rieh at umich.edu 734-647-8040 Website

Soo Young Rieh is an Associate Professor at the School of Information , University of Michigan , where she teaches information seeking behavior, use of information, and evaluation of systems and services. Soo’s research centers on understanding people's interaction with information in various information seeking environments such as information retrieval systems, Web, libraries, and home. She has conducted and published research on: Web information quality and cognitive authority; information seeking and searching on the Web; search query strategies and patterns in Web search engines; evaluation of information retrieval systems; classification of interactions with information; user-librarian interaction in the digital reference environments. As a Principal Investigator of the MIRACLE Project, Soo is particularly interested in identifying the factors of success in institutional repositories from multiple perspectives including administrators, faculty contributors, and users. She is currently conducting another research project funded by the MacArthur Foundation (2008-2011) which investigates what new sets of heuristics of credibility assessment have emerged in the participatory Web environment. Previously Soo held a position as a human factors research engineer at Excite@Home Search and Directory Group. She earned her PhD in Communication, Information, and Library Studies from Rutgers University . She is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the John Wiley Best JASIST Paper Award (ASIS&T, 2005), the Eugene Garfield-ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award (ALISE, 2002), and the Doctoral Student Best Poster Award (ALISE, 2000).

ylime at umich.edu 734-763-3581 Website

Karen Markey is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She holds degrees from the Johns Hopkins University (BA) and Syracuse University (MLS, PhD). Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan in 1987, she was a Senior Research Scientist at the OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Her research has been funded by the Council on Library Resources, Delmas Foundation, Department of Education, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Science Foundation, and OCLC. She has over 25 years experience leading research teams that require online systems development and evaluation, publishing research results, and improving systems in the information industry. In the MIRACLE Project she is interested in end users of institutional repositories. She is the author of four books, more than a dozen major research reports, and several dozen journal articles and conference proceeding papers. She is also the principal investigator of the BiblioBouts Project, focusing on game design, play, and evaluation for information literacy.

yakel at umich.edu 734-763-3569

Elizabeth Yakel is an associate professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan , where she teaches in the Archives and Records Management and Preservation of Information specializations.  Her research interests include access to digital archives and manuscripts and user evaluation and she has published widely in such publications as American Archivist, Archivaria, and Archival Science.  She has received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and OCLC.

bstjean at umich.edu

Beth St. Jean is a doctoral student in the School of Information at the University of Michigan and a Graduate Student Research Assistant for the IMLS-funded MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories A Collaborative Learning Environment) Project. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Smith College and a Master's Degree in Information (Library & Information Services specialization) from the University of Michigan . Her research interests include consumer health information behavior, credibility assessment, information literacy, institutional repositories, and relevance.

xingyao at umich.edu

Xingxing Yao is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan ’s School of Information . Her research interests include digital libraries, information organization and user studies. Xingxing holds a Bachelor of Arts (2002) and a Master of Management Science (2005) in library science from Peking University. Before joining the School of Information, Xingxing went to the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University at Bloomington. She was a fellow of the Digital Libraries Education Program and received a Master of Library Science degree in 2007.

rsamet at umich.edu

Raya Samet is a Master's student in the School of Information at the University of Michigan , and a student research assistant for the IMLS-funded MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories A Collaborative Learning Environment) Project. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Middle East and North African Studies from the University of Michigan. Her current focus is K-12 School Media, and she is interested in the potential for collaborative learning environments to increase access to high-quality information for students of all ages.

jhkz at umich.edu

Jihyun Kim is an SI doctoral student who has been involved in research projects on the usability of access systems for archival information. She has participated in a research funded by National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) on the usability of archival access tools. She has also examined search interfaces of DSpace and Eprints institutional repositories and identified problems with their interfaces. Currently, Kim works on her dissertation, which investigates factors that motivate or impede faculty contribution to institutional repositories.