Soo Young Rieh

 

Associate Professor

School of Information, University of Michigan

11085 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107

Email: rieh@umich.edu   

Homepage: http://www.si.umich.edu/rieh

Tel: (734) 647-8040  Fax: (734) 764-2475

 

EDUCATION

                         

Ph.D., 2000

School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies,

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

Dissertation Title: Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the World Wide Web (Advisor: Nicholas J. Belkin)

 

Doctor of Arts Program, 1994-1995

Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, MA

 

M.A., 1990

Library and Information Science. Graduate School of Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea 

 

B.A., 1988

Library and Information Science. Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

 

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

 

Fall 2002-Present

Associate Professor (2008-)

Assistant Professor (2002-2008)

School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

2000-2001

Human Factors Research Engineer, Search and Directory Group, Excite@Home, Redwood City, CA

 

 

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

 

MacArthur Foundation Grant for ¡°Credibility Assessment in the Participatory Web Environment¡±

Role: Principal Investigator.

Amount: $430,000

Project Period: September 2008-August 2011

 

 

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for ¡°Institutional Repositories: Ensuring Continued Access to Learning Objects¡±

Role: Principal Investigator.

Co-investigators: Karen Markey & Elizabeth Yakel.

Amount: $510,205

Project Period: October 2005-September 2009

 

 

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for ¡°Building the Games Students want to Play¡±

Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Karen Markey; Co-PI: Victor Rosenberg)

Amount: $649,941

Project Period: October 2008-September 2011

 

ASIST SIG USE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award, 2007

            American Society for Information Science and Technology, Special Interest Group Information Needs Seeking and Use (SIG USE)

¡°Toward an integrated framework of information and communication behavior: College students¡¯ information resources and media selection.¡± Co-authored with Brian Hilligoss and Jiyeon Yang. Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

 

John Wiley & Sons Best JASIST Paper Award, 2005

            American Society for Information Science and Technology

¡°On the web at home: Information seeking and web searching in the home environment.¡±  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 55, pp. 743-753.

 

The Eugene Garfield-ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2002

            Association for Library and Information Science Education

Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the World Wide Web.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

 

ALISE Doctoral Student Poster Award First Place, 2000

Association for Library and Information Science Education

Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the World Wide Web.

 

AT&T/Rutgers University Graduate Assistantship, 1995-1999

Co-funded by AT&T Corporate Quality Office and Rutgers University

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Refereed Journal Articles                 

 

RIEH, S. Y., YAKEL, E., MARKEY, K., ST. JEAN, B., & KIM, J. (2008). Perceptions and experiences of staff in the planning and implementing of institutional repositories. Library Trends, 57(2). Special Issue on Institutional Repositories: Current State and Future.

 

YAKEL, E., RIEH, S. Y., ST. JEAN, B., MARKEY, K., & KIM, J. (2008). Institutional repositories and the institutional repository. American Archivist, 71(2), 323-349.

 

HILLIGOSS, B. & RIEH, S. Y. (2008). Developing a unifying framework of credibility assessment: Concept, heuristics, and interaction in context. Information Processing and Management, 44(4), 1467-1484.  

 

MARKEY, K., ST. JEAN, B., RIEH, S. Y., YAKEL, E. & KIM, J. (2008). Institutional repositories: The Experience of master¡¯s and baccalaureate institutions. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 8(2), 157-173.  

 

MARKEY, K, ST. JEAN, B., RIEH, S. Y., YAKEL, E., KIM, J., & KIM, Y-M. (2007). Nationwide census of institutional repositories: Preliminary findings. Journal of Digital Information, 8(2),  

http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/194/170.

 

RIEH, S. Y. (2007). A Comparison of Web searching and library system searching: Perceived difficulty, self-efficacy, and effort. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 24(2), 29-44.

 

RIEH, S. Y. & DANIELSON, D. R. (2007). Credibility: A Multidisciplinary framework. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Vol. 41, pp. 307-364). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

 

RIEH, S. Y. & XIE, H. (2006). Analysis of multiple query reformulations on the Web: The interactive information retrieval context. Information Processing and Management, 42, 751-768.

