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Barbara Albee

Visiting Lecturer
Indianapolis campus
M.L.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1992
Courses Taught at SLIS
  • S502 (L528) - Collection Development and Management
  • S504 (L520) - Cataloging
  • S505 (L651) - Evaluation of Resources and Services
  • S632 (L584) - Technical Services

Research Interests: Academic libraries, e-resources, Collection development, and serials.

Rachel Applegate

Assistant Professor
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1995
Courses Taught at SLIS
  • S505 (L651) - Evaluation of Resources and Services
  • S552 (new course, developed from L550) - Academic Library Management

Research Interests: Library evaluation, academic librarianship, academic outcomes assessment.

Mary Alice Ball

Assistant Professor
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2000
Courses Taught at SLIS
  • S541 (L563) - Information Policy
  • S554 (L526) - Library Systems
  • S603 (L595) - Workshop in Library and Information Science
  • S605 (L596) - Internship in Library and Information Science

Research Interests: Information and technology policy, digital libraries, scholarly communication.

Philip C. Bantin

Adjunct Associate Professor
Director of Archives Specialization
Director of University Archives, Indiana University

Bloomington campus
MLS, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1976 MA, Emery University, 1975
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Archives, records management, and electronic archives.

Katy Börner

Associate Professor of Information Science
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
Core Faculty of Cognitive Science
Research Affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute

Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of Kaiserslautern, 1997
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Information visualization, data mining, data modeling, 3-D collaborative virtual environments, and human-computer interaction.

Blaise Cronin

Dean, Rudy Professor of Information Science; SLIS Bloomington and Indianapolis
Honorary Visiting Professor, City University, London; Napier University, Edinburg; University of Brighton


Ph.D., The Queen's University of Belfast, 1983;
D.S.Sc., The Queen's University of Belfast, 1998
D.Litt (h.c.), Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, 1997
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Scholarly communication, citation analysis, informetrics, strategic intelligence

Ronald E. Day

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., State University of New York - Binghamton, 1990
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: The history, culture and political economy of information, documentation, communication, knowledge, and digital media, particularly in the 20th and into the 21st centuries.

Hamid Ekbia

Associate Professor of Information Science
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
Core Faculty of Cognitive Science

Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2003
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Social Informatics, Agent-Based Modeling in GIS, Mediation, Actor-Network Theory

Noriko Hara

Research Interests: Community of practice, knowledge sharing, collective action with ICT, social informatics.

Susan C. Herring

Professor of Information Science
Adjunct Professor of Linguistics

Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley, 1991
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Computer-mediated communication; web analysis; gender and information technology; culture and information technology; discourse

Marilyn M. Irwin

Associate Dean (IUPUI)
Associate Professor

Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1991
Courses Taught at SLIS
  • S506 (L509) - Introduction to Research
  • S629 (L620) - Topics in Information Sources and Services

Research Interests: Research Interests: Access to information, in all formats, particularly for people with disabilities.

Elin K. Jacob

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science
Director, SLIS Doctoral Program

Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1994
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Representation of knowledge, including theories of classification and categorization; indexing systems as cognitive scaffolding; design, implementation and evaluation of ontologies and metadata schemes; and information architecture. Philosophy of information.

Annette Lamb

Senior Lecturer
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1987
Courses Taught at SLIS
  • S532 (L571) - Information Architecture for the Web
  • S574 (L551) - Information Inquiry for School Teachers
  • S603 (L595) - Workshop in Library and Information Science

Research Interests: Effective integration of technology into the classroom; Dr. Lamb hosts the Eduscapes.com website, which includes a wide range of award-winning, free resources for educators.

Joyce Manuel

Senior Lecturer (part time)
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1993
Courses Taught at SLIS
  • S501 (L524) - Reference
  • S521 (L623) - Humanities Information
  • S524 (L622) - Adult Readers Advisory

Research Interests: History of the black visual artist and library collections of these artists in academic, public, art school, and museum libraries.

