School of Information Faculty Scholarship

: Author Team Diversity and the Impact of Scientific Publications; In the second half of the 20th century, scientific research in physics, chemistry, and engineering began to focus on the use of large government-funded laboratories. This shift toward so-called big science also brought about a concomitant change in scientific work itself, with a sustained trend toward the use of highly specialized scientific teams, elevating the role of team characteristics on scientific outputs. The actual impact of scientific knowledge is commonly measured by how often peer-reviewed publications are, in turn, cited by other researchers. Therefore, how characteristics such as author team seniority, affiliation diversity, and size affect the overall impact of team publications was examined. Citation information and author demographics were reviewed for 123 articles published in Physical Review Letters from 2004 to 2006 and written by 476 scientists who used the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's facilities. Correlation analysis indicated that author teams that were more multi-institutional and had homogeneous seniority tended to have more senior scientists. In addition, the analysis suggests that more mixed seniority author teams were likely to be less institutionally dispersed. Quantile regression was used to examine the relationships between author-team characteristics and publication impact. The analysis indicated that both weighted average seniority and average seniority had a negative relationship with the number of citations the publication received. Furthermore, the analysis also showed a positive relationship between first-author seniority and the number of citations, and a negative relationship between the number of authors and the number of citations., Note: Pre-print version. Published in Library & Information Science Research, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 2012, pages 249-257. Copyright © 2012, Elsevier. The definitive version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2012.03.001, Citation: Charles C. Hinnant, Besiki Stvilia, Shuheng Wu, Adam Worrall, Gary Burnett, Kathleen Burnett, Michelle M. Kazmer, Paul F. Marty, Author-team diversity and the impact of scientific publications: Evidence from physics research at a national science lab, Library & Information Science Research, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 2012, Pages 249-257, ISSN 0740-8188, 10.1016/j.lisr.2012.03.001. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740818812000527)

: Availability and accessibility in an open access institutional repository; Introduction. This study explores the extent to which an institutional repository (IR) makes papers available and accessible on the open web by using 170 journal articles housed in DigiNole Commons, the IR at Florida State University. Method. To analyze the IR's impact on availability and accessibility, we conducted independent known-item title searches on both Google and Google Scholar (GS) to search for faculty publications housed in DigiNole Commons. Analysis. The extent to which the IR makes articles available and accessible was measured quantitatively, and the findings that cannot be summarized with numbers were analyzed qualitatively. Results. Google and GS searches provided links to DigiNole metadata for a total of 145 (85.3%) of 170 items, and to full texts for 96 (96%) of 100 items. With one exception, access to either metadata or full text required no more than three clicks. Conclusions. Overall, the results confirm the contribution of the IR in making papers available and accessible. The results also reveal some impediments to the success of OA: including impediments linked to contractual arrangements between authors and publishers, impediments linked to policies, practices, and technologies governing the IR itself, and the low level of faculty participation in the IR., Keywords: open access, institutional repository, Note: This is the authors accepted manuscript of the article, which will be published in Information Research in 2015. Metadata about the published article will be updated as it is assigned. © is retained by the Authors., Citation: Lee, J., Burnett, G., Baeg, J., Vandegrift, M., & Morris, R. (2015). Availability and accessibility in an open access institutional repository: a case study. Information Research. (Accepted)

: Building Community among Museum Information Professionals: A Case Study of the Museum Computer Network; Museum information professionals meet the needs of the producers and consumers of museum information resources, yet little is known of how their own needs are met or what benefits they obtain from being part of a broader professional community. This study presents results from a survey of 283 individuals who were asked about their relationship with the Museum Computer Network, an international professional organization dedicated to supporting the needs of museum information professionals. The results shed light on how professional organizations can meet the needs of individuals who share a common interest in museums and information technology, particularly when those individuals are professionally diverse and geographically distributed. The results can help researchers and practitioners better understand how to build community among museum information professionals, and have implications for all organizations supporting the needs of museum professionals., Keywords: Museum information professionals, Professional organizations, Community needs analysis, Online survey methods

