
Heather Lea Moulaison-SandyUniversity of Missouri | Mizzou · iSchool
Heather Lea Moulaison-Sandy
PhD, MSLIS, MA
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Open access (OA) publishing has been touted as an equalizer to access. However, English has effectively attained a status of lingua franca in science, and the extent to which OA supports cross‐language dissemination and consumption of information beyond English is not well understood. This preliminary work investigates English‐language sources as r...
Despite their professed enthusiasm for open science, faculty researchers have been documented as not freely sharing their data; instead, if sharing data at all, they take a minimal approach. A robust research agenda in LIS has documented the data under‐sharing practices in which they engage, and the motivations they profess. Using theoretical frame...
Traditionally, the selection of concepts and terms within a knowledge organization system (KOS) has served to reflect a socially constructed but majority opinion on language and therefore represent the perspectives of dominant groups. Members of a marginalized group cannot be expected to share a vocabulary with members of the dominant group, and a...
Recently, the scholarly community has been eagerly exploring how AI‐produced content should be integrated into both academic writing and scholarly publishing. This paper investigates the prevailing responses to the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 and the interest that has been afforded it by both the academy and the publishing industry. A...
To promote social justice, recent work in knowledge organization (KO) has focused on providing access for members of marginalized groups including LGBTQ+ persons. Expanding on this work, the current project explores demographics and library usage as well as the participant-provided identity terms of LGBTQ+ library catalog users. Using a survey meth...
Data management plans (DMPs) have become nearly a worldwide requirement for research funding. To meet these new funding agency expectations, information professionals across domains and the world have worked to create resources and services to successfully implement and sometimes assess DMPs. This essay presents a series of case studies from differ...
To promote social justice, recent work in knowledge organization (KO) has focused on providing access for members of marginalized groups including LGBTQ+ persons. Expanding on this work, the current project explores demographics and library usage as well as the participant-provided identity terms of LGBTQ+ library catalog users. Using a survey meth...
Panelists together explored plagiarism, image manipulation, and data falsification (including misinformation).
The LGBTQ+ community is a group with a specific identity where the literature has identified the potential for such mismatches. To investigate the problem of LGBTQ+ terminology from a user’s perspective, 10 LGBTQ+ users of library catalogs were interviewed. Participants were asked to describe an LGBTQ+ title, The Queer Advantage, to identify subjec...
Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts individuals across different genders, ages, races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic groups. One promising, multidisciplinary area of research interest in this space is Virtual Reality (VR). This project reviews domestic and international collaboration patterns and scholarly interest relati...
Data management plans (DMPs) are an essential part of planning data-driven research projects and ensuring long-term access and use of research data and digital objects; however, as text-based documents, DMPs must be analyzed manually for conformance to funder requirements. This study presents a comparison of DMPs evaluations for 21 funded projects...
Public librarians across the United States found themselves in different political environments that challenged their ability to serve their communities, to provide the information that was needed, and to fight disinformation regarding the pandemic. Researchers at the University of Missouri examined how and what librarians communicated to the publi...
Quid pro quo authorship (QPQ) is a type of gift authorship in which authorship credit is exchanged in a mutually beneficial agreement. Such practices are considered to be unethical, but incentives to publish can nonetheless make QPQ appealing. Terminology to describe the QPQ phenomenon can differ across scholarly communities, making a thorough anal...
In information science, what data itself is, how it is defined, and the distinctions between data and information are unclear, yet data is a foundational construct at the heart of the research enterprise. This poster probes the question of how data is conceptualized in information science through an analysis of works by Jonathan Furner, Birger Hjør...
During the COVID‐19 pandemic of 2020–2021, public library leaders across the United States were forced to make decisions quickly that affected the services and resources they were able to provide. However, the health information they had to make decisions on was imperfect and constantly changing. Interviews with 23 public library managers and direc...
The culture surrounding authorship practices differs from discipline to discipline, with the potential for inconsistent terminology across disciplines to hamper comprehension in interdisciplinary conversations. To address this problem, an interdisciplinary corpus of research literature on the topic of questionable authorship practices was used to c...
