Spring CommencementMay 10, 2015

WELCOMEKatherine Lynn Meyer (BSIS ’13, MSIS ’15)

Dr. Gary Marchionini, Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, School of Information and Library Science

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS“Shaping Our Information Futures with Purpose, Passion and Persistence”

Susan Dumais, Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft, Deputy Managing Director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond, Washington, Adjunct Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington

PRESENTATION OF AWARDS Diversity Advocate Certificate ..................................................................... Dr. Claudia Gollop, Associate Professor Elfreda Chatman Research Award ............................................................. Dr. Brian Sturm, Associate Professor Dean’s Achievement Award ....................................................................... Dr. Helen Tibbo, Professor Outstanding Teacher Award ....................................................................... Dr. Jaime Arguello, Assistant Professor

GREETINGS FROM THE SILS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Outstanding Service to the School Award .................................................. William Cross, SILSAA Immediate Past President Distinguished Alumnus Award ................................................................... William Cross, SILSAA Immediate Past President

RECOGNITION OF DEGREE RECIPIENTS Bachelor of Science in Information Science...............................................Tiffany Harris, Undergraduate Student Services Coordinator Master of Science in Information Science ................................................. Lara Bailey, Graduate Student Services Coordinator Master of Science in Library Science ........................................................ Lara Bailey, Graduate Student Services Coordinator Doctor of Philosophy ................................................................................. Lara Bailey and Faculty Advisors

CLOSING REMARKSDr. Gary Marchionini, Dean

RECEPTIONIn the lobby of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union

Ceremony

Master of Science in Information Science

Doctor of PhilosophyAlexander Hoyt Poole

Graduates

Gergana Dimitrova AbernathyLaura D. AshcraftAlison C. Blaine

Ann Clare CooperVida Djaghouri

Paul David Farrell

Xuxiang MaoGrant Lund McLendonKatherine Lynn Meyer

John O’ConnorDavid O’Ferrell

Lindsay Elizabeth Ogles

Charles Scott FultineerJames Kent GeerLandon Grindheim

Michael HeadEvgeniia Nikolayevna Kazymova

Aaron Steven Kirschenfeld

Elizabeth Irene PeeleMary Elizabeth Peterson

Jonathan PullizaJason Onaje Ritchie

Michael Alexander Schaffer Kyle Shaffer

Master of Science in Library ScienceLisa Diane BecksfordBrian McNeil Burns Faith Anne Burns

Kelsey Carter Hosti Chandler EunJeong Cheon Madeline CovenBrett D. Currier

Neda Ellen DefibaughKatherine A. Dickson Patrick Grant Dollar

Kai EwingCourtney Leigh Fenters

Catherine Elizabeth Field Kelly Marie Fullerton

Karl GermeckHalley Lynne Hair

Caroline Louisa Borden Hallam Brendan Ferreri-Hanberry

Elizabeth HuessySierra K. Johnson

Joy Elizabeth Jones Lynne Ellen Jones Travis Lee JonesRuth Lynn Link

Anna Beatrice LoewenthalAshleigh Nicole Lumpkin-Stevens

Jessica Caroline McAdamsElizabeth Janna-Clare McGlynn

Morgan McKeehan Shelby Merritt

Hillary Katherine Miller Kathleen Anne MonahanSarah Elizabeth Morris

Jamie Anne Patrick-Burns Stefanie Protasowicki

Luke SchenkelChristy Allison SillsCaroline Simpson

Lindsey Jordan Smith Anna Maxwell Snyder

Margaret Edith SouthwellEmily D. Spunaugle

Julie Nennstiel Stivers Sarah Danielle ThorntonRachel Danielle Walton

Mari Elizabeth Alexandria WarrenMara C. West

Holly Rae Withrow Emily Ann Yates

Karna Lorraine Younger

Kaitlin Light Costello

Rebecca L. SolomonKatherine Gayle Womble

Yonghao YuZekun Yu

Chunxi Zhang

Xiangyu Fan

Ryan L. Burch *Andrew Chen

Shane Wesley ColemanSimon Collis

Natalie A. DavisElliott D. Drake

Megan Elizabeth EdwardsLaura Fisher

Kelsey Marie FrySarah Jasmin Gabr

Heather A. GunterMatthew S. Hasselberg

Christopher James HendelEliza Marion Hinkes *

Patrick HodgesAddison Quinn HoneycuttWhitney Nicole JenkinsHyun Seo Albert Kang

Krista Marie KatzenmeyerNoog Nkauj Cherish Khang

Brittney L. KingEmily E. LarkinTae Kyung LeeBrian Leonard

Hayley Caroline LintonMary Elisabeth LivingstonVincent Graham Lombardi

Brian Michael LynchAustin Christopher Mathews

Katie Michalak

Giselle Claire MontgomeryJames Andrew Moore, Jr.

