In Progress

Robins, D., Zhang, Y., Holmes, J. & Salaba, A. (in progress). Factors in Information Retreival Performance by Students in a K-12 Environment II.

Robins, D. & Katila, S. (in progress). Toward a Model for Transitioning to Web Standards.

Robins, D., Holmes, J. Korzenko, J. & Moore, S. (in progress). Q Methodology for Measuring Subjectivity in Information Architecture and User Experience Design.

Submitted

Zhang, Y., Holmes, J. Robins, D. & Salaba, A. (submitted). Factors in Information Retreival Performance by Students in a K-12 Environment I.

Refereed Journal Articles

Holmes, J., Robins, D., Zhang, Y. & Salaba, A. (accepted August 2007 but not revised). An Exploratory Study of School-age Children’s Use of a Heterogeneous Resource Site. Journal of Web Librarianship.

Robins, D. & Holmes, J. (in press). Aesthetics and Credibility in Web Site Design. Information Processing and Management.

Robins, D. & Kelsey, S. (2002). Analysis of Web-Based Information Architecture in a University Library: Navigating for Known Items. Information Technology and Libraries, 21(4), 158-169.

Robins, D. (2000). Shifts of Focus on Various Aspects of User Information Problems During Interactive Information Retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(10), 913-928.

Ward, R., Wamsley, G., Schroeder, A. & Robins, D. (2000). Network organizational development in the public sector: A case study of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(11), 1018-1032.

Spink, A., Goodrum, A. & Robins, D. (1998). Elicitation behavior during online searching: Towards a grammar of interactive information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 34(2/3), 257-273.

Spink, A., & Robins, D., & Schamber, L. (1998). Use of scholarly book reviews: Implications for electronic publishing and scholarly communication. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(4), 364-374.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Holmes, J., Robins, D. (in press). Visceral and Cognitive Levels of Credibility Judgment in an Authorless Environment: A Factor Analysis of the Influence of Visual Design. ASIS 2007: Proceedings of the 70th ASIS Annual Conference.

Robins, D., Holmes, J. & Bryan, H. (2007). Eye Tracking and the Relationship Between Visual Design and Visceral Reactions in Credibility Judgments.

Robins, D., King, M. & Landry, D. O. (2001). The U.S. Library Program: Analysis of the Impact on Staff in Louisiana Public Libraries. Proceedings of the 65th ASIS Annual Conference, 35, 373-388..

Robins, D., King, M. & Landry, D. O. (2001). The Gates Library Initiative (GLF): Internet Technology's Impact on Staff in Louisiana Public Libraries. In: Managing Information Technology in a Global Economy: Proceedings of the 12th Information Resources Management Association International Conference. (pp. 1082-1084).

Robins, D. (1998). Dynamics and dimensions of user information problems as foci of interaction in information retrieval. ASIS '98: Proceedings of the 61st ASIS Annual Conference, 35, 327-341.

Ward, R. & Robins, D. (1998). The emergence of dissipative structures within information provider organizations. ASIS '98: Proceedings of the 61st ASIS Annual Conference, 35, 373-388.

Robins, D. (1997). Shifts of focus in information retrieval interaction. ASIS '97: Proceedings of the 60th ASIS Annual Conference, 34, 123-134.

Robins, D. (1997). Shifts of focus in information retrieval interaction. ASIS '97: Proceedings of the 60th ASIS Annual Conference, 34, 123-134.

Robins, D. (1996). An intentionalist/rationalist approach to the concept of representation for information retrieval. In P. Ingwersen, & N. Ole Pors (Eds.), CoLIS 2: Second international conference on conceptions of Library and Information Science: Integration in perspective (pp. 135-148). Copenhagen, Denmark : Royal School of Librarianship.

Spink, A., Goodrum, A., Robins, D., & Wu, M. M. (1996). Elicitations during information retrieval: Implications for design. In: SIGIR 96: Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM/SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, August 19-22, 1996 (pp. 120-127). New York : ACM Press.

