Beta Phi Mu Scholarships & Fellowships Recipients Archive
2023 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Professional Education of Beta Phi Mu Members
September 2023 Winners:
Carol Hollier, Kent State University
Yoly Avella, SUNY Buffalo
Treshani Perera, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Jodi Silverman, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
Amanda McGrory, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
March 2023 Winners:
Suzanne LaPierre, University of South Carolina, Beta Omega Chapter
Noreen Whysel, Pratt Institute, Theta Chapter
Chelsea Gunn, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
Stacy Brody, Rutgers University, Omicron Chapter
Neva Sypniewski, University of Maryland, Iota Chapter
The Frank B. Sessa Scholarships are generously sponsored by Library Juice Academy
2023 Garfield Recipients
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
BPM Distinguished Member Award
Kudos to Beta Phi Mu Past President, Dr. Emily J. M. Knox, on
her receipt of ALA's Beta Phi Mu Award as well as Beta Phi
Mu's Distinguished Member Award.
2022 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
September 2022 winners:
Sarah Cruz Mendoza, University of South Florida, Beta Phi
Gail Kuroda, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Xi
Kevin Kelley, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, Alpha
Molly Brown, Simmons College, Beta Beta
Diane Dias De Fazio, Pratt Institute, Theta
March 2022 winners:
Livia Garza, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Alpha
Chrissy O'Grady, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Alpha
Caterina Reed, University at Buffalo, Beta Delta
Melinda Berg, University of South Florida, Beta Phi
Hazlett Henderson, Emporia State University, Beta Epsilon
2022 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Awards
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 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
March winners:
Amanda Click, Beta Beta Zeta Chapter
Jamie Luedtke, Alpha Chapter
Jennifer Taylor, Beta Psi Chapter
Cindy Tian, Alpha Chapter
Liza Palmer, Beta Beta Epsilon Chapter
September winners:
Lori Bello, Rutgers School of Communication & Information, Omicron Chapter
Araceli Hintermeister, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
Ariel Barnes, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
Regina Pagani, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
Heather Healy, Emporia State University, Beta Epsilon Chapter
2021 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Stephen Abrams, Queensland University of Technology/San José State University
“A Communicological Critique of Evaluative Norms for Digital Preservation Success”
Elizabeth Campbell, Drexel University
“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
“Agreeing to Disagree: Applying a Logic Based Approach to Reconciling and Merging Multiple Taxonomies”
Julaine Clunis, Kent State University
“Semantic Analysis Mapping Framework for Clinical Coding Schemes”
Lo Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Exploring Information Behavior of Hobbyists and the Making Process of Arts and Crafts”
Rongqian Ma, University of Pittsburgh
“Bridging Sight and Insight: Visualization in Action among Digital Humanists”
2020 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2019 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2018 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2017 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2016 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2015 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2014 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2013 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2012 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2011 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2010 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2009 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2008 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2007 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2006 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
2005 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Professional Education of Beta Phi Mu Members
September 2023 Winners:
Carol Hollier, Kent State University
Yoly Avella, SUNY Buffalo
Treshani Perera, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Jodi Silverman, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
Amanda McGrory, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
March 2023 Winners:
Suzanne LaPierre, University of South Carolina, Beta Omega Chapter
Noreen Whysel, Pratt Institute, Theta Chapter
Chelsea Gunn, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
Stacy Brody, Rutgers University, Omicron Chapter
Neva Sypniewski, University of Maryland, Iota Chapter
The Frank B. Sessa Scholarships are generously sponsored by Library Juice Academy
2023 Garfield Recipients
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
BPM Distinguished Member Award
Kudos to Beta Phi Mu Past President, Dr. Emily J. M. Knox, on
her receipt of ALA's Beta Phi Mu Award as well as Beta Phi
Mu's Distinguished Member Award.
