Beth
St. Jean
Assistant Professor
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Professional Employment:
1/2012
to Present:
Assistant Professor, College of
Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
1/2012
to Present:
Senior Research Fellow, Information
Policy & Access Center (iPAC),
University of Maryland, College
Park
Research Interests:
- Consumer
Health Information Behavior
- Relevance
and Credibility
- Information
Literacy
- Institutional
Repositories and Open Access
Teaching:
Spring 2013: INST 888 Doctoral Seminar (Campus: College
Park)
Spring 2012: LBSC
601 Users and Information Context
(Campus:
College Park)
Fall
2012:
LBSC 601 Users and Information Context
(Campus:
Shady Grove)
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.
Awards, Fellowships, and
Grants:
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
Publications:
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. Available: 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. Available: 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. Available: http://miracle.si.umich.edu/publications/Unheard_Voices_Published_Copy_012011.pdf
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. Available: 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.
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. Available: http://miracle.si.umich.edu/publications/rieh_LibTrends2008.pdf
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. Available: http://miracle.si.umich.edu/publications/American_Archivist_IRs.pdf
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. Available: 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.
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. Available: 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. Available: 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.
Available: 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).
Available: 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. Available: http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/rieh_paper_6-2.pdf
