Contact Information Soo Young Rieh Assistant Professor School of Information, University of Michigan 304 West Hall 1085 South University Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107 Voice: (734) 647-8040 Fax: (734) 764-2475 E-mail: rieh at umich.edu Office Hours (Winter 2008): Tuesdays 12-1 pm and Thursdays 12-1 pm Curriculum Vitae in PDF or in HTML

About Soo

Soo Young Rieh is an assistant professor at the School of Information where she teaches courses on information-seeking behavior, human interaction in information retrieval, and digital librarianship. Rieh's research seeks to better understand people's information-seeking behavior in various information use environments, such as the Web, libraries, home, and repositories. She has been particularly interested in credibility judgments people make in the process of human information interaction. She has conducted and published research on Web information quality and cognitive authority; credibility in digital media; mental effort in Web searching; information-seeking in the home environment; search query strategies and patterns in Web search engines; and institutional repositories.

Rieh is the principal investigator of the MIRACLE (Making Institutional Repositories a Collaborative Learning Environment ) project (with Professor Karen Markey and Associate Professor Elizabeth Yakel) funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) from 2005-08. This project investigates the development of institutional repositories in colleges and universities to identify models and best practices in the administration, technical infrastructure, and access to repository collections. Rieh is particularly interested in identifying success factors in institutional repositories from multiple perspectives including administrators, faculty contributors, and users.

Rieh is also participating in MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning Working Group on Credibility. Her project examines the concept of credibility in the context of youths' everyday life information-seeking by focusing on the relationship between information seeking strategies and credibility judgments.

Previously Rieh held a position as a human factors research engineer at Excite@Home Search and Directory Group. She is a recipient of several awards, including the ASIST SIGUSE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper (2007), the John Wiley & Sons Best JASIST Paper Award (2005), the Eugene Garfield-ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award (2002), and the ALISE Doctoral Student Best Poster Award (2000). She earned her PhD in Communication, Information, and Library Studies from Rutgers University.

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