Sasha Skenderija
34-07 42nd Street, #3L
Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone: 607.229.7694
Email: sasha@skenderija.com
EDUCATION
1997 Ph.D. Charles University Prague
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship
Thesis: "Information Science and Cyberspace: Communication-Information Models and Processes in Cyberspace from the Perspective of the Methodological and Categorial Framework of Information Science" (Abstract in English: http://www.cuni.cz/~skenders/theses.htm)
1991 B. A. University of Sarajevo
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Comparative Literature and Librarianship
TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
EXPERIENCE
July 2012 - present
Digital Strategist, Pronobia Consulting
http://www.pronobiaconsulting.com
· September
1999 - June 2012
Research Technology
Coordinator, Cornell
University, Law Library.
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/
September 1999 - September 2009
Visiting Lecturer,
New Media Studies (MED), Charles
University, Prague
http://novamedia.ff.cuni.cz/?q=en/node/158
June 2005 - January 2006
Fulbright Senior Specialist/Senior Counselor for the National Library of Technology in Prague Project
September 1996 - May 1999
Assistant Professor, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University, Prague
Teaching
Research
June 1995 - May 1999
Systems Librarian, State Technical Library, Prague
· AWARDS AND GRANTS
2007 The U.S. Department of State's Office of
International Programs' U.S. Speaker and Specialist
grant
2005-2006 Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant, Project 1701- the National Library of Technology,
Prague
2004 Fulbright Senior Specialists
Roster
2003 Outstanding Performance Award Nomination, Cornell
University Library
http://www.pawprint.cornell.edu/docs/PP_Dec_4_web_03.pdf
1999 INFORUM Award (INVIK was selected by Czech information
professionals as the most significant information product/service in the Czech
Republic between 1996-1999 - http://www.inforum.cz/archiv/inforum1999/)
1998 Czech Science Foundation PostDoc Grant
SELECTED ACADEMIC
PUBLICATIONS
"Permanent Digital
Legal Information: Disappearing URLs and Preservation of Digital Objects Cited
in Court Decisions." International Journal of Legal Information.
Vol 37, Issue 3 (2009)
http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/ijli/vol37/iss3/6/
"Enhanced Legal E-ducation: Knowledge Technology at Cornell Law School" (July 31, 2008). Cornell Law School Working Papers Series. Paper 33. http://lsr.nellco.org/cornell/clsops/papers/33
"How to Present Web-Based Legal Information: Towards Library Web 2.0" (October 9, 2007). Cornell Law School. Starr Workshop Series. Paper 4. http://lsr.nellco.org/cornell/sws/papers/4
"LAW LIBRARY 2.0: New Roles for Law Librarians in the Information Overload Era." Proceedings of the 14th International Seminar: IT and Scholarly Communication. Bratislava, Slovakia, June 3-7, 2007. Cornell Law School Working Papers Series. Paper 36. http://lsr.nellco.org/cornell/clsops/papers/36
["From the Institution of Knowledge towards Knowledge Environments: What Can and What Should Do Research Libraries"]. "Od instituce vedeni k sitovym znalostnim a vzdelavacim prostredim aneb Co mohou a co by mely delat akademicke knihovny budoucnosti." Olomouc: KROK, Vol 3, Issue 2, Spring 2006. http://www.vkol.cz/data/soubory/krok/krok0602.pdf
["Research
Libraries Within New Emerging Academic Knowledge Environments"]. "Knihovny v
novych akademickych znalostnich prostredich" (June 19, 2005). Cornell Law
School. Cornell Law School Working Papers Series. Paper 38. http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clsops_papers/38/
"Miroslav
Petricek and the Quest for a New Ontology of Information" (July 30, 2008).
Cornell Law School Working Papers Series. Paper 34. http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clsops_papers/34/
["Building
Digital Future at Cornell"]. "Budovani digitani budoucnosti na Cornellu."
Ikaros: the electronic magazine on digital society, Vol 6. July 2002. http://www.ikaros.cz/budovani-digitalni-budoucnosti-na-cornellu
"The Media
Paradigm for Information Science." In: Information Science: Where Has It
Been, Where Is It Going?, Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of Canadian
Association for Information Science (CAIS 1999), Sherbrooke, June 9-11,
1999. p. 332-341. Accessible also at: http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/1999/Skenderija_1999.pdf
"Library
Cooperation and Procedural Models within the Cyberspace Paradigm". In:
Knowledge Management und Kommunikationssysteme: Workflow Management, Multimedia,
Knowledge-Transfer; Proceedings des 6. Internationalen Symposiums fuer
Informationswissenschaft (ISI '98), Prague, 4-7 November 1998. pp.253-255.
[online: http://www1.cuni.cz/~skenders/ISI98.pdf]
LANGUAGES
Fluent: English, Czech, Bosnian (Croatian, Serbian); Basic: Russian, Slovak, Polish, Slovenian
EXSTRACURRICULAR