Faculty research focuses on the social, organizational and technical issues of information seeking and use in today's world. Topics of study include:
Overarching information issues
- Equitable Access: Hughes-Hassell, Missen, Tufekci, Melo, Rawson
- Management of information organizations: Jarrahi, Vargha (adjunct)
- Information policies: Marchionini, Gibson, Bergquist, Rajasekar
- Information Ethics: Gibson, Tufekci, Melo
- Research methods: Tufekci
- Information and library science education for underserved communities: Missen, Gibson
- Censorship, privacy, and freedom to read: Jones, Tufekci
- Diversity: Hughes-Hassell, Missen, Melo, Rawson
- User-centered design: Bergquist, Capra
Information and people
How people act as users of information and technology
How people act as users of information and technology
- Creating metadata (information about information): Shaw, Missen, Tibbo
- Social informatics: Jarrahi, Tufekci, Dasgupta
- Specific populations: Gollop, Flaherty, Hughes-Hassell, Sturm, Missen, Gibson
- Human-computer interaction: Capra, Hemminger, Marchionini, Gotz, Arguello, Dasgupta
- Finding and using archival materials: Tibbo, Lee, Shaw, Anthony
- Information seeking: Capra, Gollop, Marchionini, Hemminger, Gotz, Gibson, Arguello
- Literacy: Hughes-Hassell, Sturm, Dasgupta
- Information use: Flaherty, Gibson
- Visualization and visual analytics: Gotz, Bergquist, Mostafa, Hemminger
Information Contexts
Affecting people's interactions with information and information technologies
Affecting people's interactions with information and information technologies
- Academic libraries: Melo, Vargha (adjunct), Westbrooks (adjunct), Moran (honorary)
- School libraries: Hughes-Hassell, Sturm, Rawson
- Public libraries: Gollop, Sturm, Hughes-Hassell, Tibbo, Flaherty, Bergquist, Gibson
- Libraries in the developing world: Missen
- Medical and health information: Gollop, Flaherty, Gibson, Mostafa, Mazur, Yu
- Organizations: Jarrahi, Shaw, Rajasekar, Mazur
- Biomedical and health informatics: Hemminger, Gotz, Mostafa, Wang, Yu
- Archives: Tibbo, Lee, Anthony, Winget
- Digital Humanities: Shaw, Feinberg
- Community and civic organizations: Gibson, Missen
Information Organization
Tools that effectively represent and organize information
Tools that effectively represent and organize information
- Archival materials, records: Tibbo, Lee, Shaw, Anthony, Winget
- Classification and organization: Feinberg, Shaw, Winget
- Data analytics: Gotz, Wang
- Natural language processing: Haas, Shaw
- Ontologies and notational systems for bioinformatics: Hemminger
- Organizations and description, design of information collections: Feinberg, Shaw
- Metadata, ontologies, the semantic web: Rajasekar, Shaw
Information Tools and Technologies
Tools for the creation, storage, management, preservation, retrieval or use of information
Tools for the creation, storage, management, preservation, retrieval or use of information
- Information retrieval: Capra, Haas, Hemminger, Arguello, Wang
- Digital libraries and archives: Hemminger, Jones, Marchionini, Lee, Shaw, Missen, Rajasekar
- Digital forensics: Lee
- Self-archiving: Tibbo, Lee
- Policy-based data management systems: Rajasekar
- Information technologies for underserved populations: Missen, Melo
