Research Events
Annual School of Information Studies
Student Research Day – April 20, 2018
Call for Proposals
SOIS undergraduate and graduate students are invited to showcase their work by participating in the 2018 annual Student Research Day. Participation can take the form of either papers or posters based on students’ course projects or professional work. Papers and posters may be on any topic germane to information studies and may draw on any research methodology. Students whose paper proposals are accepted will be asked to deliver a 15-minute oral presentation. Poster presenters will discuss their research with interested attendees during the poster session. Group projects are welcome. Presentations will be livestreamed. Distance students are therefore encouraged to submit their work.
Prizes will be awarded for the top papers and posters, as adjudicated by a panel of SOIS faculty members.
Proposals
Students interested in participating must submit a proposal (Word or pdf file) that includes the following:
- Author name(s) and email address(es)
- Undergraduate or graduate student status
- Type of project: paper or poster
- Title of the project
- Abstract of the research project (maximum 500 words)
Submissions due: March 2, 2018
Proposal submissions are due by March 2, 2018 and should be emailed to Dr. Peekhaus (peekhaus@uwm.edu), Chairperson of the SOIS Research Committee.
Proposals will be reviewed by members of the Research Committee and notifications of acceptance will be sent by March 12, 2018.
SOIS Student Research Day – Spring 2018
Each Spring Semester the SOIS Research Committee hosts the SOIS Student Research Conference. Students are invited to submit paper proposals based on their research papers, critical literature surveys or designed research projects. Students may also submit poster proposals to share current works in progress. All proposals should be related to issues within the field of information studies. Student submissions can be unpublished or published. There are no restrictions on research methodology.
SOIS Spring 2018 Research Day: April 20, 2018
Location: Greene Hall
Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm
SOIS Spring Student Research Day
Please join us and support our students as they present their current research at the
2018 School of Information Studies – Student Research Day!
Friday, April 20, 2018
9:00am – 1:00pm
Greene Hall
3347 N. Downer Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211
| Tentative Agenda & Presentations | ||
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| 9:00am | Welcome | Tomas A. Lipinski, Dean |
Presentations |
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| 9:10am | Keynote: “Toward a Model of Intercultural Warrant: A Case of Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Dewey Decimal Classification”
Abstract This talk reports on dissertation research from a mixed method study that investigated how a globalized knowledge organization (KO) system can be adapted into a culturally different regional environment and what are the impacts of sociocultural factors on the adaptation of the system. As a case that examined the localization of a global classification system, the study investigated the Korean Decimal Classification (KDC), which has served as the Korean national library classification. |
Inkyung Choi, Doctoral Candidate |
| 9:40am | “Privacy, Delisting, and Ethics in the Library” | Katie Chamberlain Kritikos, Doctoral Candidate |
| 10:00am | “Feminist Epistemologies and Library Classification: A Radical Reorientation” | Sarah Cooke, MLIS Student |
| 10:20am | “Difficulties and Challenges of Data Collection in Rural Communities in Nigeria/Africa” | Musa Dauda Hassan, Doctoral Candidate |
| 10:40am |
Break &Poster Session |
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| “Identifying Trends in Wikipedia’s Fascism Section Using Revision History Data” | Eddie Chapman, MLIS Student | |
| “Health Information Exchange: Policy Issues Affecting Interoperability Across State Lines” | Michelle Hamberlin, Doctoral Student | |
| “Assessing the Implementation of CIPA-Mandated Internet Filtering in Wisconsin Public Libraries” | Aubrey Huff, MLIS Student, Emily Bahling, BSIST Student | |
| “Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): An Analysis of the Discussions about Adult Patron Request to Remove Internet Filters” | Sunstar Moukongmeng Vue MLIS/MSIST Student | |
| “Analyzing Services Offered in Milwaukee Public Libraries with Data Science Tools” | Sunstar Moukongmeng Vue, MLIS/MSIST Student, Johnny Vang, MLIS/MSIST Student, Benjamin Wilkey, MLIS Student | |
| “Homongology: A Preliminary Research on the Need for Hmong Digital Libraries” | Sunstar Moukongmeng Vue, MLIS/MSIST Student, Johnny Vang, MLIS/MSIST Student, Blia Mary Her, MSIST Student | |
Presentations |
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| 11:10am | “Preserving the Context and Perspectives of the Past” | Genevieve Kieffer, MLIS Student |
| 11:30am | “Contributors of Wowhead: A Case Study of User Generated Information in Online Game Communities” | Vanessa Marie Schlais, Doctoral Student |
| 11:50am | “A Pilot Study in Southeast Asia on How Locals Use Smart Phones to Access Online Markets and Participate in Social Commerce” | Sunstar Moukongmeng Vue, MLIS/MSIST Student |
| 12:15pm | Awards and Farewell | |
Past Research Activity
On March 31, 2017 the SOIS Research Committee hosted the Annual SOIS Student Research Conference. Students submitted paper and poster proposals based on their research papers, critical literature surveys or designed research projects.