Corrin Elois MorganKrista L. Morgan

Hunter Ryan OcheltreeNor Ortiz

Nauman Nasruddin PanjwaniJohn Samuel Rusnak

Natasha SolomonKevin Michael Spellman, Jr.

Laura Elizabeth StanleyLincoln Andre Sward

Jeanne Marie Ching TanZimeng Wang

Devon Michelle WilliamsJessica Danielle Wingler

Angela Renee ZhouBrian Victor Zimorowicz

Bachelor of Science in Information Science

Wan-Ching WuAnnie Tze-Tze Chen

* Graduating with honors

Dissertations

Master’s PapersGergana Dimitrova Abernathy .................. Correlating Twitter Sentiment with Basketball Game Events .............................................................................................................................................. HaasLisa Diane Becksford ................................ What Do Composition Faculty Want Their Students to Learn? Examining Source Evaluation ........................................................................................... Gollop Alison C. Blaine ........................................ A Survey of How Organizations Address the Information Needs of Farmworkers and Considerations for Mobile Solutions ............................................. Missen Brian McNeil Burns ................................... Physical Versus Digital Museums: The User Experience ................................................................................................................................................... Hemminger Faith Anne Burns ...................................... The Library as an Intervention in Children’s Health: An Assessment of How Five Public Libraries in North Carolina are Collecting ................................. Flaherty and Circulating Children’s Books that Promote Physical ActivityKelsey Carter Hosti Chandler ................... Virtual Spaces and Physical Places: Analyzing Patron Use of Digital and Physical Collections at the Louis Round Wilson Library ................................. Anthony Ann Clare Cooper ..................................... African Archives, Digitization, Partnerships, and Archival Ethics ........................................................................................................................................ MarcianoBrett D. Currier ........................................ Comparing Dyslexia and Visual Impairments Under W3C’s WCAG: A Legal Standard for Web Design ............................................................................ Gibson Neda Ellen Defibaugh ............................... Librarian Perceptions of Problematic Adult Behavior in the Teen Space ............................................................................................................................ Hughes-Hassell Katherine A. Dickson ............................... Joseph Story and the History of the Book: Citation of Story’s Commentaries in State Courts, 1833-1866 ........................................................................ KlinefelterVida Djaghouri .......................................... Gender, Personality, and Their Effects on Avatar Customization for On-line Video Game Environments .......................................................................... MarcianoKelsey Marie Ewing .................................. LGBTQ Center Resource Library Access: A Case Study .................................................................................................................................................... Hughes-HassellPaul David Farrell ..................................... Automating Author Gender Identification from Blogs .......................................................................................................................................................... Haas Courtney Leigh Fenters ............................ Evaluation of a Training Method for Library Cataloguing Volunteers .................................................................................................................................. PatilloCatherine Elizabeth Field ......................... A Window Opened on the Library: An Analysis of Public Library Marketing ....................................................................................................................... Flaherty Kelly Marie Fullerton ................................. Popular Reading Collections in Academic Libraries: Are They Worth It? ............................................................................................................................ FlahertyCharles Scott Fultineer ............................. A Case Study and Literature Review: How Effective IT Governance is the Key to Successful Enterprise Resource Planning Deployments .................... Hassell Landon Grindheim .................................... Data Visualization Service: SQL vs. NoSQL ...................................................................................................................................................................... RajasekarHalley Lynne Hair ..................................... Investigating the Information Needs of Interdisciplinary Research Centers: A Content Analysis ........................................................................................ VarghaMichael Head ............................................ Change Blindness in Web Applications .............................................................................................................................................................................. BarlowElizabeth Huessy ...................................... Change Makers: An Annotated Bibliography of Social Action in the Children’s and Young Adult Literature ....................................................................... Hughes-Hassell Joy Elizabeth Jones .................................. We Share What We Are: User Contributions and Annotations in Digital Contributory Archives ......................................................................................... Shaw Lynne Ellen Jones .................................... Graduate Education in Cataloging: What Courses and Competencies Are Being Taught? ................................................................................................ GuntherEvgeniia Nikolayevna Kazymova ............. Carolina Health Informatics Program Website Overhaul to Improve Usability and Information Access ............................................................................. Mostafa Aaron Steven Kirschenfeld ....................... Yellow Fever: Describing Negative Legal Precedent in Citators ......................................................................................................................................... Shaw Ruth Lynn Link .......................................... The Challenge of YA Graphic Novel Adaptations of Answering Historical Bias, Furthering Multimodal Literacy, ............................................................... Sturm and Raising Questions of Readability and Originality Anna Beatrice Loewenthal ........................ Comparing Representations of Race in Finding Aids Over Time ........................................................................................................................................ Anthony Ashleigh Nicole Lumpkin-Stevens ............ Sheet Music Cover Art: A Case Study in Institutions’ Guidelines and Practices ................................................................................................................. Patillo Jessica Caroline McAdams ...................... Portrayals and Presence of Adult Female Characters in Children’s Picture Books: A Content Analysis of Bestsellers from the Past Five Years .............. Sturm

