Anne Diekema
Assistant Professor
Email: anne.diekema@usu.edu
Location: EDUC 209
Office Phone: 797-2697
Fax: (435) 797-2693
2830 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322
Biography | Research Interests | Education | Publications | Presentations | Courses
Biography
Anne (Ph.D. Syracuse University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services. Currently, she is teaching aspiring school librarians all over the state of Utah as part of the School Library Media Administration program. When not working Anne likes to ride her bike, hike, ski, snowshoe, or curl up on the couch with a good book. Occasionally Anne can be found at schools with her therapy dog Rosa who helps improve kids' reading skills as part of the R.E.A.D. program.
Anne conducts research in the general area of information science and, more specifically, in information retrieval, digital libraries, information organization, and education. The main theme of her research is the discoverability of information. Anne studies how certain groups of people (educators, students) search for information, how entities like digital libraries make information accessible, and what can be done to improve the discoverability of educational resources so that they improve learning. The two main strands of her research are information discovery and information behavior.
Information discovery: For information to be useful, people need to be able to discover or find it. Teachers are typically required to teach to certain educational standards, so adding educational standards as metadata to digital collections of curricular resources makes them significantly more accessible. Anne's educational metadata research focuses mostly on human-computer assisted metadata assignment. Multilingual digital resources remain inaccessible to most users unless cross-language features are added to digital libraries.
Information behavior: In order to better facilitate the discoverability of information, we need to understand how users seek, organize and use information. Anne is especially interested in the information behavior of K-12 teachers and students because of her emphasis on digital educational resources in educational digital libraries. This has resulted in a new research emphasis, personal information management (PIM), which focuses on how individuals find, store, manage and use information in their daily work practices. Together with doctoral student Whitney Olsen she successfully piloted a research project on middle school teachers’ PIM practices. This research will help information scientists better understand the information needs of teachers and design better systems to facilitate teaching and learning. How best to teach students to be information literate beyond learning the basic skills is another side of Anne's collaborative research together with doctoral student Heather Leary and academic librarian Wendy Holliday.
Research Interests
digital libraries, personal information management, human information behavior, information literacy, information retrieval, automatic metadata assignment, cross-language information retrieval, natural language processing
Education
Ph.D. Information Transfer. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2003
Dissertation: Translation Events in Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Lexical Ambiguity, Lexical Holes, Vocabulary Mismatch, and Correct Translations
MLS Library and Information Science. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1995
Selected Publications
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Diekema, A. R. (2012). Unifying PIM Research: Fostering a Connection Between Descriptive PIM Studies and Prescriptive Outcomes. Paper presented at the Personal Information Management Workshop (PIM2012), Bellevue, WA.
Devaul, H., Diekema, A. R., & Ostwald, J. (2011). Computer-Assisted Assignment of Educational Standards Using Natural Language Processing. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(12), 395–405.
Diekema, A. R., Holliday, W., & Leary, H. (2011). Re-framing information literacy: Problem-based learning as informed learning. Library & Information Science Research, 33(4), 261-268.
Diekema, A. R., Leary, H., Haderlie, S., & Walters, C. D. (2011). Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings. D-Lib Magazine, 17(3/4).
Diekema, A.R. & Olsen, Whitney M. (2011). Personal Information Management Practices of Teachers. In: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, New Orleans, LA.
Reitsma, R., & Diekema, A. (2011). Comparison of human and machine-based educational standard assignment networks. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 11(3), 209-223.
Diekema, A.R. (2009) Implications and Challenges of Educational Standards Metadata. Journal of Library Metadata, 9(3), 239 – 251.
Selected Presentations
Diekema, A.R. & Haderlie, S. (2012, March) Building a Culture of Inquiry: Avoiding Plagiarism through Teaching Synthesis. Presentation at the Utah Educational Library Media Association Annual Meeting, Ogden, UT.
Acord, R., Gambles, K. and Smith, S. Diekema, A.R. (2012, March) Get on Board! Presentation at the Utah Educational Library Media Association Annual Meeting, Ogden, UT.
Diekema, A.R., & Olsen, M. W. (2011, October) Personal Information Management Practices of Teachers.Presentation at the American Society for Information Science & Technology. New Orleans, LA.
Recker, M., Leary, H., Walker, A., Diekema, A. R., Wetzler, P., Sumner, T., Martin, J. (2011, April). Modeling Teacher Ratings of Online Resources: A Human-Machine Approach to Quality. Presentation at the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Acord, R., Diekema, A.R., Gambles, K. and Smith, S. Empowering Parents to Advocate for Your School Library (2011, March). Presentation at the Utah Educational Library Media Association Annual Meeting, Taylorsville, UT.
Diekema, A.R. & Haderlie, S. (2011, March) Building a Culture of Inquiry Using Primary Sources. Presentation at the Utah Educational Library Media Association Annual Meeting, Taylorsville, UT.
Diekema, A.R. & Xu, B. (2010, November) Educator-Specific Educational Digital Library Evaluation. Presentation at the National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Diekema, A. R., Holliday, W., Leary, H. (2010, October). Scaffolding Information Literacy with Problem-Based Learning in an Asynchronous Online Environment. Paper presentation at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology international convention, Anaheim, CA.
Haderlie, S., Leary, H., Walters, C., and Diekema, A.R. (2010, May) Tools for Using and Organizing Online Resources to Enhance Reference and Instruction. Presentation at the Utah Library Association Annual Conference, St. George, UT.
Woolcott, L., Walters, C., and Diekema, A.R. (2010, May) Resource Discoverability. Presentation at the Utah Library Association Annual Conference, St. George, UT.
Diekema, A.R. (2010, March) Using Technology to Provide Leadership to Teachers. Presentation at the Utah Educational Library Media Association Annual Meeting, Orem, UT.
Courses
INST 4010: Principles and Practices of Technology for Elementary Teachers (now INST4015)
INST 5000: SLM Foundations and Information Management
INST 6060: SLM Foundations and Information Management
INST 5030: Information Access and Technology
INST 6030: Information Access and Technology
INST6760: Grant Writing
INST687: Current Issues Seminar
INST 7000: Pro-Seminar I in Instructional Technology