 

RIEH, H. Y. & RIEH, S. Y. (2005). Web searching across languages: Preference and behavior of bilingual academic users in Korea. Library and Information Science Research, 27(2), 249-263.   

 

RIEH, S. Y. (2004). On the web at home: Information seeking and web searching in the home environment.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55, 743-753.

 

RIEH, S. Y. (2002) Judgment of information quality and cognitive authority in the web. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53, 145-161.

 

RIEH, S. Y. (2002). Judgment, decision, and choice in web searching behavior: Information quality and cognitive authority. Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science, 36(2), 110-138 (in Korean).

 

RIEH, H. Y. & RIEH, S. Y. (2001). Information seeking, evaluation, and use on the Internet: A case study of science and engineering scholars. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management, 18(4), 163-181 (in Korean).

 

RIEH, S. Y. (1999). Changing reference service environment: A review of perspectives from managers, librarians, and users. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 25, 178-186.

 

Other Journal Articles

 

RIEH, S. Y., MARKEY, K., ST. JEAN, B. YAKEL, E. & KIM, J. (2007). Census of institutional repositories in the U.S.: A comparison across institutions at different stages of IR development. D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november07/rieh/11rieh.html

 

Books and Research Reports

 

MARKEY, K., RIEH, S. Y., ST. JEAN, B., KIM, J., & YAKEL, E. (2007). Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States: MIRACLE Project Research Findings. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources. CLIR Publication No.140, 167 pages. ISBN 978-1-932326-28-4. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub140/contents.html

 

Book Chapters

           

RIEH, S. Y. & HILLIGOSS, B. (2007). College students¡¯ credibility judgments in the information seeking process. In M. Metzger & A. Flanagin (Eds.), Digital media, youth, and credibility (pp. 49-72), MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

 

RIEH, S. Y. (2005). Cognitive authority. In K.E. Fisher, S. Erdelez, & E. F. McKechnie (Eds.), Theories of information behavior: A researchers¡¯ guide (pp. 83-87). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

 

Refereed Conference Proceedings

 

RIEH, S. Y., HILLIGOSS, B., & YANG, J. (2007). Toward an integrated framework of information and communication behavior: College students¡¯ information resources and media selection. Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 44.  http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/proceedings/papers/34/34_paper.html

 

RIEH, S. Y., MARKEY, K., YAKEL, Y., ST. JEAN, B., & KIM, J. (2007). Perceived values and benefits of institutional repositories: A perspective of digital curation. An international symposium on Digital Curation (DigCCurr 2007). http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/rieh_paper_6-2.pdf

 

KIM, Y. M. & RIEH, S. Y. (2005). dual-task performance as a measure for mental effort in library searching and Web searching. Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 42.  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/112785720/PDFSTART

 

KIM, H. Y., RIEH, S. Y., AHN, T.K., & CHANG, W. K. (2004). Implementing an ontology based knowledge management system in the Korean financial firm environment.  Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 41 (pp. 300-309). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

RIEH, S. Y. (2003). Investigating web searching behavior in home environments.  In R. J. Todd (Ed.), Proceedings of the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 40 (pp. 255–264). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

RIEH, S. Y. & XIE, H. (2001). Patterns and sequences of multiple query reformulations in Web searching: A preliminary study. In E. Aversa & C. Manley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 38 (pp. 246-255). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

RIEH, S. Y. & BELKIN, N. J. (2000). Interaction on the web: Scholars' judgment of information quality and cognitive authority. In D. H. Kraft (Ed.), Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 37 (pp. 25-38). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

NG, K. B., RIEH, S. Y., & KANTOR, P. (2000). Signal detection methods and discriminant analysis applied to categorization of newspaper and government documents: A Preliminary study. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 37 (pp. 227-236). Medford, N. J.: Information Today.

RIEH, S. Y. & BELKIN, N. J. (1998). Understanding judgment of information quality and cognitive authority in the WWW. In C. M. Preston (Ed.), Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 35 (pp. 279-289). Medford, NJ: Information Today. 

