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​Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Recipients


The following is the complete list of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award winners.
Listings include the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database number and/or URLs for full text in institutional repositories, as available. 

  • 2024​
  • Evelyn Cox, University of Oklahoma, Cultural Archivy: Indigenous Inclusivity Within Archival Infrastructures
  • Jenna Kim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Implementing pre-trained language modeling approaches for author name disambiguation
    Jaihyun Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, A Computational Approach Toward Understanding Political Language of Ideologically Oppsing Groups - From Historical Newspapers to Social Media
    Valerie Vera, University of South Carolina, Navigating Digital Margins: Trauma-Informed Design for Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Information on Social Media
    Shengang Wang, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, LGBTQ University Students' Information Seeking and Sharing in Online Communities and the Influence of Social Media
    Li Yang, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Data Relevance: Conceptualization and Theorization in the Perspective of Knowledge Organization
  • 2023
    Jessica Barfield, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Towards Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Human-Robot Interaction: A Theoretical Approach
    Jiarui Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, Hyphenated Family Heritage: Exploring the Dimensions of Chinese American Family Archives and Archiving Practices
    Rebecca Jones, The Pennsylvania State University, Investigating and Addressing Digital Divides in Rural Appalachia with Digital Literacy Education
    Sean D. Noel, Simmons University, Developing a research-based framework for teaching undergraduates with archives
    Alyn Gamble, Simmons University, A Great Place to Meet: Oral histories of LGBTQ+ members of a mutual aid addiction recovery facility
  • 2022 
    Qiuyan Guo, University of Illinois, Exploring Chinese Celebrity Fans' Online Information Behaviors and Understandings of Their Fandom
    Carina Guzman, University of Toronto, Stor(y)ing mi Desmadre: Trans- Feminist and Queer Community Archival and Digital Custodial Praxes in Latin America
    Kaeli Nieves-Whitmore, University of Alabama, Students' Experiences of Library Anxiety in Physical Academic Library Space
    Cynthia Orozco, University of California, Los Angeles, Community College Archives as Activism: A Case Study of a Faculty-Library Oral History Partnership Assignment
    Grace Seo, the University of Missouri, Sustaining Open Educational Resources Initiatives in Higher Education: Case Studies and Analysis
    Paul Thomas, Emporia State University, The Information Behavior of Wikipedia Fan Editors: A Digital Autoethnography

  • 2021
  • Stephen Abrams
    Queensland University of Technology/San José State University
    Dissertation Title: "A Communicological Critique of Evaluative Norms for Digital Preservation Success"
    *****
    Elizabeth Campbell 
    Drexel University
    Dissertation Title: "A Framework for Measuring and Mitigating Bias in Electronic Health Record Data;  A Case Study in Childhood Obesity Incident”
    *****
    Yi-Yun Cheng
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Dissertation Title: "Agreeing to Disagree:  Applying a Logic Based Approach to Reconciling and Merging Multiple Taxonomies"
    *****
    Julaine Clunis
    Kent State University
    Dissertation Title: "Semantic Analysis Mapping Framework for Clinical Coding Schemes"
    *****
    Lo Lee
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Dissertation Title: "Exploring Information Behavior of Hobbyists and the Making Process of Arts and Crafts"
    *****
    Rongquian Ma
    University of Pittsburgh
    ​Dissertation Title: "Bridging Sight and Insight: Visualization in Action among Digital Humanists" 
 
  • 2020
  • Houda El mimouni
    Drexel University

    Dissertation Title: Robotic Telepresence in the Classroom and Values
    *****
    Jiangen He
    Drexel University

    Dissertation Title: Predictive and Visual Analytics of Scientific Development”
    *****
    Wenqing Lu, Simmons University
    Dissertation Title: Using Social Media Tools for Collaborative Learning: An Mixed-Method Study on Academic Group Work by Worldwide iSchool Students
    *****
    Lassana Magassa
    University of Washington

    Dissertation Title: "I am Not Computer Savy": A Look into the Everyday Digital Literacy Level of Formerly Incarcerated People Using a Novel Holistic Digital Literacy Framework”
    *****
    Martin Nord
    University of Western Ontario

