Alumni of the UMD iSchool's Ph.D. Program

Kim Glasgow

• Year of Graduation: 2021
• First Placement: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
• Dissertation Title:  Talking About Justice: Predicting Actor Engagement on Social Media After a Galvanizing Event
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jessica Vitak

Priya Kumar

• Year of Graduation: 2021
• First Placement: Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology
• Dissertation Title: From Oversharing To Sharenting: How Experts Judge Parents And Their Social Media Use 
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jessica Vitak

Edward Summers

• Year of Graduation: 2020
• First Placement: Research Faculty at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
• Dissertation Title: Legibility Machines: Archival Appraisal and the Genealogies of Use
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ricardo Punzalan

Joohee Choi

• Year of Graduation: 2020
• First Placement: Google
• Dissertation Title: The Effect of Role Specialization and Transactive Memory Systems on Performance in Data Science Team
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Yla Tausczik

Karen Boyd 

• Year of Graduation: 2020
• First placement: Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan's iSchool 
• Dissertation Title: Understanding and Intervening in Machine Learning Ethics: Supporting Ethical Sensitivity in Training Data Curation
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kaite Shilton

Gagan Jindal 

• Year of Graduation: 2020
• First placement: User Experience Researcher at Facebook
• Dissertation Title: "It is too exhausting Googling 50 things!" Recommendations for the Low-Fidelity Design of Crowdsourced Health Information System with Local Health-Related Resources for Individuals Who Have Chronic Health Conditions
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Beth St. Jean

Fiona Jardine

• Year of Graduation: 2020
• First placement: Masters of Science in Nursing student at the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University; ALPP Advanced Lactation Consultant; Certified Postpartum Doula; Editor; Adjunct at the University of Maryland's iSchool
• Dissertation Title: Breastfeeding Without Nursing: The Lived Experiences of Exclusive Pumpers
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Beth St. Jean

Andrew Casertano

• Year of Graduation: 2020
• First placement: Founder and Vice President at S.A.N. Business Consultants LLP
• Dissertation Title: An Autoethnographic Account of Innovation at the US Department of Veterans Affairs
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Richard Marciano 

Lesley Langa

• Year of Graduation: 2020
• First placement: Owner and Consultant at NovaKultura Consulting
• Dissertation Title: Building A Collection's Care Index: An Approach to Helping Preserve Our Cultural Heritage Before It Disappears
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Bertot and Dr. Ricardo Punzalan 

Elizabeth Warrick

• Year of Graduation: 2019
• Dissertation Title: Rika Resilience Model on Social Media
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece  

P. Kenyon Crowley

• Year of Graduation: 2019
• First placement: Managing Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS)
• Dissertation Title: Contradictions and Opportunities in Mobile Care Management ("mCare"): An Observational Analytic Cohort Study
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Beth St. Jean and  Dr. Brian Butler

Lisa M Federer

• Year of Graduation: 2019
• First placement: National Library of Medicine
• Dissertation Title: Who, what, when, where, and why? Quantifying and Understanding Biomedical Data Reuse
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Katie Shilton

Lingzi Hong

• Year of Graduation: 2019
• First placement: University of North Texas
• Dissertation Title: Enhancing Decision-making in Smart and Connected Communities with Digital Traces
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Vanessa Frias-Martinez

Christie Kodama

• Year of Graduation: 2019
• First placement: Towson University
• Dissertation Title: School District Library Supervisors and Their Role in Professional Development for Building-Level School Librarians: A Baseline Study
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ann Weeks & Dr. Brian Butler

Myeong Lee

• Year of Graduation: 2019
• First placement:  George Mason University
• Dissertation Title: Local Information Landscapes: Theory, Measures, and Evidence
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brian Butler

Alina Goldman Striner

• Year of Graduation: 2019
• First placement:  Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
• Dissertation Title: Simulating Reality: Training Citizen Scientists to Judge Stream Habitats in Multisensory Virtual Reality
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece

Zahra Ashktorab

• Year of Graduation: 2018
• First Placement: IBM
• Dissertation Title: Designing Cyberbullying Prevention and Mitigation Tools
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jessica Vitak & Dr. Jennifer Golbeck

Rebecca Follman

• Year of Graduation: 2018
• First Placement: University of Maryland
• Dissertation Title: Describing the Ineffable: A Mixed-Methods Study of Faculty Mentoring Information Practices
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Beth St. Jean

