Kathryn La Barre  -- Curriculum Vitae

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E. Daniel Street, MC-493, Champaign, IL 61820-6211 USA
voice: (217) 244-4449, fax: (217) 244-3302

 

 

 

Education

 

Oklahoma State University, Bachelor of Arts Honors diploma, Political Science, minor in History; 1983.

 

Indiana University, Bloomington; Master of Library Science; 2000.

 

Indiana University, Bloomington; Doctor of Philosophy, Information Science; 2006.

 

 

Academic Positions

At the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

Assistant Professor –  LIS 501 Information Representation and Access, LIS 577 Cataloging and Classification II  Fall 2006 - present

Visiting Lecturer –  LIS 501 Information Representation and Access, LIS 577 Cataloging and Classification II  Fall 2005 – Summer 2006

Visiting Instructor – LEEP section: LIS 501 Information Representation and Access.  Fall 2004
Collaborated on curriculum and overall course structure, served as sole lecturer and administered all grades for this graduate-level course

Visiting Instructor – LIS 380 Information Representation and Access.  Summer 2003
Collaborated on curriculum and overall course structure, served as sole lecturer and administered all grades for this graduate-level course.

At the School of Informatics, Indiana University,Bloomington

Associate Instructor – I200 Information Representation  n  2001-2002
Developed syllabus and overall course structure, oversaw weekly lab practicum and administered all grades for this undergraduate level course.

At the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington

Associate Instructor – L505 Organization and Representation of Knowledge and Information. n  2000 - 2001
Developed syllabus and overall course structure, and administered all grades for this graduate level course.

Adjunct Professor – L505 Organization and Representation of Knowledge and Information. n  1999 - 2000
Collaborated on syllabus and overall course structure, and administered all grades for this graduate level course.

 

Publications and Creative Works

 

Doctoral Thesis  

 

La  Barre, K. (2006). The Use of Faceted Analytico-Synthetic Theory in the Practice of Website Construction and Design.  Unpublished dissertation. Indiana University.

 

Chapters in Books

La Barre, K. and Cochrane, P. (2006). Facet analysis as a knowledge management tool on the Internet. In K. S. Ragavan, K. N. Prasad (Eds.) Knowledge Organization, Information Systems and other essays: Professor A. Neelameghan Festschrift, pp. 53-70. New Delhi: Ess Ess Publications.

La Barre, K. (2010). Facet analysis. In B. Cronin (Ed.) Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. Volume 44, p. 243-284. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Refereed Journal articles

Cronin, B., & Shaw, D. & La Barre, K. (2003). A cast of thousands: Co-authorship and sub-authorship collaboration in the twentieth century as manifested in the scholarly literature of psychology and philosophy. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54(9): 855-871.

Cronin, B., & Shaw, D. & La Barre, K. (2004). Visible, less visible, and invisible work: Patterns of collaboration in twentieth century chemistry. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54 (9): 160-168.

Cronin, B. & La Barre, K. (2004). Mickey Mouse and Milton: book publishing in the humanities. Learned Publishing, 17(2), 85-98.

La Barre, K. (2004). The art and science of classification: Phyllis Allen Richmond, 1921-1997. Library Trends 52 (4): 765-791.

Cronin, B. & La Barre, K. (2005). Patterns of puffery: An analysis of non-fiction blurbs. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 37 (1): 17-24.

La Barre, K. (June, 2007). The heritage of early faceted classification in document reference retrieval systems, 1920-1969. Library History 23(2): 129-149. 

 

La Barre, K. (2007). Faceted navigation and browsing features in new OPACs: Robust support for scholarly information seeking? Knowledge Organization 34(2): 78-90.

 

La Barre, K. (2010). Weaving value from the past: Pauline Atherton Cochrane. Libraries and the Cultural Record, 45 (2): 210-237.

 

La Barre, K. (accepted for publication Autumn 2010). A Semantic (Faceted) Web? Les Cahiers du numérique on Organisation des connaissances et Web 2.0 [Knowledge Organization and Web. 2.0], 6 (3), 30 pp.