RIEH, S. Y. (1998). User-computer-librarian interaction in end-user online searching. In M. Williams (Ed.), Proceedings of 19th Annual National Online Meeting (pp. 317-327). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

 

Other Conference Proceedings

 

RIEH, S. Y. (2002). An Experimental study on information quality and cognitive authority in Web searching. Korean Society for Library and Information Science Occasional Paper Series, 13, 7-21 (in Korean)

 

RIEH, H. Y. & RIEH, S. Y. (2001). A Qualitative study on information seeking and use of science and engineering researchers in the Internet.  Proceedings of the Fall Meeting of the Korean Society for Information Management, 107-126 (in Korean).

 

BELKIN, N. J., PEREZ CARBALLO, J., COOL, C., KELLY, D., LIN, S., PARK, S.Y., RIEH, S. Y,. SAVAGE-KNEPSHIELD, P., & SIKORA, C. (1999). Rutgers' TREC-7 Interactive Track Experience. In D. K.Harman & Voorhees, E. M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7) (pp. 275-283). Gaithersburg, MD: Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

 

BELKIN, N. J., PEREZ CARBALLO, J., COOL, C., LIN, S., PARK, S., RIEH, S. Y., SAVAGE, P., SIKORA, C., XIE, H., & ALLAN. J. (1998). Rutgers' TREC-6 Interactive Track Experience. In D. K. Harman & Voorhees, E. M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6) (pp. 597-610).. Gaithersburg, MD: Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

 

BELKIN, N. J., CABEZAS, A., COOL, C., KIM, K., NG, K. B., PARK, S., PRESSMAN, R., RIEH, S. Y., SAVAGE, P., & XIE, H. (1997). Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC 5. In D. K. Harman & Voorhees, E. M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5) (pp. 257-266). Gaithersburg, MD: Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

 

Work in Progress

 

RIEH, S. Y., KIM, Y. M., & MARKEY, K. (under review). Perceptions of searching, self-efficacy, and invested mental effort. Submitted to Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology. 

 

RIEH, S. Y. (in press). Credibility and cognitive authority of information. To be submitted to M. Bates & M. N. Maack (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd Ed. New York: Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.  

 

 

JANSEN, J. & RIEH, S. Y. (in preparation). Theoretical constructs in information searching and information retrieval. To be submitted to Information Processing and Management.

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

Conference Presentations and Posters

 

January 2009`

What issues have been identified related to digital reference instructions? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Association for Library and Information Science Education. Denver, CO.

 

October 2008

College students¡¯ credibility judgments in the information seeking process. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information and Technology. Columbus, OH.

 

October 2008

Information seeking and use in the home office. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information and Technology. Columbus, OH.

 

April 2007

Perceived Values and Benefits of Institutional Repositories: A Perspective of Digital Curation. Paper presented at An International Symposium on Digital Curation (DigCCurr 2007), Chapel Hill, NC.

 

January 2007

Information Credibility Assessments Framework (with Brian Hilligoss). Poster presented at the Annual Conference of Association for Library and Information Science Education. Seattle, WA.   

 

October 2005

Analyzing Web Search Logs in the Interactive Information Retrieval Context. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information and Technology. Charlotte, NC.

 

January 2005

Is Web Searching Easier than Library Searching? Differential Expectation, Perceived Difficulty, and Effort. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Association for Library and Information Science Education. Boston, MA. 

 

May 2004

Design and Evaluation of Support for Query Reformulation in Web Searching: A Case Study of Excite ZOOM-IN. Paper presented at the WWW2004 Conference Workshop Measuring Web Search Effectiveness: The User Perspective. New York.

 

January 2004

What to Teach for Future Digital Reference Librarians: Experiences of IPL Student Volunteers (with M. Holland). Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Association for Library and Information Science Education. San Diego, CA.  

 

October 2003

Investigating Web Searching Behavior in Home Environments.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Long Beach, CA.

