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Yin Zhang has been a member of the iSchool faculty since 1999. Her major research areas include information uses and users, information-seeking behavior, information organization, and database systems and design. She holds a Ph.D. (Library and Information Science) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.S. and B.S. (Information Science) from Wuhan University. Her research awards and scholarships include: Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition Award, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 2009; Research Fellow, Research Center for Educational Technology, February - August 2001 and September - December 2002; The Berner-Nash Award for outstanding doctoral dissertation, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000; ºÚÁÏÍø Summer Research Award, 2000; Methodology Paper Competition Award, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 1999; Library and Information Science Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994-1995, 1997-1998. She is the author of numerous refereed journal articles, book chapters and conference presentations, and author or editor of several books, including Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions (New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2009; with A. Salaba) and Research fronts in the humanities and social sciences in the West - Library and Information Science Volume (Beijing: Renmin University of China Press, 2007, text in Chinese; editor, with H. Chu). She also has been PI or co-PI on more than $1 million in grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

*The School of Information faculty are superstars in the field. Therefore, it is impossible to list all of the great work they do on one page. Listed below is a small selection of Dr. Zhang’s work. Further information can be viewed in Dr. Zhang’s CV (found below), on her ,  , or on .

Teaching/Advising

Academic Program
Library & Information Science

Data/Information/Technology (Applied Data Science) Information Access and Discovery User Experience In Libraries, Archives and Museums

Courses
LIS 60030       People in the Information Ecology (Co-developed)
LIS 4/50645    Database Fundamentals for Information Professionals
LIS 6/80613    Information Needs, Seeking and Use (Developed)

Research Specialties

Big DataData VisualizationSocial NetworkingInformation BehaviorUser InterfacesHuman-Computer Interaction & Design

Selected Projects

"Revealing Innovation History by Using Smart Data"

Selected Publications

Hu, T. & Zhang, Y. (2020). A spatial-temporal network analysis of patent transfers from U.S. universities to firms. Scientometrics.

Su, F.L., Zhang, Y., & Immel, Z. (2020). Digital humanities research: Interdisciplinary collaborations, themes, and implications to library and information science. Journal of Documentation.

Zhang, M. & Zhang, Y. (2020). Professional organizations in Twittersphere: An empirical study of U.S. Library and Information Science professional organizations-related tweets. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71(4), 491–496. 

Downey, K. & Zhang, Y. (2020). A cross-institutional study of eBook demand-driven acquisition (DDA) use and efficacy of eight large academic libraries. College & Research Libraries, 81(1), 27-42. .

Yan, W., & Zhang, Y. (2019). User behaviors and network characteristics of US research universities on an academic social networking site. Higher Education, 78(2), 221-240. 

Grants

2020 ºÚÁÏÍø Summer Teaching Development Grant with Marcia Zeng, for creating an Undergraduate Minor in Applied Data Science (ADS) to Benefit Students Across Disciplines at ºÚÁÏÍø, $9,000, June - August 2020 

Co-investigator for ºÚÁÏÍø 2014 Postdoctoral Seed Program (with Marcia L. Zeng, Hongshan Li, Xinyue Ye, and Dengke Yang), Digital Humanities Research with Smart Big Data – A Network Framework of Innovation History, $40,000 plus benefits for first year post-doc research fellow June 2015 - 2016. Second year (2016 - 2017) matching funds are from KSU SLIS, CCI, and Liquid Crystal Institute

Awards/Achievements

• Kent State Summer Teaching Development Award, 2020 (with Marcia Zeng)
• ºÚÁÏÍø President’s Faculty Excellence Award, 2018
• Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition Award (Min Zhang, Feng-Ru, Sheu, and Yin Zhang), Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 2017
• Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition Award (Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba), Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), 2009

Affiliations

• American Library Association (ALA), Member (2008 - Present)
• American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), Member (1999 - Present)
• Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), Member (1999 - Present)