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Curriculum Vitae

San Jose: Clark Hall 405

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Digital / Virtual Libraries
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
• Information and Society / Culture
• Serving Multicultural Populations

Research Interests

• Digital / Virtual Libraries
• Electronic Documents
• History of Information Science
• Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
• Information and Society/Culture
• Scholarly and Scientific Communication
• Serving Multicultural Populations
• International Information Issues

Dr. Ziming Liu

Associate Professor

Dr. Ziming Liu received his Ph.D. in library and information studies at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Prior to joining the faculty at San José State University in 2000, he was a research scientist at Ricoh California Research Center and a visiting faculty member at the University of Washington.

He has published numerous papers in top-tier scholarly journals such as Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (1995), Communications of the ACM (2000; 2003), Information Processing and Management (2003; 2004; 2006), Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1996; 1997), and Journal of Documentation (1997; 2004; 2005).

Courses Taught

• > [200] Information and Society
• > [275] Library Services for Racially & Ethnically Diverse Communities
• > [287] Seminar in Information Science

Education

• Ph.D. (Library and Information Studies) University of California at Berkeley (1996)
• M.S. (Library and Information Science) Zhongshan University, China (1990)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University (2004/08 to present)
• Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University (2000/08-2004/08)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, The Information School, University of Washington (1998/11-2000/06)
• Research Scientist, California Research Center, RICOH Silicon Valley, Inc. (1996/05-1998/10)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

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

• Liu, Z. (2008). Paper to Digital: Documents in the Information Age. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
• Liu, Z. & Huang, X. (2008). Gender differences in the online reading environment. Journal of Documentation, 64(4), 616-626.
• Liu, Z. (2006). Print vs. electronic resources: A study of user perceptions, preferences, and use. Information Processing and Management, 42(2), 583-592.
• Liu, Z. (2005). Reading behavior in the digital environment: Changes in reading behavior over the past 10 years. Journal of Documentation, 61(6), 700-712.
• Liu, Z. & Huang, X. (2005). Evaluating the credibility of scholarly information on the web: A cross cultural study. International Information & Library Review, 37(2), 99-106.
• Liu, Z. (2004). Perceptions of credibility of scholarly information on the web. Information Processing and Management, 40(6), 1027-1038.
• Liu, Z. (2004). The evolution of documents and its impacts. Journal of Documentation, 60(3), 279-288.
• Liu, Z. (2004). Transborder information flow through human movement: Implications for professional interaction. International Information & Library Review, 36(2), 39-45.
• Liu, Z. (2003). Trends in transforming scholarly communications and their implications. Information Processing and Management, 39(6), 889-898.
• Hart, P. E. & Liu, Z. (2003). Trust in the preservation of digital information. Communications of the ACM, 46(6), 93-97.
• Liu, Z. & Stork, D. (2000). Is paperless really more? Rethinking the role of paper in the digital age. Communications of the ACM, 43(11), 94-97.

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