Spink, A., & Robins, D. (1996). Use of book reviews by scholars: Implications for electronic publishing. ASIS '96: Proceedings of the 59th Annual ASIS Meeting, 33, 243-248.

Spink, A., Goodrum, A., & Robins, D. (1995). Search intermediary elicitations during mediated online searching. ASIS '95: Proceedings of the 58th annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 32, 97-102.

Spink, A., Goodrum, A., & Robins, D. (1995). Search intermediary elicitations during mediated online searching. In H. A. Olson & D. B. Ward (Eds.), Connectedness: Information, systems, people, organizations. Canadian Association for Information Science, Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference (pp. 164-174). Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta, School of Library and Information Studies.

Rorvig, M. E., Goodrum, A., Kidd, J. T., Robins, D., Stettheimer, T. (1995). Intelligent agent technology: Issues in identification of relevant uniform resource locators. Proceedings of the Science Inter-operability Conference (SISIC), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, November 6-9, 1995.

Non-Refereed Publications

Robins, D. (2005). Content and Presentation for Web-Based Records and Documents: "Future-Proofing" and Accessibility Design with Structured Markup and Style Sheets. Records and Information Management Report, 21(7), 1-16.

Robins, D. (2003). Content Management Systems. Records and Information Management Report, 19(4), 1-16.

Robins, D. & Sochats, K. (2002). Digital libraries: State of the art and future directions. Information Technology Conference 2002 (LaRoche College, Pittsburgh, PA, June 3-4, 2002 ).

Sochats, K. & Robins, D. (2002). Web Portals: History and direction. Information Technology Conference 2002 ( LaRoche College, Pittsburgh, PA, June 3-4, 2002 ).

Robins, D. (2002). Information Architecture in Library and Information Science Curricula . Bulletin of the American Society for Information and Technology, 28(2). 20-22.

Robins, D. (2001). Information Architecture, Organizations, and Records Management. Records and Information Management Report, 17(3), 1-14.

Robins, D. (1999). Interactive Information Retrieval: Context and Basic Notions. Informing Science, 3(2), 57-62. (http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol3/indexv3n2.htm).

Robins, D. (1999). Essential skill sets for Louisiana public librarians: Telecommunications and local area networks. LLA Bulletin, 61(3), 142-145.

Robins, D. (1994). Toward the coordination of cognitive and algorithmic research in information retrieval. El futuro de la formation profesional del bibliotecario: Premer coloquio, San Juan del Rio, Qro., Mexico, September 9-10, 1994 (published in proceedings).

Book Chapter

Robins, D. (in press). Accessible Design for Communication on the Web. In, Kelsey, S. (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Computer  Mediated Communication. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc.

Robins, D. (2002). From Virtual Libraries to Digital Libraries: The Role of Digital Libraries in Information Communities. In, Thomas, C. (Ed.), Libraries, the Internet, and Scholarship: Tools and Trends Converging. New York : Dekker Press.

Book Reviews

Robins, D. (1999). Book Review: Berinstein, Paula (1998). Finding statistics online: How to locate the elusive numbers you need. Medford, NJ : Information Today. 356 pp., $29.95, ISBN: 0-910965-25-0 (pbk.). ACM Computing Reviews.

Robins, D. (1998). Book Review: Hjørland, Birger. Information Seeking and Subject Representation: An Activity-Theoretic Approach to Information Science (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997). ISBN: 0-313-29893-9; $59.95. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. 26(2), 77-79.

Robins, D. (1997). Book Review: Edward Tufte. VISUAL EXPLANATIONS (Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1997). ISBN: none; $45.00. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 24(3/4), 152-155.

Robins, D. (1997). Book Review: Cummins, Robert. 1996. REPRESENTATIONS, TARGETS, AND ATTITUDES. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press (A Bradford Book). 153 p. ISBN: 0-262-03253-X. $25.00; and Watson, Richard A. 1995. REPRESENTATIONAL IDEAS: FROM PLATO TO PATRICIA CHURCHLAND. Dordrecht, Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers (Synthese Library, Volume 250). 172 p. ISBN: 0-7923-3453-1. Information Processing and Management, 33(3), 411-412.

