Faculty and Staff

• Classification, indexing and access
• Electronic information access technologies and users
• Human-computer interactions
• Archives and records management
• Information literacy
• Natural language processing and medical language processing
• Multimedia organization and retrieval
• Impact of information and communication technologies
• Technology and learning

Full-Time Faculty Listing

	Deborah Lines Andersen Information Studies, Associate Professor Phone: (518) 442-5122      Email: dla [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Research methods and statistics, electronic information access technologies and their users, public libraries

	Philip B. Eppard Information Studies Department Chair, Professor Phone: 518-442-5119   Email: peppard [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Archives, records administration, preservation management, electronic records, history of recorded information

	Hemalata Iyer Information Studies, Associate Professor Phone: 518-442-5116 Email: hiyer [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Information organization, visual resource management, access issues for variable media resources, vocabulary management, metadata, classification theory, user behavior and information services to virtual users

	Terry Maxwell Information Studies, O'Leary Associate Professor Phone: 518-442-5126 Email: tamaxwell [at] mac [dot] com Research Interests: Intellectual property policy, organizational information management and use, information policy, information public domain

Abebe Rorissa Information Studies, Associate Professor Phone: 518-442-5123 Email: arorissa [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: multimedia information organization and retrieval; measurement and scaling of users’ information need and their perceptions of a multimedia information sources and services; and the use/acceptance/adoption and impact of information and communication technology More >>

Donghee Sinn Information Studies, Assistant Professor Phone: 518-442-5117 Email: dsinn [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: archives, archival research in history, archival use/user studies, personal archiving in the web environment, archiving web contents, digital archiving of cultural artifacts, archives and public memory, and public memory in relation to Asian cultures and heritages More >>

	Joette Stefl-Mabry Information Studies, Associate Professor Phone: 518-442-5120 Email: jstefl [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Integration and assessment of educational technologies, user needs; social implications of technology, media decision-making, and media exposure and its effects on brain functioning More >>

Özlem Uzuner Information Studies, Assistant Professor Phone: 518-442-5110 Email: ouzuner [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Medical informatics, medical language processing, electronic health records, natural language understanding, natural language information access, information retrieval, information extraction, privacy, security, and intellectual property, & user interfaces. More >> See more at: http://www.albany.edu/~ou372553/

	Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan Information Studies, Assistant Professor Phone: 518-591-8746 Email: xyuan [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Information-seeking behavior, information retrieval, user interface design and evalua tion, information visualization, usability testing, human-computer interaction, and digital libraries

 

Service Faculty Listing

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	Frank D'Andraia Information Studies, Service Professor Phone: (518) 442-5118 Email: fdandraia [dot] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Academic Libraries More>>

 

Adjunct Faculty Listing

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Deborah Bernnard Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Phone: (518) 442-3699 Email: dbernnard [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Information literacy and instructional design

Ted Borys Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: tedborys [at] nycap [dot] rr [dot] com

Guy J. Cortesi Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: guy.cortesi [at] gmail [dot] com Research Interests: Effective use of Information Technology in distance reporting and virtual organizational settings; the relation of communication channel and task on group composition, participation, and performance in virtual organizations

	Sheila DiMaggio Information Studies, School Media Internship Coordinator Email: SDiMaggio [at] albany [dot] edu

Linda Fasano Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: lfasano [at] nycap [dot] rr [dot] com

Carol Anne Germain  Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: cgermain [at] albany [dot] edu Bio: Carol Anne Germain is an Information Literacy Librarian at the University at Albany. She teaches information literacy courses, participates in reference, and develops web-based instructional resources. Carol Anne has 3 degrees from the University at Albany: a Bachelors in Information Science and Policy, a Masters of Library Science, and in May 2012, Carol Anne completed all of the requirements for a Ph.D. in Information Science. She is active with several professional library organizations including the State University of New York Librarians Association and the New York Library Association (NYLA). In November 2012, she will be the president of NYLA. In that capacity she plans to tour the State with the theme “New York Libraries make a Difference.” Research Interests: Persistence of URLs in academic resources, Web usability, information literacy

	Ira Goldstein Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: igoldstein [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Organization of information, medical informatics, natural language processing, information retrieval, information extraction, instructional technology, information security See more at:  http://www.albany.edu/~ig4895/
	Mindy Holland Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: MHolland [at] sunrisemc [dot] com Research Interests: Change in schools and motivating children to read.

Joyce Laiosa Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: jrlaiosa [at] gmail [dot] com

	Barbara Nichols-Randall Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: bnicholsrandall [at] albany [dot] edu Resume
	Catherine Stollar Peters Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: cspeters [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Electronic records, digital curation, email preservation, metadata, XML, archives and manuscripts, digital libraries

	Andrew Raymond Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: araymond43 [at] gmail [dot] com
	Barbara Via Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: bvia [at] albany [dot] edu

 

Staff Listing

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	Kathleen Gurney Information Studies, Secretary Phone: (518) 442-5115    Email: kgurney [at] albany [dot] edu

	Daphne Jorgensen Information Studies, Assistant to the Chair Internship Placement Coordinator Adjunct Faculty Phone: (518) 442-5110    Email: djorgensen [at] albany [dot] edu

Sheila DiMaggio Information Studies, School Media Internship Coordinator Phone: (518) 442-5110    Email: SDiMaggio [at] albany [dot] edu