Faculty research

Faculty research focuses on the social, organizational and technical issues of information seeking and use in today's world. Topics of study include:

• Digital Libraries 
  
  • Policy-based data management systems: Rajasekar, Moore
  • Policy-encoded objects: Rajasekar
  • Federation management: Moore, Rajasekar
  • LifeTime Library: Marchionini, Moore
     
• Information and people
  How people act as users of information and technology
  • Creating metadata (information about information): Greenberg, Shaw 
  • User modeling: Kelly
  • Specific populations: Gollop
  • Human-computer interaction: Capra, Hemminger, Marchionini, Wildemuth
  • Finding and using archival materials: Tibbo, Lee, Marciano, Shaw 
  • Information seeking: Capra, Gollop, Kelly, Marchionini, Pomerantz, Wildemuth, Hemminger
  • Reading, listening: Sturm, Shaw 
  • Information use: Barreau

• Information Research
  General properties of information and collections
  • Theory of information: Losee
  • Stories: Sturm, Shaw 
  • Popular materials: Moran
  • Archival materials, records: Tibbo, Lee, Marciano, Shaw  
  • Video: Capra, Marchionini, Wildemuth

• Information Organization
  Tools that effectively represent and organize information
  • Classification and organization: Greenberg, Losee, Shaw 
  • Natural Language Processing: Haas, Shaw 
  • Ontologies and Notational Systems for Bioinformatics: Hemminger
  • Metadata, ontologies, the Semantic Web: Greenberg, Shaw 

• Information Tools and Technologies
  Tools for the creation, storage, management, preservation, retrieval or use of information
  • Information retrieval: Capra, Haas, Kelly, Losee, Hemminger, Greenberg
  • Digital libraries and archives: Hemminger, Jones, Marchionini, Pomerantz, Lee, Marciano, Shaw  
  • Self-archiving: Tibbo
     
•  Information Contexts
   Affecting people's interactions with information and information technologies
         Academic libraries: Moran
         School libraries: Hughes-Hassell
         Public libraries: Gollop, Sturm, Tibbo
         Medical and health information: Gollop, Marshall, Wildemuth
         Bioinformatics:Hemminger
         Corporate libraries, publishing: Barreau 
•        Digital Humanities: Marciano, Shaw
              - Cyber Infratructure, Marciano

• Overarching information issues
  • Management of information organizations: Marshall, Moran
  • Information policies: Marchionini, Marciano  
  • Information and library science education:
  • Information technology standards and standardization: Lee
  • Censorship, privacy, and freedom to read: Jones