Robins, D. (1997). Book Review: Iyer, Hemalata. CLASSIFICATORY STRUCTURES: CONCEPTS, RELATIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS, by Hemalata Iyer. Frankfurt : Indeks Verlag, 1995. 230 p. illus. Textbooks for Knowledge Organization, Vol. 2, ISSN 0944-8152. ISBN 3-88672-501-4. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 23(3/4), 165-167.

Robins, D. (1995). Book Review: Advances in Classification Research, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 3rd ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: R. Fidel, B. Kwasnik, & P. J. Smith, (Eds.). Medford, NJ : Learned Information (1993). vi + 181 pp., $39.50, ISBN 0-938734-79-2. Information Processing & Management, 31(1), 148-149.

Presentations

Northeast Ohio Usability Professionals Association (NEOUPA), “Aesthetics and Credibility in Web Design” (April 27, 2006)

Ernst and Young Knowledge and Usability Group, “Accessibility and Electronic Information” (August 10, 2006)

Web Association of Cleveland, “Eye Tracking for Usability Studies.” (August 22, 2006)

Northeast Ohio Usability Professionals Association (NEOUPA), “Page Organization” (September 22, 2005) (Panelist)

Ohio Library Council, “Forging Stronger Family Ties: A Look at Disconnects Between Information Technology Design and Its Users”(October 6, 2005) (Panelist)

NEOUPA, “Dog Days of Summer (Design)” (Evaluation Panelist)

ASIST Annual 2004: Organized Panel for SIG USE entitled “Social Network Analysis as a Means of Exploring ‘Users’” (Panel Moderator)

Information Architecture Summit 2005: “The Process of Curriculum Development for Information Architecture” (Panelist)

Future Directions in Portal Technology: An Emerging Large-Scale Case, Presentation to the Carnegie-Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, October 24, 2001

Information Architecture in LIS Curricula. Presented on the "Hot Topics" Panel at: 64th ASIS Annual Conference, Washington, DC., November 2001.

Using Microsoft FrontPage '98 for Web Site Development, Presentation made to staff at Jefferson Parish Public Library, August 3, 1999.

Web Site Design Using Microsoft FrontPage '98, Post-Conference Workshop, Louisiana Library Association, March 16, 1999

Beginning HTML, Post-Conference Workshop, Louisiana Library Association, March 17, 1999

Local Area Networks: Basic Concepts and Terminology. Presented at Networked Access in Libraries, Aug. 10-14, 1998.

Dynamics and dimensions of user information problems as foci of interaction in information retrieval. Author: Robins, David;. Presented at: 61st ASIS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA., October, 1998.

The emergence of dissipative structures within information provider organizations. Authors: Ward, Robert & Robins, David. Presented at: 61st ASIS Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA., October, 1998.

Elicitation behavior during mediated information retrieval. Authors: Amanda Spink, Abby Goodrum, and David Robins. ALISE '98 Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference: January 6 - 9, 1998 Royal Sonesta Hotel, New Orleans, LA, January, 1998.

Telecommunications and Internet Connections: Basic Concepts. Presented at Networked Access in Libraries, Aug. 10-14, 1998.

Research Methods for Academic Librarians. Presented at Louisiana State University Libraries, Aug. 12, 1998.

Shifts of focus in information retrieval interaction. Author: Robins, D. ASIS '97: Proceedings of the 60th ASIS Annual Conference, 34, 123-134 (Also listed in publications, above), November, 1997.

An intentionalist/rationalist approach to the concept of representation for information retrieval. Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14, 1996 (Also listed in publications).

Search intermediary elicitations during mediated online searching. Authors: Spink, A., Goodrum, A., & Robins, D. Proceedings of the 58th annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 32, 97-102. (Presented by Robins and Goodrum), October 11, 1995.

Toward the coordination of cognitive and algorithmic research in information retrieval. El futuro de la formation profesional del bibliotecario: Premer coloquio, San Juan del Rio, Qro., Mexico, September 9, 1994 (published in proceedings).

Moderated Panels at the annual conferences of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.