: CV19 SelfDefense; CV19 SelfDefense is an mHealth approach to providing mobile phone users with situational awareness during the coronavirus pandemic, with the goal of protecting and defending personal health. Several individual risk reduction measures were studied and then developed as tools to help users manage personal health. This mHealth intervention is user-centric and privacy-centric approach empowering users with tools, utilities and services to bolster the ability to manage complex health information, as well as their rights to personal information privacy. The demo features the capabilities of the app, as well as a discussion of future work., COVID-19, mHealth, Public health, Situational awareness, Infodemic, Social distance nudge, Voluntary contact tracing, Coronavirus pandemic, The authors wish to thank the Florida State University for the Collaborative Collision COVID-19 seed grant (CC-045704, 5/11/20-8/18/20). The authors also wish to thank Conrad F. Metcalfe for his editing assistance., CC-045704

: Collections Cubed Survey Instrument (2015); The Collections Cubed Survey Instrument (2015) will inquire about organizations' current and/or planned future use of 3D technologies (digitization, publication, and printing). It is intended to be answered by individuals who are knowledgeable about these technologies., Keywords: Survey, 3D, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Collections3D

: Competing Standards in the Education of School Librarians; Education for school librarians traditionally blends elements from the fields of LIS and education. A thorough preparation in both professions is necessary since school librarians hold state teaching certification in K-12 library media. A variety of standards from professional organizations guide school librarians in performing their multi-faceted roles, and accordingly inform the curricula of school librarian preparation programs. However, the plethora of standards may actually make it more difficult to determine what standards to include in LIS curricula, and when to include them in educating future school librarians. The implications of competitive aspects of inclusion of each of these standards in school librarian education programs are discussed., Keywords: AASL, LIS curriculum, LIS education, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, NCATE, school librarians, standards, Citation: Church, A., Dickinson, G., Everhart, N., & Howard, J. (2012). Competing Standards in the Education of School Librarians. Journal Of Education For Library & Information Science, 53(3), 208-217.

: Computer-Mediated Deception:; Computer-mediated deception threatens the security of online users’ private and personal information. Previous research confirms that humans are bad lie detectors, while demonstrating that certain observable linguistic features can provide crucial cues to detect deception. We designed and conducted an experiment that creates spontaneous deception scenarios in an interactive online game environment. Logistic regression, and certain classification methodologies were applied to analyzing data collected during Fall 2014 through Spring 2015. Our findings suggest that certain language-action cues (e.g., cognitive load, affective process, latency and wordiness) reveal patterns of information behavior manifested by deceivers in spontaneous online communication. Moreover, computational approaches to analyzing these language-action cues can provide significant accuracy in detecting computer-mediated deception., Keywords: Interpersonal deception theory, Computer-mediated communication, Language-action cues, Computer-mediated deception, Human-computer interaction, Publication Note: This article was published in the Journal of Management Information Systems. The publisher's version is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/07421222.2016.1205924., Preferred Citation: Ho, S. M., Hancock, J. T., Booth, C., & Liu, M. (2016). Computer-mediated deception: Strategies revealed by language-action cues in spontaneous communication. Journal of Management Information Systems, 33(2), 393-420. doi: 10.1080/07421222.2016.1205924, Grant Number: NSF EAGER grants #1347113 and #1347120; Florida Center for Cybersecurity Collaborative Seed Grant 03/01/15—02/28/16, and the Florida State University Council for Research and Creativity Planning Grant #034138

: Connecting to Collections in Florida; This article presents results from an IMLS-funded project to evaluate the current state of collections in Florida's libraries, archives, and museums, current practices to preserve and conserve these collections, and perceived needs to maintain and improve these collections for future generations. The survey, modeled after the Heritage Health Index national survey, demonstrated that many of Florida's collections are in desperate need of conservation and preservation and indicate a clear need for an increased effort to guarantee the continued safety of and access to these collections. In addition to providing data on Florida's collections, the results of this study have national implications that will help researchers, professionals, administrators, government agencies, and the general public better understand the nature of collecting agencies and the long-term requirements for the continued preservation and conservation of the nation's natural and cultural heritage., Citation: Connecting to Collections in Florida: Current Conditions and Critical Needs in Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Corinne Jörgensen, Paul F. Marty, and Kathy Braun. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy , Vol. 82, No. 4 (October 2012), pp. 453-476

