Department of Information Science, Tel: +44 (0) 1509 22 3052  Loughborough University

People in Department

 

Dr Ann O'Brien
Lecturer

Interests and experience

My research lies in the areas of Subject indexing and Online public access catalogues. Teaching areas cover Indexing, Classification and Automation of information systems

Current research

Information Organisation and Retrieval, Metadata, Taxonomies.

External activities

Editor, Journal of Library and Information Science, 2006 - 2007.

Selected publications

  • Clegg, W., Ma, Y. and O'Brien, E.A., Digital library education: the current status, International Conference on Digital Libraries: proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Marchioini, G., Nelson, M.L., Marshall, C.C. (eds), June 2006, pp 165-174.
  • Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S.G., Muir, A., Oppenheim, C., O'Brien, E.A., Hardy, R. and Rowland, J.F.B., Developing a Model for e-Prints and Open Access Journal Content in UK Further and Higher Education, Learned Publishing , 18(1) , 2005. pp. 25-40
  • Rowland, J.F.B., Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S.G., Muir, A., Oppenheim, C., O'Brien, E.A. and Hardy, R., 'Delivery, Management and Access Model for E-Prints and Open Access Journals, Serials Review. 30(4) 2004. pp. 298-303 .
  • Swan, A., Needham, P., Probets, S.G., Muir, A., O'Brien, E.A. Oppenheim, C., Hardy, R.L. and Rowland, J.F.B. Delivery, management and access model for E-prints and open access journals within further and higher education, Jan 2004.
  • Ismail, N.A. and O'Brien, E.A., Towards an understanding of user needs in organising and retrieving photos from personal digital photo collections, Innvoations Through Information Technology: proceedings of the 15th Information Resources Management Association International Conference, Khosrow-Pour, M. (ed), New Orleans, May 2004 pp 2045-1047.
  • O'Brien, E.A. Evaluation of view-based online catalogue interfaces. Knowledge Organisation, 30(2), Jan 2003, pp 89-97.

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Contact details

Tel: +44 (0) 1509 223067

Fax: +44 (0) 1509 223053

Email: A.O-brien@lboro.ac.uk

 

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