 

Bulletins, Reports, or Papers in Conference Proceedings (*denotes refereed items)

 

*La Barre, K. (2000). Bliss and Ranganathan: Synthesis, synchronicity or sour grapes? In Clare Beghtol, Lynne C. Howarth, Nancy J. Williamson (Eds). Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization. No. 7, pp. 157-163.

 

*La Barre, K. (2003). Look back to look forward: The Classification Research Study Group and SIG/CR. In Jens-Erik Mai, Claire Beghtol (Eds.) Advances in Classification Research. No. 13, pp. 6-13.

 

*La Barre, K. (2004). Weaving webs of significance: The Classification Research Study Group in the United States and Canada. In W. Boyd Rayward & Mary Ellen Bowden (Eds). Proceedings of the 2002 conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific Information Systems, pp. 246-257. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

 

*La Barre, K. (2004). Adventures in faceted classification: A brave new world or a world of confusion? In Ia C. McIlwaine (Ed.) Advances in Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society. No. 9, pp. 79-84. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

 

*La Barre, K. (2006). A multi-faceted view: Use of facet analysis in the practice of website organization and access. In: Gerhard Budin, Christian Swertz and Konstantin Mitgutsch (Eds.) Advances in Knowledge Organization, No. 10,  p. 359-366. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

 

La Barre, K & Cochrane, P. (2007). Submitted testimony. Response to the Library of Congress Working Group.

 

*La Barre, K. (2008). Discovery and access systems for websites and cultural heritage sites: Reconsidering the practical application of facets. In: Clement Arsenault and Joseph Tennis (Eds.) Advances in Knowledge Organization, No. 11, p. 37-44. Würzburg: Ergon.

 

*La Barre, K. (2008). Reconsidering the practical application of facets on the Web. In iFutures, Systems, Selves, Society; iConference 2008 proceedings. 6 pp. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15103

 

*(5) La Barre, K. (2009). The Heritage of Facet Analysis in North America: Past Lessons as Pathways for

 Contemporary Exploration. Pioneering North American Contributions to Knowledge Organization, Elin K. Jacob and Barbara Kwasnik (Eds) North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization Vol 2 p. 31-39. Syracuse: New York.

 

*La Barre, K.; Tilley, C. (2010) A Sense of Wonder: Enhancing Access to Folktales through Task and Facet Analysis. Proceedings of the 2010 iConference. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/14900

 

*La Barre, K. (2010). Facets, Search and Discovery in Next Generation Catalogs: Informing

the Future by Revisiting Past Understanding. In Claudio Gnoli, Fulvio Mazzocci (Eds.) Paradigms and Conceptual Systems in Knowledge Organization, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, No. 12, p. 195-201. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

 

*Tilley, C. & La Barre, K. (2010). New Models from Old Tools: Leveraging an Understanding of Information Tasks and Subject Domain to Support Enhanced Discovery and Access to Folktales. (2010). In Claudio Gnoli, Fulvio Mazzocci (Eds.) Paradigms and Conceptual Systems in Knowledge Organization, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge  Organization. No. 12, p. 269-275. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag.

 

La Barre, K. & Tilley, K. (2010). Folktales and Facets: Final project report to OCLC/ALISE for grant via OCLC/ALISE LISRG program. Retrieved http://hdl.handle.net/2142/14887

 

Grants Received

Travel bursary, International Society of Knowledge Organization, ($3,000) 2004.

Chemical Heritage Foundation, grant in aid of research, (total $7,000) 2000, 2002.

 

OCLC ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant ($26,915) 2009.

 

Scholar’s travel board, (total $11,000) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

 

Book Reviews (in print or accepted)

 

La Barre, K. (2006). Book review: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia: Knowledge Systems and Services, 12 (1). Knowledge Organization, 33(4): 219-220.

 

La Barre, K. & Cochrane, P. (2008). Book review: Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction by Lois Mai Chan with the assistance of Theodora L. Hodges. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 46(3): 34-35.

 

(La Barre, K. & Cochrane, P. (2008). Book review: Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction by Lois Mai Chan with the assistance of Theodora L. Hodges. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 46(3): 34-35.

