Allyson Carlyle

Contact

Email: acarlyle@uw.edu
Tel: (206) 543-1887
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Office: Mary Gates Hall, 330B

Allyson Carlyle is an Associate Professor at the Information School. Her primary research areas are evaluation and use of online catalogs, conceptual foundations of descriptive cataloging, and document modeling for library catalogs. Dr. Carlyle is currently working on several research projects, including a project investigating user perceptions of IFLA's More...

Education

Ph.D., Cataloging, UCLA, 1994
MLS, Cataloging, UCLA, 1986
B.A., History, English Literature, College of Idaho, 1976

Research Interest

Teaching

LIS 533 Advanced Cataloging and Classification (Winter 2010)
LIS 533 Advanced Cataloging and Classification (Winter 2010)
LIS 535 Classification Theory (Spring 2010)
LIS 501 History & Foundations of Libraries & Librarianship (Autumn 2010)
LIS 501 History & Foundations of Libraries & Librarianship (Autumn 2010)
LIS 533 Advanced Cataloging and Classification (Winter 2009)
INSC 598 Special Topics in Information Science (Spring 2009)
LIS 501 History & Foundations of Libraries & Librarianship (Autumn 2009)
LIS 531 Catalogs, Cataloging, and Classification (Spring 2008)
LIS 535 Classification Theory (Spring 2008)
LIS 533 Advanced Cataloging and Classification (Winter 2008)

Current Projects

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Key Works

“Making the Pieces Fit: Little Women, Works, and the Pursuit of Quality.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, v. 46, no. 1 (2008): 35-63. With Sara Ranger and Joel Summerlin.
"Understanding FRBR as a Conceptual Model: FRBR and the Bibliographic Universe." Library Resources & Technical Services. v. 50, no. 4 (Oct. 2006): 264-273.
“Default Record Displays in Web-Based Catalogs.” Library Quarterly, v. 72, no. 2 (April 2002): 179-204. With Traci E. Timmons.
"Developing Organized Information Displays for Voluminous Works: A Study of User Clustering Behavior." Information Processing & Management. v. 37, no. 5 (July 2001): 677-699.
"User Categorisation of Works: Toward Improved Organisation of Online Catalogue Displays." Journal of Documentation. v. 55, no. 2 (March 1999): 184-208.

Recognition

OCLC/ALISE Research Paper Award (2000)
Awarded for "Developing Organized Information Displays for Voluminous Works: A Study of User Clustering Behavior," published in Information Processing & Management.
1998 Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research (1998)
Awarded for "Fulfilling the Second Objective in the Online Catalog: Schemes for Organizing Author and Work Records Into Usable Displays," published in Library Resources and Technical Services and given by the Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association.

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