Chi Young Oh

• Year of Graduation: 2018
• First Placement: Chicago State University
• Dissertation Title: Who was a Neighbor to Those from the Other Side of the Globe?: International Newcomer Students’ Local Information Behaviors in Unfamiliar Environments
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brian Butler

Jyothi Vinjumur

• Year of Graduation: 2018
• First Placement: Data Scientist/Engineer - eDiscovery & Information Governance at Walmart
• Dissertation Title: Use of Predictive Coding Techniques with Manual Review to identify Privileged Documents in E-Discovery
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Douglas Oard

Amanda Waugh

• Year of Graduation: 2018
• First Placement: Old Dominion University
• Dissertation Title: A Nice Place on the Internet: An Exploratory Case Study of Teen Information Practices in an Online Fan Community
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mega Subramaniam

Ning Gao

• Year of Graduation: 2018
• First placement:  Microsoft
• Dissertation Title: Towards Population of Knowledge Bases from Conversational Sources
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Doug Oard

Brenna McNally

• Year of Graduation: 2018
• First placement:  Google
• Dissertation Title: Alumni Perspectives on their Membership in an Intergenerational Participatory Design Team
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin

Xu Meng

• Year of Graduation: 2017
• First Placement: Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu,  China
• Dissertation Title: The Growth of Innovation Communities: Community Ecology and Dynamic Structures
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brian Butler

Anthony James Pellicone

• Year of Graduation: 2017
• First Placement: University of Maryland
• Dissertation Title: Performing Play: Cultural Production on Twitch.tv
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. June Ahn

Christina Pikas

• Year of Graduation: 2016
• First Placement: John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory 
• Dissertation Title: The role of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in information and communication in science. A conceptual framework and empirical study
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel

Jinyoung Kim

• Year of Graduation: 2016
• First Placement: Chicago State University
• Dissertation Title: Information Practices During Life Transition: Korean Immigrant Women's Everyday Life Information Seeking and Acculturation
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. June Ahn

Yurong He

• Year of Graduation: 2016
• First placement: University of Washington
• Dissertation Title: Data Sharing Across Research and Public Communities
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece

Elizabeth Bonsignore 

• Year of Graduation: 2016
• First placement:  University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation Title: Playing for Real: Designing Alternate Reality Games in Learning Contexts
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin

Jeffery DiScala

• Year of Graduation: 2016
• First placement:  Old Dominion University
• Dissertation Title: School District Governance and Knowledge-Fit in Decision Rights: How Districts Recruit and Hire School Librarians
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ann Carlson Weeks & Dr. Brian Butler

Anne Bowser

• Year of Graduation: 2015
• First placement: The Wilson Center
• Dissertation Title: Cooperative Design, Cooperative Science: Investigating Collaborative Research through Design with Floracaching
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece

Chad Doran

• Year of Graduation: 2015
• First placement:  Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
• Dissertation Title: Examination of the Management of Social Media Records at a Federal Executive Agency
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Bertot & Dr. Michael Kurtz

Ursula Gorham-Oscilowski

• Year of Graduation: 2015
• First placement:  College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
• Dissertation Title: Information at the Nexus: Young People’s Perceptions of Government and Government Websites
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Jaeger

Brian Real

• Year of Graduation: 2015
• First placement:  Southern Connecticut State University
• Dissertation Title: Out of the Past: Public Policies, Political Pressures, and American Film Preservation
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Bertot and  Dr.Paul Jaeger

Natalie Taylor

• Year of Graduation: 2015
• First placement:  University of South Florida
• Dissertation Title: Information at the Nexus: Young People’s Perceptions of Government and Government Websites
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mega Subramaniam

Tan Xu

• Year of Graduation: 2015
• First placement:  AT&T Labs Research
• Dissertation Title: Microblogging Temporal Summarization: Filtering Important Twitter Updates for Breaking News
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Doug Oard

Elizabeth Foss

• Year of Graduation: 2014
• First placement: Google
• Dissertation Title: Internet Searching in Children and Adolescents: A Longitudinal Framework of Youth Search Roles
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin

Jessica Koepfler

• Year of Graduation: 2014
• First placement: Intuitive Company
• Dissertation Title: Values and Self-Presentation in Online Communication by Stakeholders Related to Homelessness
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kaite Shilton and Dr. Kenneth Fleischmann

Irene Eleta Mogollon

• Year of Graduation: 2014
• First placement: Institute for Environment and Sustainability
• Dissertation Title: Multilingual Use of Twitter: Language Choice and Language Bridges in a Social Network
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Golbeck

