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Allyson Carlyle is Associate Professor and Chair of the Ph.D. Program at the University of Washington’s Information School. One of her papers, "Fulfilling the Second Objective in the Online Catalog: Schemes for Organizing Author and Work Records Into Usable Displays" won the 1998 Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research given by the Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association. She is also the recipient of the 2000 OCLC/ALISE Research Paper Award for "Developing Organized Information Displays for Voluminous Works: A Study of User Clustering Behavior."
Dr. Carlyle’s primary research areas are evaluation and use of online catalogs, and foundations of descriptive cataloging. She has also written about conceptual modeling of documents, and plans future work in that area. Dr. Carlyle is currently working on the following research projects:
- an investigation of user perceptions of IFLA's recently promulgated document model, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR);
- a paper with David Hendry continuing previous work on bibliography.
She is an active member of KORG, the iSchool’s Knowledge Organization Research Group.
Professor Carlyle has an MLS (1986) and a PhD (1994) from the University of California, Los Angeles.