworks in information behavior (2001)
    Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, 35(Unknown Issue), pp. 43-78 Authors: K. E. Pettigrew, Raya Fidel, Harry Bruce
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR) (2000)
    New Review of Information Behaviour Research: Studies of Information Seeking in Context, 1(1), pp. 235-247 Authors: Raya Fidel, Harry Bruce, A. M. Pejtersen, S. Dumais, J. Grudin, S. Poltrock

Presentations

  • Trends in information research and education (2017)
    King Saud University - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • The Audacious Vision of Information Schools (2010)
    International Symposium on the Transformation & Innovation of Library and Information Science, Graduate Institute of Library and Information Studies, National Taiwan Normal University - Taipei, Taiwan
  • The Emerging Role of Libraries in an Information Age (2009)
    Friends of the Seattle Pacific University Libraries - Seattle, WA
  • A vision for Global Research Libraries in 2020 (2008)
    Workshop: Shaping a Roadmap for the Future of Research Libraries, GRL - Global Research Libraries 2020 - Tirrenia Pisa, Italy
  • Leadership in Higher education: iSchools and the 21st Century Librarian (2008)
    NW Academic Library Directors Symposium - Portland, OR
  • The iSchool and the future of LIS Education (2008)
    Summer Institute for Chinese Studies Librarianship in the Electronic Environment, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Information schools and the future of LIS education and research (2007)
    University of Hangzhou, Xixi Campus - Hangzhou, China
  • Personal Information Management (2007)
    University of Hangzhou, Xixi Campus - Hangzhou, China
  • Personal Information Management (2007)
    Shanghai Jiaotong University - Shanghai, China
  • Educating information specialists in a digital age (2006)
    Annual Conference on Information Technology, Sino-U.S. Symposium on Library and Information Science Education in Asia - Wuhan, China
  • The i-School Movement (panel session) (2006)
    Annual Meeting, ASIS&T - American Society for Information Science & Technology - Austin, TX
  • Keeping Found Things Found (2005)
    Meeting, Pacific Northwest Chapter, SLA - Special Libraries Association - Seattle, WA
  • Keeping found things found and other challenges of Personal Information Management (2005)
    Pressing Questions of the Information Age Series, University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Keeping found things found and other challenges of Personal Information Management (2005)
    Pressing Questions of the Information Age Series, Digital Media Working Group, The Institute for International Policy's Center for Internet Studies, and The Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington - Seattle, WA
  • Now Do You Know Where Your Information Is?: Perspectives on the Present and Future of Personal Information Management (2003)
    Annual Meeting, ASIS&T - American Society for Information Science & Technology - Long Beach, CA
  • Personal Information Management in Theory and in Practice (2003)
    Annual Meeting, ASIS&T - American Society for Information Science & Technology - Long Beach, CA