    Dissertation Title: Documents and the Positioning of the Moral Self: The United Church of Canada's Reconciliation Documents
    *****
    ​
    Bonnie Tulloch
    University of British Columbia

    Dissertation Title: Do the Ends Justify the Memes? Exploring the Relationship between Youth, Internet Memes, and Digital Citizenship

  • 2019
  • Jessica Lapp
    University of Toronto

    Dissertation Title: The Provenance of Protest: Conceptualizing Records Creation in Archives of Feminist Materials
    ProQuest Number: 2466327785
    *****
    Emily Maemura
    University of Toronto

    ​Dissertation Title: Logics of Order and Aggregation in Web Archiving Systems
    *****
    J Elizabeth Mills
    University of Washington

    Dissertation Title: Never the Same Storytime Twice: An Exploration of the Nature and Role of Reflection in Public Library Storytime Assessment
    *****
    Adèle Paul-Hus
    Université de Montréal

    Dissertation Title: Acknowledgements and Their Functions within the Reward System of Science
    *****
    Laura Ridenour
    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Dissertation Title: Examining the Notion of the Boundary Object in Information Systems: The Transdisciplinary Oeuvre of Cognitive Science
    ProQuest Number: 28093899
    *****
    Megan Threats
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Dissertation Title: Information Behaviors and Engagement Along the HIV Prevention and Care Continua
    ProQuest Number: 27835055

    • 2018
    • Brian Dobreski
      Syracuse University

      Dissertation Title: Values in Knowledge Organization Standards: A Value Analysis of Resource Description and Access (RDA)
      ProQuest Number: 2243194568
      *****
      Jamila Ghaddar
      University of Toronto

      Dissertation Title: Archives, third world futurities and the making of a global order: UNESCO in the Middle East  
      *****
      Philipp Jordan
      University of Hawaii

      Dissertation Title: A Meta-Study and Content Analysis of Science Fiction in Computer Science Research
      ProQuest Number: 2316005382​
      *****
      Hyoungjoo Park
      University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
      Dissertation Title: The Impact of Research Data Sharing and Reuse on Data Citation in STEM Fields
      ProQuest Number: 2170632801
      *****
      Jennifer Pierre
      University of California, Los Angeles
      Dissertation Title: ​Building a Digital Family: Examining Social Media and Social Support in the Development of Youth 'At-Risk'
      ProQuest Number: 2246399012
      *****
      Mei Zhang
      University of Wisconsin- Madison
      ​ 
      Dissertation Title: What Counts as a Good Selection? eBook Product Selection in U.S. Academic Libraries
      ProQuest Number: 2228839257

    • 2017​
    • Kathy Brennan
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: Loan Me the Money: How Cognitive Abilities and Financial Knowledge Influence Consumers' Information Behaviors
      ProQuest Number: 2108976565
      *****
      Karen Kaufmann
      Queensland University of Technology (QUT)/San Jose State University (SJSU)
      ​Dissertation Title: “Socio-Cognitive Relevance of Information Literacy: The Impact on Student Academic Work”
      Available through QUT ePrints at: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/123999/ 
      *****
      Emily Lawrence
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Dissertation Title: Reading for Democratic Citizenship: A New Model for Readers' Advisory
      *****
      Andrea Thomer
      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Dissertation Title: Site-Based Data Curation: Bridging Data Collection Protocols and Curatorial Processes at Scientifically Significant Sites 
      ProQuest Number: 2165572262
      *****
      Emily Vardell
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions
      ProQuest Number: 1952045721
      *****
      Yongjun Zhu
      Drexel University
      Dissertation Title: Graph-Based Interactive Bibliographic Information Retrieval Systems
      ProQuest Number: 1884623840