Agenda & Presentations ( .pdf )
Shannon Crawford Barniskis, Doctoral Student
Keynote: “Convivial Making: Power and the Library Faith in Public Library Creative Spaces”
Sukwon Lee, Doctoral Student
“Relevance Judgment and Eye-Tracking Related Studies: A Review of the Literature and a Framework”
Musa D. Hassan, Doctoral Student
“Information Needs, Seeking, and Searching Behavior among African Refugees and Immigrants in the Milwaukee Area”
Karina Renee Hightower, BSIST Student
“Welcome to OKGreenwood.org”
Inkyoung Choi, Doctoral Student
“Map of cross-cultural bibliographic classifications: the adaptation of the DDC into the Korean Decimal Classification”
Treshani Perera, MLIS Student
“Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) in Audio-Visual Digital Collections”
Ann Hanlon, Digital Collections and Initiatives and DH Lab
Special Guest: “What Is Research in the Digital Humanities: An Introduction”
Katie Chamberlain Kritikos, Doctoral Student
“Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Libraries: The Case of BiblioCommons”
Phyllis Reske, MLIS Student
“Working title: Archivist as ‘Legal Eagle’: Examining the Access and Privacy Protocols for Institutional Records”
On April 22, 2016 the SOIS Research Committee hosted the Annual SOIS Student Research Conference. Students submitted paper and poster proposals based on their research papers, critical literature surveys or designed research projects.
Agenda & Presentations ( .pdf )
Melissa Davey Castillo & Hye Jung Han
Universal Accessibility of Digital Libraries
Sukwon Lee
The Importance of External Validity
Randy Smith
Human Selection and Digitized Archival Collections
Shaochen Lee
Chinese User Group and U.S. Academic Libraries
Jennifer Thiele
Information Access in Rural Areas of the United States
Poster Presentations
Anne Esplin
Size of Public Libraries’ Programming Budgets and Overall Satisfaction with Library Programming
Deronica Goldsmith
A Study of Searches for Archival Materials in Primo
Below are a few photos from the day.
A Study of Searches for Archival Materials in Primo, Deronica Goldsmith
Information Access in Rural Areas of the United States, Jennifer Thiele
Human Selection and Digitized Archival Collections, Randy Smith
Chinese User Group and U.S. Academic Libraries, Shaochen Liu
The Importance of External Validity, Sukwon Lee
Universal Accessibility of Digital Libraries, Melissa Davey Castillo & Hye Jung Han
Automation of libraries in South Valley University in Egypt
Doaa Elpery & SHaban Khalifa
Development to periodicals in libraries of colleges in two Egyptian Universities
Emma Molls
Open Access as Application: A Model for Graduate Courses at SOIS
Jihee Beak
Emotion-centered model of children’s book selection behaviors and metadata
Mary Johnston
Evaluating the search features and design of the visual catalogue VisualDx
Anastasia Hanson
Cloud computing in the library context
Anthony Ferrari
A new age: Social business
Babajide Ajibade
Hidden Dangers of Cloud Computing
Blong Yang
How mobile technology is changing the business world
Curt Klotz
Mobile technology: Asset and hindrance
John Nook
Social business models: The future of corporate social responsibility
Karl Gratke
Virtual desktop infrastructure: Savings with a virtual desktop
Logan Kennelly
Mobile technology: Is mobile technology driving young people to an early grave?
Matthew Her
Mobile Technology: Ipads/Tablets, Gett’em or Get Rid of ‘em
Natalie DeJonghe
To See and Be Seen: Examining differences between patron perception of librarians and librarian self-perception
Nicole May
Discovering Regalos: A case study of Notre Dame Middle School
Elizabeth Goodrich
Documenting the ephemeral: An exploration of the Performing Arts Archive
Emma Molls & Kadie Seitz
A Case Study of Labor Collections at Selected Milwaukee and Madison Area Libraries]
Karen Pundsack
Hennepin County Outreach Services: An Award-winning Service Model Bringing the Library to the Community
Soohyung Joo
How Do Users’ Search Tactic Selections Influence Search Outputs in Exploratory Search Tasks?
Susan Garwood
Technology in the library: A barrier to access for senior users
Usability Study on Mobile Academic Library Web Sites
Kyle Vanderkin
Watson in the Library: IBM’s DeepQA and the Future of Information Retrieval
Adriana McCleer
Dismantling Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies Program: A Literature Review and Critical Analysis
Tina J. Jayroe
Enriching Digital Objects using Crowdsourced and Traditional Metadata for Knowledge Discovery
Wendy Rondeau
The Life-World in the Library’s Backroom: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Indexer’s Lived Experience of Aboutness Determination
Carol Sabbar
When Language Causes Shifts: A Study of Shifts in Information-Seeking Strategies in Scholarly Research
Chunsheng Huang
Users’ Features of Image Similarities
A Comparative Study on Institutional Repository (IR): Comparing the U.S. and Taiwan
Troy Espe, Graduate Student
E-Allies: How Libraries and Newspapers Can Align in the Information Age
Karen Davies, Assistant Prof.
The Skills and Knowledge Required by Health Information Professionals in the USA
Catherine Arnott Smith, Assistant Prof.
