Beth
St. Jean
Associate Professor
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Professional Employment:
9/2018 to Present: Associate Professor, College
of
Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
1/2012
to 8/2018:
Assistant Professor, College
of
Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
11/2012 to Present:
Affiliate Faculty Member, The Herschel S. Horowitz
Center for Health Literacy, School of Public Health, University of
Maryland, College Park
9/2013
to Present:
Assistant Director, Information
Policy & Access Center (iPAC),
College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College
Park
9/2013 to Present: Senior Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of
Communities and Information (CASCI), College of Information
Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Research Interests:
- Health Justice
- Consumer
Health Information Behavior
- Health Literacy
- Relevance
and Credibility
- Institutional
Repositories and Open Access
Teaching:
Fall 2018: INST 352 Information User Needs & Assessment
Fall 2018: LBSC 602 Serving
Information Needs
Spring 2018: INST 728K Consumer Health
Informatics
Fall 2017: INST 352 Information User Needs & Assessment
Fall 2017: LBSC 602 Serving
Information Needs
Spring 2017: LBSC 602 Serving
Information
Needs
Fall 2016: LBSC 602
Serving
Information
Needs
Fall 2016: INST 701
Introduction to Research
Methods
Spring 2016: LBSC 602 Serving
Information
Needs
Fall 2015: LBSC 602
Serving
Information
Needs
Spring 2015: LBSC 602 Serving
Information
Needs
Fall 2014: LBSC 602 Serving
Information
Needs
Spring 2014: INST 728K Consumer Health Informatics
Spring 2014: INST 701 Introduction to
Research
Methods
Fall 2013: LBSC 602 Serving
Information
Needs
Spring 2013: INST 888 Doctoral Seminar
Spring 2012: LBSC
601 Users and Information Context
Fall
2012:
LBSC 601 Users and Information Context
Educational Background:
4/2012
PhD in Information
University of
Michigan School of
Information, Ann
Arbor, MI
4/2006 MS in
Information
(LIS) University
of Michigan School of
Information,
Ann Arbor, MI
5/1988 BA in
Mathematics
Smith
College, Northampton,
MA
Dissertation:
Title: Information Behavior
of People Diagnosed with a Chronic
Serious Health Condition: A Longitudinal Study
Abstract:
My
dissertation research consisted of
a longitudinal investigation into the information behavior of people
diagnosed with a particular chronic serious health condition, type 2
diabetes. This study sought to identify the factors that motivate or
impede the information seeking and use of these individuals and to
discover how these factors and their influences change across time. It
also aimed to uncover how they become aware of and capable of
articulating their information needs, how they look for and make use of
health-related information, and how these processes change across time.
Lastly, it sought to discover what sources and types of
diabetes-related information they perceive to be useful and how their
perceptions of usefulness change as their knowledge about, and their
experience with, diabetes transform across time.
Available: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/91570
Awards, Fellowships, and
Grants:
2017 ASIS&T SIG-USE
(Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use)
Innovation Award.
2017 ACM SIGCHI (Special
Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) Excellent Reviewer.
2014-2016 HackHealth 2.0: Outreach to School
Libraries across the Nation, NIH - National Library of Medicine.
Co-PI with Mega Subramaniam. Total: $123,317.
2015
2015
ALISE/LMC Paper Award
2013-2014 Improving
the Health Literacy, Health-Related Self-Efficacy, and Long-Term Health
Outlook of Disadvantaged Youth through the Facilitation of Scientific
Inquiry and Information Literacy Skills,
Center for Public Service
Communication and National Library of Medicine. Co-PI with Mega
Subramaniam. Total: $68,500.
2014
2014 Beta
Phi Mu/LRRT (Library Research Round Table) Research Paper Award
2014
iConference 2014 Exceptional
Reviewer Award
2013
ALISE/ProQuest
Methodology Paper Award
2011
First-place winner of the ALISE/Jean Tague-Sutcliffe
Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition
2011
Doctoral
Student to ALISE Grant
2010-2011 Rackham Predoctoral
Fellowship
2010
ASIS&T
Best Paper Award
2010
Rackham
Graduate Student Research Grant
2008-2009 Gary M. Olson
Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award
Refereed Journal Publications:
St.
Jean, B., Jindal, G., & Chan, K. (2018). "You have to
know your body!": The role of the body in influencing the information
behaviors of people with type 2 diabetes. Library Trends, 66(3), 289-314. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/691948
St.
Jean, B., Taylor, N. G., Kodama, C., & Subramaniam, M. (2018).
Assessing the health information source perceptions of tweens using
card-sorting exercises. Journal of Information Science, 44(2), 148-164. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0165551516687728
St.
Jean, B. (2017). Factors motivating, demotivating, or impeding
information seeking and use by people with type 2 diabetes: A call to
work toward preventing, identifying, and addressing incognizance. Journal of the Association for Information Science &
Technology (JASIS&T), 68(2),
309-320. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.23652/full
Kodama, C., St.
Jean, B., Subramaniam, M., & Taylor, N. G. (2017). There's a
creepy guy on the other end at Google!: Engaging middle school students
in a drawing activity to elicit their mental models of Google. Information Retrieval Journal, 20(5), 403-432. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10791-017-9306-x
St.
Jean, B.,
Taylor, N. G., Kodama, C., & Subramaniam, M. (2017). Assessing the
digital health literacy skills of tween participants in a
school-library-based after school program. Journal of
Consumer Health on the Internet, 21(1), 40-61. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15398285.2017.1279894
Douglass, C., Gorham, U., Hill, R. F., Hoffman, K., Jaeger, P., Jindal, G., & St. Jean, B.