 

La Barre, K. (2009). Book review: Axiomathes 18(2) Special issue on facet analysis. In CCQ 47(8), pp. 35-37.

 

Invited Lectures and Invited Conference Presentations

 

Bliss and Ranganathan: Synthesis, Synchronicity, or Sour Grapes. Presentation at the Sixth International Conference of the International Society of Knowledge Organization.  July 10-13, 2000. Toronto, Canada. 

 

The Classification Research Group (U.K.) and the Classification Research Study Group (USA and Canada). Workshop of the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems. June 8-9, 2001. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

Creating Conceptual Access: Faceted Knowledge Organization in the Unrev-II email archives. (2002). PORT’s Pragmatic Web Workshop at the 10th International    Conference on Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces (ICCS 2002). July 15-19, 2002. Borovets, Bulgaria.

Creating conceptual access to an archive of creative thought.  Presented at the Workshop on the philosophical, historical, rhetorical and other conceptual approaches to Library and Information Studies at the Fourth International Conference of the Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Emerging Frameworks and Methods July 25, 2002, Seattle Washington.

Look back to look forward: The Classification Research Study Group and SIG-CR. Presentation at the 13th. ASIS&T SIG-CR Classification Research Workshop: Reconceptualizing Classification Research. 17 November, 2002. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

Weaving Webs of Significance: the Classification Research Group (U.K.) and the Classification Research Study Group (USA and Canada).Presented at the Workshop of the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems. June 8-9, 2001. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

Phyllis Allen Richmond: The Art and Science of Classification. Presented at the Pioneering Women in Information Science panel discussion, hosted by SIG/HFIS at Humanizing Information Technology, American Society for Information Science & Technology. October 18, 2003. Long Beach, California.

 

Adventures in faceted classification: A brave new world or a world of confusion? Presented at the Eighth International Conference of the International Conference of the International Society of Knowledge Organization. July 15, 2004. London, England.

 

Pauline Atherton Cochrane: Saving the time of the user. Panel discussion: Ain't Ms. Behavin' : more pioneering women in information science. Sponsored by SIG/HFIS at the ASIS&T 2004 Annual Meeting; "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts". ASIS&T AM 2004. November 13-18, 2004. Providence, Rhode Island.

 

A multi-faceted view: Use of facet analysis in the practice of website organization and access. (2006). Presented at the 9th International Conference of the International Society of Knowledge Organization, July 5-7, 2006. Vienna, Austria.

The Documentalist Groups. Sponsored by SIG/HFIS at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting; “Information Realities, Shaping the Digital Future for All.” ASIS&T AM 2006. Austin Texas. November 3-8, 2006.

 

Website Taxonomies. Sponsored by SIG/CR at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting; “Information Realities, Shaping the Digital Future for All.” ASIS&T AM 2006. Austin Texas. November 3-8, 2006.

 

The heritage of early faceted classification in document reference retrieval systems, 1920-1969. Bangalore, India. Documentation Research and Training Center. IKON, September 2007.

 

Revisiting the Foundations of Information Discovery and Access Systems. ASIST annual meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 2007.

 

Reading the Information Infrastructure: Functions, Facets, and Tags. Paper: Reconsidering the theoretical implications of the practical application of facets on the web. iConference. Los Angeles, California. February 2008.

 

Bootstrapping facets by revisiting the heritage of early document retrieval systems. University of Arizona, SIRLS. March 2008.

 

La Barre, K. & Tilley, C. Folktales and Facets: Project report for the OCLC/ALISE  LISRPC. ALISE Boston, MA, February, 2010.

 

La Barre, K. & Tilley, C. Reading Folktales: What Youth Services Librarians Do. SHARP. Finland, June 2010

 

Public presentations

 

I did it. You can do it too. Campus retreat on Online Education. October 25, 2005.

 

Information Organization. Illinois Summer School for Chinese Academic Librarians, UIUC. June 2006.

 

ALA Annual Meeting. Panel member: LITA/ALCTS: Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse. Washington DC. June 2007.

 

ALA Annual Meeting. Panel member: LITA/ALCTS: Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse. Washington DC. June 2007.

