Manika Lamba
Room 5031
614 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, Illinois
I am an incoming Assistant Professor at the School of Library & Information Studies, University of Oklahoma from fall 2024. Currently, I am working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I completed my Ph.D., MPhil, and Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Delhi, India.
In addition to publishing scholarly articles, I have authored a book on Text Mining for Information Professionals. I have been an active member of ASIS&T and IFLA since 2021. Moreover, I am serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Library and Information Services (IJLIS).
My research broadly falls under computational social science and digital humanities where I primarily focuses on using computational methods (NLP, text mining, machine learning) to provide better solution for information retrieval and organization of digital libraries.
My main research interests
- Information & Knowledge Organization
- Computational Social Science
- Digital Humanities
- Digital Libraries
- Text Mining, NLP, Machine Learning
- Text as Data
- Critical Studies
- User Engagement
- HCI, Human-AI Interaction
- Gender and Technology
Employment
- 2024-Present, Assistant Professor, School of Library & Information Studies, University of Oklahoma
- 2023-2024, Postdoctoral Research Associate, HathiTrust Research Center, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Summer 2023, Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Science, School of Open Learning, University of Delhi
Education
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PhD in Library and Information Science, University of Delhi, 2023
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MPhil in Library and Information Science, University of Delhi, 2019
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Masters in Library and Information Science, University of Delhi, 2017
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MS in Plant Biotechnology, TERI School of Advanced Studies, 2014
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BS (H) in Biochemistry, University of Delhi, 2012
Other Professional Appointments
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Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Library and Information Services, IGI Global (2021-Present) -
Review Editor, Emerging Technologies and Transformative Paradigms in Research Section (2023-Present) -
Committee Member, Documentation and Information Section (MSD 5), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) (2024-Present) -
Awards Jury Member, Research in Information Science Award, ASIS&T (2024) -
Program Committee Member, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries(JCDL) (2024) -
International Paper Contest Jury, SIG-III ASIS&T (2023-2024)
news
| Jul 01, 2024 | Both my co-authored posters– (i) Putting People First in Data Quality: Feminist Data Ethics for Open Government Datasets and (ii) TORCHLITE: New, Open Analytical Tools and Infrastructure for a Mega-Scale Digital Library (acceptance rate - 51%) got accepted for 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Calgary, Canada |
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| Jun 11, 2024 |
Our paper on "It answers questions that I didn't know I had": Ph.D. Students' Evaluation of an Information Sharing Knowledge Graph got accepted in Digital Library Perspectives journal! DOI:10.1108/DLP-02-2024-0025
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| Jun 10, 2024 |
New Pre-prints!
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| May 22, 2024 | Both my co-authored papers – (i) Coconut LibTool: Bridging Textual Analysis Gaps for Non-Programmers (acceptance rate - 30%) and (ii) Factors Influencing Professional Associations’ Member Engagement Online: An ”Information Practices” Approach (acceptance rate - 32%) got accepted for 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Calgary, Canada |
| Apr 04, 2024 |
Our poster on Knowledge Graph for Academic Libraries: A User-Centered Design Approach got accepted for the 2024 American Library Association (ALA) Conference at San Diego! https://annual2024.eventscribe.net/index.asp?presTarget=2690781
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