Susan Copeland Wilson

• Year of Graduation: 2014
• First Placement: Intercom Federal Systems
• Dissertation Title: Getting the Word Out: A Study of Assistance Information Made Available to Low-Income People through County Websites
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Jaeger

Dana Rotman

• Year of Graduation: 2013
• Dissertation Title: Collaborative Science Across the Globe: The Influence of Motivation and Culture on Volunteers in the United States, India, and Costa Rica
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece

An-Shou Cheng

• Year of Graduation: 2012
• First Placement: National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
• Dissertation Title: Values in the Net Neutrality Debate: Applying Content Analysis to Testimonies from Public Hearings
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Fleischmann

Gregory Walsh

• Year of Graduation: 2012
• First Placement: University of Baltimore
• Dissertation Title: Enabling Geographically Distributed, Intergenerational, Co-Operative Design
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin

Kathryn Newton Lawley

• Year of Graduation: 2011
• First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation Title: Information Seeking in Context: Teachers' Content Selection during Lesson Planning Using the Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel

Chia-jung Tsui

• Year of Graduation: 2011
• First Placement: National Chengchi University, Taiwan
• Dissertation Title: Studying the Relationships of Information Technology Concepts
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ping Wang

Pengyi Zhang

• Year of Graduation: 2010
• First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation Title: Sensemaking: Conceptual Changes, Cognitive Mechanisms, and Structural Representations. A Qualitative User Study
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel

Rachael Leigh Bradley

• Year of Graduation: 2009
• First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation Title: Understanding and Supporting Visual Communication within Costume Design Practice
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece

Xiaoli Huang

• Year of Graduation: 2009
• First Placement: Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Dissertation Title: Relevance, Rhetoric, and Argumentation: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry into Patterns of Thinking and Information Structuring
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel

Sheri Anita Massey

• Year of Graduation: 2009
• First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation Title: Digital Libraries in Schools: The Best Practices of National Board Certified Library Media Specialists
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Allison Druin & Dr. Ann Weeks

Miriam Matteson

• Year of Graduation: 2009
• First Placement: Kent State University
• Dissertation Title: The Impact of Group Interaction on Shared Cognition: An Analysis of Small Group Communication
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marilyn White

Philip Fei Wu

• Year of Graduation: 2009
• First Placement: University of Surrey, UK
• Dissertation Title: User Acceptance of Community Emergency Alert Technology: Motivations and Barriers
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Preece & Dr. Yan Qu

Yejun Wu

• Year of Graduation: 2008
• First Placement: Louisiana State University
• Dissertation Title: Classifying Attitude by Topic Aspect for English and Chinese Document Collections
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Doug Oard

Soojung Kim

• Year of Graduation: 2007
• First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation Title: The Effect of Users’ Work Tasks on Librarians’ Database Selection
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marilyn White

Kara Anne Reuter

• Year of Graduation: 2007
• First Placement: Worthington (Ohio) Public Library
• Dissertation Title: Children Selecting Books in a Library: Extending Models of Information Behavior to a Recreational Setting
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Delia Neuman

Jinmook Kim

• Year of Graduation: 2006
• First Placement: University of South Carolina
• Dissertation Title: Relevance Judgments and Query Reformulation by Users Interacting with a Speech Retrieval System
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel & Dr. Doug Oard

Martha Patricia Verdines-Arredondo

• Year of Graduation: 2006
• First Placement: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico
• Dissertation Title: Communication Structures in Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL) Environments for Adult Learners in Distance Education
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Delia Neuman

Jianqiang Wang

• Year of Graduation: 2005
• First Placement: University at Buffalo, SUNY
• Dissertation Title: Matching Meaning for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Doug Oard

Jin Soo Chung

• Year of Graduation: 2003
• First Placement: Georgia State University
• Dissertation Title: Information Use and Meaningful Learning
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Delia Neuman

Ana Flavia Fonseca

• Year of Graduation: 2003
• First Placement: University of Maryland, University College.
• Dissertation Title: The Effect of an Integrated Knowledge Management Architecture on Organizational Performance and Impact: The Case of the World Bank
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel

Wiwat Puntai

• Year of Graduation: 2003
• First Placement: Mahidol University, Thailand
• Dissertation Title: Evaluating Web-based Instructional Messages According to Principles of Instructional Design: A Content Analysis
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel & Dr. Delia Neuman

Anthony Y. Tse

• Year of Graduation: 2003
• Dissertation Title: Identifying and Characterizing a Consumer Medical Vocabulary
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel

