سعيد سعد سعيد عسيرى

Experience

2000 –Present                                                                                    

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF INFORMATION STUDIES.

Department of Library and Information Sciences

College of Arts, King Saud University. Riyadh , Saudi Arabia

Teaching subjects in information management and information services to college level students.

Involved in developing research projects and publications in the area of information seeking behavior.

A member of many administrative and academic committees in the department and in the college level

1992 - 1996                                                                                           

LIBRARIAN & TRAINER

 Institute of Public Administration. ( IPA )Riyadh , Saudi Arabia 

Responsible for teaching library and information courses to post-secondary students up to the two -year diploma level and to governmental employees in libraries and information centers.

Worked  in the automation project for the IPA library, responsible for preparing the CD-ROM services for public users.

 1988 -1989

LIBRARIAN AND TRAINER ASSISTANT

Institute of Public Administration. ( IPA )Riyadh , Saudi Arabia 

Worked as a TA in some library and information courses. Also worked in the cataloging dep. in the original cataloging for Arabic materials in all forms.

1987 -1988

MEDICAL LIBRARIAN, KING FAHAD HOSPITAL.

King Fahad Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Worked for eleven months in one of the largest medical libraries in my country. I acquired very enriching experience in way of first hand responsibility for managing such an important facility

Education

1996– 2000      

Ph.D. in Information Studies

School of Information Studies, Florida State University. Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

Dissertation on factors impacting the availability of instructions on the use of information tecnologies and resources

1990– 1992

MASTER OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

(M L I S)

School of Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee

1983– 1986

BACHELOR DEGREE IN LIBRARY SCIENCE ( B. A. )

The faculty of Art & Humanities, King AbdulAziz University- Jeddah,

Saudi Arabia

Additional Information

Activities:

§    I attended many conferences and workshops on the areas of information and information technology.

§     I am a member of Saudi Library and Information Association.

Research  Interests:

§                      Information services

§                      Use of I T in information institutions

§                      User information  needs

§                      Information Seeking behavior

§                      E documents and electronic archiving