: Detecting Cyberbullying "hotspots" On Twitter; The ability to discover cyberbullying "hotspots" on social media is vitally important for purposes of preventing victimization. This study attempts to develop a prediction model for identifying cyberbullying "hotspots" by analyzing the manifestation of charged language on Twitter. A total of 140,000 tweets were collected using a Twitter API during September 2019. The study reports that certain charged language in tweets can indicate a high potential for cyberbullying incidents. Cyberbullies tend to share negative emotion, demonstrate anger, and use abusive words to attack victims. The predictor variables related to "biology," "sexual," and "swear" can be further used to differentiate cyberbullies from non-cyberbullies. The study contributes to the detection of cyberbullying "hotspots," by providing an approach to identify a tendency for cyberbullying activity based on computational analysis of charged language. The contribution is significant for mediation agenciesdsuch as school counseling and law enforcement agencies. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd., Cyberbullying, Language-action cues, liwc, Logistic regression, Predictive analytics, Social media, Twitter, The publisher's version of record is availible at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2020.300906

: Digital Convergence and the Information Profession in Cultural Heritage Organizations; Nearly twenty years ago, W. Boyd Rayward became one of the first academics to examine how electronic information and the functional integration of libraries, archives, and museums has affected, and will affect, the information profession. In doing so, he laid the groundwork for an entire research agenda on the topic of digital convergence, where the increased use of, and reliance on, digital resources in libraries, archives, and museums has increasingly blurred the traditional distinctions between these institutions. This paper explores how Rayward's early work in this area influenced the development of this topic over time, focusing on how information professionals in cultural heritage organizations can and should reconcile their internal perceptions of identity with the external expectations of their users, particularly those who do not or cannot clearly distinguish between different institutions or the information resources they manage. In a world where the traditional assumptions we take for granted about information organization and access in libraries, archives, and museums are simply not shared by our users, the future of the information profession depends on the ability of cultural heritage information professionals to transcend the traditional boundaries between libraries, archives, and museums to meet information needs in the digital age., Keywords: digital convergence, cultural heritage, Note: Copyright 2014 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. This article first appeared in Library Trends, Volume 62, Issue 3, Winter 2014, pages 612-627., Citation: Paul F. Marty. "Digital Convergence and the Information Profession in Cultural Heritage Organizations: Reconciling Internal and External Demands." Library Trends 62.3 (2014): 613-627.

: Distributed knowledge in an online patient support community; Note: This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, © 2013 American Society for Information Science and Technology., Citation: Kazmer, M. M., Lustria, M. L. A., Cortese, J., Burnett, G., Kim, J.-H., Ma, J. and Frost, J. (2014), Distributed knowledge in an online patient support community: Authority and discovery. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi: 10.1002/asi.23064

: Dyadic Attribution Model; Language as a symbolic medium plays an important role in virtual communications. In a primarily linguistic environment such as cyberspace, words are an expressed form of intent and actions. This paper intends to investigate the functions of words and actions in identifying behavioral anomalies of social actors in order to safeguard the virtual organization. Social actors are likened to “sensors” as they observe changes in a focal individual’s behavior during computer-mediated communications. Based on social psychology theories and pragmatic views of words and actions in online communications, this paper theorizes a dyadic attribution model that helps make sense of anomalous behavior in creative online experiments. This model is then tested in an experiment. Findings show that observation of the behavioral differences between words and actions, based on either external or internal causality, can offer increased ability to detect the compromised trustworthiness of observed individuals – possibly leading to early detection of insider threat potential. The dyadic attribution model developed in this socio-technical study can function to detect behavioral anomalies in cyberspace, and protect the operations of a virtual organization., Keywords: Attribution theory, Trustworthiness, Virtual organization, Human computer interactions, Socio-technical systems, Publication Note: This article was published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. The publishers version is available at https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23074., Preferred Citation: Ho, S. M., & Benbasat, I. (2014). Dyadic attribution model: A mechanism to assess trustworthiness in virtual organizations. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(8), 1555-1576. doi: 10.1002/asi.23074, Grant Number:

: Early Literacy In Library Storytimes, Part 2; Within the peer-reviewed literature, there is a shortage of experimental and quasi-experimental studies examining libraries' impact on children's early literacy development. Therefore, Project VIEWS2 (Valuable Initiatives in Early Learning That Work Successfully 2) used a quasi-experimental design to understand whether an intervention to train public library storytime providers in early literacy principles makes a difference in children's early literacy skills. In the experimental group, comparisons of preintervention and postintervention data showed statistically significant increases in the early literacy behaviors of the providers and attendees in the experimental group. There were no significant changes in the early literacy behaviors of control group providers and their attendees. A purposeful focus on early literacy principles makes a difference in storytime programs and in early literacy behaviors when children attend storytime. This article examines the design and delivery of the intervention, its effects on the study population, and its implications for practice.

