Barbara M. Wildemuth Professor School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 100 Manning Hall, CB # 3360 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Phone: (919)962-8072 or (919)962-8366 Fax: (919)962-8071 Email: wildem@ils.unc.edu Vitae: http://ils.unc.edu/~wildem/wildemuth-vitae.pdf

Current Research Activities/Projects

Digital Library Curriculum Development (Barbara Wildemuth, UNC PI; Jeff Pomerantz, UNC Co-PI; Ed Fox, VA Tech PI; funded by NSF)

Based on current best practices in the teaching of digital library topics, we will be developing educational modules and materials related to digital libraries, for use in computer science and information and library science programs.

 

Recruiting Medical Students into Health Sciences Librarianship: Pursuing the Informationist Concept through a Dual Degree Model (Barbara Wildemuth, PI, with Claudia Gollop, UNC, and Pat Thibodeau and Robert James, Duke University; funded by IMLS)

The project will recruit and support two cohorts of Duke University medical students to complete a master's degree at SILS during their third "research" year at Duke.

 

Personal Health Records: An Assessment of Needs and Design Requirements (Barbara Wildemuth and Cathy Blake, as part of the project, "Evidence Base for Personal Health Record Usability," Gary Marchionini, PI; funded by NCI)

Interviews were conducted with a sample of people who have young children, people who have chronic illnesses, people who care for elderly parents, and people who are over 70, to discover the ways in which they currently manage their health records and the features they would like to see in online PHR systems.

 

Open Video Project (Gary Marchionini and Barbara Wildemuth)

The Open Video repository of digital video based at SILS is used as a platform to investigate the ways that people interact with digital video objects and surrogates for those objects.

 

Establishing a Research Agenda for Studies of Online Search Behaviors: A Delphi Study (with Carol Barry, Louisiana State University)

This Delphi study focuses on the variables that should be included in studies of online searching behaviors. A panel of experienced researchers rated the priority for study of particular variables and the ways in which those variables might be measured in studies of online search behaviors.

 

Applications of Research Methods in Information and Library Science

A compilation and critique of the ways in which social science research methods have been applied to problems in information and library science. Under contract with Libraries Unlimited.

Selected Recent Publications

Schaeffer, P., Thibodeau, P.L., James, R., Wildemuth, B.M., & Gollop, C. (2007). The informationist and the information specialist revolution: Career pathways for physicians? Poster presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, May 18-23, 2007. Abstract. Full text.

Yang, S., Fox, E. A., Wildemuth, B. M., Pomerantz, J., & Oh, S. (2006). Interdisciplinary curriculum development for digital library education. Proceedings of the International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4312, 61-70. Abstract. Full text.

Pomerantz, J., Oh, S., Yang, S., Fox, E.A., & Wildemuth, B.M. (2006). The core: Digital library education in library and information science programs. D-Lib Magazine, 12(11). Abstract. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/pomerantz/11pomerantz.html.

Marchionini, G., Wildemuth, B. M., & Geisler, G. (2006). The Open Video Digital Library: A Möbius strip of research and practice. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 57(12),1629-1643. Abstract.

Wildemuth, B. M., Blake, C. L., Spurgin, K., Oh, S., & Zhang, Y. (2006). Patients’ perspectives on personal health records: An assessment of needs and concerns. Poster presented at “Critical Issues in eHealth Research 2006,” Bethesda, MD, September 11-12, 2006. Abstract. Full text.

Pomerantz, J., Wildemuth, B. M., Fox, E., & Yang, S. (2006). Curriculum development for digital libraries. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (Chapel Hill, NC, June 15, 2006), 175-184. Abstract.

Wildemuth, B. M., & Hughes, A. (2005). Perspectives on the tasks in which information behaviors are embedded. In Fisher, K E., Erdelez, S., & McKechnie, L. (Eds.), Theories of Information Behavior. Medford, NJ: Information Today, for the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 275-279. Abstract.

Wildemuth, B. M. (2004). The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 55(3), 246-258. Abstract.

Yang, M., Wildemuth, B. M., Marchionini, G., Wilkens, T., Geisler, G., Hughes, A., Gruss, R., & Webster, C. (2003). Measures of User Performance in Video Retrieval Research. SILS Technical Report 2003-02. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, School of Information and Library Science, Technical Report Series. Abstract. PDF.

Wildemuth, B. M., Marchionini, G., Yang, M., Geisler, G., Wilkens, T., Hughes, A., & Gruss, R. (2003). How fast is too fast? Evaluating fast forward surrogates for digital video. Paper presented at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Houston, May 2003. Winner of the Vannevar Bush Award for Best Paper. Abstract. PDF.

Wildemuth, B. M. (2003). Why conduct user studies? The role of empirical evidence in improving the practice of librarianship. Keynote address. INFORUM 2003, Prague, May 27, 2003. Abstract. PDF.

Complete list of publications, with abstracts, available at http://ils.unc.edu/~wildem/bmw-abstracts.html.

Current and Recent Teaching Responsibilities

INLS 500, Human Information Interactions (Fall 2006, team-taught with Gary Marchionini)

INLS 584, Information Ethics (Fall 2005, offered as INLS 105)

INLS 718, User Interface Design (Spring 2007)

INLS 782, Information Systems Effectiveness (Fall 2006)

INLS 881-882, Research Issues & Questions I & II (Fall 2006-Spring 2007, team-taught with Gary Marchionini)

Additional Activities in Professional Associations and at UNC-CH

American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST)

Director-at-Large, 2007-

SIG ED Doctoral Seminar for Research and Career Development, 2007 (Co-Organizer)

 

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2006, Treasurer

 

UNC-CH Athletics Committee