SLIS Faculty
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- Adjunct Faculty - Indianapolis
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SLIS Dean
Blaise Cronin
Honorary Visiting Professor, City University, London; Napier University, Edinburgh; University of Brighton
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Editor, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
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
SLIS Faculty - Bloomington
Philip C. Bantin
Director of Archives Specialization
Director of Office of University Archives, Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington campus
MLS, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1976 MA, Emory University, 1975
- Courses Taught at SLIS
Research Interests: Archives, records management, and electronic archives.
Katy Börner
Adjunct 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.
Ronald E. Day
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., State University of New York - Binghamton, 1990
- Courses Taught at SLIS
Research Interests: The critical and cultural theory of information, documentation, and knowledge.
Ying Ding
Core Faculty of Cognitive Science
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2001
- Courses Taught at SLIS
Research Interests: Semantic Web, Webometrics, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Engineering, Citation Analysis
Hamid Ekbia
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
Core Faculty of Cognitive Science
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2003
Research Interests: Health IT, Social Informatics, Mediation
Noriko Hara
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2000
Research Interests: Community of practice, knowledge sharing, collective action with ICT, social informatics.
Susan C. Herring
Adjunct Professor of Linguistics
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley, 1991
Research Interests: Computer-mediated communication; web analysis; gender and information technology; culture and information technology; discourse
Elin K. Jacob
Director, SLIS Doctoral Program
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1994
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.
Staša Milojević
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
- Courses Taught at SLIS
Research Interests: Science studies, scholarly communication, scientometrics, bibliometrics, social network analysis, representation of knowledge and scientific classification.
John Paolillo
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
Coordinator for Bibliographic and Electronic Access Courses
East Asian Cataloger, Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992
Research Interests: Organization of digital resources, information retrieval, scholarly communication, serials.
Alice R. Robbin
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S506 - Introduction to Research
- S510 - Introduction to Information Science
- S513 - Organizational Informatics
- S541 - Information Policy
- S601 - Directed Readings
- S602 - Directed Research
- S604 - Topics in Library and Information Science
- S701 - Introduction to Doctoral Research in Information Science
- S702 - Doctoral Research Practicum I
- S706 - Introduction to Research
- S710 - Doctoral Research Practicum III
- S765 - Doctoral Research in Information Science
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
Associate Professor of Information Science
MIS Program Director
Interim MLS Program Director
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Informatics
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1996
- Courses Taught at SLIS
Research Interests: Social informatics, e-business, information architecture, computer-mediated communication, managers and information in organizations, information policy and electronic networking, the intersection of sociological and library and information science theory
Pnina Shachaf
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2003
Research Interests: Virtual reference services, social reference (Q&A boards), virtual groups, evaluation of library services, international librarianship and cultural diversity.
Debora Shaw
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
Director of Special Collections Specialization
Associate Director, Librarian and Curator of Books, Lilly Library Indiana University
Bloomington campus
J.D., Whittier College, 1977
M.L.S., Indiana University, 1986
Research Interests: History of book collecting, history of the book, and history of the antiquarian book trade.
John A. Walsh
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.
Kiduk Yang
Bloomington campus
Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2002
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.
SLIS Faculty - Indianapolis
Barbara Albee
Indianapolis campus
M.L.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1992
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S502 - Collection Development and Management
- S504 - Cataloging
- S505 - Evaluation of Resources and Services
- S631 - Advanced Cataloging
- S632 - Technical Services
Research Interests: Academic libraries, e-resources, Collection development, and serials.
Rachel Applegate
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1995
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S505 - Evaluation of Resources and Services
- S552 - Academic Library Management
Research Interests: Library evaluation, academic librarianship, academic outcomes assessment.
Hsin-liang Chen
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1999
Research Interests: My interests center on the design of appropriate media for different users in a variety of information environments.
Marilyn M. Irwin
Associate Professor
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1991
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S506 - Introduction to Research
- S629 - Topics in Information Sources and Services
Research Interests: Access to information, in all formats, particularly for people with disabilities.
Andrea Japzon
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., Drexel University, 2009
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S501 - Reference
- S553 - Public Library Management
Research Interests: Community Collections & Archives, Personal Information Management, Digital Preservation, Public Libraries, Information Behavior, Reference & Information Services, Information Literacy
Annette Lamb
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 1987
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S532 - Information Architecture for the Web
- S574 - Information Inquiry for School Teachers
- S603 - 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
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1993
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S501 - Reference
- S521 - Humanities Information
- S524 - 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.
Jean L. Preer
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., George Washington University, 1980
J.D., George Washington University, 1974
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S502 - Collection Development and Management
- S551 - Library Management
- S604 - Topics in Library and Information Science
Research Interests: American library history, intellectual freedom, professional ethics.
Katherine Schilling
Indianapolis campus
Ed.D., Boston University, 2002
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S401 - Computer-Based Information Tools
- S551 - Library Management
- S573 - Education of Information Users
- S604 - Topics in Library and Information Science
- S653 - Health Sciences Librarianship
Research Interests: Access and management of health information, education of information users.
Jingfeng Xia
Indianapolis campus
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2001
- Courses Taught at SLIS
- S501 - Reference
- S506 - Introduction to Research
- S522 - Social Science Information
Research Interests: Digital scholarly communication, GIS for library management, social science information