    • 2016
      Sarah Buchanan 
      University of Texas
      Dissertation Title: A Provenance Research Study of Archaeological Curation 
      ProQuest Number: 10390410
      Rachel Clarke
      University of Washington
      ​Dissertation Title: It’s Not Rocket Library Science: Design Epistemology and American Librarianship 
      ProQuest Number: ​10162188
      Wei Jeng
      University of Pittsburgh
      Dissertation Title: Qualitative Data-Sharing Practices in Social Sciences
      ProQuest Number: 1944514828
      Jinseok Kim
      University of Illinois
      Dissertation Title: The Impact of Author Name Disambiguation on Knowledge Discovery from Large-Scale Scholarly Data
      ProQuest Number: 2059835548
      Robert Montoya
      University of California, Los Angeles
      Dissertation Title: Contingent Consensus: Documentary Control in Biodiversity Classifications
      ProQuest Number: 10286986
    • Min Sook Park
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Exploring Social Semantic Relationships for Knowledge Representation in Health through Mining Social Data​
      ProQuest Number: 10161134
      ​
    • 2015
      Tiffany Chao
      University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      Dissertation Title: Methods Metadata: Curating Scientific Research Data for Reuse
      ProQuest Number: 3740417
      Morgan Currie
      University of California, Los Angeles
      Dissertation Title: The Data-fication of Openness: The Practices and Policies of Open Government Data in Los Angeles
      ProQuest Number: 10248323
      Noah Lenstra
      University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      Dissertation Title: The Community Informatics of an Aging Society: A Comparative Case Study of Senior Centers and Public Libraries
      ProQuest Number: 10609911
      Teresa Prendergast
      University of British Columbia
      Dissertation Title: Early Literacy in the Lives of Children with Disabilities: Exploring the Experiences and Perspectives of Parents and Public Library Children’s Librarians
      Nicholas Weber
      University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
      Dissertation Title: A Framework for Analyzing the Sustainability of Science Commons 
      ProQuest Number: 3740582
      Ayoung Yoon
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: Data Reuse and Users’ Trust Judgement: Toward Trusted Data Curation  
      ProQuest Number: 3719920
      ​
    • 2014
      Rhiannon Gainor
      McGill University, Canada
      Dissertation Title: Measuring Competitive Intelligence Outcomes
      Available through McGill University Libraries at http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=127133
      Katherine Howard
      Queensland University of Technology, Australia
      Dissertation Title: The GLAM* Convergence: Implications for the Education of Cultural Heritage Information Professionals in Australia  (*Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)
      Aisha Johnson
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Developing Southern Libraries to Influence the Life of the African-American User: An Exploratory, Archival Analysis
      ProQuest Number: 3705842
      Lorraine Dong
      The University of Texas at Austin
      Dissertation Title: The Social Ecologies of Mental Institution Records
      Amelia Acker
      University of California, Los Angeles
      Dissertation Title: Born-Networked Records: A History of the Short Message Service
      ProQuest Number: 3623371
      Kyle Jones
      University of Wisconsin
      Dissertation Title: All the Data We Can Get: A Contextual Study of Learning Analytics and Student Privacy
      ProQuest Number: 3740991
      Kaitlin Costello
      University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: Social Information Behaviors in the Context of Chronic Kidney Disease: Information Seeking and Disclosure in Online Support Groups
      ProQuest Number: 3719734​

    • 2013
      Elisabeth Jones
      University of Washington
      Dissertation Title: Constructing the Universal Library
      ProQuest Number: 3631849
      Jinxuan Ma
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Interacting with Health Information for Self-Care: An Exploratory Study of Undergraduates’ Health Information Literacy
      ProQuest Number: 3625898
      Claudia Serbanuta
      University of Illinois
      Dissertation Title: Voices from the Other Side of the Wall: The Case of Romanian Public Libraries of the 1970s and the 1980s
      Miriam Sweeney
      University of Illinois
      Dissertation Title: Servants of Cyberspace: A Critical Analysis of Microsoft’s Ms. Dewey
      ProQuest Number: 3632336
      Adam Worrall
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: The Roles of Digital Libraries as Boundary Objects Within and Across Social and Information Worlds
      ProQuest Number: 3638098
      Erjia Yan
      Indiana University
      Dissertation Title: Towards a Systematic Approach for Studying Scholarly Communication through Scholarly Networks
      ProQuest Number: 3587518