Bibliographic records can include information from controlled vocabularies to capture identities about individuals, especially about authors or intended audiences; personal name authority records can also contain information about identity. Employing a systematic analysis of the overlap of the Homosaurus, Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)...
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Author information is one of the primary metadata elements for information access. While assigning “author(s)” has been relatively straightforward in library systems for textual resources, challenges have emerged in recording creatorship information for collaborative creative works, with surrogates erring on the side of caution and providin...
Describing fiction is notoriously problematic. One aspect of this is the designation “genre” which can mean different things to different communities involved in the book trade, such as publishers/authors, readers, and information professionals. Using sources created by all three (i.e., ProQuest and New York Times Book Review, Library of Congress b...
Author information is the one of the primary access points for information users to find relevant items. While this information is straightforward in most cases, it is not easy to identify and conceptualize who the “author” or “creator” is for collaborative creative works, such as video games. In this exploratory study, we review and compare curren...
Subject headings and genre terms are notoriously difficult to apply, yet are important for fiction. The current project functions as a proof of concept, using a text-mining methodology to identify affective information (emotion and tone) about fiction titles from professional book reviews as a potential first step in automating the subject analysis...
Spiteri and Pecoskie (2018) proposed a taxonomy of terms to describe emotion and tone in novels. We tested those terms against 5,144 full‐text book reviews from the New York Times Book Review to discover whether the proposed terms were used in published reviews to describe books, and of those terms used, which were most used. The objective of this...
This article describes a faculty response to two challenges of online education: diversity engagement and professional socialization. Reviewing the literature, we develop a rubric to help assess the potential of new assignments for meeting these challenges. Using that rubric, we assess several assignments and projects that students evaluated positi...
Transparency in authorship is a continuing topic in information science and scholarly communication. The process of determining authorship order in multi‐author publications, however, can be complicated. Authorship rubrics helping teams arrive at authorship order exist, but the extent to which certain roles are quantified (or not) and rewarded with...
Data and how that data are organized, accessed, and used, remain central to the advancement of science, as evidenced through calls for reproducibility and demands to enable re‐use. Data management plans describe the roles, responsibilities, and activities for managing data during and after research. This paper presents the development of a data man...
Both information behavior and social informatics research concern themselves with the formation and evolution of digital communities and online environments. However, literature to date focuses heavily on formal, professionalized, and normative resources and contexts at the expense of other materials and environments, including those centered aroun...
Information professionals housed in academic libraries are increasingly taking a role in supporting scholarly communication activities. This article investigates the extent to which a formal role has grown in ARL libraries, the skills and competencies necessary for supporting work with data in this capacity, and how those skills and competencies re...
Появляющиеся технологии революционизируют сферу научной коммуникации. Поэтому ученые все больше нуждаются в особой поддержке на всех этапах исследовательского процесса. На примере академической (научной) библиотеки, взятой в качестве единицы анализа, рассматриваются два понятия из теории «Диффузия инноваций» (DOI) Роджерса и литературы по организац...
With increasing world-wide emphasis on providing access to research data, data management plans (DMPs) have emerged as the expected way for researchers to formalise and communicate their intentions to stakeholders, including to their funders. This review paper focuses on a thematic analysis and presentation of empirical research on DMPs, a literatu...
Cataloging is complex, both in the formal and informal sense. The standards used in cataloging, as well as the larger ecosystem in which catalogers work including the models developed to undergird their work, are increasing in complexity to the point where catalogers themselves may be unclear, and explaining the work to outsiders, including adminis...
Knowledge organization (KO) is considered a distinctive disciplinary focus of information science, with strong connections to other intellectual domains such as philosophy, computer science, psychology, sociology, and more. Given its inherent interdisciplinarity, we ask what might a map of the physical, cultural and intellectual geography of the KO...
