Dr. Michel Nguessan Associate Professor, Library & Information Science   Associate Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of Library Science

Contact Information

• Telephone: 708.235.2143 
• Office: D2407 
• E-mail: mnguessan@govst.edu 

Academic Credentials

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, 2012 
• Ph.D., French Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1995
• M.Sc., Information (LIS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
• M. Eng., Software Engineering, Université du Québec - ETS, Montreal, 2000
• M.A., English/Linguistics, Université Nationale de Côte-d’Ivoire, Abidjan, 1990
• B.A., English/Linguistics, Université Nationale de Côte-d’Ivoire, Abidjan, 1989 

Responsibilities

• Train students, faculty and staff in the use diversified existing and emerging library & academic technologies
• Serve as liaison for arts & humanities, communications/training, accounting, finance, economics, public administration, business and marketing

Courses & Workshops Taught

• MIS465: Information Technology Project Management (Winter 2010)
• MIS420: Business Information Retrieval and Database Management (Fall 2009)
• MIS820: Database Development and Application (Fall 2009) 
• ENGL600: Research Techniques (Summer 2006)
• ENGL600: Research Techniques (Winter 2006)
• Bibliographic Instruction Sessions for English, Communications, Accounting, Arts
• Web-conferencing and Online Teaching with Horizon Wimba
• Plagiarism Detection with TurnItIn

Research Interests

• Computers in libraries and in education
• Digital libraries, institutional repositories
• Digital libraries/objects and online learning
• Library Systems (ILS, ERMs, etc.)
• Metadata and information standards
• Terminology and digital information retrieval and exchange
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems Implementation

Professional History

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems, Governors State University. Taught following courses: MIS 420, MIS 465, MIS 820
• Assistant Professor, Digital Resources & Reference Librarian
  Governors State University Library, 01/2009 – present
• Assistant Professor, Digital Applications/Systems Librarian/Head, Technology & Digital Resources, Governors State University Library, 06/2008 – 12/2008
• Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Digital Applications/Systems Librarian/Head, Library & Academic Technology, Governors State University Library, 07/2005 – 05/2008
• Research Assistant/Digital Librarian, (04/2004 – 03/2005)
  Windsor Public Library, Windsor , Ontario , Canada
  Reported to the Director of Public Services. In charge of developing digital collections with materials from the Windsor-Essex Local History collections, the Windsor ’s Community Museum and the Windsor ’s Community Archives.  
• French Instructor, (2003 -2004)
  Department of Romance Languages, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor .
  Teaching intermediate French classes at the undergraduate level.
• Project Analyst,   (05/2002 – 04/2003)
  Dun & Bradstreet Canada , Mississauga
  In charge in charge of: 1) information projects administration; 2) business process re-engineering; 3) designing and administering the implementation of a project administration system.
• Systems Analyst, (10/2000 – 05/2002)
  Spicer/PrinterOn Corporation, Kitchener , Ontario , Canada
  In charge of: 1) analysis, design, requirements engineering; 2) coordination of activities between Development, Quality Assurance and Marketing teams; 3) analyzing and retesting change requests and assigning requests to developers.
• Translator, (05/1995 – 12/1998)
  Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria , IllinoisUSA .
  In charge of: 1) translation of technical and marketing documentation from English to French and vice versa; 2) Machine Translation software development/software localization; 3) terminology development; 4) communication with customers, dealers in French-speaking countries.
• Teaching Assistant, French, (1992 – 1995)
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  Teaching elementary, intermediate and advanced French classes at the undergraduate level. I taught French for Special Purpose: French for Engineering.

Publications

• “Digital Library Resources and International Education: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries”. International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Volume 4, 2008.  Melbourne, Australia: Common Ground Publishing Ltd.
• “Defining the Boundaries of the Digital Divide”, International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Volume 2, 2006.  Melbourne, Australia: Common Ground Publishing Ltd.
• The Voice of the Elders: An Evening of Storytelling with the Baoulé (June, 2005) (English translation by Douglas A. Kibbee; Introduction by Manny Cangaley & Douglas A. Kibbee); Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, Koeln, Germany. 
• Language and Human Rights in Africa, In Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights. Selected Proceedings of the Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights Conference, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March, 1996. Douglas A. Kibbee (ed.), 1999, John Benjamins).
• The Language Question in Francophone. Africa. (Ed.) John Hutchison & Michel Nguessan. West Newbury : Mother Tongue, 1995.

Conferences/Presentations

• “Academic Libraries’ Strategic Planning in the 21st Century: The Role of Information Technology”. 2009 LITA (Library Information Technology Association) National Forum. Salt Lake City, October 1-4, 2009.
• “Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Concepts for Management Accountants” as Guest Speaker, Institute of Management Accountants, Historic 65th Year 2009-2010 Kickoff Event, Glenwood Oaks, Illinois; September 15, 2009.
• “Toponymy Development in French West Africa: Historical Perspectives.” Annual Conference of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA)/American Name Society (ANS), San Francisco, California, January 2009.
• “A Study of the Semantics of Baoulé Toponymy”. Michel Nguessan and Bertin Kouadio Yao. Twenty-third International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Toronto (Canada), August 17-22, 2008
• “Toponymy and Natural Environment: A Retrospective Study of Environmental Changes Based on Toponyms”. Michel Nguessan and Bertin Kouadio Yao. Twenty-third International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Toronto (Canada), August 17-22, 2008.
• “Digital Library Resources and International Education: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries”. International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society. In 2008, the conference, at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA from January 18 to 20, 2008.• “The Semantic of Personal Names among the Baoulé (Ivory Coast)”. Annual Conference of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA)/American Name Society (ANS), Chicago, Illinois, January 2008.
• “The Linguistic Aspect of the Digital Divide”, Third International Conference on Technology Knowledge and Society, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, January 2007.
• “Ethnic groups, ethnonyms, and cartography:  A Study of ethnic map-making in Côte-d’Ivoire”. Michel Nguessan and Bertin Kouadio Yao. American Name Society Annual Meeting, January 2007. Anaheim, California.
• “Why not standardize toponyms in Côte-d’Ivoire?”  Michel Nguessan and Bertin Kouadio Yao. American Name Society Annual Meeting, January 2007. Anaheim, California.
• “Defining the Boundaries of the Digital Divide”, Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Hyderabad, India, December 2005.
• “Linguistics, Language and the Law: A cross-Linguistics Study of the Legal Register”, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, February 1995.
• Organizer and Chair of panel on “Issues in Language, Education and Development”, International Conference on Francophone Africa and-Franco-African Relations, Boston University, October 1994.
• “Universalisme et ethnocentrisme: le dilemme de la langue française”, Annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, July 1994.
• “Une Étude des salutations chez les Baoulés (Côte-d’Ivoire)”, Centre de recherches linguistiques et sémiologiques (CRLS), Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France, April 1992.

Professional Membership

• Associate Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of Library Science 
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 2006, 2007, 2008
• Member of the Executive Council, Secretary, American Name Society (ANS)
• Member of the American Library Association (ALA )
• Member of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)
• Member of the IEEE Computer Society