Browsing School of Information Studies Faculty Publications by Issue Date
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Profiles of Academic Libraries
(2010-01-01)Collectively, the profiles included in this book are designed to give a bird‘s eye view of the various aspects of academic librarianship, not only in the United States, but in other countries as well, such as Egypt, Jordan, ... -
Academic Library Management Issues and Practices
(2010-01-01)This book is partially based on the contents of the course on Academic Library Management which I have been teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The contents are designed to be used in connection with additional ... -
The Influence of Effects and Phenomena on Citations: A Comparative Analysis of Four Citation Perspectives
(2011-07-01)This article defines different perspectives for citations and introduces four concepts: Self-expected Citations, Received Citations, Expected Citations, and Deserved Citations. When comparing permutations of these four ... -
Measuring Author Research Relatedness: A Comparison of Word-based,Topic-based and Author Cocitation Approaches
(2012-10-01)Relationships between authors based on characteristics of published literature have been studied for decades. Author cocitation analysis using mapping techniques has been most frequently used to study how closely two authors ... -
How Library and Information Science Faculty Perceive and Engage with Open Access
(2015-01-01)This paper presents the inferential analysis of a systematic survey of North American Library and Information Science (LIS) faculty awareness of, attitudes toward, and experience with open-access scholarly publishing. The ... -
Culture and Classification: An Introduction to Thinking about Ethical Issues of Adopting Global Classification Standards to Local Environments
(2015-01-01)Ethical issues arise from adapting standardized classification schemes to local environments. Research affirms mutual influences between culture and classification schemes, however, there are various conceptions of culture. ... -
Access to Infrastructure
(2015-01-01)Access to infrastructure is a perennial issue in the field of communication, which started in the era of postal services and continues to the present era of broadband networks. As infrastructures, or large-scale systems, ... -
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Information Retrieval and Informetrics
(2015-03-01)Informetrics and information retrieval (IR) represent fundamental areas of study within information science. Historically, researchers have not fully capitalized on the potential research synergies that exist between these ... -
An Exploratory Study of the Subject Ontogeny of Eugenics in the New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries and the Nippon Decimal Classification
(2016-01-01)This study explores the subject ontogeny of “eugenics” by documenting the class numbers for “eugenics” in all thirteen editions of the New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries (CCL), and all fourteen editions of the ... -
Planning LIS doctoral education around a focused theme: A report on the B2A Program.
(2016-01-01)This report discusses the Overcoming Barriers to Information Access (B2A) program, a doctoral cohort program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The program has ... -
An Examination of Research Data Sharing and Re-Use: Implications for Data Citation Practice
(2016-12-31)This study examines characteristics of data sharing and data re-use in Genetics and Heredity, where data citation is most common. This study applies an exploratory method because data citation is a relatively new area. The ... -
Cataloging Practices through an Ethnographic Lens: Workarounds, Disagreements, and Manifestations of Culture
(2019-01-01)Cataloging models emphasize selective aspects of cataloging and serve the purposes of conceptual debates and theoretical developments. Many complexities, uncertainties, dilemmas, challenges, and “rare” scenarios that ... -
Linking, Mapping, Matching, and Change: Contemporary Use of Ranganathan’s Three Planes of Work in Classification Activity
(2020-01-01)Scholars have identified interoperability issues in mapping metadata in a linked data environment (Zeng 2019). This study builds on previous research and proposes a creative use of Ranganathan’s (1989) three planes of work ... -
User-Centered Categorization of Mood in Fiction
(2022-07-31)Readers articulate mood in deeply subjective ways, yet the underlying structure of users’ understanding of the media they consume has important implications for retrieval and access. User articulations might at first seem ... -
Emojis and Emotion Categories for Fiction: Survey Questions
(2023-01-01)This is the survey instrument and data for a research project on Emojis and Emotion Categories for Fiction. This is an anonymous online survey that collected 64 responses from self-identified fiction readers who are 18 ... -
Embracing Emojis: Prototyping Mood Enhanced Information Systems for Fiction Readers
(2025)Purpose – This study aims to understand fiction readers’ perspectives on the strengths and concerns of incorporating emojis into information systems for fiction. To solicit readers’ feedback, the authors adopted Cho et ... -
Evaluating video game moods and their separability based on user-generated reviews
(2025)Purpose The aboutness (a subject matter of resource) of information has been strongly emphasized when organizing and searching for different types of media resources. For video games, mood is one of the critical subjective ...