Kristin Eschenfelder, Associate Prof. Public Libraries as Financial Literacy Providers
Jihee Beak, PhD Student
Comparison of LC subject headings and LibraryThing tags in GLBTQ YA fiction
Shannon Crawford Barniskis, Graduate Student
Graffiti, Poetry, Dance: How Public Library Art Programs Affect Teens
Nathan R. Johnson, PhD Student
Passing the ACID Test: Rhetorics of Web Standardization
Dalal Albudaiwi, PhD Student
The Impact of the Internet on the Islamic Society: A Discussion of the Ethical Dilemmas
Tom Walker, Associate Prof.
Celsus: A Library Architecture Wiki
Marta L. Magnuson, PhD Student
SOIS Aligning Technology with Learning Objectives: Student use of Glogster to Summarize and Critique Academic Journal Articles
Lucy Kelly, Graduate Student
SOIS Tracking the Effects of Mortgage Foreclosure on Communities in the United States
Toni Streckert, Graduate Student
SLIS Developing Community Partnerships, and Special Collections: A Key to Surviving Hard Times in Public Libraries
Soohyung Joo & Chunsheng Huang, PhD Students
SOIS System Analysis of Digital Libraries: A Practical Manual for Digital Collection Development Projects
Jim Schultz, Undergraduate Student & IT Staff
SOIS To the Cloud! Wait . . . It can’t be THAT easy.
Margaret E I Kipp, Assistant Prof. & Kun Lu, PhD Student
SOIS Retrieval Effectiveness of Tags and Author Keywords
Margaret E I Kipp, Assistant Prof. & Soohyung Joo, PhD Student
SOIS Semantic Structure of Consumer Health Information Web Resources Tagged on Delicious.com
Kristin Eschenfelder, Associate Prof. & Andrew Johnson, Graduate Student
SLIS The Limits of Data Sharing
Kun Lu, PhD Student
SOIS Generate an Author Map Based on Author Vectors
Melissa Adler, PhD Student
SLIS The Social Construction of Sexual Deviance at the Library of Congress
Peter Lor, Visiting Prof.
SOIS Naive empiricism in comparative LIS
Michelle Caswell, PhD Student
SLIS From Egypt with Love, . . . Maybe: Archival Authenticity in the Global Digital Age
Dietmar Wolfram, Interim Dean
SOIS Aspects of Citer Analysis as a Complement to Citation Analysis
Mei Zhang, PhD Student
SLIS Research on License Analysis for e-Journal Perpetual Access
Joyce M. Latham, Assistant Prof.
SOIS Who Runs the Public Library?
Can Social Tagging Improve Retrieval Performance: An Experimental Study on Medical Collection
Soohyung Joo
Two Multivariate Statistical Techniques in Informetrics Studies: A Comparison of MDS and SEM
Lucio Campanelli
Interface Visualization Evaluation for Project Management on Mobile Devices
Jihee Beak
Analysis of Metadata Schemas for Children’s Libraries
Addie Mrosla
PocketKnowledge: Purpose & Use Analysis
Karen Hiebert and Rae Schneider
How Do They Measure Up? An Evaluation of Virtual Reference Services of Academic and Public Libraries
Edward Benoit, III
Digital Librarians’ Perceptions of Social Tagging, its Potential use, Benefits, and Limitations
Shannon Barniskis
Public Practitioner-Researchers: A Call for Research Informed by Praxis
Chunsheng Huang
Survey Study of International Activities and Relations of National Libraries
Dalal Al-Budaiwi
Freedom of Expression in Muslim Society
Cletus Kuunifaa
Access to Information: An Index for Transparency in Governance in Ghana?
Carmen Orth-Alfie
Analysis of Practice and Policies Related to the Use of Images in Art History ETDs and the Applicability of the Best Practices in Fair Use Model
Liza Barry-Kessler
Designing Privacy into the Internet: 1969-1979
Heather Jett
Documenting Ourselves: Feminist Activism and 21st Century Librarianship
COMPARISONS ARE ODOROUS: Comparison in Science and the Science of Comparison
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Peter J Lor, D.Phil.
Visiting Professor, School of Information Studies
Past Secretary General, International Federated Library Association (IFLA); Past National Library of South Africa
Student Presentations:
Lucio Campanelli & Dan Rude, MLIS Students
Adaptive Browsing for a Community Database
Kun Lu, PhD Student
Ideal Matching, Real Matching: A Model
Tim Blomquist, MLIS Student
Findings from a Survey of Wisconsin Public Library Services for the Homeless Population
Lauree Garcia Hart, PhD Student
The Efficacy of Infodemiology in Tracking H1N1
Jo Ellen Darnton, BSIR Student
Wikipedia
Chunsheng Huang, PhD Student
Digital Archives of Taiwan Agricultural History During the Japanese Colonial Period: Phase I
Jihee Beak, MLIS Student
The relationship between the school library media specialist’s working environment and the level of information organization in a visual search in an OPAC system
Taryn Sauer, PhD Student & Recent MLIS Graduate
Asking Smart Questions: How Question Type and Form Affect Answer Quality on Q&A Web Sites
Hohyon Ryu, MLIS Student & Kun Lu, PhD Student
Building an Augmented Index for Genomic Information Retrieval