    • 2012
      C. Sean Burns 
      University of Missouri
      Dissertation Title: Free or Open Access to Scholarly Documentation: Google Scholar or Academic Libraries
      ProQuest Number: 3576007
      Laura Christopherson
      University of North Carolina
      Dissertation Title: Understanding Online Communication: Developing a Lexicon to Support Search, Capture, and Use
      ProQuest Number: 3593227
      Marianne Martens
      Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
      Dissertation Title: A Historical and Comparative Analysis of Multiplatform Books: Technologies of Production, User-Generated Content, and Economics of Immaterial and Affective Labor
      ProQuest Number: 3550710
      Xi Niu
      University of North Carolina
      Dissertation Title: Beyond Text Queries and Ranked Lists: Faceted Search in Library Catalogs
      ProQuest Number: 3512668
      Sarah Roberts
      University of Illinois
      Dissertation Title: Behind the Screen: The Hidden Digital Labor of Video Content Moderators
      ProQuest Number: 3673833
      Ji Yeon Yang
      University of Michigan
      Dissertation Title: A Dyadic Approach to Understanding Information Mediation in the Workplace
      Available through the University of Michigan Libraries and online at http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/102380

    • 2011
      Sofia Athenikos
      Drexel University
      Dissertation Title: Enabling Entity Retrieval by Exploiting Wikipedia as a Semantic Knowledge Source
      ProQuest Number: 3484756
      Amber Cushing
      University of North Carolina
      Dissertation Title: Possession and Self Extension in Digital Environments: Implications for Maintaining Personal Information
      ProQuest Number: 3512616
      Keisuke Inoue
      Syracuse University
      Dissertation Title: Investigation of the Linguistic Properties of Information-Seeking Computer-Mediated Communication, through Discourse Analysis of Digital Reference Interview Logs and Machine Learning Experiments.
      ProQuest Number: 3561456
      Amy VanScoy
      University of North Carolina
      Dissertation Title: Exploring the Meaning of Reference Work for Librarians in Academic Research Libraries
      ProQuest Number: 3512790
      Hollie White
      University of North Carolina
      Dissertation Title: Experimentally Influenced Study of the Organizing Issues Associated with Scientific Data Sets
      ProQuest Number: 3512772
      Yong Yi
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Consumer Health Information Behavior in Public Libraries: A Mixed Methods Study
      ProQuest Number: 3519396
 
    • 2010
      Kim Anderson
      UCLA Department of Information Studies
      Dissertation title: Appraisal Learning Networks: How University Archivists Learn to Appraise Through Social Interaction
      ProQuest Number: 3486608
      Jeanette de Richemond
      Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
      Dissertation Title: What is “Enough Information?”
      Carolyn Hank
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: Scholars and their Blogs: Characteristics, Preferences and Perceptions Impacting Digital Preservation
      ProQuest Number: 3456270
      Kyungwon Koh
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Proposing a Theoretical Framework for Digital Age Youth Information Behavior Building upon Radical Change Theory
      ProQuest Number: 3483577
      Ellen Pozzi
      Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
      Dissertation Title: The Public Library in an Immigrant Neighborhood: A Case Study of Italian Immigrants’ Literacies in Newark (NJ), 1889-1919
      ProQuest Number: 3606593
      Ellen Rubenstein
      University of Illinois
      Dissertation Title: Ethnography of an Online Breast Cancer Support Group
      ProQuest Number: 3496660
 
    • 2009
      Bradley Wade Bishop
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Chat Reference and Location-Based Questions: A Multi-Method Evaluation of a Statewide Chat Reference Consortium
      ProQuest Number: 3442102
      Jennifer Crispin
      University of Missouri
      Dissertation Title: Discovering the Social Organization of School Library Work
      ProQuest Number: 3458968
      Linda R. Most
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: The Rural Public Library as Place in North Florida: A Case Study
      ProQuest Number: 3400213
      Zhixian (George) Yi 
      Texas Woman’s University
      Dissertation Title: The Management of Change in the Information Age: Approaches of Academic Library Directors in the United States
      ProQuest Number: 3414408
 
