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
- Management of information organizations: Moran, Jarrahi
- Information policies: Marchionini, Gibson, Bergquist
- Information Ethics: Gibson, Wildemuth
- Research methods: Wildemuth, Tufekci
- Information and library science education for underserved communities: Missen
- Censorship, privacy, and freedom to read: Jones, Wildemuth, Tufekci
- Diversity: Hughes-Hassell, Missen
- User-centered design: Bergquist, Capra
Digital Libraries
- Policy-based data management systems: Rajasekar, Moore
- Policy-encoded objects: Rajasekar
- Federation management: Rajasekar
- LifeTime Library: Marchionini
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
- Information use: Wildemuth
- Social informatics: Jarrahi, Tufekci
- Specific populations: Gollop, Flaherty, Hughes-Hassell, Sturm, Missen, Gibson
- Human-computer interaction: Capra, Hemminger, Marchionini, Wildemuth, Gotz, Arguello
- Finding and using archival materials: Tibbo, Lee, Shaw, Anthony
- Information seeking: Capra, Gollop, Marchionini, Wildemuth, Hemminger, Gotz, Gibson, Arguello
- Literacy: Hughes-Hassell, Sturm
- Reading, listening: Sturm, Shaw
- Information use: Flaherty
- 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: Moran
- School libraries: Hughes-Hassell
- Public libraries: Gollop, Sturm, Hughes-Hassell, Tibbo, Flaherty, Bergquist
- Libraries in the developing world: Missen
- Medical and health information: Gollop, Wildemuth, Flaherty, Gibson
- Organizations: Jarrahi, Shaw
- Biomedical and health informatics: Hemminger, Gotz, Mostafa
- Archives: Tibbo, Lee, Anthony
- Digital Humanities: Shaw
- Community and civic organizations: Gibson
Information Organization
Tools that effectively represent and organize information
Tools that effectively represent and organize information
- Classification and organization: Feinberg, Losee, Shaw,
- Data analytics: Gotz
- Natural language processing: Haas, Shaw
- Ontologies and notational systems for bioinformatics: Hemminger
- Metadata, ontologies, the semantic web: Rajasekar, Shaw
Information Research
General properties of information and collections
General properties of information and collections
- Theory of information: Losee
- Stories: Sturm, Shaw
- Popular materials: Moran
- Archival materials, records: Tibbo, Lee, Shaw, Anthony
- Video: Marchionini, Wildemuth
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