The College of Information's recent PhD recipients and dissertation titles are listed below. Please use the navigation below to quickly access recipients by year.

• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003

2006

Spring

• Paul Jaeger. Dissertation: "Multi-method Evaluation of U.S. Federal Electronic Government Websites in terms of Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities."
• Myongho Yi. Dissertation: "User Performance Using The Ontology-Driven Information Retrieval (ONTOIR) System."

Summer

• Kim Thompson. Dissertation: "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Information Poverty and their Implications for Information Access."

Fall

• