Roberta Brody, Professor & Graduate Advisor: Admissions
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Queens College, City University of New York
Phone: (718) 997-3790
Fax: (718) 997-3797
E-mail: Roberta.Brody@qc.cuny.edu
Education
Fellow, Writers Institute, Graduate Center, CUNY (2009-
Ph.D. Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ - Information Policy; 1996
M.L.S. Long Island University; Greenvale, NY - Library Science; 1981
M.S. Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY - Secondary Education; 1978
Work Experience
Teaching & Scholarly Activity
Professor (2009 - ) Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
Associate Professor (2002 - 2008)
Assistant Professor (1996 - 2002) Graduate
School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City
University of New York
Co-editor of the Journal of Competitive Intelligence and Management, (2006 – 2008)
Faculty Advisor for the Queens SLA Student Group
Previous Experience in Information Intensive Environments:
Consultant (1983 – 1996) – B.I.S., Port Washington, NY
Information Manager (1981-1983) – Sentinel Pension Institute, Great Neck, NY
Courses Taught in the Past Two Years:
GSLIS 736: Records Management
GSLIS 786: Information
Sources & Services: Business Information
GSLIS 787:
Competitive Intelligence
Research & Professional Interests
My research and interests – relative to the information professions - concern the social construction of information content and information technology. Included in this agenda are evaluative explorations of both the material and non-material information culture. This includes inquiry into information quality and information ethics issues in social and technical environments of information and information use; especially within business setting. I teach about material information – basic research and reference sources, business research sources, and records management. My work in Competitive Intelligence before I entered academia informs my research and writing on business and competitive intelligence..
Other research interests include contemporary and popular material culture; particularly artists’ books, soap operas, romance novels, and time travel fiction. Recent research in this area includes an analysis of folk motifs in soap operas and thematic comparisons of soap opera themes to romance literature.
Selected Publications
Brody, Roberta. 2008. “Defining Competitive Intelligence” IEEE Engineering Management Review. 36:3, (Third Quarter 2008), 3-11.
Brody, Roberta. 2008. “The Problem of Information Naiveté” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 59:7, 1121-1127.
Brody, Roberta. 2007. "Everyone's A Critic: Business Watchdogs Online" ONLINE Magazine. (March-April 2007) 24-29.
Brody, Roberta, editor. 2006. Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: Proceedings of Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology - International Symposium on Technology and Society 2006 . IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology
Brody, Roberta. 2006. “Information Ethics in the Business Research Environment” ONLINE Magazine. (January- February 2006) 38-41.
Selected Honors and Awards:
2003 - Karen J. Switt Leadership Award from the Leadership and Management Division of the SLA
1999 - Cox Award from the Insurance and Employee Benefits Division of the SLA
1996 - Fellowship by the National Science Foundation's National NCGIA
1992 - Named "Fellow" of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)