 

October 2003

Cognitive Authority. 3rd Annual ASIST SIG USE Research Symposium Theoretical Frameworks for Information Behavior: Research Implications.  Long Beach, CA.

 

January 2002

Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the World Wide Web. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Association for Library and Information Science Education. New Orleans, LA. 

 

November 2001

Patterns and Sequences of Multiple Query Reformulations in Web Searching: A Preliminary Study (with Hong Iris Xie). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Washington, DC. 

 

November 2000

Interaction on The Web: Scholars' Judgment of Information Quality and Cognitive Authority. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Chicago, IL.

 

January 2000

Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the World Wide Web. Doctoral Student Research Poster presented at the Annual Conference of Association for Library and Information Science Education. San Antonio, TX. 

 

October 1998

Understanding Judgment of Information Quality and Cognitive Authority in the WWW. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Pittsburgh, PA.

 

May 1998

User-Computer-Librarian Interaction in End-User Online Searching. Paper presented at the 19th Annual National Online Meeting. New York.

 

Recent Invited Talks and Meetings

 

September 2007

Credibility Assessment in the Information Seeking Process: Construct, Heuristics, Context, and Interaction. School of Information and Library Science. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

 

May 2007

Helping People Find and Evaluate What They Need. MacArthur Foundation Workshop on Challenges Facing the User in the Information and Technology Abundant Environment. Chicago, IL.

 

November 2006

Rethinking Credibility in the Digital Environment: A Multidisciplinary Framework. Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (CREW) Seminar. Ann Arbor, MI.

 

August 2006

National Census of Institutional Repositories. Korean Education and Research Information Service. Seoul, Korea.

 

April 2006

Institutional Repositories and Academic Libraries. Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries (SEMLOL) Spring Membership Meeting. Ann Arbor, MI.

 

September 2005

What to Teach Future Digital Reference Librarians: Experiences of IPL Volunteers (with Maurita Holland). Internet Public Library Symposium: A Global Standard for Digital Librarianship. Ann Arbor, MI.

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

School of Information Ph.D. Program

 

SI 751 Information Seeking Behavior.

            Winter terms 2005 – present

 

School of Information Master of Science in Information (MSI) Program

 

SI 551 Information Seeking Behavior.

Winter terms 2003 – present

 

SI 596 Digital Librarianship

Winter 2008, Fall 2008

 

SI 531 Human Interaction in Information Retrieval

Fall 2008

 

SI 501 Use of Information.

Taught in Fall 2003, Fall 2004, and Fall 2005

 

SI 622 Evaluation of Systems and Services.

Taught in Winter 2003 and Winter 2004

 

 

GUEST LECTURES AND COLLOQUIA AT THE SCHOOL OF INFORMATION

 

September 2007

¡°Research Questions¡± for SI Doctoral Development Seminar

 

March 2007

¡°Log Analysis¡± for SI 622 Evaluation of Information Systems and Services (Instructor: Suresh Bhavnani)

 

February 2007

¡°Experimental Evaluation of IR Systems¡± for SI 860 Experimental Methods (Instructor: Yan Chen)

 

October 2006

¡°Human Information Behavior¡± for SI 701 Doctoral Foundations Seminar (Instructor: Gary Olson)

 

March 2006

¡°Log Analysis¡± for SI 622 Evaluation of Information Systems and Services (Instructors: Judy Olson and Suresh Bhavnani)

 

March 2005

¡°Information Retrieval@SI¡± for SI 701 Doctoral Foundations Seminar (Instructors: George Furnas and Gary Olson)

 

October 2004

¡°Experimental Evaluation of IR Systems¡± for SI 860 Experimental Methods (Instructor: Yan Chen)

 

March 2004

¡°Why people put so little effort into online searching.¡± Faculty Research Talks.

 

November 2003

¡°Information Seeking and Retrieving¡± for Doctoral Student Informal Seminar (Coordinator: Yan Chen)  

 

March 2003

¡°Rise and Fall of the Dot-Com Bubble: Excite@Home Experience.¡± School of Information Global Network (SIGN) Seminar.

