Asim Qayyum
(BE, MBA, PhD) University of Toronto
Position: Lecturer in Information Studies
Location: Room 307, Building 5, Wagga Wagga Campus
Phone: (02) 69 332186
Fax: (02) 69 332733
E-mail: aqayyum@csu.edu.au
Bio
Asim Qayyum completed his PhD from the University of Toronto (UofT) in June 2005, specializing in the areas of Information Management and Knowledge Dissemination. He then worked at the School of Information Sciences in University of Puerto Rico for three years before moving to Charles Sturt University. Asim also holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA with specialization in Management Information Systems. He started his career as a design engineer and then worked as a business analyst for many years before moving into the field of information studies as an academic.
Asim is currently engaged in several projects. One project investigates the information needs and practices of refugees and other settlers in regional areas, and explores how their information practices evolve or conform within the new cultural settings that they find themselves in. Another project focuses on studying the changing news seeking behaviours of the youth as the news media makes the transition from traditional print formats to online publishing. Among some notable accomplishments, Asim was part of a team which was recently awarded the Faculty’s competitive research award. Previously, Asim won a research grant from the Online Computer and Library Center (OCLC) in 2007, and has held many other competitive institutional grants to carry out his research projects. While doing his PhD in 2004, he was awarded the prize for best paper in information sciences by the New England chapter of the American Society for Information Sciences & Technology (ASIS&T). As a doctoral candidate, he was also the recipient of Univ. of Toronto's open scholarship and Humanities Research Council’s travel grants. His doctoral studies were sponsored by the International Council for Canadian Studies after he was awarded the commonwealth scholarship.
Research Areas
- Information needs and Practices
- Information seeking
- Information & Knowledge management
- Human document Interaction
Recent projects:
- Investigating the news seeking behavior of young adults (2009-2011)
- Information, social exclusion and informed participation: exploring the information literacy practices of settlers (2010-11)
- Investigating the user needs and preferences for a specialized environmental library (2007-2008)
- Developing a finding aid for mapping Puerto Rican cultural objects (2007-2008)
- Building a knowledge repository for the learning objects in an academic unit.(2007-2008
Teaching Interests
- Systems analysis and design/Information technologies/Database design.
- Digital Libraries/Information design and management
- Diagnosing user needs/Information literacy/Learning technologies
- Online Information Retrieval/Business Information Resources
Recent Publications
Journal publications
- Qayyum, M. A., Williamson, K., Liu, Y.-H., & Hider, P. (2010). Investigating the new seeking behavior of young adults. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 41(3), 178-191.
- Qayyum, Muhammad Asim, (2008). Analysing markings made on e-documents. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science volume 32, number ½ (to be published).
- Mehra, B., Allard, S., and Qayyum, Asim, (2008). Aquí y allá (here and there) information-based learning corridors between Tennessee and Puerto Rico: The five Golden Rules in intercultural education. Education for Information journal, 26(3) (to be published).
- Qayyum, Muhammad Asim, (2008), Capturing the online academic reading process. Information Processing and Management, 44(2), 581-595.
- Allard, S., Qayyum, Asim, and Mehra, B. (2007) Intercultural leadership for Information Professionals: Building awareness to effectively serve diverse multicultural populations. Education Libraries, 30(1).
Book chapters (refereed).
- Qayyum, Muhammad Asim, (2008), Community information sharing by networked electronic document readers. In Eds: Putnik, Goran D. and Manuela Cunha, Encyclopaedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations. Vol. III, Pu-Z, pp. 1722-1729, Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
- Qayyum, Muhammad Asim, (2004), Sharing knowledge with the help of a knowledge repository. The Encyclopaedia of Information Science and Technology. Ed: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Information Resources Management Association, Hershey: PA., Idea-Group Publishing.