2022 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
September 2022 winners:
Sarah Cruz Mendoza, University of South Florida, Beta Phi
Gail Kuroda, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Xi
Kevin Kelley, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, Alpha
Molly Brown, Simmons College, Beta Beta
Diane Dias De Fazio, Pratt Institute, Theta
March 2022 winners:
Livia Garza, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Alpha
Chrissy O'Grady, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Alpha
Caterina Reed, University at Buffalo, Beta Delta
Melinda Berg, University of South Florida, Beta Phi
Hazlett Henderson, Emporia State University, Beta Epsilon
2022 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Awards
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 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
March winners:
Amanda Click, Beta Beta Zeta Chapter
Jamie Luedtke, Alpha Chapter
Jennifer Taylor, Beta Psi Chapter
Cindy Tian, Alpha Chapter
Liza Palmer, Beta Beta Epsilon Chapter
September winners:
Lori Bello, Rutgers School of Communication & Information, Omicron Chapter
Araceli Hintermeister, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
Ariel Barnes, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
Regina Pagani, Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
Heather Healy, Emporia State University, Beta Epsilon Chapter
2021 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Stephen Abrams, Queensland University of Technology/San José State University
“A Communicological Critique of Evaluative Norms for Digital Preservation Success”
Elizabeth Campbell, Drexel University
“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
“Agreeing to Disagree: Applying a Logic Based Approach to Reconciling and Merging Multiple Taxonomies”
Julaine Clunis, Kent State University
“Semantic Analysis Mapping Framework for Clinical Coding Schemes”
Lo Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Exploring Information Behavior of Hobbyists and the Making Process of Arts and Crafts”
Rongqian Ma, University of Pittsburgh
“Bridging Sight and Insight: Visualization in Action among Digital Humanists”
2020 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Tobias Paul
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Nicole Pereversoff
University of Western Ontario - Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
- Erin Eldermire, Head of the Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library, Cornell University Library.
For a project to research and create guidance for best practices in searching the grey literature for evidence syntheses (ES) in agriculture and searching scholarly literature originating in Latin America, as well as learning about support that currently exists for information specialists and researchers in Latin America conducting ES, and/or the support that they need for further ES capacity development. - Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Education of Beta Phi Mu Members
March winners: Heather Arrington (Wayne State, At-Large)
Laurie Fuentes (Texas Woman's University, Beta Lambda Chapter)
Sarah Cruz Mendoza (University of South Florida, Beta Phi Chapter)
Sara Quashnie (University of Illinois, Alpha Chapter)
Katy Sternberger (Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter).
September winners: Gerard Collins, San Jose State University, Omega Chapter
Kathleen Cummings, University of Toronto, At-Large
Raymond Pun, CUNY – Queens College, At-Large
April Shaw, University of South Carolina, Beta Omega Chapter
Jodi Shippee. Simmons University, Beta Beta Chapter
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Houda El mimouni, Drexel University
“Robotic Telepresence in the Classroom and Values”
*****
Jiangen He, Drexel University
“Predictive and Visual Analytics of Scientific Development”
*****
Wenqing Lu, Simmons University
“Using Social Media Tools for Collaborative Learning: An Mixed-Method Study on Academic Group Work by Worldwide iSchool Students”
*****
Lassana Magassa, University of Washington
“'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
“Documents and the Positioning of the Moral Self: The United Church of Canada's Reconciliation Documents”
*****
Bonnie Tulloch, University of British Columbia
“Do the Ends Justify the Memes? Exploring the Relationship between Youth, Internet Memes, and Digital Citizenship”
2019 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Ruth Mahaffy Emporia
State University - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Rachel Hatcher
San Jose State University - Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Christopher Hollister
Lockwood Library at the University of Buffalo.
To conduct an ethnographic study of practicing librarians from thirteen non-North American geographic regions around the world. - Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Education of Beta Phi Mu Members
March winners: Joy Banks (Clarion University, At-Large), Anne Mlod (Syracuse University, Pi Lambda Sigma Chapter), Megan De Armond (Pratt Institute, Theta Chapter), Cristina Ramirez (Catholic University, Iota Chapter), and Laura Litwer (University of South Carolina, Beta Omega Chapter).
September winners: Ann Chiu (University of Illinois, Alpha Chapter), Hilary Swett (San Jose State University, Omega Chapter), Kayla Kuni (University of South Florida, Beta Phi Chapter), Joshua Avery (SUNY Albany, At-Large), Alison Gregory (Clarion University, At-Large).
