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snunith shoham
Snunith Shoham is a Retired professor of Information Science at the Department of Information Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

biography
Prof. Shoham was born on November 1947 at the Detention Camps in Cyprus. Her parents, Ilsa and Yehuda Nissenholz, were Holocaust survivors who boarded on the ship 'Moledet'.

She grew up in Kiryat Ata and completed her military service in the Intelligence Corps.

She graduated summa laude in history from the Hebrew University in 1972 and then summa laude in librarian studies at the Hebrew University in 1979. At the same time, she served as director of the History Library at the Hebrew University from 1978 to 1979. She wrote her doctorate under the supervision of Prof. Michael Buckland on organizational behavior at the University of California, Berkeley.

She was the Chair of the Department in the years 1998-2005. As Head of the Department she defined and implemented a comprehensive change in the curriculum and activities of the department: established doctoral program; developed support networks through forums of doctoral students and advising on research methodologies for doctoral students; secured approval of the Council for Higher Education to offer a full BA program with Information Science as a major. Overhaul of BA curriculum and redesign of MA program to reflect the enormous advances made in information science. Establishing new specializations of studies, e.g. &#39;Knowledge Management&#39; and &#39;Information Technologies&quot;. In the years 2008-2020, Prof. Shoham was also the Chair of the Israeli Center for Libraries. She has a doctorate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Studies.

Since February 2022 she is the Chair of the Organization of Cyprus Ma&#39;apilim: Legacy and Commemoration (RA).

She has published the books '''Organizational adaptation by public libraries (Greenwood Press, 1984) and Classification and Browsing: The conjunction of readers and documents (Sussex Academic Press, 2000); as well as articles on knowledge organization, knowledge management, academic libraries and public libraries in a variety of journals, such as Library and Information Science Research, International Library Review, Libri, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, VINE: The Journal of Information &amp; Knowledge Management Systems, JASIST: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology etc.

A mother of four Children: Prof. Amir Shoham, Research Professor, Fox Graduate School of Business Administration, Temple University; Tal Shoham, A Judicial Judge; Dr. Tamar Shoham, Lecturer at Levinsky Academic College; and Noa Shoham.