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Kathryn La Barre Ph.D.
University of Illinois

Research overview

Recent work:

Thesis: The Use of Faceted Analytico-Synthetic Theory in the Practice of Website Construction and Design [pdf]

Book chapters

La Barre, K. and Cochrane, P. A. (2006). Facet analysis as a knowledge management tool on the Internet. Professor A. Neelameghan Festschrift Volume.

Refereed publications

Journal articles

Cronin, B., La Barre, K. (in press). Patterns of Puffery: An Analysis of Non-Fiction Blurbs. Journal of Library and Information Science.

Cronin, B., Shaw, D. and 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 & Technology 55 (2), 160-168.

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.

Conference proceedings

A multi-faceted view: Use of facet analysis in the practice of website organization and access. (2006). In: Peter Ohly (Ed.) Advances in Knowledge Organization: Knowledge Organization and the global information society.

Weaving Webs of Significance: The Classification Research Group in the United States and Canada. (2004). The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems: Proceedings of the 2002 Conference. Edited by W. Boyd Rayward and Mary Ellen Bowden. Medford, N. J.: Information Today for The American Society for Information Science and Technology and the Chemical Heritage Foundation. pp. 246-257.

Adventures in faceted classification: A brave new world or a world of confusion? (2004). In: Ia C. McIlwaine (Ed.) Advances in Knowledge Organization: Knowledge Organization and the global information society.

Look back to look forward: The Classification Research Study Group and SIG/CR. (2003). In Proceedings of the 13th ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop. Reconceptualizing Classification Research. v. 17. Meford NJ: Information Today. pp. 6-11.

Bliss and Ranganathan: Synthesis, Synchronicity or Sour Grapes? (2000). In Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization. Proceedings of the the Sixth International Conference of the International Society of Knowledge Organization, 10-13 July, 2000 Toronto Canada. eds. Clare Beghtol, Lynne C. Howarth, Nancy J. Williamson. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag. p. 157-163.

Refereed presentations

Ain't Ms. Behavin': More pioneering women in information science. Submitted for consideration on behalf of SIG/HFIS to ASIS&T 2004 Annual Meeting; "Managing and Enhancing Information: Cultures and Conflicts". ASIS&T AM 2004. Providence, Rhode Island. November 13-18, 2004.

Phyllis Allen Richmond: The Art and Science of Classification. Presented at the Pioneering Women in Information Science panel discussion, hosted by SIG/HFIS at ASIST 2003 Annual Conference: Humanizing Information Technology. October 18, 2003. Long Beach California.
Bio Bibliography

Creating Conceptual Access: Faceted Knowledge Organization in the Unrev-II email archives. (2002). Published in the CD of the proceedings from PORT's Pragmatic Web Workshop at the 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces (ICCS2002) July 15 - 19, 2002, Borovets, Bulgaria

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

"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.

Nonrefereed Publications and Presentations

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

Faceted maps of knowledge and domains: "Peeling the onion of an idea [1]," An examination of the use of Facet Analysis in website design. Qualifying paper submitted and accepted in support of Doctoral Candidacy, August, 2004. [1] Brian Vickery. Faceted classification schemes in Susan Artandi (Ed.) Rutgers Series on Systems for the Intellectual Organization of Information. v. 5. New Brunswick, NJ: Graduate School of Library Science at Rutgers University.

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

Cronin, B., La Barre, K. & Shaw, D., (2003). Visible, less visible and invisible work. January, 2003. School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington IN.

Creating conceptual access to an archive of creative thought July 25, 2002, Seattle Washington. 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.

A brief history of the Colon and Bliss classifications. June 6, 2000. Guest lecturer for a graduate seminar at the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University.

Current research projects

Facets on the web: homepage

Creating a faceted access structure for the Unfinished Revolution discussion group archive.

Oral history of Pauline Atherton Cochrane

Other research in progress Bibliographies, charts, sketches