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Jessica Lapp, University of Toronto
"The Provenance of Protest: An Exploration of Feminist Activist Archiving"
*****
Emily Maemura, University of Toronto
“Logics of Order and Aggregation in Web Archiving Systems”
*****
J Elizabeth Mills, University of Washington
“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
“Acknowledgements and Their Functions within the Reward System of Science”
*****
Laura Ridenour, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Examining the Notion of the Boundary Object in Information Systems: The Transdisciplinary Oeuvre of Cognitive Science”
*****
Megan Threats, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“The Influence of Information Behaviors and Technologies on the Adoption of HIV Protective and Risk Reduction Behaviors among Young, Black Men Who Have Sex with Men”
2018 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Gloria Acosta
Emporia State University
*****
Joanna Smith
University of California, Los Angeles - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Rebekah Craig
Valdosta State University - Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Emily Drabinksi
Long Island University Library
To support original research into the politics of cataloging and classification in the academic libraries of former colonies of the United States. - Frank B. Sessa Scholarships for Continuing Education of Beta Phi Mu Members
March winners: Alexa Hirsch Lalejini (Pi Lambda Sigma Chapter, Syracuse University); Adriene Galindo (Beta Beta Chapter, Simmons College); Kristin Hall (Beta Beta Xi Chapter, St. Catherine University); James Clark (Beta Phi Chapter, University of South Florida); and Monica Rudzinski (At-Large, Kent State University).
September winners: Sara Zettervall (Beta Beta Xi Chapter, St. Catherine University); Jolanda-Pieta van Arnhem (Beta Omega Chapter, University of South Carolina); Patricia Carroll (At Large, Dominican University); Sharon McQueen (Beta Rho Chapter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); and Laura Doan (Sigma Chapter, Drexel University).
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Brian Dobreski
Syracuse University
“Values in Knowledge Organization Standards: A Value Analysis of Resource Description and Access (RDA)”
*****
Jamila Ghaddar
University of Toronto
“Archives, Third World Futurities and the Making of a Global Order: UNESCO in the Middle East”
*****
Philipp Jordan
University of Hawaii
“A Meta-Study and Content Analysis of Science Fiction in Computer Science Research”
*****
Hyoungjoo Park
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
“The Impact of Research Data Sharing and Re-Use on Data Citation in STEM Fields”
*****
Jennifer Pierre
University of California, Los Angeles
“One Big Digital Family: Examining Social Media and Social Support in the Development of “At-Risk” Youth”
*****
Mei Zhang
University of Wisconsin- Madison
“What Counts as a Good Selection? E-book Product Selection in U.S. Academic Libraries”
2017 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Yalonda Green
University of Kentucky
*****
Mallory Nygard
Indiana University, Bloomington - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Chelsea Brantley
East Carolina University - Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
Julie Edwards, Alpha Chapter
To pursue a certificate in Sustainable Community Development through Village Earth/Colorado State University
- Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Christopher Hollister, Librarian at the University Libraries, University of Buffalo
To will support a project involving collaborating with the University at Buffalo's partner institution in Singapore to mitigate the costs of course textbooks
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Kathy Brennan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: “Loan Me the Money: How Cognitive Abilities and Financial Knowledge Influence Consumers' Online Searching Behaviors”
*****
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”
*****
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: “The Role of Data Collection Protocols and Practices in Site-Based Research and Curation”
*****
Emily Vardell
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: “Health Insurance Literacy: How People Understand and Make Health Insurance Purchase Decisions”
*****
Yongjun Zhu
Drexel University
Dissertation Title: “Graph-based Interactive Bibliographic Information Retrieval Systems”
2016 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Jennifer Dixon
Pratt Institute
*****
Ayoola White
Simmons College - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Emily Fischer
University of Iowa - Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
Alyson Gamble, Beta Zeta Chapter
To obtain a Council of Science Editors (CSE) Publication Certificate.
- Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Natalie Baur
To help underwrite her work with a digital cultural heritage archive in Ecuador
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Sarah Buchanan
University of Texas
Dissertation Title: "A Provenance Research Study of Archaeological Curation”
*****
Rachel Clarke
University of Washington
Dissertation Title: “It’s Not Rocket Library Science: Design Epistemology and American Librarianship”
*****
Wei Jeng
University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation Title: “Factors Influencing Qualitative Data-Sharing Practices in Social Sciences”
*****
Jinseok Kim
University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: “The Impact of Author Name Disambiguation on Knowledge Discovery from Big Scholarly Data”
*****
Robert Montoya
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: “Articulating Composite Taxonomies: Epistemology and the Global Unification of Biodiversity Databases”
*****
Min Sook Park
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: “Exploring Social Semantic Relationships in Knowledge Representation in Health through Mining Unstructured Textual Data on Social Media”
2015 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Rebecca Greenstein
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
*****
Alena Principato
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Kathryn Shaw
University of Alabama
- Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
DawnMarin Dell
Electronic and Instruction Services Librarian, Texas Tech University School of Law Library
- Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Elizabeth Cramer
Coordinator of Bibliographic Services and Professor, Appalachian State University
For the study of international library development in India
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Tiffany Chao
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Methods Metadata: Curating Scientific Research for Reuse
*****
Morgan Currie
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Tracing Technologies of Openness
*****
Noah Lenstra
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: The Community Informatics of an Aging Society: A Comparative Case Study of Public Libraries and Senior Centers
*****
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
*****
Ayoung Yoon
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Toward Trusted Data Curation: Data Reuse and Users’ Trust Judgement
2014 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Gennie Gebhart
University of Washington
Information School
Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
University of Maryland
College of Information Studies
- Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Hailey Watkins
Pratt Institute
School of Information and Library Science
- Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
Hayley Johnson
Nicholls State University’s Ellender Memorial Library
For attending a workshop on “Program Development and Proposal Writing” offered by the American Grant Writers Association
- Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Katie McNirney
UNC Chapel Hill
For the study of digital libraries in Zambia and Malawi
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Rhiannon Gainor
McGill University, Canada
Dissertation Title: Measuring Competitive Intelligence Outcomes
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
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)
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Aisha Johnson
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Developing Southern Libraries to Influence the Life of the African-American User: An Exploratory, Archival Analysis
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Lorraine Dong
The University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: The Social Ecologies of Mental Institution Records
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Amelia Acker
University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Born-Networked Records: A History of the Short Message Service
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Kyle Jones
University of Wisconsin
Dissertation Title: Any data we can get our hands on: A contextual study of learning analytics and related issues of student privacy
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Kaitlin Costello
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Investigating information seeking and disclosure in online support groups for chronic kidney disease
2013 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Melanie Carden
University of Alabama
School of Library and Information Studies
Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Lora Worden
Emporia State University
School of Library and Information Management
- Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Meera Garud
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Library and Information Science
- Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
Amy Roberson
Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Certification
- Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
John Hickok
“A Qualitative Analysis of Library Conditions & Services in Asia to Better Serve Asian International Students in U.S. Universities.”
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Elisabeth Jones
University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Constructing the Universal Library
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Jinxuan Ma
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Interacting with Health Information for Self-Care: An Exploratory Study of Undergraduates’ Health Information Literacy
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
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
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Miriam Sweeney
University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Servants of Cyberspace: A Critical Analysis of Microsoft’s Ms. Dewey
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Adam Worrall
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: The Roles of Digital Libraries as Boundary Objects Within and Across Social and Information Worlds
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Erjia Yan
Indiana University
Dissertation Title: Towards a Systematic Approach for Studying Scholarly Communication through Scholarly Networks
2012 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Ariel Deardorff
University of Washington
Jackson School of International Studies
Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Daniela Rovida
University of Arizona
School of Information Resources and Library and Science
- Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Laura Browning
Florida State University
- Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
Margaret Swanson
ACRL Training
- Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Nic Weber
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
C. Sean Burns
University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: Free or Open Access to Scholarly Documentation: Google Scholar or Academic Libraries
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Laura Christopherson
University of North Carolina
Dissertation Title:Understanding Online Communication: Developing a Lexicon to Support Search, Capture, and Use
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Marianne Martens
Rutgers University
Dissertation Title: A Historical and Comparative Analysis of Multiplatform Books: Technologies of Production, User-Generated Content, and Economics of Immaterial and Affective Labor
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Xi Niu
University of North Carolina
Dissertation Title: Beyond Text Queries and Ranked Lists: Faceted Search in Library Catalogs
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Sarah Roberts
University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Behind the Screen: The Hidden Digital Labor of Video Content Moderators
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Ji Yeon Yang
University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: A Dyadic Approach to Understanding Information Mediation in the Workplace
2011 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Sofia Athenikos
Drexel University
Dissertation Title: Enabling Entity Retrieval by Exploiting Wikipedia as a Semantic Knowledge Source
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Amber Cushing
North Carolina
Dissertation Title: Possession and Self Extension in Digital Environments: Implications for Maintaining Personal Information
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Keisuke Inoue
Syracuse
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.
