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Office: Draper 145 Phone: (518) 442-5116 Email: hi651@albany.edu Office Hours: W 5-7, Th 7-8 |
Hemalata Iyer, Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies, has academic interests in knowledge organization and retrieval, visual resource management, access issues for variable media resources, vocabulary management, metadata, classification theory, user behavior and information services to virtual users. She is the author of several articles on classification, indexing, and access to visual media, especially on methods of structuring and representing information. She is the recipient of a IMLS 2005 Grant for her research project, Visual Resources Management: Determining Professional Competencies and Guidelines for Graduate Education (2005-2007, award amount $153,767). She is also an advisor to the Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer (iEAR) Archives Project, located at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. iEAR will develop a metadata schema to describe and make accessible a collection of electronic art resources. Professor Iyer's book, Classificatory Structures: Concepts, Relations, and Representations (Indeks Verlag, 1995), examines knowledge structures from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. She is the editor of two books: Distance Learning: Information Access and Services for Virtual Users (2003), and Electronic Resources: Use and User Behavior (1998). She delivered the prestigious Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures in Library and Information Science, 9-11 August, 2002, on Information Searching and Use Behavior Studies in the Digital Era. Dr. Iyer teaches courses at the Master's level and is a full faculty member in the interdisciplinary Doctoral program in Information Science. In addition to her teaching and research, she served as the U.S. Regional Coordinator for the International Society for Knowledge Organization for several years. She is a member of the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) Advisory Group, IFLA; the Summer Educational Institute (SEI) Long-Term Planning Task Force of the ARLIS/NA and VRA; and the International Relations Committee, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Course offerings include IST 602, IST 603, IST 642 and INF 703. Some recent presentations and publications:
“Prioritization Strategies of Key Frames in Video Storyboards,” Accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
“Web-based Instructional Technology in an Information Science Classroom,” JELIS. 44, 3-4 (Summer/Fall 2003): 296-315.
“WordNet and Keyword Searching in Art and Architectural Image Database,” VRA Bulletin, 30, no.1(Spring 2003).
“Information Organization to Assist Knowledge Discovery with Special Reference to Non-Bibliographic Databases,” Invited paper for Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 37, no1/2 (2003) :115-130.
“Evaluation of CORC: Limitations of Metadata,” Information Studies, 8, no. 4 (2002): 221-254. (with B. Subramanian)
Panelist, Migration and Preservation of Variable Media Resources: Evolving Issues Session. Museum Computer Network (MCN) 2005 Conference: DIGITS FUGIT: Preserving Knowledge for the Future November 2-5, 2005.
"Visual Resources Management: Determining Professional Competencies and Guidelines for Graduate Education," presented during the Cutting Edge: Visual Resources and the New Research Frontier session at the VRA 24: Image is Everything conference in Baltimore in March 2006. This research is funded by the 2005 IMLS, Librarians for the 21st Century grant.
“VR Internship Management: Educator’s Perspective” presented during the Managing an Internship Program: Ideas and Strategies seminar at the VRA 24: Image is Everything conference in Baltimore in March 2006.
“The WordNet as an Auxiliary Resource to Search Visual Image Database in Architecture. In Challenges in Knowledge Representation for the 21st Century, Integration of Knowledge Across Boundaries,” Proceedings of the Seventh ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2002, Granada, Spain. Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2002, 186-190. (with Keefe, Jeanne)
“The CORC and Metadata,” In Proceedings of the National Seminar on Cataloging of Digital Resources, 9-11 August, 2002, Bangalore, 173- 182.
“Competencies for Visual Resource Professionals,” presented during the Educational and Career Opportunities for Visual Resource Professionals seminar at the Visual Resources Association Conference (VRA), 6-10 March, 2005 in Miami, Florida.
“Some Patterns of Information Presentation, Organization and Indexing for Communication Across Cultures and Faiths. In Challenges in Knowledge Representation or the 21st Century, Integration of Knowledge Across Boundaries,” Proceedings of the Seventh ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2002, Granada Spain. Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2002, 539-545.
“The WordNet as a Vocabulary Management Tool for Indexing Language,” Proceedings of the First International WordNet Conference, 21-25 January, 2002, Organized by Princeton University and the Global WordNet Association. Mysore: CIIL, 2002, 239-250.
“Information and Knowledge Organization in the Digital Environment: The Use of Instructional Technology to Support Traditional Classroom Learning: A Case Study,” Proceedings of the National Seminar on Classification in the Digital Environment, 9-11 August, 2001, Bangalore.
Delivered the prestigious Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures in Library and Information Science, 9-11 August, 2002, on Information Searching and Use Behavior Studies in the Digital Era.
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