    • 2008
      Serhiy Polyakov
      University of North Texas
      Dissertation Title: Enhancing User Search Experience in Digital Libraries with Rotated Latent Semantic Indexing
      ProQuest Number: 10034369
      Xiaoli Huang
      University of Maryland – College Park
      Dissertation Title: Topicality Reconsidered: A Conceptual Analysis of Topical Relevance Relationships
      ProQuest Number: 3372863
      Yong-Mi Kim
      University of Michigan
      Dissertation Title: Topicality Reconsidered: The Role of Tags in Information Retrieval Interaction
      ProQuest Number: 3492916
      Maria Souden
      University of Michigan
      Dissertation Title: Information Work in the Context of the Experience of Chronic Illness
      ProQuest Number: 3458827
      Mary Jo Venetis
      University of North Texas
      Dissertation Title: Identification of Remote Leadership Patterns in the LIS Field
      ProQuest Number: 3352149
      Pengyi Zhang
      University of Maryland – College Park
      Dissertation Title: Supporting Sense-Making with Tools for Structuring a Conceptual Space
      ProQuest Number: 3409887
 
    • 2007
      Donghua Tao
      University of Missouri – Columbia
      Dissertation Title: Using Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) in Understanding Selection and Use of Information
      Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6736 
 
    • 2006
      Bethany Letalien
      University of Texas at Austin
      Dissertation Title: Vexations, Volumes, and Volunteers: Institutionalization and the Veneration of Information at a Small International NGO
      ProQuest Number: 3372626
 
    • 2005
      Brian Arbogast de Hubert Miller
      Florida State University
      Unfortunately, Brian Miller succumbed to cancer in April, 2006 before completing his dissertation. He was a respected member of the information architecture community and participated in the first seven IA Summits sponsored by ASIS&T. He, along with his potential further contributions to the field, are missed.
 
    • 2004
      Arif Dagli
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Culture and Information Needs in Web-Based Learning
      ProQuest Number: 3183054
      Bin Li
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: The Social Construction of Web Appropriation and Use in American Libraries: An Interpretive and Longitudinal Approach
      ProQuest Number: 3190280
      Jianqiang Wang
      University of Maryland – College Park
      Dissertation Title: Matching Meaning for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
      ProQuest Number: 3202413
      Mia Liza A. Lustria
      University of Kentucky
      Dissertation Title: Can Interactivity Make a Difference? Effects of Interactivity on Young Adults’ Comprehension of Online Health Content
      ProQuest Number: 3227398
      Xiaojun Yuan
      Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
      Dissertation Title: Supporting Multiple Information-Seeking Strategies in a Single System Framework
      ProQuest Number: 3349604
      Jinwon Ho
      University at Albany/SUNY
      Dissertation Title: A Comprehensive Model for Assessing Information Values: Toward a Theory for Valuing Information Technology Investment
      ProQuest Number: 3196112
 
    • 2003
      Darius Mahdjoubi
      University of Texas at Austin
      Dissertation Title: Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Business Plans, Capital, Technology and Growth of New Ventures in Austin, Texas
      ProQuest Number: 3143305
      Yungrang Cheng
      Indiana University
      Dissertation Title: Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions: Quantitative Comparisons of Interactions and Relationships Among Three Factors in College Students’ Information Seeking
      ProQuest Number: 3156319
      Amgad Elgohary
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Educational Preparation of Entry-Level Professional Librarians Employed by Florida Research Libraries
      ProQuest Number: 3109500
 
