Faculty & Staff

Carol Barry, PhD

Director
Bert R. & Judith I. Boyce Professor

267-A Coates Hall

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, PhD

Associate Director Associate Professor

• Community & Participatory Archives
• Climate Change & Cultural Heritage Institutions
• Audiovisual Materials
• Archival Pedagogy

Caitlin Christian-Lamb 

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice

• Archives and Archival Theory
• Social Justice
• Information Justice
• Human Rights, and Technology
• Ethics; Collective Memory
• Digital Humanities
• Organizational Studies
• Community Archives

Diane Gill

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice 

• School Library Trends
• School Library Media Specialists
• School Library Media Centers
• Client Research
• Information Resources

Tao Jin, PhD

Associate Professor

273 Coates Hall

taojin@lsu.edu 

• Competitive Intelligence
• Knowledge Management
• Business Information Seeking and Processing
• Records and Information Management

Boryung Ju, PhD

Professor

274 Coates Hall

bju1@lsu.edu  

• HCI (Human Computer Interaction): Interface Design and Evaluation; User Modeling; Usability Analysis;
• Knowledge Sharing; Distributed Scientific Collaboration

Suzanne M. Stauffer, PhD

Professor 

270 Coates Hall

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 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, PhD

Associate Professor

271 Coates Hall

brentonstewart@lsu.edu  

• Primarily Focused on Print & Digital Culture and Information Labor
• Information Organizations
• Academic Libraries

Jennifer Thiele, PhD

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
 

jenniferthiele@lsu.edu

• Digital Divides in Rural Areas
• Public Libraries
• Library Systems

Yejun Wu, PhD

Associate Professor

278 Coates Hall

wuyj@lsu.edu

• Knowledge Organization Systems (such as taxonomy, thesaurus, topic map, and ontology) and their Applications in Facilitating Learning, Information Retrieval, and Knowledge Discovery
• Digital Libraries and Digital Repositories

Seungwon Yang, PhD

Associate Professor 

272 Coates Hall

seungwonyang@lsu.edu

• Information Archiving, Analysis, and Visualization
• Digital Libraries & Information Systems
• Information Retrieval
• Topic Identification