 

October 2002

¡°Information Seeking Behavior¡± for 501 Use of Information (Instructor: Stephanie Teasley)

 

October 2002

¡°Development of a Search Assistant Tool at Excite.com.¡± for 696 Advanced Digital Librarianship (Instructor: Maurita Holland)

September 2002

¡°User-Computer-Librarian Interaction in End-User Online Searching¡± for 641 Instructional Design for Information Skills (Instructor: Gail Beaver)

 

September 2002

¡°Patterns and Sequences of Multiple Query Reformulations in Web Searching: A Preliminary Study¡± for Ph.D. Student Seminar (Instructor: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason)

 

SUPERVISION OF PH.D. STUDENTS

 

In Progress

Yong-Mi Kim (doctoral candidate). Dissertation Committee Chair.

 

 

In Progress

Beth St. Jean (doctoral candidate). Dissertation Committee Chair.

 

 

In Progress

Shu-Yi (Max) Chen. Co-Advisor with Joan Durrance.

 

 

In Progress

Jiyeon Yang. Advisor

 

 

In Progress

Maria Souden: Dissertation Committee Member.

Information Behavior in the Context of Chronic Illness

 

 

In Progress

Emilee Rader. Dissertation Committee Member.

Dissertation Title: Just Email it to Me! Why Things Get Lost in Shared File Repositories

 

 

 

 

In Progress

James Goldman. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University. Outside Dissertation Committee Member.

Dissertation Title: The Cognitive Authority of Collective Intelligence

 

 

Completed in 2008

 

 

Jihyun Kim. Dissertation Committee Member.

Dissertation Title: Faculty Self-archiving Behavior: Methods and Factors Affecting the Decision to Self-archive.

 

 

Completed in 2007

Derek Hansen. Dissertation Committee Member.

Dissertation Title: Knowledge Sharing, Maintenance, and Use in Online Support Communities.

 

 

Completed in 2007

Meilan Zhang. School of Education (Learning Technologies Program). Dissertation Committee Member.

Dissertation Title: Moving from Answer Finding to Sense Making: Supporting Middle School Students¡¯ Online Inquiry.

 

 

Completed in 2005

Jahna Otterbacher. Dissertation Committee Member.

Dissertation Title: Short-Term Event Tracking in Dynamic Online News.

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SERVICE

 

2005 – present

Information Behavior Theory Research Group, Coordinator

 

2007 – 2008

Internet Public Library (IPL) Fellow

 

2007 – 2008  

 

Dean¡¯s Advisory Committee, Member

2003 – 2007  

School of Information Global Network (SIGN), Faculty Advisor

 

2004 – 2007 

School of Information Masters Committee, Member and Chair (07-08)

 

2006 – 2007

School of Information Research and Innovation Committee, Member

 

2003 – 2004

School of Information Doctoral Committee, Member

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Conference/Workshop Program Committee Member

 

2008 – 2008

ASIST SIG USE Annual Symposium Co-Organizer

 

2007 – 2008

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)

 

2007 – 2008 

The Second Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX) sponsored by ACM SIGIR 

 

2006

Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Workshop on Digital Curation & Trusted Repositories: Seeking Success.

 

2003 

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)

 

Editorial board Member

 

2006 – present  

Subject Editor of Information Behavior for Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST)

 

Reviewing of Journal Articles

 

2003 present

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

 

2003 present

Information Processing & Management

 

2003 2006

Human Computer Interaction

 

2005

Journal of Association of Information Systems (Journal of AIS)

 

2005

Journal of Computer-Medicated Communication

 

2005

Empirical Software Engineering

 

2004

Journal of Web Engineering

 

2001

Science Communication

 

Reviewing of Conference Papers and Posters

 

2007

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Full Papers

 

2006 

Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Full Papers

 

2005

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Full Papers

 

2005

Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Full Papers

 

2005  

Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Posters

 

2004

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Full Papers

 

2003

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Full Papers

 

Other Professional Services

 

2007

Jury for ProQuest Doctoral Dissertation Award, ASIST

 

Updated February 9, 2009.