    • 2002
      Kelly L. Maglaughlin
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: An Exploration of Interdisciplinary Academic Scientific Collaboration Factors
      ProQuest Number: 3112048
      Jeffrey Pomerantz
      Syracuse University
      Dissertation Title: Question Taxonomies for Digital Reference
      ProQuest Number: 3251480
      Heiko Haubitz
      University of Texas at Austin
      Dissertation Title: The Use of Public Web Portals by Undergraduate Students
      ProQuest Number: 3215469
      Jinmook Kim
      University of Maryland at College Park
      Dissertation Title: Relevance Judgments and Query Reformulation by Users Interacting with a Speech Retrieval System
      ProQuest Number: 3212625
      Diane Kelly
      Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
      Dissertation Title: Understanding Implicit Feedback and Document Preference: A Naturalistic User Study
      ProQuest Number: 3117613
      Ciaran B. Trace
      UCLA Department of Information Studies
      Dissertation Title: Documenting School Life: Formal and Informal Imprints of a Fifth Grade Classroom
      ProQuest Number: 3142537
 
    • 2001
      Laura Slaughter
      University of Maryland – College Park
      Dissertation Title: Semantic Relationships in Health Consumer Questions and Physicians’ Answers: A Basis for Representing Medical Knowledge and for Concept Exploration Interfaces.
      ProQuest Number: 3080292
      Eun Park
      UCLA Department of Information Studies
      Dissertation Title: Developing a Framework for Authenticity Requirements in University Student Records Systems: An Exploratory Study
      ProQuest Number: 3089005
      Anthony Tse
      University of Maryland – College Park
      Dissertation Title: Identifying and Characterizing a “Consumer Medical Vocabulary”
      ProQuest Number: 3094547
      Kiduk Yang
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: Combining Text-, Link-, and Classification-Based Retrieval Methods to Enhance Information Discovery on the Web
      ProQuest Number: 3061740
      Shawne D. Miksa 
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Pigeonholes and Punchcards: Identifying the Division between Library Classification Research and Onformation Retrieval Research, 1952—1970
      ProQuest Number: 3057561
      Seung-Lye Kim 
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Workshop on Collaboration and Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
      ProQuest Number: 3129745
      Julie Griffith 
      University of Alabama
      Dissertation Title: A Rhizomatic Inquiry into Legal Classification: “Taking Differences”, Discourse, and Domestic Violence
      ProQuest Number: 3115053
 
    • 2000
      Denise E. Agosto
      Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
      Dissertation Title: Sound, Color, and Action: Bounded Rationality and Satisficing in Young People’s Examination of World Wide Web Resources
      ProQuest Number: 3027977
      Boryung Ju 
      Florida State University
      Dissertation Title: Assessing Usability of Menu-Driven Interfaces: The User-Process Model Approach
      ProQuest Number: 3042023
      Wen-chin Lan 
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: From Document Clues to Descriptive Metadata: Document Characteristics Used by Graduate Students in Judging the Usefulness of Web Documents
      ProQuest Number: 3061699
      Emily Marsh
      University of Maryland at College Park
      Dissertation Title: Rhetorical Relationships between Images and Text in Web Pages
      ProQuest Number: 3078324
      Kyunghye Yoon 
      Syracuse University
      Dissertation Title: Certainty, Uncertainty and the Role of Topic and Comment in Interpersonal Information Seeking Interactions
      ProQuest Number: 3107863
 
    • 1999
      Anne Diekema
      Syracuse University
      Dissertation Title: Translation Events in Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Lexical Ambiguity, Lexical Holes, Vocabulary Mismatch, and Correct Translations
      ProQuest Number: 3099726
      William B. Edgar 
      University of Alabama
      Dissertation Title: Corporate Library Resource Selection and Corporate Core Competencies: Exploring the Connections
      ProQuest Number: 9996470
      Anita Komlodi 
      University of Maryland – College Park
      Dissertation Title: Search History for User Support in Information-Seeking Interfaces
      ProQuest Number: 3055587
      Shin-jeng Lin 
      Rutgers University The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
      Dissertation Title: Modeling and Supporting Multiple Information Seeking Episodes over the Web
      ProQuest Number: 3062480
      Rong Tang 
      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Dissertation Title: Use of Relevance Criteria across Stages of Document Evaluation: A Micro Level and Macro Level Analysis
      ProQuest Number: 9954723
      Youngok Choi 
      University of Pittsburgh
      Dissertation Title: The Characteristics of Users’ Queries and Users’ Relevance Criteria in Image Retrieval in American History
      ProQuest Number: 9974413
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