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City: West Windsor, NJ

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Academic Libraries
  • Acquisitions Theory and Practice
  • Administration and Management
  • Classification and Subject Analysis
  • Collections Development
  • Database and Other Retrieval Systems
  • Descriptive Cataloguing / AACR
  • Digital / Virtual Libraries
  • Evaluation of Service
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Retrieval Theory and Practice
  • Metadata and Semantic Web
  • Online Catalog Retrieval Systems
  • Organization of Information
  • Research Methods
  • Serials
  • Users and Uses of Information Systems

Research Interests

  • Academic Libraries
  • Acquisitions Theory and Practice
  • Administration and Management
  • Classification and Subject Analysis
  • Collections Development
  • Descriptive Cataloguing / AACR
  • Digital / Virtual Libraries
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Indexing and Abstracting
  • Information Retrieval Theory and Practice
  • Metadata and Semantic Web
  • Online Catalog Retrieval Systems
  • Organization of Information
  • Users and Uses of Information Systems
  • Usability of Digital Library
  • Evaluation of Information Systems

Dr. Judy H. Jeng

Lecturer

Dr. Judy Jeng received Ph. D. in library and information science from Rutgers University in 2006. Prior to joining the faculty at San José State University in 2011, she has taught at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and Rutgers University.

Dr. Jeng publishes and presents widely. Her present research interests are usability of digital library, information retrieval, and cataloging.

Dr. Jeng is an experienced digital library evaluation consultant. She has evaluated three digital libraries – Moving Image Collections, New Jersey Digital Highway, and NJVid.

Dr. Jeng is an experienced technical services librarian, collection and budget manager, and a library administrator.

Dr. Jeng is active in international relations. She is currently the Chair of International Library Education Special Interest Group of Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), member on the Acquisition and Collection Development Standing Committee of International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and on the editorial board of IFLA's journal International Cataloguing & Bibliographic Control.

Courses Taught

Education

  • Ph. D. (Library and Information Science) Rutgers University (2006)
  • MLIS (Library and Information Science) University of Texas at Austin (1984)
  • BA (Library Science) National Taiwan U. (1981)

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011-)
  • Part-time Lecturer, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University (2009-)
  • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Library Science, Clarion University of Pennsylvania (2009-2010)
  • Head of Collection Services, New Jersey City University (2005-2009)
  • Assistant Director for Resource Management, William Paterson University (1999-2000)
  • Head of Technical Services & Media, Rutgers University Newark Campus (1991-1998)
  • Coordinator of Copy Cataloging, University of Delaware (1987-1991)
  • Technical Services Librarian, Texas A&M University at Galveston (1985-1987)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

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

  • Jeng, J. (2011). Usability. In C. H. Davis & D. Shaw (Eds.), Introduction to information science and technology. Silver Spring, MD: American Society for Information Science and Technology.
  • Jeng, J. (2009). Two digital initiatives: New Jersey Digital Highway and NJVid. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (pp. 315-340). Taipei, Taiwan: National Taiwan University.
  • Jeng, J. (2009). What should we take into consideration when we talk about usability? In G. Tsakonas & C. Papatheodorou (Eds.), Evaluation of digital libraries: An insight of useful applications and methods (pp. 63-73). Oxford: Chandos Publishing.
  • Jeng, J. (2009). Usability evaluation of digital library. In Y. L. Theng, S. Foo, D. Goh, & J. C. Na (Eds.), Handbook of research on digital libraries: Design, development and impact (pp. 278-286). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
  • Jeng, J. (2008). Evaluation of the New Jersey Digital Highway. Information Technology and Libraries, 27(4), 17-24.
  • Jeng, J. (2006). Usability assessment of academic digital libraries. Proceedings of the Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, September 25-27, 2006, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (pp. 393-407). Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries. Available at http://libraryassessment.org/bm~doc/proceedings-lac-2006.pdf
  • Jeng, J. (2006). Usability of the digital library: An evaluation model. College and Research Libraries News, 67(2), 78-79.
  • Jeng, J. (2006). Usability of the digital library: An evaluation model (Doctoral dissertation). Available from ProQuest Dissertation and Theses database. (AAT 3203382) (This doctoral study received 2004 ACRL Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship)
  • Jeng, J. (2005). Usability assessment of academic digital libraries: Effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, and learnability. Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services, 55(2/3), 96-121. (This paper received Libri 2005 Honorable Mention)
  • Jeng, J. (2005). What is usability in the context of the digital library and how can it be measured? Information Technology and Libraries, 24(2), 3-12. (This paper received 2004 LITA Student Writing Award)

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