2008 OCLC/ALISE grant recipients to present research at 2009 ALISE Annual Conference

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 16 January 2009—Rong Tang and Sheila Denn, Diane Kelly, and Youngok Choi will speak at the panel session, Friday, 23 January 2009, 10:30 - 12:00 MST, Denver, Colorado.

Details

Session 7.2 Panel: OCLC/ALISE LIS Research Grant Papers
Convener: Lynn Silipigni Connaway (OCLC)
Date & time: Friday, 23 January 2009, 10:30 - 12:00 MST
Location: Grand Hyatt Denver

• Rong Tang and Sheila Denn (Simmons College): "User-based Question Answering: An Exploratory Study of Community-generated Information Exchange in Yahoo! Answers"
• Diane Kelly (U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill): "Developing and Evaluating a Query Recommendation Feature to Assist Users with Online Information Seeking and Retrieval"
• Youngok Choi (Catholic U.): "Analyzing Image Searching on the Web: How Do Undergraduates Search and Use Visual Information?"

More information

OCLC - ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Program
www.oclc.org/research/grants/

Grant recipients
www.oclc.org/research/grants/awarded.htm

Lynn Silipigni Connaway
www.oclc.org/research/people/connaway.htm

ALISE - Association for Library and Information Science Educators
www.alise.org

2009 ALISE Annual Conference
www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=62136&orgId=ali

For more information:

Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Senior Research Scientist
OCLC Research
lynn_connaway@oclc.org
+1-303-246-3623


Bob Bolander
Senior Communications Officer
OCLC Research
bolander@oclc.org
+1-614-761-5207