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slisinform@kent.eduSchool of Library and Information Science
P.O. Box 5190
314 University Library
Kent, OH 44242-0001
Phone: 330-672-2782
Fax: 330-672-7965
Faculty & Staff
Full-time Faculty
Director
Research Areas:
- Copyright, Information Law & Intellectual Property as pertains to:
- Privacy and Free Speech
- Ethics
- Freedom of Inquiry
Goodyear Professor, Knowledge Management
Research Areas:
- Knowledge Architectures and Knowledge Engineering
- Search System Design/Architecture
- Semantic Analysis Methods
- Communities of Practice
Assistant Professor, Columbus
Research Areas:
- Children's Services
- Public Library Services
- Small Community Libraries
- Folklore and Traditional Literature
Professor
Research Areas:
- Children's Authors, Literature, and Library Services
- Young Adult Materials and Library Services
- Multicultural Materials for Youth
- Internet and Young People
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
- Information Access and Literacy
- Web Resources for Children and Young Adults
- Distributed Education
- Networks and Consortia
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Human Information Interaction
- Information Visualization
- Information Architecture
- Multitouch surfaces
Professor
Research Areas:
- Usability of Information Systems, Interfaces, Products, and Services
- Social Epistemology and Relevance Criteria in Information Retrieval Systems
- Ethical Concerns of the Information Professions
- Information Technologies in Libraries and Information Centers
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Digital Preservation, Preservation Education
- Preservation of Moving Images
- Social Contexts of Information Creation and Use, Focusing on Ethics and Values
- Information Policy, Focusing on Intellectual Property Issues
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
- School Library Administration
- School Library Evaluation
Professor
Research Areas:
- Health Informatics, Management, and Policy
- Organizational Theory
- Educational Evaluation
- Society and Technology
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Community and e-Government Informatics and Information Seeking
- Web Log Analysis, Informetrics
- Government Information
- Social Shaping of Technology
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Museology
- Document Studies
- Lived Experience of Materiality
- Phenomenological Research Methods
Lecturer, Columbus
Research Areas:
- Reference and Information Services
- International Librarianship
- Non-traditional LIS Careers
- Public and Special Libraries
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Publishing for young readers, genre construction and the commodification of books, international children’s literature, and transnational publishing
- Youth services librarianship, reviews, awards, the literary canon and arbiters of taste
- Children’s information seeking behavior
- Gendered professions within publishing and librarianship for young readers
Assistant Professor, Columbus
Research Areas:
- Library Management
- Groups & Teams in Libraries / Small Group Communication
- Reference & Instruction Services
- Academic Libraries
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Health Informatics
- Medical Sociology
- Gerontology
- UXD- Experience Design Research
Associate Lecturer
Research Areas:
- Teen Library Materials and Services
- School-Age Library Materials and Services
- Public Library Services
- Marketing Library Services
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
- Information Architecture
- Visual Explanations of Complex Constructs
- User Interaction with Information Systems
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Information Behavior of Clergy in the Routine Task of Sermon Preparation
- Influence of Sermons in the Social Construction of Knowledge
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
- Organization of Information: Descriptive and Subject Cataloging, Metadata
- Knowledge Organization Systems: Thesauri, Classification Systems, Taxonomies
- Subject Access to Information
- Information-Seeking Behavior
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
- Psychology of Information Search
- Search Behavior, Expertise, & Education
- Design of Interactive Retrieval Systems
- Digital Libraries
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
- Information-Seeking Behavior of Clergy
- Access to Information for Senior Populations
- Information and Religion
Professor
Research Areas:
- Knowledge Organization and Representation; Thesaurus, Taxonomy, Ontology
- Linked Data; Metadata
- Database Quality Control
- Multilingual & Multicultural Information Processing
Professor
Research Areas:
- Information Uses and Users
- Information-Seeking Behavior
- Information Organization
- Database Systems and Design
