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Dissertations

Dissertations are listed by the year the degree was granted.

2005
Matching Meaning for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Jianqiang Wang
Advisor: Doug Oard

2003
Information Use and Meaningful Learning
Jinsoo Chung
Advisor: Delia Neuman

The Effect of an Integrated Knowledge Management Architecture on Organizational Performance and Impact: The Case of the World Bank
Ana Flavia Fonseca
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

Evaluating Web-based Instructional Messages According to Principles of Instructional Design: A Content Analysis
Wiwat Puntai
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel and Delia Neuman

Identifying and Characterizing a Consumer Medical Vocabulary
Anthony Y. Tse
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

2002
Search History for User Support in Information-Seeking Interfaces
Anita H. Komlodi
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

Rhetorical Relationships between Images and Text in Webpages
Emily E. Marsh
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

Semantic Relationships in Health Consumer Questions and Physicians Answers: A Basis for Representing Medical Knowledge for Concept Exploration Interfaces
Laura Slaughter
Advisors: Dagobert Soergel and Marilyn Domas White

When Is "Enough" Enough: An Investigation of the Information-Seeking Behavior of Senior Arts Administrators
Lisl Zach
Advisor: Eileen G. Abels

2000
Deterministic Inductive Logic: A Multi-valued Logic for Reasoning about Categories
Allen Brewer
Advisor: Claude E. Walston

1999
Cognitive Processing of Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing
Wei Ding
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel and Gary Marchionini

Electronic Journals as Innovations: A Study of Author and Editor Early Adopters
Karla Hahn
Advisor: Marilyn Domas White

1998
Cognitive Processes in Document-Oriented Indexing.
Huei Chung Lee
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

A Study of Novice Searchers' Evolving Task and Topic Knowledge
Susan Claire Boerner
Advisors: Dagobert Soergel and Marilyn Domas White

1997
Information Systems for Organizations and the Problem of Ephemeral Information
Deborah Kay Barreau
Advisor: Gary Marchionini

1995
An Assessment of the Applicability of SERVQUAL Dimensions as Customer-Based Criteria for Evaluating Quality of Services in an Academic Library
Danuta A. Nitechi
Advisor: Paul Wasserman

1994
A Cognitive Model of Document Selection of Real Users in Information Retrieval Systems
Peiling Wang
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

A Clinical Extract of Biomedical Literature for Patient-Centered Problem Solving
Valerie Florance
Advisor: Gary Marchionini

1993
The Enabling and Disabling Effects of a Hypermedia Information Environment on Information-Seeking and Use in an Undergraduate Course (Perseus Database)
Peter John Evans
Advisor: Gary Marchionini

Information-Seeking in Hypertext: Multiple Access Methods in a Full-Text Hypertext Database
Peter Liebscher
Advisor: Gary Marchionini

Self-Organizing Semantic Maps as Graphical Interfaces for Information Retrieval
Xia Lin
Advisors: Gary Marchionini, Dagobert Soergel

1992
Pausing Behavior of End-Users in Online Searching
Mu-Hsuan Huang
Advisor: Marilyn Domas White

1991
A Citation Context Analysis of Retracted Scientific Articles (Retractions, Bibliometrics)
Nancy Daniel Wright
Advisor: Jerry S. Kidd

Information Systems for Children: Explorations in Information Access and Interface Usability for an Online Catalog in an Elementary School Library
Paul Solomon
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

1990
Knowledge-Based Selection of Databases: An Algorithm and Its Evaluation (Online Searching, System Design)
Xianhua Wang
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

Volunteer Intermediaries in Rural Information Services: A Study of Seke District, Zimbabwe (Legal Assistants)
Wendy Ann Simmons
Advisor: Jerry S. Kidd

First Among Equals: Caroline M. Hewins and Anne C. Moore. Foundations of Library Work with Children
Sybille Anna Jagusch
Advisor: Anne Scott Macleod

1989
Abstracts, Online Searching, and the Humanities: An Analysis of the Structure and Content of Abstracts of Historical Discourse
Helen Ruth Tibbo
Advisor: Jerry S. Kidd

The Expression of Syntagmatic Relationships in Frame-Based Indexing
Rebecca Joyce Green
Advisor: Marilyn Domas White

The Communication of Science Information to Children Through Trade Books: The Nature of Authorship (Children's Literature)
Diane Ledbetter Barlow
Advisor: Anne Scott Macleod

1985
The Role of Information in the Adoption of Agricultural Innovations (Diffusion, Decision-Making).
Brigitte Duces
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

1984
Access to Publication Channels in Urban Education: An Assessment of Authorship and Citation Patterns
Arthuree Rosemille Mclaughlin Wright
Advisor: Jerry S. Kidd

1983
Organization Structure and Work Group Performance
Lee Putnam
Advisor: Paul Wasserman

1982
Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting the Adaptations of the Dewey Decimal Classification in the Middle East
Mahvash Keshmiri Momeni
Advisor: Hans Wellisch

Constructing a Pattern Model of Man-Machine Interaction in Online Literature Searching
Raya Fidel
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

1981
The Values of the Librarian: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Students of Library and Information Science in the United States and Nigeria
Benedict Onyechinyere Igwe
Advisor: Paul Wasserman

Comprehension of Entries in Printed Indexes
Alexis Jean Jamieson
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

1980
Flow of Technical Information Through the Industrial Information Services in Finland
Sinikka Pirjo Koskiala
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

1979
Interactions Between Scientists and the Journal Publishing Process
Dennis Damian McDonald
Advisor: Jerry S. Kidd

AID, An Associative Interactive Dictionary for Online Bibliographic Searching
Tamas Endre Doszkocs
Advisor: Jerry S. Kidd

Annual Reviews as Indicators of the Developing Structure of Scientific Disciplines
Andrea Michele Burgard
Advisor: Jerry S. Kidd

Subject Retrieval in Archives: A Comparison of the Provenance and Content Indexing Methods
Richard Harold Lytle
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

1976
Functions of Scientific Societies: Views of Biomedical Scientists
Karen Brounstein Levitan
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

1975
The Conversion of Scripts: Its Nature, History and Utilization with Particular Reference to Bibliographic Control
Hans Hanan Wellisch
Advisor: Laurence B. Heilprin

Methods Used by Chemists and Chemical Engineers in Canadian Universities to Maintain Current Awareness with Special Reference to the Use of SDI Systems
Katherine Helen Packer
Advisor: Dagobert Soergel

1974
The Organizational Position of School Media Centers: An Analysis of the Role of the School Library and the School Librarian
Evelyn Hope Daniel
Advisor: Michael M. Reynolds

1973
The Organization of Collection Development in Large University Research Libraries
Elaine Carol Frank Sloan
Advisor: Paul Wasserman

1972
Policy Formation in American Public Libraries: Effects of Citizen Participation
Jane Borsch Robbins
Advisor: Paul Wasserman