University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise will open the 2012 Research Showcase, which will be held on Friday, March 30. Faculty and Ph.D. students from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science present short talks and posters highlighting their scholarly work. 

The Research Showcase is an annual event open to campus and the general public. 

1:30-4:30pm
Friday, March 30, 2012
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
501 E. Daniel, Champaign
East Foyer and Rms. 126 and 131

Presentations (1:30-3:30 pm in Room 126)

The Historian, the Librarian, and their Cabinet of Curiosity
Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack   

How Different Methods for Relation Extraction Impact Network Analysis Results
Jana Diesner    

Gender, Race, and the Hidden Labor of the Digital Media Industries
Lisa Nakamura    

Data Sharing Practices: Implications for Curation and Re-use
Carole L. Palmer and Tiffany Chao

Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications that Helped Condemn Comics
Carol Tilley    

Large-Scale Music Audio Analyses Using High Performance Computing Technologies: Creating New Tools, Posing New Questions
J. Stephen Downie

Room to Breathe -- The Library Profession, Architectural Modernism, and the Welfare State in Britain in the Long 1960s
Alistair Black

Introduction to demo: eBlack Illinois: A Project to Map the Black Experience in Cyberspace
Abdul Alkalimat and Brian Zelip

Posters (3:30-4:30 pm in Room 131)

Analysis of Stakeholder Perspectives on the Use of Online Social Networking Sites in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
Shameem Ahmed

Community Libraries as Public Computing Center--Two examples from China
Cao Haixia(曹海霞), Gao Jin (高巾), Xiao Chan（肖婵, Xu Zhenzhen (徐珍珍), Yuan Xu (袁旭), Li Tingting(李婷婷)，and Zhou Wenjie (周文杰)

Units of Evidence for Analyzing Subdisciplinary Difference in Data Practice Studies
Tiffany C. Chao, Carole L. Palmer, and Melissa H. Cragin

"To acquire and diffuse among the people": Information Service Functions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Late 19th Century
Chris D'Arpa

Semi-automated Collection Evaluation for Large-Scale Aggregations
Katrina Fenlon, Peter Organisciak, Jacob Jett, and Miles Efron

Information Use and Innovation in Science Teaching
Wei Gao

Unearthing Hidden Treasure
Kathryn La Barre and Carol Tilley

Disaster Response Workshops for Our Campus and Community
Jessica Lapinsky

Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting Large-Scale Human Behavior Using Global News Media Tone in Time and Space
Kalev Leetaru

Editing Race: May Massee, Rebecca Caudill, and their letters about the N Word, 1947-1953
Kate McDowell and Alaine Martaus

The Transformation of the System of Information Provision in the 1930s United States and Technology, Access, and Policy
Caroline Nappo

One Thing is Missing or Two Things are Confused: An Analysis of OAIS Representation Information
Simone Sacchi, Karen M. Wickett, Allen H. Renear, and David Dubin

Significant Properties of Complex Digital artifacts: Open Issues from a Video Game Case Study
Simone Saachi, and Jerome P. McDonough

Education for Data Professionals: A Study of Current Courses and Programs
Virgil Varvel, Jr., Elin Bammerlin, and Carole Palmer

Towards a Logical Form for Descriptive Metadata
Karen Wickett, Richard Urban, and Allen Renear

UC2B Anchor Social Institutions: Baseline Data on Technology Use
Kate Williams, Abdul Alkalimat, and Abigail Sackmann

What is Community Informatics? A Global and Empirical Answer
Kate Williams, Shameem Ahmed, Noah Lenstra, and Qiyuan Liu

Mapping Public Computing in Beijing
Kang Zhao 赵康, Kate Williams, Abdul Alkalimat, Shenglong Han 韩圣龙, and Hui Yan 闫慧

Demos

A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time
Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack

eBlack Illinois: A Project to Map the Black Experience in Cyberspace
Abdul Alkalimat and Brian Zelip

Music Information Retrieval
J. Stephen Downie