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Lala Hajibayova is an associate professor in the ¾ÅÓÎÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø School of Information.  Hajibayova teaches courses on Information Representation and Organization, Indexing and Abstracting, Social Informatics and Scholarly Communication. She received her Ph.D. in Information Science with a minor in Communications from Indiana University Bloomington. Hajibayova’s research falls into a broad category of sociotechnical studies, information representation and organization, and scholarly communication. She is particularly interested in examining interplay between individuals’ contextualized experiences, patterns and behaviors of engaging with systems and the potential of individuals’ collective actions to enrich systems of representation, organization and discovery, leading to ways to facilitate designing of human-centered systems that embrace multiplicity of views and comply with ethical norms. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed information science journals including Information Processing and Management, Journal of Association for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Information Science and Journal of Documentation and Information Research.

*The School of Information faculty are superstars in the field. Therefore, it is impossible to list all of the great work they do on one page. Listed below is a small selection of recent work. Further information can be viewed in Dr. Hajibayova’s CV (found below) or on her  page. 

Teaching/Advising

Academic Program
Library & Informa