Research data management (RDM) is often seen as the overarching field that permits research data to be managed, and is related to the field of data curation (DC), a subset of digital curation. Together, RDM and DC (RDM/DC) allow information professionals to work with clients and each other to make data available in support of the research enterpris...
Latina immigrants to the U.S. Midwest are a vibrant, complex, and resilient population of women with intersectional identities stemming from their participation in at least three distinct but interrelated communities: (1) women [in a family-centric culture defined by strong gender roles], (2) immigrants [potentially with linguistic and socioeconomi...
How do readers describe multicultural fiction works? While in library and information science (LIS) we have the language of appeal factorsand genre trendsto describe works of fiction, these linguistic choices may not be used by readers to describe their own responses and reactions to works that provide cultural affirmation of one’s own culture or e...
Open data has been hailed as an important corrective for the credibility crisis in science. This paper makes an initial attempt to measure the relationship between open data and credible research by analyzing the number of retracted articles with attached or open data in an open access science journal. Using Retraction Watch, retracted papers publi...
Knowledge organization (KO) is considered a distinctive disciplinary focus of information science, with strong connections to other intellectual domains such as philosophy, computer science, psychology, sociology, and more. Given its inherent interdisciplinarity, we ask what might a map of the physical, cultural, and intellectual geography of the K...
The current article presents a proof of concept wherein personas were created that could support library services and collections for Latinx community members in the Midwestern United States. Personas are first described and their use in the library literature is explored. The reproducible method employed in creating the personas is then presented...
Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems - edited by Louise F Spiteri August 2016
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a conceptual exploration of cataloging and metadata education. Historically and currently, cataloging and metadata are an essential part of Masters-level library and information science (LIS) education. The authors review LIS literature and provide evidence from their own experiences to support the authors’...
Nullis in verba was chosen as the motto of the Royal Society, as it embodied the culture of transparency and collaboration that were the hallmarks of the Royal Society and of the scientific method it promoted. Communication, using the tools of the day, was essential to this community of scientists as they created and shared new knowledge. Almost th...
In the Midwestern U.S., there is a growing population of Latin American immigrants. This increase is driven largely by employment opportunities in generally low-skilled, low wage fields such as meat processing and packing, and other agricultural fields. As a result, rural towns with relatively few resources are welcoming a growing number of non-Eng...
Emerging technologies are revolutionizing the field of scholarly communication. Because of this, scholars increasingly need specialized support during all stages of the research process. With the academic library as the unit of analysis, two concepts from Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation theory and organizational innovation literature are drawn upon...
This paper is the first to present a study of information behavior of Latinos in the Midwestern U.S. It begins addressing gaps in knowledge about Latinos, particularly immigrants, and their information seeking and use of the mobile, social web in rural areas of the U.S. Midwest. Interviews were conducted in 2016 and 2017 with 20 Midwestern Latinos...
Scientific work is time‐consuming and expensive. However, after data has been collected and reports have been written, science becomes an information problem. There are thousands of journals and funding agencies across specialized disciplines with different requirements for data transparency. Science‐focused domains substantiate research findings t...
Digital preservation is a complex field that is rapidly maturing and increasingly focusing on content as well as the human element of digital preservation. This conceptual article examines a number of digital preservation models meeting a variety of needs created by different communities. Given the guidance these models have afforded digital preser...
SHARE, an open metadata aggregator for scholarly content launched in 2013, provides access to dispersed scholarly content through a powerful application programming interface and set of tools for research discovery and analytics. Metadata is crucial for retrieval in systems like SHARE. The use of unique identifiers promotes the disambiguation of pe...
This article describes the results of a systematic review of peer‐reviewed, published research
articles about discovery layers, user‐friendly interfaces or systems that provide single‐search box
access to library content. Focusing on articles in LISTA published 2009–2013, a set of 80
articles was coded for community of users, journal type, research...
Since the 1920s, Latin American immigrants to the United States have frequently settled in established communities in border states and large urban areas. Since the 1990s, however, Latin American immigrants, documented and undocumented, have been settling in the rural Midwest. We begin this article by considering Trump-era rhetoric and actions affe...
