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    Lala Hajibayova

    Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D.

    School of Information
    Associate Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Contact Information
    Email:
    lhajibay@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-0026

    Biography

    Lala Hajibayova is an associate professor in the Kent State University School of Information.  Hajibayova teaches courses on Information Representation and Organization, Indexing and Abstracting, Social Informatics and Scholarly Communication. She received her Ph.D. in Information Science with a minor in Communications from Indiana University Bloomington. Hajibayova’s research falls into a broad category of sociotechnical studies, information representation and organization, and scholarly communication. She is particularly interested in examining interplay between individuals’ contextualized experiences, patterns and behaviors of engaging with systems and the potential of individuals’ collective actions to enrich systems of representation, organization and discovery, leading to ways to facilitate designing of human-centered systems that embrace multiplicity of views and comply with ethical norms. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed information science journals including Information Processing and Management, Journal of Association for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Information Science and Journal of Documentation and Information Research.

    *The School of Information faculty are superstars in the field. Therefore, it is impossible to list all of the great work they do on one page. Listed below is a small selection of recent work. Further information can be viewed in Dr. Hajibayova’s CV (found below) or on her Google Scholar page. 


    Teaching/Advising

    Academic Program
    Library & Information Science

    Information and Knowledge Organization Data/Information/TechnologyCultural Heritage Informatics


    Research Specialties

    Scholarly CommunicationsComputer-supported Collaborative WorkAltmetricsNatural Language ProcessingInformation BehaviorDiscovery SystemsInformation System DesignUser-generated TagsThe Digital DivideInformation EthicsNet Neutrality


    Selected Publications

    • Hajibayova, L., & McCorkhill, M. (2022). Graphic novels through the lens of Goodreads reviews. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 54(3), 508-517. doi:10.1177/09610006211033898 
    • Hajibayova, L., Coladangelo, L.P., & Soyka, H. (2021). Exploring the invisible college of citizen science: Questions, methods and contributions. Scientometrics, 126(8), 6989-7003. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04050-6
    • Hajibayova, L. (2020). (Un)Theorizing Citizen Science: Investigation of theories applied to citizen science studies. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T), 71(8), 916-926. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24308
    • Hajibayova, L. (2020). An investigation of cultural objects in conflict zones through the lens of TripAdvisor reviews: A case of South Caucasus. Journal of Information Science, 46(5), 710-722. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551519867545.
    • Hajibayova, L. (2019). Guardians of the knowledge: Relevant, irrelevant, or algorithmic? Information Research, 24(4), Retrieved from http://informationr.net/ir/24-4/paper839.html 
    • Hajibayova, L. (2019). Investigation of Goodreads reviews: Kakutanied, deceived or simply honest? Journal of Documentation, 75(3), 612-626. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2018-0104  

    Grants

    Principal Investigator for “An investigation of STEM book reviews,” KSU College of Communication and Information (CCI) seed grant, $7,000, 2018


    Awards/Achievements

    • Summer Research Institute for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems, National Science Foundation, Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) Fellowship, Stevenson, WA (2016)
    • Indiana University Bloomington, School of Library and Information Science, Dean’s Fellowship (2007 - 2011)
    • U.S. Department of State, Edmund S. Muskie/Freedom Support Graduate Program Fellowship (2001 - 2003)

    Professional Service

    • Editorial Board, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) 
    • Communication Officer, ASIS&T Special Interest Group/Artificial Intelligence (SIG/AI) (2021- Present)

    Affiliations

    • American Society for information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Member (2008 - Present)
    • International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), Member (2010 - Present)

    Education

    Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington
    M.L.S. from St. John’s University (New York)
    B.S./M.S. in Electromechanical Engineering from the Civil Engineering Institute (Baku, Azerbaijan)

    Documents

    PDF icon Hajibayova Resume 05.24.doc
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