Faculty & Staff

Faculty

	Name	Contact	Research Areas
	Carol Barry, Ph.D. Director Associate Professor	270 Coates Hall 225-578-1480 carolbarry@lsu.edu	Human information seeking and evaluation User-centered approaches to information system design User-centered approaches to services and resources within libraries, archives, and information centers
	Edward Benoit III, Ph.D. Assistant Professor	269 Coates Hall 225-578-1469 ebenoit@lsu.edu	Community Archives, Participatory Archives, Archival Access, Digital Collections, Audiovisual Materials, and Archival Pedagogy.
	Tao Jin, Ph.D. Associate Professor	273 Coates Hall 225-578-1486 taojin@lsu.edu	Competitive Intelligence Knowledge Management Business Information seeking and Processing Records and Information Management
	Boryung Ju, Ph.D. Associate Professor	274 Coates Hall 225-578-1460 bju1@lsu.edu	HCI (Human Computer Interaction): Interface Design and Evaluation; User Modeling; Usability Analysis; Knowledge Sharing; Distributed Scientific Collaboration
	Suzanne M. Stauffer, Ph.D. Associate Professor	277 Coates Hall 225-578-1461 stauffer@lsu.edu	Print culture (history of the socio-cultural aspects of books, libraries, communication, reading, publishing, authorship, etc.) History of children’s services in public libraries and school libraries Reading and literacy, especially emergent literacy/early literacy Lifelong education and self-education Librarianship as a profession, including education for librarianship Gender issues in librarianship
	J. Brenton Stewart, Ph.D. Assistant Professor	Assistant Professor 271 Coates Hall 225-578-1463 brentonstewart@lsu.edu	Primarily focused on print & digital culture and information labor Information Organizations Academic Libraries
	Yejun Wu, Ph.D. Associate Professor	278 Coates Hall 225-578-1489 wuyj@lsu.edu	Knowledge organization systems (classification, taxonomy, thesaurus, topic maps, ontology) Information retrieval systems (especially cross-language information retrieval and text classification) Digital libraries Semantic analysis and data-driven knowledge discovery.
	Seungwon Yang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor	272 Coates Hall 225-578-7411 seungwonyang@lsu.edu	Information Archiving, Analysis, and Visualization Digital Libraries & Information Systems Information Retrieval Topic Identification

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Faculty for Spring 2018

Staff

Name

Contact

Research Areas

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Nicole Rozas

Administrative Assistant

267 Coates Hall

225-578-3159

Graduate assistant positions, scholarships or travel grants.

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Melissa Turnage

Administrative Coordinator
of Academic Services

298 Coates Hall

225-578-3158

mturnage@lsu.edu

Admissions process, financial aid, fee bills, scholastic reinstatement, graduation, or resignation/withdrawal from the university

Contact Information

8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Monday-Friday
267 Coates Hall

Phone: 225-578-3158
Fax: 225-578-4581