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate characters and scenarios reflecting varied lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) identities in fiction in two library acquisitions platforms: a traditional library vendor (Coutts’ OASIS) and a freely available platform for self-published eBooks (Smashwords).
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The purpose of this paper is to consider personal digital archiving (PDA) from an academic perspective. Although elements of research data management and personal information management are relevant, it is unclear what is available on university websites supporting PDA. The following question guided the research: where is “PDA” content hous...
This article explores cognitively just, reliable subject access to indigenous knowledge through knowledge organization systems (KOSs). Cognitive justice requires that indigenous people be able to access materials in a way that respects their worldview, yet dominant KOSs are based on positivist, Western approaches that are fundamentally incompatible...
The “Advances in Library Data and Access” column examines technological advances internal and external to libraries. The focus is on how library data is created and used. The strength of the column is its broad, international focus and contributors are encouraged to explore issues and recent advances in information technology relevant to their geog...
Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2016 takes place every 2 years, and was held this year at the University of Zadar, in Zadar, Croatia, from June 13–17, 2016. Each LIDA, two themes are chosen in advance. This year, the themes were “Digital Curation and Preservation: Current Trends and Research” and “Use Studies, Education, and Training for Digita...
How should libraries classify indigenous or traditional knowledge? This paper presents an argument against universal access and in favor of working with the people who produce the knowledge. Adopting the perspective that reliable subject access to indigenous knowledge is a moral imperative for libraries and other knowledge institutions, this paper...
In this paper, we explore the state-of-the-art for recommendations and best practices relating to long-term storage and preservation of audiovisual files. Without the proper support, audiovisual contents may become obsolete over time. Specifically, we examine file formats and metadata used in digital preservation of audiovisual resources. Additiona...
Little is known about self-publishing authors and about the concerns of public librarians regarding how best to support library self-publishing initiatives. This article presents and analyzes a survey of authors participating in programming at the Woodneath Library Center/Woodneath Press. It also presents and analyzes the results of a survey of pub...
A number of indicators and metrics have been devised, especially in the past 10 to 15. years, to assist scholars in making a case for themselves and for their work. These metrics describe the impact of traditional venues (i.e. scholarly journals) as well as the impact of the scholars based on the number of times their work has been cited in traditi...
Les iSchools sont un regroupement d’ecoles s’interessant a l’information, a la technologie et aux utilisateurs. Elles emergent des ecoles de bibliotheconomie et de la tradition educative en bibliotheconomie et sciences de l’information (BSI). Soixante-cinq ecoles reparties dans le monde entier font presentement partie du mouvement des iSchools. En...
Persons are complex, and their representation in library authority records is becoming increasingly sophisticated through the addition of attributes under Resource Description and Access rules. This case study, using a longitudinal approach, examines attributes in authority records from the MERLIN cluster of academic libraries at both six months (i...
In spring 2014, authors from the University of Missouri conducted a nation-wide survey on metadata practices among United States-based OpenDOAR repositories. Examining the repository systems and current practices of metadata in these repositories, researchers collected and analyzed the responses of 23 repositories. Results from this survey include...
Providing subject access to cartographic resources is in many ways as fraught as providing access to any other human artifact, since places, spaces, and features on the land are conceptualized and named by people. Using critical cartographic cataloging, an approach comparable to critical cartography, we explore the potential of using multiple place...
Linked data presents numerous implementation challenges in cultural heritage institutions. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has emerged as a resource for cultural heritage institutions to contribute metadata records for their digital assets to a national aggregation platform, one that is actively being developed to express contributed m...
Participer et faire participer les citoyens, les publics ? Qui participe, comment et jusqu’où ? Que devient le professionnel avec ce nouveau paradigme ? Comment emporter l’adhésion des habitants ? De plus en plus de bibliothèques s’engagent activement dans la participation, selon des modalités et des niveaux d’implication variés. Cette mutation des...