Lokman I. Meho

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2001
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Citation analysis, informetrics, scholarly communication, social network analysis

Thomas Nisonger

Professor of Library and Information Science
M.L.S. Program Director

Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1976
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Research interests include collection development/collection management, journal ranking, use of bibliometric data for evaluation, and library evaluation in an electronic environment.

John Paolillo

Associate Professor of Information Science
Associate Professor of Informatics
Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics

Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Online social networks, Computer-Mediated Communication, the Semantic Web, multilingualism and the Internet, statistical models and quantitative research methods, computational linguistics, information retrieval, sociolinguistics, and South Asian languages.

Taemin Kim Park

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Coordinator for Bibliographic and Electronic Access Courses
Associate Librarian, IU Bloomington

Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Organization of digital resources, information retrieval, scholarly communication, serials.

Jean L. Preer

Professor
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., George Washington University, 1980
J.D., George Washington University, 1974
Courses Taught at SLIS
  • S502 (L528) - Collection Development and Management
  • S551 (L527) - Library Management
  • S604 (L597) - Topics in Library and Information Science

Research Interests: American library history, intellectual freedom, professional ethics.

Alice R. Robbin

Research Interests: Information policy, resource management, and technology; social and organizational informatics, including communication and information behavior in complex organizations; and qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Howard Rosenbaum

Research Interests: Electronic commerce, information architecture, computer-mediated communication; managers and information in organizations; information policy and electronic networking; and the intersection of sociological and library and information science theory.

Katherine Schilling

Assistant Professor
Indianapolis campus
Ed.D., Boston University, 2002
Courses Taught at SLIS
  • S401 (L401) - Computer-Based Information Tools
  • S551 (L527) - Library Management
  • S573 (L554) - Education of Information Users
  • S604 (L597) - Topics in Library and Information Science
  • S653 (L559) - Health Sciences Librarianship

Research Interests: Access and management of health information, education of information users.

Pnina Shachaf

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2003
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Virtual reference services and sources, comparative librarianship.

Debora Shaw

Professor of Library and Information Science
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1983
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Research interests include information seeking and use by humanities scholars and other specialized user groups; and design and impact of electronic information sources.

Joel B. Silver

Adjunct Associate Professor
Director of Special Collections Specialization
Librarian and Curator of Books, Lilly Library, Indiana University

Bloomington campus
J.D., Whittier College, 1977
M.L.S., Indiana University, 1986
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: History of book collecting, history of the book, and history of the antiquarian book trade.

John A. Walsh

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English

Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2000
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Digital humanities; digital libraries; the application of digital technologies and media formats to transform traditional humanities scholarship and to create new creative, collaborative, and experimental modes of scholarly discourse; semantic web and metadata technologies as discovery and analysis tools; digital editing and textual studies.

Jingfeng Xia

Assistant Professor
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Courses Taught at SLIS
  • S501 (L524) - Reference
  • S506 (L509) - Introduction to Research
  • S522 (L625) - Social Science Information

Research Interests: I am interested in topics on the management of digital repositories. My recent research focused on assessing the success of self-archiving in the current practice of disciplinary and institutional repositories. Unlike previous assessment studies that obtained data from interviewing faculty and other users face-to-face and from faculty responses on questionnaires, my research evaluated the status of each actual deposit including such information as its depositorship, full-text availability, version, type and subject area. It is my hope that the necessary information about existing strategies of self-archiving and their successful attributes will be able to identify the best practices and provide guidelines for repository managers to adjust their policies for recruiting more and better content, making their institutional repositories useful and sustainable.

Kiduk Yang

Assistant Professor of Information Science
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2002
Courses Taught at SLIS

Research Interests: Information retrieval with emphasis on leveraging human knowledge for information discovery on the Web. Current work investigates integrating knowledge organization with text and link analysis to enhance Web searching.