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Curriculum Vitae

City: Westerville, OH

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Classification and Subject Analysis
• Computer / Information Networks
• Descriptive Cataloguing / AACR
• Digital / Virtual Libraries
• Electronic Reference Services
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
• Information Needs / Behaviors of the Public
• Information Needs and Behaviors / Practices
• Information Retrieval Theory and Practice
• Metadata and Semantic Web
• Organization of Information
• Research Methods
• Users and Uses of Information Systems
• Web usability testing
• User behaviors in online social networks

Research Interests

• Computer / Information Networks
• Electronic Reference Services
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
• Information Needs / Behaviors of the Public
• Information Needs and Behaviors / Practices
• Scholarly and Scientific Communication
• Users and Uses of Information Systems
• User behaviors in online social networks
• Web usability testing

Dr. Laura Cheng

Lecturer

Dr. Laura Cheng received her M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Library and Information Science at the Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. After receiving her doctoral degree, she was an Assistant Professor with the School of Library and Information Science, Columbus Program, at the Kent State University from 2005 to 2008. She joined the National Middle School Association in November 2008 as the Digital Library Content Manager. She still teaches for SLIS, Kent State University as part-time faculty. She also teaches workshops for Ohio regional library networks.

Courses Taught

• > [202] Information Retrieval

Education

• Ph.D. (Information Science) Indiana University (2004)
• M.L.S. (Library and Information Science) Indiana University (1993)
• B.A. (Library Science) National Taiwan University (1989)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Digital Library Content Manager, National Middle School Association, 2008-
• Part-time faculty, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University, 2009-
• Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University, 2005-2008.
• Held various positions at both Acquisitions and Cataloging Divisions, Technical Services, Indiana University Libraries,1998-2004.
• Part-time faculty, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, 1996-2005.
• Reference Librarian, Science and Technology Center, National Science Council, Taipei, Taiwan, 1989-1991.

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF above.

• Cheng, Y. L. (2008). Users and usage of Library 2.0: A position paper. The 8th SIG USE Symposium. 2008 ASIST Annual Conference. Columbus, OH.

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