Covering tools, terminology, and the FRBR-based RDA approach to description, this book explains the current principles of organization of information and basic cataloging practices for non-catalogers, enabling readers to understand elements of the cataloging process and interact with records in a basic manner.
Organization of information and catalo...
Purpose
– Readability applications are the software products designed to make online text more readable. Using information foraging theory as a framework, the purpose of this paper is to study the extent, if at all, using a readability application improves skimming comprehension in a low-clutter online environment. It also seeks to identify the per...
Libraries are looking for a better way to encode and share their data. Christensen's disruptive technologies theory provides a framework for evaluating linked data and thinking about future uses of library technology. Because of its lack of use and technical weaknesses, linked data is not yet poised to emerge as a disruptive innovation. It has the...
Based on Foucault’s exploration of the author-function, the current study investigates knowledge organization systems’ (KOS’s) treatment of persons who are also authors and the ability to record attributes, relationships and events related to those persons. FRBR and FRAD do well to extend the information in library authority records beyond the pers...
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– This paper aims to, through an analysis of the current literature, explore the current state of the library e-publishing community and its approach to preservation. Libraries are increasingly proposing publishing services as part of their work with their communities, and recently, there has been a pronounced interest in providing electron...
Providing verbal subject access to maps is in many ways as fraught as providing access to any other human artifact since places and features of the land are interpreted and named. Using critical cataloging, an approach analogous to critical cartography, we argue that the systematic use of place-names in systems allows for rich retrieval. Place-name...
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Based on Foucault’s exploration of the author-function, the current study investigates knowledge organization systems’ treatment of persons. FRBR and FRAD do well to extend the information in library authority records beyond the personal name as a character string to include attributes of the person, yet aspects of the person as an author and of he...
Linked data stores house vetted content that can supplement the information available through online library catalogs, potentially mitigating failed author searches if information about the author exists in linked data formats. In this case study, a total of 689 failed author index queries from a large Midwestern academic library's online library c...
Metadata is an important component of trans-disciplinary research and is increasingly important in digital scholarship in which linked, open and cloud-based communities operate. These communities regularly access and create linked, open and cloud-based data and as such require metadata systems and structures that fit their unique communities. The v...
Due to the wide variety of web-based reading environments, it is important to study reading environment effects on the skimming comprehension of information foragers. New readability applications have been developed to reduce visual clutter on web pages and enhance elements of text. This pilot study explored the effects of one of these new readabil...
As more information is digitized or born online, issues with assessment and preservation, in the forms of determining, reviewing, and describing it, increase. This is particularly true for what we might term high-stakes information, or information that if not carefully assessed or preserved can result in harmful consequences. With the premise that...
Cataloging librarianship has a tradition of innovation. Currently, professional and instructional innovations must be considered in a new Cataloging curriculum. Using as a framework Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation, this reflective study explores one solution being considered at the University of Missouri while revising the Cataloging curriculum. A...
This paper reports on a case study of Twitter posts (tweets) by chatterboxers to study whether theories of organization of information are applicable to the study of user-supplied labels in Twitter. Chatterboxing is the act of watching a televised event such as the Super Bowl and using a second screen to engage with others, primarily in real time....
This poster will present connections that are readily apparent between Michel Foucault's concept of “author” and the “entities” in FRBR. Both Group 1 and Group 2 FRBR Entities have properties that are analogous to Foucault's ideas of authors and the works they produce. Moreover, Foucault addresses important matters concerning the apprehension of th...
Les outils du Web participatif, comme les étiquettes et les commentaires, peuvent être employés à plusieurs fins par les bibliothèques. L’étiquetage social se fait couramment en ligne, donnant naissance aux « folksonomies » qui aident au repérage des informations. Participer ainsi à l’organisation de l’information en ligne satisfait le besoin de l’...
Metadata can be used in a variety of environments, from library catalogs and research databases to data archives, proprietary knowledge bases, and the open web. Multiple sources for metadata creation exist, with metadata being generated by professionals, through automated techniques, and by the public at large. Information professionals are eager t...