Annie Tze-Tze Chen ................................. Meaning, Information and Online Participation along the Illness Journey: The Story for Fibromyalgia Patients ................................................................ WildemuthKaitlin Light Costello ................................. Social Information Behaviors in the Context of Chronic Kidney Disease: Information Seeking, Disclosure, ...................................................................... Wildemuth and Future Forecasting in Online Support GroupsXiangyu Fan ............................................. Influences of Serendipity on Consumer Medical Information Personalization .................................................................................................................... MostafaAlexander Hoyt Poole ............................... Forging Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Importance of Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities ................................................................................. TibboWan-Ching Wu ......................................... How Far Will You Go? Characterizing Online Search Stopping Behaviors Using Information Scent and Need for Cognition ........................................... Kelly

Name Title Advisor

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Name Title AdvisorElizabeth Jenna-Clare McGlynn ............... Information Literacy by Design: Creating a Teaching and Training Template for Developing Library Instructors ............................................................... McMichaelMorgan E. McKeehan ............................... Collecting and Documenting Faculty and Student Artwork in Institutional Repositories in U.S. Colleges and Universities ................................................ ShawGrant Lund McLendon .............................. Talking Back: How Congress Engages With the Public on Twitter ...................................................................................................................................... ArguelloShelby Lynne Merritt ................................. Describing Historical Objects for Users with Subject Knowledge: Lessons from the Charles Kuralt Learning Center ....................................................... AnthonyKatherine Lynn Meyer .............................. Towards a Definition of Minimalism: Principles of Minimal Visual Design in Web Interfaces .............................................................................................. Bergquist Hillary Katherine Miller .............................. Security Text and Data Mining for Researchers in Academic Libraries ............................................................................................................................... KlinefelterKatherine Anne Monahan ......................... “can I h3lp u?”: Analyzing Chat Reference Questions in a Special Collections Library ...................................................................................................... GollopSarah Elizabeth Morris ............................. Evaluating the Impact of the Student-Athlete Liaison Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill ................................................................. Patillo John O’Connor ......................................... Towards a Profile of Open Government Data Use .............................................................................................................................................................. JonesDavid O’Ferrell .......................................... Introducing an Enterprise Project Management Tool into an Agile Development Environment: Fit and Performance Impact ............................................ WildemuthLindsay Elizabeth Ogles ........................... Emergency Preparedness in Today’s Changing World: Protecting Humanity’s Cultural Heritage Through Informed Professionals .................................. BergquistJamie A. Patrick-Burns ............................. History and Genealogy: A Study of the Relationship Between Genealogical Research and Interest in History ................................................................. TibboElizabeth Irene Peele ............................... Forming Your Terrorist Network: ISIS, Twitter, and the Terrorist Propaganda Campaign.................................................................................................... Jarrahi Mary E. Peterson ...................................... Not-so-Social Media: A Citizen-Legislator Communications in the Digital Age ................................................................................................................... Arguello Jonathan Pulliza ....................................... An Analysis of Speculation in SEC 10-K Filings.................................................................................................................................................................. Haas Jason Onaje Ritchie ................................. Platform Algorithms and Their Effect on Civic and Political Arenas .................................................................................................................................... Tufecki Michael Schaffer ....................................... Law School Mission Statements and Librarians’ Perceptions: An Analysis of Law School Library Practices ..................................................................... CrossLuke Schenkel .......................................... Library Video Wall Displays and Their Assessment: A Study at North Carolina State University’s James B. Hunt Library ................................................ Hemminger Kyle Shaffer .............................................. Predicting Speech Acts in MOOC Forum Posts Using Conditional Random Fields ........................................................................................................... ArguelloChristy Allison Sills ................................... Library Services for the Homebound: You Can Afford It ...................................................................................................................................................... Flaherty Caroline Amity Simpson ........................... Nonprofit Use of Information Visualization .......................................................................................................................................................................... GotzLindsey Jordan Smith ............................... Users and Special Collections: Access and Outreach Awareness at the University of North Carolina’s Wilson Library .................................................... AnthonyAnna Maxwell Snyder ............................... Stages of E-Government in North Carolina Counties: Examining the Inventory ................................................................................................................. Daniel Rebecca L. Solomon ................................ Personal Digital Photograph Management and the Impact of Social Media ....................................................................................................................... Capra Margaret Edith Southwell ......................... “I Don’t Care What Color You Are”: The Depiction of Adolescent Interracial Romances in Young Adult Novels ................................................................. Sturm Emily D. Spunaugle .................................. Books Unre(a)d: The Institutional Logics of Soviet Book Procurement in the Wake of the Foreign Agents Registration Act ............................................. VarnerJulie Nennstiel Stivers .............................. The Graphic Novel Gap: Collection Strength and School Librarian Understandings of Graphic Novel Benefits ................................................................ Hughes-Hassell Sarah Danielle Thornton ........................... Factors Influencing Changes in Public Library Adult Programming: A Look at Programming Practices in Two North Carolina Public Libraries ................ FlahertyRachel Danielle Walton ............................ Looking for Answers: A Usability Study of Online Finding Aid Navigation ........................................................................................................................... Tibbo Mari Elizabeth Warren .............................. The Value of the Stone Center Library in the African-American Undergraduate Experience .............................................................................................. GibsonKatie Gayle Womble ................................. Collaboration Between Library Publishing Services and University Presses ...................................................................................................................... Gibson Emily Ann Yates ........................................ Exploring Local History through Primary Sources: Model Lesson Plans for High School Teachers and Librarians ........................................................... Hughes-Hassell Karna Lorraine Younger ............................ The Policies of College Reading Programs in South Carolina: A Case Study of the College of Charleston and................................................................ Flaherty the University of South Carolina Upstate, 2013-2014Yonghao Yu .............................................. Research on Augmented Reality Technology and Build AR Application on Google Glass ................................................................................................. Hemminger Zekun Yu .................................................. Web Design for Low Bandwidth Areas ................................................................................................................................................................................ Missen Chunxi Zhang ........................................... Usability Evaluation of A Clinical Knowledge Summary System ......................................................................................................................................... Mostafa

