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Publications

August 21st, 2010.  Posted in Publication list

Journal articles

  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2011). International coauthorship and citation impact: A bibliometric study of six LIS journals, 1980–2008. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(9), 1770-1783.
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  • Kim, K.-S. & Sin, S.-C. J. (2011). Selecting quality sources: bridging the gap between the perception and use of information sources. Journal of Information Science, 37(2), 182-192.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2011). Neighborhood disparities in access to information resources: Measuring and mapping U.S. public libraries’ funding and service landscapes. Library & Information Science Research, 33(1), 41-53.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J., & Kim, K.-S. (2008). Use and non-use of public libraries in the information age: A logistic regression analysis of household characteristics and library services variables. Library & Information Science Research, 30(3), 207-215.
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  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2008). Increasing ethnic diversity in LIS: Strategies suggested by librarians of color. Library Quarterly, 78(2), 153-177.
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  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2007). Perception and selection of information sources by undergraduate students: Effects of avoidant style, confidence, and personal control in problem solving. Journal of Academic Librarianship. 33(6), 655-665.
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  • Kim, K.-S., Chiu, M.H., Sin, S.-C. J., & Robbins, L. (2007). Recruiting a diverse workforce for academic/research librarianship: Career decisions of subject specialists and librarians of color. College & Research Libraries, 68(6), 533-552.
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  • Kim, K.-S., & Sin, S.-C. J. (2006). Recruiting and retaining students of color in LIS programs: Perspectives of library and information professionals. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 47(2), 81-95.
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  • Eschenfelder, K. R., Desai, A. C., Alderman, I., Sin, S.-C. J., & Shen, Y. (2005). The limits of DeCSS posting: A comparison of Internet posting of DVD circumvention devices in the European Union and China. Journal of Information Science, 31(4), 317-331.
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Conference proceedings

  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2010). Modeling individual-level information behavior: A Person-in-Environment (PIE) framework. Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2008). Disparities in public libraries’ service levels based on neighborhood income and urbanization levels: a nationwide study. Proceedings of the 71st ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
  • Kim, K.-S., Sin, S.-C. J., Park, S., Zhu, X. & Polparsi, J. (2006). Facet analyses of categories used in Web directories: A comparative study. Proceedings of the 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council.
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  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2005). Are library and information science journals becoming more internationalized? A longitudinal study of authors’ geographical affiliations in 20 LIS journals from 1981 to 2003. Proceedings of the 68th ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
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  • Eschenfelder, K. R., Desai, A. C., Alderman, I., Sin, S.-C. J., & Shen, Y. (2005). Global copyright protest? A comparison of DeCSS posting in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, and the European Union. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS’05) – Track 5 – Volume 05.    

Dissertation

  • Sin, S.-C. J. (2009). Structural and individual influences on information behavior: A national study of adolescents’ use of public libraries. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Wisconsin-Madison.