DSA Research Symposium - Fall 2008

DSA Research Symposium
October 10, 2008
Manning Hall

Poster Session
10:00am-11:30am

Leo Cao
Course Blogging: An Investigation of Instructor and Students’ Use of in-class Blogs

Amber Cushing and Allison Fox
Career Satisfaction of Young Archivists

Lauren E. Kearns
Patient Handoff: A Vehicle in Search of a Vocabulary

Robin Kurz
(University of South Carolina)
Closing the Gap: Exploring the Prenatal and Pediatric Health Information Needs of Latinas in the US

Simon Spero
LCSH is to Thesaurus as Doorbell is to Mammal

Cassidy Sugimoto
Library and Information Science Doctoral Education: The Landscape from 1930 Through 2007

Jewel Ward
Integrating Metadata into the NARA Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype via the OAI-PMH

Yan Zhang
Visiting Human Errors in Interacting with IR Systems from Decision Making Perspective

Lunch
11:45-12:45

Presentations
1:00-4:40

Presentations 1:00-2:20

Laura Marcial
The Role of Handheld Mobile Device Features in Inhibiting Adoption for Medical Professional Use'

Kathy Wisser
The Organization of Knowledge and Bibliographic Classification in Nineteenth-Century America

Nancy Baker
Mining a Repository of Chemical Effect Literature Terms for Connections to Disease

Weimao Ke
Dynamicity vs. Effectiveness: A User Study of a Clustering Algorithm for Scatter/Gather

Break 2:20-2:30

Presentations 2:30-3:40

Yaxiao Song
Multi-Modal Surrogates for Video Retrieval

Jeff Loo
The Acceptance of Mobile Phone eHealth: A Study of Health Consumer Perceptions

Tessa Sullivan
It's All Relative: Usage of Relative Temporal Expressions in Triage Notes

Break 3:40-3:50

Presentations 3:50-4:30

Sanghee Oh
The Use of Information Sources by the Internet Users in Answering Questions

Derek Rodriguez
Methods for Understanding and Communicating Academic Library Impact

Leo Cao
Games & Learning, an Overview of the Literature and Discussion of Open Questions

*all presentations will be twenty minutes in length, with questions