Undergraduate Honors ThesesRyan L. Burch ........................................... Music in the Real World: Live Music Retrieval and the Limitations Thereof ....................................................................................................................... HaasEliza Marion Hinkes .................................. Unfriending and Unfollowing Practices of College Student Users of Facebook.................................................................................................................. Tufekci

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Honors & AwardsSILS Certificates and Awards

Dean’s Achievement AwardAaron Steven Kirschenfeld

Rachel Danielle Walton

Diversity Advocate CertificateKai Ewing

Morgan McKeehanAlexander Poole

Elfreda Chatman Research AwardElizabeth Brooke Guthrie

Katherine Lynn Meyer

Clinical Information Science CertificateSam Gillett

Concentration in Archives and Record Management

Kelsey ChandlerAnn Cooper

Patrick DollarJoy Jones

Anna LoewenthalAshleigh Lumpkin-Stevens

Shelby MerrittKathleen MonahanJamie Patrick-Burns

Lindsey SmithRebecca Solomon

Danielle WaltonMara West

1981Emerson GreenawayHerman Howe FusslerMary Elizabeth Poole

William Stevens PowellMary Eunice Query

1986Fred Roper

1987Gene Lanier

1988Jerry Campbell

1992Mary Edna Anders

Evan Ira FarberLucia Johnson Rather

Katina P. Strauch1993

Ray L. Carpenter1994

Dale M. BentzBarbara Branson

Lesley Farmer1995

Rebecca S. Ballentine1996

Ridley R. Kessler Jr.Edwin S. Clay IIIJudith K. Sutton

1997Robert G. Anthony Jr.

James V. Carmichael Jr.Jane Bliss DownsRobert S. Martin

1998Martha Harris DavisBarbara Semonche

1999 June FultonJoe Hewitt

Duncan Smith2000

Marshall Keys

2001Charles Bryan Lowry

Bernie Todd Smith2002

Joan Durrance Angela B. Ruffin

2003Mary L. Boone

2004Dav Robertson

Susan Tarr2005

Larry AlfordSusan Perry

2006Evelyn M. Poole-Kober

Irene Owens2007

Patricia Harris Maurice York

2008Frieda Rosenberg

Janet Flowers 2009

Ray EnglishHampton (Skip) Auld

2010Robert MolyneuxDeborah Balsamo

2011David Goble

John Ulmschneider2012

Peter McCracken Lee Dirks

2013Caroline (Cal) Shepard

Joyce L. Ogburn2014

Demetria Tucker Susan Brown

2015Timothy Bucknall

SILS Distinguished Alumni

Susan Grey Akers Fellowship Caroline Amity Simpson

American Library Association Student-to-Staff ScholarshipSarah Elizabeth Morris

Lester Asheim Scholarship Annie Tze-Tze Chen

Xiangyu Fan

Association of College and Research Libraries Student Scholarship for ACRL Conference Attendance

