Anita Coleman is an academic

librarian A librarian is a person who professionally works managing information. Librarians' common activities include providing access to information, conducting research, creating and managing information systems, creating, leading, and evaluating educat ...

, faculty and

researcher Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

digital libraries A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital resources that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital ...

. Coleman's research focuses on the design and organization, user behaviors and evaluation, of complex systems and interdisciplinary information infrastructures. These include digital libraries, knowledge organization systems, and open access digital repositories. Her research investigates the representation of anti-racism in

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...

Subject Headings and library catalogs. She is the founder of the

interdisciplinary Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, economi ...

open access

repository Repository may refer to: Archives and online databases * Content repository, a database with an associated set of data management tools, allowing application-independent access to the content * Disciplinary repository (or subject repository), an ...

, dLIST - Digital Library of Information Science and Technology.

Awards

"2007 Mover and Shaker" -''Library Journal'' ''2007 Outstanding Teacher.'' (University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science) ''2006 Professional Service'' (

and American Library Association, Association for Library Cataloging and Technical Services) 1998 Research - California Academic & Research Libraries ''1996-2007 Professional Service'' - Learning Resources Association of the California Community Colleges.

Publications

*1996. *1996. The H-Journal: A Tool to Support Information Work. ''The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Applications and Research,'' Vol. 2, pp. 89 – 105. *2001. *2001. *2002. *2002. Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead for Digital Library Education. ''D-Lib Magazine.'
Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead for Education in Digital Libraries
*2002. The Design and Evaluation of Interactivities in a Digital Library. ''D-Lib Magazine.'

*2002. Interactional Digital Libraries. With Maliaca Oxnam. ''Journal of Digital Information.'' *2003. How Can Classificatory Structures be used to improve science education? With Olha Buchel. ''Learning Resources & Technical Services'' Vol. 42, Iss. 1, pp. 4 – 15

*2004. "A Code for Classifiers": Whatever Happened to Merrill's Code? ''Knowledge Organization'' Vol. 31, pp. 161 – 76. *2004. ''Guide to Selecting and Cataloging Quality WWW Resources for the Small Library.'' Fairfield, CA; Learning Resources Association of California Community Colleges. *2004. Bricoleurs: exploring digital library evaluation as participant interactions, research, and processes. With Laura M Bartolo, Casey Jones. ''Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.'' *2004. Digital Libraries and User Needs: Negotiating the Future. With Tamara Sumner. ''Journal of Digital Information.'' *2005. *2005. Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science. ''D-Lib Magazine.'
Open Access Federation for Library and Information Science: dLIST and DL-Harvest
*2005. *2005. Impact: the last frontier in digital library evaluation. With Laura M Bartolo, Casey Jones. ''Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.'' *2005. Copyright transfer agreements and self-archiving. With Cheryl Knott Malone. ''Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.'' *2006. *2006. A Common Sense Approach to Defining Data, Information, and Metadata. With Dimitri Dervos. ''Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society: Advances in Knowledge Organization.'' *2006. *2007. Self-Archiving and the Copyright Transfer Agreements of ISI-Ranked Library and Information Science Journals. ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' Vol. 58 Iss. 2, pp. 286–296. *2007. Assessing the Value of a Journal beyond the Impact Factor. ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,'' Vol. 58, Iss. 2, pp. 286 – 296. *2020. Coleman, Anita. “Using the Anti-Racism Digital Library and Thesaurus to Understand Information Access, Authority, Value and Privilege.” ''Theological Librarianship'' 13 (1): 1–12. *2024. Coleman, Anita S. “International Contexts and U.S. Trends in Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Libraries.” ''Library Trends'' 71, no. 2: 254–83.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, Anita 21st-century American librarians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women librarians University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Information scientists University of Illinois School of Information Sciences alumni American people of Tamil descent American academics of Indian descent American people of Indian Tamil descent