 

Illinois Library Association. Panel member: RDA/ FRBR and Cataloguing education I-Share Cataloging and Authority Control Team's Spring Forum. April 2008.

 

Illinois Library Association. Panel member: RDA update panel. Chicago, IL. September 2008.

 

La Barre, K & Tilley, C. Poster: Facets and Folktales. GSLIS Research Showcase, April 2009.

 

American Libraries Association, Moderator RDA Update Panel. Chicago, IL. June 2009.

 

La Barre, K. & Tilley, C. Presentation: Folktales Project: Data review. Metadata Roundtable, February 2010.

 

La Barre, K. & Tilley, C. Folktales and Facets presentation. GSLIS Research Showcase, April, 2010.

 

RDA update panel. Illinois Library Association, September 2010.

 

Honors and Recognitions

Merit Scholar, Indiana University 1998-2000

Research Fellowship, Indiana University, 2002-2004

 

Supervision of student research

                       

         Doctoral Level (7 students)

 

                   Advisor        

                            Cherie Weibel (GSLIS) Doctoral student, 2009-2010

        

                   Director of Research

                            Tom Dousa (GSLIS) Doctoral student – Field exam: Fall 2008

 

                   Committee Member

                            Marina Pluzhenskaia (GSLIS) PhD awarded in 2007

                            Amy Herb (Rhetoric) Doctoral Candidate. Proposal Defense: Spring 2008

                            Larry Jackson (GSLIS) Doctoral Candidate. Defending proposal in October 2008

         Oksana Zavalina (GSLIS) Doctoral Candidate. Defense in July 2010

 

         Certificate of Advanced Study (3 students)

                   Carrie Pirmann (Use of tags as a search and browsing mechanism in OPACs)

                   Eric Harbeson (Metadata and Music)

                   Sean Gaffney (Co-citation analysis) Graduated 2007

 

         Masters Level  (10 advisees)

 

         Supervision of Practica and Independent Study Students (25 students)

Independent study and practicum work in a variety of settings, covering various topics including cataloging, metadata, and controlled vocabulary in libraries, archives, and museums

 

Service

 

Editorships of Journals or Other Learned Publications

 

Editorial board.Journal of Information Architecture 2009-present.

 

Offices held in Professional Societies

 

Chair ASIST SIG/HFIS, 2006-2007                   

 

President ISKO C/US 2009-2011

 

Review Panels

 

Ethics in Information Organization Colloquium, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2009.

 

Program Committee. SIG/CR workshop, ASIST annual meeting. October, 2006.

 

Knowledge Organization (2007 to present), Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology(2008 to present), Library Quarterly(2009), Journal of Education in Library and Information Science (2009-2010).

 

Program Committee. ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization). Montreal Canada, August 2008.

 

HICSS (Hawaii International Conference on System Science). Classification of Digital Documents Minitrack. 2008.

 

Killam Trust Faculty Research Fellowship award committee. 2009-2010.

 

Program Committee, ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization). February 2010, Rome, Italy.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Reviewer, 2010

 

American Society for Information Science and Technology. Program Committee: Knowledge Organization track. Pittsburgh, PA, October 2010

 

Program Committee, 3rd annual NASKO (North American Symposium for Knowledge Organization. Toronto Canada, June 2011.

        

Committees

 

Advisory board ASIST SIG/HFIS 2007 to present.

 

Planning Committee: 1st NASKO (North American Symposium for Knowledge Organization). Toronto, August 2007.

 

ALA RDA Implementation Committee 2007-2008.

 

ALISE Bohdan Wynar Research paper competition. Committee member (2007-2008). Chair (2008-2009).

 

ALA ALCTS CCS Research and Publications Committee member 2008-2010.

 

ISKO C/US Executive committee member, founding member, 2008.

 

ALA RDA Program Planning Committee 2009-present.

 

Planning Committee. 2nd annual NASKO (North American Symposium for Knowledge Organization). Syracuse, NY. June, 2009.

 

ALISE representative – ACLTS/ALISE cataloging education task force, 2009-present.

 

Faculty liaison GSLIS group (educator’s test group) national RDA test, 2009 to present.