Publications and Research
Major Research Interests
Evaluation and use of online catalogs, foundations of descriptive cataloging principles and theory, conceptual modeling of documents
Grants
- 2007 Institute for Museum and Library Services: "Washington Doctoral Initiative" providing funding for four doctoral students.
- 1999 - OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Award: "Clustering Fiction Works to Improve Online Catalog Displays"
- 1996 - Kent State University, Summer Research and Creativity Activity Grant: "Clustering Work Records for Online Catalog Design: A User Study"
Publications
“Making the Pieces Fit: Little Women, Works, and the Pursuit of Quality.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. v. 46, no. 1 (2008).
"Understanding FRBR as a Conceptual Model: FRBR and the Bibliographic Universe." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. v. 33, no. 6 (August/Sept. 2007): p. 12-16. [revision of of Oct. 2006 Library Resources & Technical Services article.
"FRBR and the Bibliographic Universe, or, How to Read FRBR as a Model." Library Resources & Technical Services. 50, no. 4 (Oct. 2006): 264-273.
"Hotlist or Bibliography? A Case of Genre on the Web." Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Track 3: Digital Media: Genres of Digital Documents, January 4-7, 2006, Computer Society Press, 2006. With David G. Hendry.
"Transforming Catalog Displays: Record Clustering for Works of Fiction." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 33,no. 3/4 (2002): 13-25. With Joel Summerlin.
"Default Record Displays in Web-Based Catalogs." Library Quarterly, v. 72, no. 2 (April 2002): 179-204. With Traci Timmons.
"Academic Library Gateways to Online Information: A Taxonomy of Organizational Structures" in Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge Across Boundaries, Proceedings of the Seventh International ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2002, Granada, Spain. Edited by María J. López-Huertas. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2002: 158-164. With Hur-Li Lee.
"Equivalence in Tillett’s Bibliographic Relationships Taxonomy: A Revision" in Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge Across Boundaries, Proceedings of the Seventh International ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2002, Granada, Spain. Edited by María J. López-Huertas. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2002: 258-263. With Lisa M. Fusco.
"Facilitating Retrieval of Fiction Works in Online Catalogs." Proceedings of the 12th ASIS&T/CR Classification Research Workshop, November 4, 2001, Silver Spring, Md.: ASIST&T, c1997 [i.e., 2001]: 1-11. With Sara Ranger.
"Developing Organized Information Displays for Voluminous
Works: A Study of User Clustering Behavior."
Information
Processing & Management, 35, 5 (July 2001):
677-699.
**Winner of
the 2000 OCLC/ALISE Research Paper Award
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"An Interview with Martha M. Yee." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 29, 3 (2000): 5-19.
"Transforming Catalog Displays: Record Clustering for Works of Fiction." Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization: Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2000, Toronto, Canada. Eds. Clare Beghtol, Lynne C. Howarth, and Nancy J. Williamson. Wurzburg: ERGON Verlag, 2000: 320-326.
"Creating Efficient and Systematic Catalogs" in The Future of Cataloging: Insights from the Lubetzky Symposium, April 18, 1998, University of California, Los Angeles. Eds. Tschera Harkness Connell, Robert L. Maxwell. Chicago: American Library Association, 2000: 42-59.
"Referee Response to 'On the Use of Form Headings in an Alphabetical Catalog' by Seymour Lubetzky." Library Quarterly, 69, 2 (April 1999): 233-234.
"User Categorisation of Works: Toward Improved Organisation of Online Catalogue Displays." Journal of Documentation, 55, 2 (March 1999):184-208.
"Exploring Bibliographic Classification in New Environments," in Advances in Classification Research, v. 8, Proceedings of the ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, Nov. 1997. Ed. Efthimis N. Efthimiadis. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1998: 90-91. With Helen Atkins.
"Special Section: Organizing Internet Resources: Metadata and the Web." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. v. 24, no. 1 (October/November 1997). Guest Editor, with Efthimis N. Efthimiadis.
"The Role of Classification in the Creation of Author and Work Displays in Online Catalogs." In Knowledge Organization for Information Retrieval, Proceedings of the Sixth International Study Conference on Classification Research, Held at University College London, 16-18 June 1997. The Hague, Netherlands: International Federation for Information and Documentation, 1997: 90-96.
"Fulfilling the Second Objective in the Online Catalog:
Schemes for Organizing Author and Work Records into Usable
Displays."
Library Resources & Technical Services, 41, 2 (April
1997): 79-100.
**Winner of the 1998 Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished
Published Research
"Ordering Author and Work Records: An Evaluation of Collocation in Online Catalog Displays." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47, 7 (July 1996): 538-554.
"Matching LCSH and User Vocabulary in the Library Catalog." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 10 (1989): 37-63.