Anita Coleman Explained

Anita Coleman was born in India, Madurai, state of Tamil Nadu. She is an academic librarian, faculty and researcher in digital libraries. 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. ^[1] Her research investigates the representation of anti-racism in Library of Congress Subject Headings and library catalogs. She is the founder of the interdisciplinary open access repository, dLIST - Digital Library of Information Science and Technology. ^[2]

Awards

"2007 Mover and Shaker" -Library Journal^[3]

2007 Outstanding Teacher. (University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science)

2006 Professional Service (Library of Congress and American Library Association, Association for Library Cataloging and Technical Services)^{[4] [5]}

1998 Research - California Academic & Research Libraries^[6]

1996-2007 Professional Service - Learning Resources Association of the California Community Colleges.

Publications

• 1996. Coleman . Anita . Public Performances and Private Acts . Journal of Education for Library and Information Science . 1996 . 37 . 4 . 325–342 . 10.2307/40324241 . 40324241 . 10150/105049 . free .
• 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. Book: 10.1007/3-540-44796-2_22 . Learning Spaces in Digital Libraries . Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries . Lecture Notes in Computer Science . 2001 . Coleman . Anita S. . Smith . Terence R. . Buchel . Olha A. . Mayer . Richard E. . 2163 . 251–262 . 978-3-540-42537-3 .
• 2001. Book: 10.1145/379437.379463 . The Alexandria digital earth prototype . Proceedings of the first ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries - JCDL '01 . 2001 . Smith . Terence R. . Janee . Greg . Frew . James . Coleman . Anita . 118–119 . 978-1-58113-345-5 . 12375394 .
• 2002. Coleman . Anita S. . Scientific Models as Works . Cataloging & Classification Quarterly . August 2002 . 33 . 3–4 . 129–159 . 10.1300/J104v33n03_07 . 10150/106312 . 62699903 . free .
• 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. The Design and Evaluation of Interactivities in a Digital Library
• 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. http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alcts/files/content/resources/lrts/archive/47n1.pdf
• 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. Coleman . Anita S. . From Cataloging to Metadata: Dublin Core Records for the Library Catalog . Cataloging & Classification Quarterly . 9 September 2005 . 40 . 3–4 . 153–181 . 10.1300/J104v40n03_08 . 62690448 .
• 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. Coleman . Anita . Instruments of cognition: Use of citations and Web links in online teaching materials . Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology . 15 February 2005 . 56 . 4 . 382–392 . 10.1002/asi.20125 . 10150/105215 . free .
• 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. Coleman . Anita S. . William Stetson Merrill and bricolage for information studies . Journal of Documentation . 1 July 2006 . 62 . 4 . 462–481 . 10.1108/00220410610673855 . 10150/105517 . free .
• 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. Kraft . Donald . Rasmussen . Edie . Hastings . Samantha . Coleman . Anita . Competing information realities: Digital libraries, repositories, and the commons . Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology . 10 October 2007 . 43 . 1 . 1–8 . 10.1002/meet.14504301134 . 10150/105213 . free .
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Campbell, Heather M, Christopher S Dieckman, Wesley Teal, and Harriet E Wintermute. “Improving Subject Headings for Iowa Indigenous Peoples.” Library Resources & Technical Services 66, no. 1 (2022): 48–59.
2. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/105066 Digital Library of Information Science & Technology (DLIST)
3. Web site: Global Thinker: Anita Coleman. https://web.archive.org/web/20110324035844/http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6423423.html . 2011-03-24 . March 24, 2011.
4. Web site: Cataloging Electronic Resources, 2005-2006. July 25, 2007. Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS).
5. Web site: Metadata and Cataloging Education - Web Clearinghouse Prototype. https://web.archive.org/web/20120212095454/http://timon.sir.arizona.edu/faculty/coleman/lc/final/index.html . 2012-02-12 . February 12, 2012.
6. Web site: Research Award . California Academic & Research Libraries . September 14, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151010111152/https://carl-acrl.org/awards/research/research-award-winners.html . October 10, 2015.