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

Recent faculty honors and publications include:

• Stefl-Mabry, J., DeQuoy, E., & Stevens, S. (2011, October 27-30, 2011). Retrospective Reflection: Insight into preservice school librarians’ competencies and skill development as revealed through field notes. Paper to be presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the American Association of School Librarians, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Rorissa, A. (2010). A comparative study of flickr tags and index terms in a general image collection. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21401
• Rorissa, A., Demissie, D., & Pardo, T. (In Press). Benchmarking e-government: A comparison of frameworks for computing e-government index and ranking. Government Information Quarterly.
• Joyce Laiosa has been elected as Vice-President/President Elect of the Youth Services Section of the New York Library Association.  We have been fortunate to have Joyce as our instructor for  IST 578,  Literature for Young Adults,  for several years.  Congratulations,  Joyce!

 

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 More >>

	Stephen E. DeLong Geology, Professor Phone: 518-591-8888     Email: delong [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Application of statistical physics to information retrieval and organization

	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 More >>

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

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 >>

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

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

	Ms. Margaret Cusack-Steciuk Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: Research Interests:

Dr. 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

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

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

Ms. Carol Ann Germain Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: cgermain [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Persistence of electronic scholarly resources, Web usability, information literacy

Ms. Mindy Holland Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: MHolland [at] sunrisemc [dot] com Research Interests: Change in schools and motivating children to read.

	Ms. Daphne Jorgensen Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: daphne [at] nycap [dot] rr [dot] com Research Interests:

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

	Ms. Barbara Nichols-Randall Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: bnicholsrandall [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: Resume

Mr. Andrew Raymond Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: araymond [at] mail [dot] nysed [dot] gov Research Interests:

	Mr. Thomas Ruller Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: thomas_ruller [at] hotmail [dot] com Research Interests:

	Ms. Barbara Via Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty Email: bvia [at] albany [dot] edu Research Interests: reference services, journal publishing in library/information science

 

Staff Listing

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

	Frances Reynolds Information Studies, Assistant Dean Internship Placement Coordinator Phone: (518) 442-5110      Email: FReynolds [at] albany [dot] edu

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