Anita H. Komlodi

• Year of Graduation: 2002
• First Placement: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Dissertation Title: Search History for User Support in Information-Seeking Interfaces
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel

Emily E. Marsh

• Year of Graduation: 2002
• Dissertation Title: Rhetorical Relationships between Images and Text in Webpages
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel

Laura Slaughter

• Year of Graduation: 2002
• First Placement: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Dissertation Title: Semantic Relationships in Health Consumer Questions and Physicians Answers: A Basis for Representing Medical Knowledge for Concept Exploration Interfaces
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dagobert Soergel and Dr. Marilyn White

Lisl Zach

• Year of Graduation: 2002
• First Placement: Louisiana State University
• Dissertation Title: When Is "Enough" Enough: An Investigation of the Information-Seeking Behavior of Senior Arts Administrators
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Abels

Allen Brewer

• Year of Graduation: 2000
• Dissertation Title: Deterministic Inductive Logic: A Multi-valued Logic for Reasoning about Categories
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Walston

Wei Ding

• Year of Graduation: 1999
• Dissertation Title: Cognitive Processing of Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel and Dr. Marchionini

Karla Hahn

• Year of Graduation: 1999
• First Placement: University Library System, University of Maryland
• Dissertation Title: Electronic Journals as Innovations: A Study of Author and Editor Early Adopters
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. White

Susan Claire Boerner

• Year of Graduation: 1998
• First Placement: Capital College
• Dissertation Title: A Study of Novice Searchers' Evolving Task and Topic Knowledge
• Faculty Advisor Dr. Soergel and Dr. White

Huei Chung Lee

• Year of Graduation: 1998
• First Placement: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Dissertation Title: Cognitive Processes in Document-Oriented Indexing
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Deborah Kay Barreau

• Year of Graduation: 1997
• First Placement: Catholic University of America
• Dissertation Title: Information Systems for Organizations and the Problem of Ephemeral Information
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini

Danuta A. Nitecki

• Year of Graduation: 1995
• First Placement: University Library System, University of Maryland
• Dissertation Title: An Assessment of the Applicability of SERVQUAL Dimensions as Customer-Based Criteria for Evaluating Quality of Services in an Academic Library
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman

Peiling Wang

• Year of Graduation: 1994
• First Placement: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Dissertation Title: A Cognitive Model of Document Selection of Real Users in Information Retrieval Systems
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Valerie Florance

• Year of Graduation: 1994
• First Placement: University of Rochester Medical Center
• Dissertation Title: A Clinical Extract of Biomedical Literature for Patient-Centered Problem Solving
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini

Peter John Evans

• Year of Graduation: 1993
• First Placement: Deakin University, Australia
• Dissertation Title: The Enabling and Disabling Effects of a Hypermedia Information Environment on Information-Seeking and Use in an Undergraduate Course (Perseus Database)
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini

Peter Liebscher

• Year of Graduation: 1993
• First Placement: Long Island University
• Dissertation Title: Information-Seeking in Hypertext: Multiple Access Methods in a Full-Text Hypertext Database
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini

Xia Lin

• Year of Graduation: 1993
• First Placement: Drexel University
• Dissertation Title: Self-Organizing Semantic Maps as Graphical Interfaces for Information Retrieval
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marchionini and Dr. Soergel

Mu-Hsuan Huang

• Year of Graduation: 1992
• First Placement: National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Dissertation Title: Pausing Behavior of End-Users in Online Searching
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. White

Paul Solomon

• Year of Graduation: 1991
• First Placement: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Dissertation Title: Information Systems for Children: Explorations in Information Access and Interface Usability for an Online Catalog in an Elementary School Library
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Nancy Daniel Wright

• Year of Graduation: 1991
• First Placement: National Library of Medicine
• Dissertation Title: A Citation Context Analysis of Retracted Scientific Articles (Retractions, Bibliometrics)
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd

Sybille Anna Jagusch

• Year of Graduation: 1990
• First Placement: Library of Congress
• Dissertation Title: First Among Equals: Caroline M. Hewins and Anne C. Moore. Foundations of Library Work with Children
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Macleod

Wendy Ann Simmons

• Year of Graduation: 1990
• First Placement: U.S. Department of State
• Dissertation Title: Volunteer Intermediaries in Rural Information Services: A Study of Seke District, Zimbabwe (Legal Assistants)
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd

Xianhua Wang

• Year of Graduation: 1990
• First Placement: University of Wisconsin-WhiteWater
• Dissertation Title: Knowledge-Based Selection of Databases: An Algorithm and Its Evaluation (Online Searching, System Design)
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Diane Ledbetter Barlow

• Year of Graduation: 1989
• First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation Title: The Communication of Science Information to Children Through Trade Books: The Nature of Authorship (Children's Literature)
• Faculty Advisor Dr. Macleod

Rebecca Joyce Green

• Year of Graduation: 1989
• First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation Title: The Expression of Syntagmatic Relationships in Frame-Based Indexing
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. White

Helen Ruth Tibbo

• Year of Graduation: 1989
• First Placement: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Dissertation Title: Abstracts, Online Searching, and the Humanities: An Analysis of the Structure and Content of Abstracts of Historical Discourse
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd

Brigitte Duces

• Year of Graduation: 1985
• First Placement: World Bank
• Dissertation Title: The Role of Information in the Adoption of Agricultural Innovations (Diffusion, Decision-Making)
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Arthuree Rosemille Mclaughlin Wright

• Year of Graduation: 1985
• First Placement: Howard University
• Dissertation Title: Access to Publication Channels in Urban Education: An Assessment of Authorship and Citation Patterns
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd

Lee Putnam

• Year of Graduation: 1983
• First Placement: University of Hawaii-Manoa
• Dissertation Title: Organization Structure and Work Group Performance
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman

Raya Fidel

• Year of Graduation: 1982
• First Placement: University of Washington
• Dissertation Title: Constructing a Pattern Model of Man-Machine Interaction in Online Literature Searching
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Mahvash Keshmiri Momeni

• Year of Graduation: 1982
• First Placement: Washington Gas
• Dissertation Title: Socio-Cultural Factors Affecting the Adaptations of the Dewey Decimal Classification in the Middle East
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wellisch

Benedict Onyechinyere Igwe

• Year of Graduation: 1981
• First Placement: Washington Gas
• Dissertation Title: The Values of the Librarian: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Students of Library and Information Science in the United States and Nigeria
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman

Alexis Jean Jamieson

• Year of Graduation: 1981
• Dissertation Title: Comprehension of Entries in Printed Indexes
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Sinikka Pirjo Koskiala

• Year of Graduation: 1980
• First Placement: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• Dissertation Title: Flow of Technical Information Through the Industrial Information Services in Finland
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Andrea Michele Burgard

• Year of Graduation: 1979
• Dissertation Title: Annual Reviews as Indicators of the Developing Structure of Scientific Disciplines
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd

Tamas Endre Doszkocs

• Year of Graduation: 1979
• First Placement: National Library of Medicine
• Dissertation Title: AID, An Associative Interactive Dictionary for Online Bibliographic Searching
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd

Richard Harold Lytle

• Year of Graduation: 1979
• Dissertation Title: Subject Retrieval in Archives: A Comparison of the Provenance and Content Indexing Methods
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Dennis Damian McDonald

• Year of Graduation: 1979
• First Placement: Westat Research in Rockville Maryland
• Dissertation Title: Interactions Between Scientists and the Journal Publishing Process
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kidd

Karen Brounstein Levitan

• Year of Graduation: 1976
• Dissertation Title: Functions of Scientific Societies: Views of Biomedical Scientists
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Katherine Helen Packer

• Year of Graduation: 1975
• First Placement: University of Toronto, Canada
• Dissertation Title: Methods Used by Chemists and Chemical Engineers in Canadian Universities to Maintain Current Awareness with Special Reference to the Use of SDI Systems
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Soergel

Hans Hanan Wellisch

• Year of Graduation: 1975
• First Placement: University of Maryland, College Park
• Dissertation Title: The Conversion of Scripts: Its Nature, History and Utilization with Particular Reference to Bibliographic Control
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Heilprin

Evelyn Hope Daniel

• Year of Graduation: 1974
• First Placement: University of Toronto, Canada
• Dissertation Title: The Organizational Position of School Media Centers: An Analysis of the Role of the School Library and the School Librarian
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Reynolds

Elaine Carol Frank Sloan

• Year of Graduation: 1973
• First Placement: Columbia University
• Dissertation Title: The Organization of Collection Development in Large University Research Libraries
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman

Jane Borsch Robbins

• Year of Graduation: 1972
• First Placement: University of Pittsburgh
• Dissertation Title: Policy Formation in American Public Libraries: Effects of Citizen Participation
• Faculty Advisor: Dr. Wasserman