Sarah Elizabeth Morris

Association of Research Libraries Career Enhancement Program Fellowship

Mari Elizabeth Alexandria Warren

Baker and Taylor Scholarship Summer Seminar to London Julie Nennstiel Stivers

Beta Phi Mu Epsilon Chapter Achievement AwardLaura L. Pavlech

Beta Phi Mu Scholarship Ann Cooper

Julie Nennstiel Stivers

Buckley Public Service ScholarsKrista Marie Katzenmeyer

Brittney L. KingNauman Nasruddin Panjwani

Carnegie Fellowship

Evelyn J. Bishop Scholarship Ann Clare Cooper

Lisa Burmeister Computer & Information Science Fellowship

Elizabeth Irene Peele Ashleigh Nicole Lumpkin Stevens

Julie Nennstiel Stivers

Kelsey ChandlerKai Ewing

Landon GrindheimEvgeniia Kazymova

Anna LoewenthalXuxiang Mao

Alexander Poole

Honors & AwardsCarolina Academic Library Associate (CALA)

Alison Cornelia BlaineHillary Katharine MillerSarah Elizabeth Morris

Morgan McKeehanJaci Wilkinson

Certificate in Digital HumanitiesKelsey Carter Hosti Chandler

Sarah Elizabeth Morris

Dunlevie Honors Undergraduate Research AwardEliza Marion Hinkes

Educating Stewards of Public Information Infrastructure (ESOPI) Fellowship

John O’ConnorCaroline Amity SimpsonAnna Maxwell Snyder

Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation FellowshipKaitlin Costello

Michael Hooker Fellowship in Applied NetworkingEvgeniia Kazymova

Elizabeth Irene PeeleJonathan Luis Pulliza

Margaret Ellen Kalp Memorial Fellowship Lisa Diane BecksfordAnnie Tze-Tze Chen

Neda Ellen DefibaughHalley Lynne Hair

Michael HeadMorgan McKeehan

Kathleen Anne MonahanMary Elizabeth PetersonMargaret Edith SouthwellRachel Danielle Walton

Katherine Gayle Womble

Kathleen McNiece Moore Fellowship in Children’s Library Services

Elizabeth Huessy

North Carolina Special Library Association 2014 Sara Aull Student Award

Mari Elizabeth Alexandria Warren

Phi Beta KappaHeather A. Gunter

Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal AwardKaitlin Costello

Royster Dissertation Completion FellowshipKaitlin Costello

School of Information and Library Science Undergraduate Scholarship Krista Marie KatzenmeyerMary Elisabeth Livingston

Lincoln Andre Sward

Society of North Carolina Archivists Gene J. Williams AwardRachel Danielle Walton

Tau Sigma National Honor SocietyHayley Caroline Linton

Travel Award, NIST-sponsored Text REtrieval Conference, Gaithersburg, MD

John O’Connor

Travel Scholarship, National Conference on Managing Electronic Records (MER)

Caroline Amity Simpson

UNC General Administration Research AssistantshipJohn O’Connor

UNC Graduate School Dissertation Completion AwardKaitlin Costello

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Library InternshipLisa Diane Becksford

Catherine Elizabeth Field Anna Beatrice Loewenthal

Mari Elizabeth Alexandria Warren

Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship Mari Elizabeth Alexandria Warren

Louis Round Wilson FellowshipAlexander Hoyt Poole

Commencement Speaker

Susan Dumais is a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft, Deputy Managing Director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Redmond, Washington, and an Adjunct Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Dumais was a researcher at Bell Labs, where she worked on latent semantic analysis, techniques for combining search and navigation, and organizational impacts of new technology. Her current research focuses on user modeling and personalization, context and search, and temporal dynamics of information. She has worked closely with several Microsoft groups (Bing, Windows Desktop Search, SharePoint, and Office Online Help) on search-related innovations.

Dumais has published more than 200 articles in the fields of information science, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science, and holds several patents on novel retrieval algorithms and interfaces. She is past-chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), and serves on several editorial boards, technical program committees, and government panels. She was elected to the CHI Academy in 2005, named an ACM Fellow in 2006, awarded the SIGIR Gerard Salton Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2009, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011, and presented the ACM Athena Lecturer Award and Tony Kent Strix Award in 2014.

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