(2017). Information access and information literacy under siege: The
potentially devastating impacts of the proposed 2017 White House budget
on already-marginalized populations in the United States. First Monday, 22(10), October 2017. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/8088/6554
Subramaniam,
M., St.
Jean, B., Taylor, N. G., Kodama, C., Follman, R., & Casciotti,
D. (2015). Bit by bit: Using
design-based research to
improve the health literacy of adolescents. JMIR
Research Protocols, 4(2), e62. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464334/
St.
Jean, B., Subramaniam, M., Greene Taylor, N., Follman, R., Kodama,
C.,
& Casciotti, D. (2015). The influence of positive hypothesis
testing on
youths’ online health-related information seeking. New
Library World, 116(3/4),
136-154. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/NLW-07-2014-0084
Subramaniam,
M., Greene Taylor, N., St. Jean, B., Follman, R.,
& Kodama,
C. (2015). As simple as that?: Tween credibility assessment in a
complex
online world. Journal of Documentation, 71(3),
550-571. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/JD-03-2014-0049
St.
Jean, B. (2014). Devising and implementing a card-sorting
technique
for a longitudinal investigation of the information behavior of people
with type 2 diabetes. Library & Information Science
Research, 36(1), 16-26. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740818814000061
Martinez, C. H., St. Jean, B.,
Plauschinat, C. A., Rogers, B., Beresford, J., Martinez, F. J.,
Richardson, C. R., & Han, M. K. (2014). Internet access and use by
COPD patients in the National Emphysema/COPD Association Survey. BMC
Pulmonary Medicine, 14(66). http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2466-14-66.pdf
St.
Jean, B., Rieh, S. Y., Kim, Y.-M., & Yang, J. Y. (2012). An
analysis of the
information behaviors, goals, and intentions of frequent Internet
users:
Findings from online activity diaries. First
Monday, 17(2), February 2012. http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3870/3143
Markey,
K., Leeder, C., & St.
Jean, B.
(2011). Students’ behaviour playing an online information
literacy game. Journal
of Information Literacy, 5(2),
46-65. http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/article/view/PRA-V5-I2-2011-3/1574
St. Jean, B.,
Rieh, S.
Y., Yakel, E.,
& Markey, K. (2011). Unheard voices: Institutional repository
end-users. College
& Research Libraries, 72(1),
21-42. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/106414
Markey,
K., Swanson, F., Leeder, C., Peters, G. R., Jr., Jennings, B. J., St. Jean, B.,
Rosenberg, V., Rieh, S.
Y., Carter, G. V., Packard, A., Frost, R. L., Mbabu, L., &
Calvetti, A.
(2010). The benefits of integrating an information literacy skills game
into
academic coursework: A preliminary evaluation. D-Lib
Magazine, 16(7/8), July/August
2010. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july10/markey/07markey.html
Markey,
K., Swanson, F., Jenkins, A., Jennings, B., St. Jean, B.,
Rosenberg, V., Yao, X. & Frost, R. L. (2009).
Will undergraduate students play games to learn how to conduct library
research? Journal
of Academic
Librarianship, 35(4), 303-313. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133309000652
Rieh, S.
Y., St.
Jean, B., Yakel,
E., Markey, K.,
& Kim, J. (2008). Perceptions and experiences of staff in the
planning and implementation of institutional repositories. Library
Trends, 57(2),
168-190. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/106419
Yakel, E.,
Rieh, S.
Y., St.
Jean, B.,
Markey, K., & Kim, J. (2008). Institutional repositories and
the
institutional repository: College and university archives and special
collections in an era of change. The
American Archivist, 71(2),
323-349. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/106421
Markey,
K., St.
Jean, B., Rieh,
S. Y., Yakel, E.,
& Kim, J. (2008). Institutional repositories: The experience of
master’s and baccalaureate institutions. portal:
Libraries and
the Academy, 8(2),
157-173. http://miracle.si.umich.edu/bibliography/Article_Submitted_to_Portal_2008.pdf
Markey, K.,
Swanson, F.,
Jenkins, A.,
Jennings, B., St.
Jean, B., Rosenberg,
V., Yao, X. & Frost, R. L. (2008). Designing and testing a
Web-based board game for teaching information literacy skills and
concepts. Library
Hi Tech, 26(4), 663-681. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/07378830810920978
Markey, K.,
Swanson, F.,
Jenkins, A.,
Jennings, B., St.
Jean, B., Rosenberg,
V., Yao, X. & Frost, R. L. (2008). The effectiveness of a
Web-based
board game for teaching undergraduate students information literacy
concepts and skills. D-Lib
Magazine, 14(9/10),
September/October 2008. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september08/markey/09markey.html
Rieh, S. Y.,
Markey,
K., St.
Jean, B., Yakel,
E., & Kim, J.
(2007). Census of institutional repositories in the U.S.: A comparison
across institutions at different stages of IR development. D-Lib
Magazine, 13(11/12),
November/December 2007. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november07/rieh/11rieh.html
Markey, K.
Rieh, S.
Y., St.
Jean, B.,
Kim, J., & Yakel, E. (2007, February). Census
of
institutional
repositories in the United States: MIRACLE Project research findings.
Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub140/pub140.pdf
Markey,
K., St.
Jean, B., Rieh,
S. Y., Yakel, E.,
Kim, J., and Kim, Y.-M. (2007). Nationwide census of institutional
repositories: Preliminary findings. Journal
of Digital Information, 8(2). http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/194/170
Rieh, S. Y.,
Markey, K.,
Yakel, E., St.
Jean, B., &
Kim, J. (2007).
Perceived values and benefits of institutional repositories: A
perspective of digital curation. An
International Symposium on Digital Curation (DigCCurr 2007),
Chapel Hill, NC, April 18-20, 2007. http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/rieh_paper_6-2.pdf
