Manika Lamba

Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma

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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
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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
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
Jun 10, 2024

New Pre-prints!

  1. Faizhal Arif Santosa, Manika Lamba, Crissandra J. George, J. Stephen Downie. (2024). Coconut LibTool: Bridging Textual Analysis Gaps for Non-Programmers. In 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Calgary, Canada. (acceptance rate: 30%) [Dashboard]
  2. Manika Lamba and Hendrik Erz. Thanking the World: Exploring Gender-Based Differences in Acknowledgment Patterns and Support Systems in Theses Systems in Theses (Under Review) [arXiv]
  3. Brady Lund, Manika Lamba, Sang Hoo Oh. The Impact of AI on Academic Research and Publishing (Under Review) [arXiv]
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