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Karen Markey Professor
BA in history of art, Johns Hopkins University; MLS, Syracuse University; Ph.D. in library and information science, Syracuse University
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Karen Markey is a professor in the School of Information and coordinator of the Library and Information Services specialization of the Master of Science in Information program.
Prior to joining Michigan's faculty in 1987, she was a senior research scientist at the OCLC Online Computer Library Center.
Markey has received research funding from the Council on Library Resources, Department of Education, Forest Press, Institute for Museum and Library Studies (IMLS), National Science Foundation (NSF), and OCLC.
She is the author of four books, more than a dozen major research reports, several dozen journal articles and conference proceedings papers, and has been invited to speak at meetings in North America, Europe, and Australia.
Markey has devoted her research and teaching to improving online information systems so that they are more responsive to the people who search them. This goal applies to her two current funded projects:
- IMLS-sponsored research on best practices for institutional repositories
- NSF-sponsored research on improving online patent search systems. The proposed research is a sea change in her approach to the problem. She turns her attention to the people who search online information systems and tests an instructional medium that has the potential to change their information-seeking behavior for the better.
Her research projects include the following:
- 2005. Co-principal investigator (with one principal and one other co-principal), "Institutional Repositories: Ensuring Continued Access to Learning Objects." $510,205 for 36 months from IMLS.
- 2005. Project staff (with one principal and two co-principals), "Digital Libraries: Patent Cartography -- Improving the Process of Searching through the Patent Thicket." $397,964 for 36 months from NSF.
- 2001. Principal investigator (with one co-principal), "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interactive Multimedia for Library-User Education." $374,938 for 36 months from IMLS.
- 1994. Co-principal investigator (with 18 other co-principals), University of Michigan Digital Library Project, $4 million for four years from NSF.
- 1994. Principal investigator (with one co-principal), "End-User Understanding of Subject Headings," $10,000 from OCLC, 12 months.
Selected publications by Markey include:
- Markey, Karen. 2006. "25 Years of Research on End User Searching: Findings and Future Directions." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, in press.
- Markey, Karen. 2006. "Forty Years of Classification Online: Final Chapter or Future Unlimited?" Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, in press.
- Markey, Karen et al. 2005. "Testing the Effectiveness of Multimedia for Library-User Education." portal 5, 4 (October): 527-544.
- Drabenstott, Karen Markey. 2003. "Do Non-Domain Experts Enlist the Strategies of Domain Experts?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54: 836-854.
- Drabenstott, Karen M. 2005. "Information Retrieval Systems for End Users: Primetime Players That Just Don't Make the Grade." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 45, 2 (Spring): 171-175.
- Drabenstott, Karen M. 2004. "Why I Still Teach Online Searching." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 45, 1 (Winter): 75-80.
- Drabenstott, Karen M. 2003. "Interactive Multimedia for Library-User Education." portal, 3, 4 (October): 601-613.
- Drabenstott, Karen M. 2001. "Web Search Strategy Development." Online, 25, 4: 18-27.
- Bos, Nathan Daniel, Karen M. Drabenstott, Joseph S. Krajcik, Elliot S. Soloway, M. Talley, Stephen Wooldridge, and John Miller. 2000. "Students' Searching and Evaluating with the Artemis Interface to a Digital Library." In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Learning Sciences. New York: AACE.
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