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Amy VanScoy
North Carolina
Dissertation Title: Exploring the Meaning of Reference Work for Librarians in Academic Research Libraries
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Hollie White
North Carolina
Dissertation Title: Experimentally influenced study of the organizing issues associated with scientific data sets
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Yong Yi
Florida State
Dissertation Title: Consumer health information behavior in public libraries: A mixed methods study - Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Kalsang
Smith College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School of Library and Information
Science
Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Eric Ambler
University of Southern California, University of Southern Mississippi, Graduate School of Library and Information Science - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Library Media Service
Jennifer Colby
University of Michigan - Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Natalia Ermolaev - Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education of a Beta Phi Mu Member
Santi Thompson
DigCCurr Professional Institute at the University of North Carolina
2010 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Kim Anderson
UCLA Department of Information Studies
Dissertation Title: Appraisal Learning Networks: How University Archivists Learn to Appraise Through Social Interaction
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Jeanette de Richemond
Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, School of Communication and Information
Dissertation Title: What is “enough information?”
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Carolyn Hank
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science
Dissertation Title: Scholars and their Blogs: Characteristics, Preferences and Perceptions Impacting Digital Preservation
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Kyungwon Koh
Florida State University, School of Library and Information Studies
Dissertation Title: Proposing a Theoretical Framework for Digital Age Youth Information Behavior Building upon Radical Change Theory
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Ellen Pozzi
Rutgers, 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
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Ellen Rubenstein
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Dissertation Title: Ethnography of an Online Breast Cancer Support Group - Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship for Beginning Professional Education
Aaron G. Prosser - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship for School Media
Katharine St. Laurent - Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Dorian Lange - Frank B. Sessa Scholarship for Continuing Education
Samantha Schmehl Hines
2009 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Bradley Wade Bishop
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: Chat reference and location-based questions: A multi-method evaluation of a statewide chat reference consortium
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Jennifer Crispin
University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: Discovering the social organization of school library work
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Linda R. Most
Florida State University
Dissertation Title: The Rural Public Library as Place in North Florida: A Case Study
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
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 - Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Naomi Schemm - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship
Christine J. Hartigan - Harold Lancour Scholarship
Jessie A. Howell - Frank B. Sessa Scholarship
Joshua Finnell
2008 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Serhiy Polyakov
University of North Texas
Dissertation Title: Performance of Interactive Information Retrieval System Based on Latent Semantic Labeling
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Xiaoli Huang
University of Maryland
Dissertation Title: Topicality Reconsidered: A Conceptual Analysis of Topical Relevance Relationships
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Yong-Mi Kim
University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Topicality Reconsidered: The Role of Tags in Information Retrieval Interaction
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Maria Souden
University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Information Work in the Context of the Experience of Chronic Illness
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Mary Jo Venetis
University of North Texas
Dissertation Title: Identification of Remote Leadership Patterns in the LIS Field
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Pengyi Zhang
University of Maryland
Dissertation Title: Supporting Sense-Making with Tools for Structuring a Conceptual Space - Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Emma Carbone
Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship
Jennifer Lynn Ventura
University of South Florida, School of Library and Information Science - Harold Lancour Scholarship
Cristina Dominguez Ramirez
Virginia Commonwealth University - Frank B. Sessa Scholarship
Sarah E. Wessel
2007 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Donghua Tao
University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies - Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Erin Macauley - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship
Lisa Ree Anfield
Kent State University - Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Theodore Patrick Milas
Florida State University, College of Information
2006 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Bethany Letalian
University of Texas at Austin - Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Dave Harmeyer
Pepperdine University
Dissertation Title: Online Virtual Chat Library Reference Service: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis - Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Rachel Delaney
University of Kentucky - Blanche E. Woolls Scholarship
Tana Shinn
University of South Florida - Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Maria E. Gonzalez
University of Texas - Frank B. Sessa Scholarship
Susannah Benedetti
University of North Carolina Wilmington
2005 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Brian Arbogast de Hubert Miller
Florida State University - Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Marcia A. Mardis
Eastern Michigan University - Sarah Rebecca Reed Scholarship
Rachael Holovach
University of Maryland - Blanche Woolls Scholarship
Maria L. Muhlbauer
SUNY-Buffalo - Harold Lancour Scholarship for Foreign Study
Tatiana Nikolova-Houston
University of Texas at Austin - Frank B. Sessa Continuing Professional Education Scholarship
Allaina M. Wallace
National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology in Boulder, Colorado - Elfreda Chatman/Beta Phi Mu Minority Doctoral Student Scholarship Award
Min Song
Drexel University