: Early Literacy in Library Storytimes; Across the nation, librarians work with caregivers and children to encourage engagement in their early literacy programs. However, these early literacy programs that libraries provide have been left mostly undocumented by research, especially through quantitative methods. Valuable Initiatives in Early Learning that Work Successfully (VIEWS2) was designed to test new ways to measure the effectiveness of these early literacy programs for young children (birth to kindergarten), leveraging a mixed methods, quasi-experimental design. Using two innovative tools, researchers collected data at 120 public library storytimes in the first year of research, observing approximately 1,440 children ranging from birth to 60 months of age. Analysis of year-one data showed a correlation between the early literacy content of the storytime program and children's outcomes in terms of early literacy behaviors. These findings demonstrate that young children who attend public library storytimes are responding to the early literacy content in the storytime programs., Keywords: preschool-children, skills, Publication Note: The publisher’s version of record is available at http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1086/688028

: Enriching Consumer Health Vocabulary Through Mining A Social Q&a Site; The widely known vocabulary gap between health consumers and healthcare professionals hinders information seeking and health dialogue of consumers on end-user health applications. The Open Access and Collaborative Consumer Health Vocabulary (OAC CHV), which contains health-related terms used by lay consumers, has been created to bridge such a gap. Specifically, the OAC CHV facilitates consumers' health information retrieval by enabling consumer-facing health applications to translate between professional language and consumer friendly language. To keep up with the constantly evolving medical knowledge and language use, new terms need to be identified and added to the OAC CHV. User-generated content on social media, including social question and answer (social Q&A) sites, afford us an enormous opportunity in mining consumer health terms. Existing methods of identifying new consumer terms from text typically use ad-hoc lexical syntactic patterns and human review. Our study extends an existing method by extracting n-grams from a social Q&A textual corpus and representing them with a rich set of contextual and syntactic features. Using K-means clustering, our method, simiTerm, was able to identify terms that are both contextually and syntactically similar to the existing OAC CHV terms. We tested our method on social Q&A corpora on two disease domains: diabetes and cancer. Our method outperformed three baseline ranking methods. A post-hoc qualitative evaluation by human experts further validated that our method can effectively identify meaningful new consumer terms on social Q&A. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved., Keywords: information, Consumer health information, Consumer health vocabulary, Controlled vocabularies, knowledge, Ontology enrichment, records, Social Q&A, text, Publication Note: The publisher's version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2017.03.016

: Ethical Dilemma; Words symbolically represent communicative and behavioral intent, and can provide clues to a communicator’s future actions in online communication. This paper describes a sociotechnical study conducted from 2008 through 2015 to identify deceptive communicative intent within group context as manifested in language-action cues. Specifically, this study used an online team-based game that simulates real-world deceptive insider scenarios to examine several dimensions of group communication. First, we studied how language-action cues differ between groups with and groups without a compromised actor. We also examine how these cues differ within groups in terms of the group members’ individual and collective interactions with the compromised actor. Finally, we look at how the cues of compromised actors differ from those of non-compromised actors, and how communication behavior changes after an actor is presented with an ethical dilemma. The results of the study further our understanding of language-action cues as indicators for unmasking a potential deceptive insider., Keywords: Human computer interactions, Information behavior, Computer-mediated deception, Language-action cues, Ethical dilemma, Insider threat, Group communication, Publication Note: This is a published article of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Publisher's version available at https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23849., Preferred Citation: Ho, S. M., Hancock, J. T., & Booth, C. (2017). Ethical dilemma: Deception dynamics in computer-mediated group communication. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(12), 2729-2742. doi: 10.1002/asi.23849., Grant Number: NSF EAGER grant #1347113 and #1347120 (09/01/13—08/31/15); Florida State University Council for Research and Creativity Planning Grant #034138 (12/01/13—11/30/14); First Year Assistant Professor Grant FYAP #033114 (05/10/13—08/10/13)

: Examining Undergraduate Students' Priorities For Academic Library Services And Social Media Communication; Academic libraries can effectively plan and market their services by identifying the value users perceive in their services and in their social media communications about those services. This study reports on findings of a survey of 104 undergraduate students in information technology courses at a large research university. Results of an ordered logistic regression analysis indicated that students considered access to information and computer resources and study support services as the most important library services offered. Likewise, students perceived library social media postings related to operations updates, study support services, and events as the most useful. Future related research will investigate the needs and priorities for library services of other key user populations of academic libraries, such as graduate students and online students, to assemble service repertoires that are tailored to individual user groups. In addition, future research will examine whether and how libraries can use the analysis of users' engagement with a library's social media postings to inexpensively gauge the value they perceive in library services. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved., Keywords: quality assessment, Publication Note: The publisher's version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2017.02.013

: Exploration of Teacher and Librarian Collaboration in the Context of Professional Preparation; Research has shown that collaboration between teachers and librarians has a positive effect on student learning, but can be difficult to achieve. In order to explore the incorporation of teacher and librarian collaboration into preservice education, two master’s level classes studying young adult literature, one in teacher education and one in library and information studies (LIS), were given an assignment that required them to work together to complete a week’s worth of lesson plans for a high school English class based on a commonly read novel. Student responses demonstrate limiting and enabling factors that affect integrating collaboration into professional preparation., Keywords: Virtual collaboration, Pre-service education, U.S. schools, Youth librarianship, English language arts, Information literacy, Online education, Publication Note: Publisher's Version Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13614541.2016.1223935, Preferred Citation: Gross, M., & Witte, S. (2016). An exploration of teacher and librarian collaboration in the context of professional preparation. New Review of children’s Literature and Librarianship 22(2): 1-27.

: Exploring Twitter use and services of academic innovation centers; This study examined the Twitter streams and websites of 36 university innovation centers and identified 14 service categories the centers offered. Exploring the present Twitter use practices of innovation centers and the services the centers provide can inform the design and planning of service offerings at new innovation centers and support training for center staff in the use of this social media platform. In addition, existing innovation centers can benchmark their service offerings against those services. Furthermore, mapping the services the innovation centers offer to the activities in an innovation workflow model can help center managers optimize the information architecture of their websites and resource guides. In this way, students can easily be informed about the help and resources available for each activity or phase of the innovation process. A comparison of the tweet categories identified in the present study with those of academic libraries assembled in a previous study revealed significant overlap, but some differences as well. In contrast to the Twitter accounts of academic libraries, the Twitter accounts of innovation centers did not tweet about their information services even if they offered them. Innovation centers also did not use Twitter to provide Q&A services to their users. Furthermore, innovation centers tweeted not only about the technological resources they provided, but also about the human resources they recruited to serve as student mentors and advisors. Finally, technology use was more mediated in innovation centers than in libraries, and some centers offered their users fee-based assistance from professionals with their 3D design and printing tasks., innovation, entrepreneurship, academic makerspaces, services, social media, This is a preprint of an article published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship. The version of record can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2019.1020.

: Exploring digital divides; Recent government initiatives to deploy health information technology in the USA, coupled with a growing body of scholarly evidence linking online heath information and positive health-related behaviors, indicate a widespread belief that access to health information and health information technologies can help reduce healthcare inequalities. However, it is less clear whether the benefits of greater access to online health information and health information technologies is equitably distributed across population groups, particularly to those who are underserved. To examine this issue, this article employs the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) to investigate relationships between a variety of socio-economic variables and the use of the web-based technologies for health information seeking, personal health information management and patient-provider communication within the context of the USA. This study reveals interesting patterns in technology adoption, some of which are in line with previous studies, while others are less clear. Whether these patterns indicate early evidence of a narrowing divide in eHealth technology use across population groups as a result of the narrowing divide in Internet access and computer ownership warrants further exploration. In particular, the findings emphasize the need to explore differences in the use of eHealth tools by medically underserved and disadvantaged groups. In so doing, it will be important to explore other psychosocial variables, such as health literacy, that may be better predictors of health consumers' eHealth technology adoption., Keywords: digital divide, health information seeking, health informatics, health information management, Internet, information and communication technology, technology adoption, Note: This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Health Informatics Journal [2011] [copyright Sage]. Please do not distribute without the authors' permission. Citation: Lustria, M. L. A., Smith, S. A., & Hinnant, C. C. (2011). Exploring digital divides: An examination of eHealth technology use in health information seeking, communication and personal health information management in the USA. Health Informatics Journal, 17(3), 224-243. doi: 10.1177/1460458211414843, Citation: Lustria, M. L. A., Smith, S. A., & Hinnant, C. C. (2011). Exploring digital divides: An examination of eHealth technology use in health information seeking, communication and personal health information management in the USA. Health Informatics Journal, 17(3), 224-243. doi: 10.1177/1460458211414843

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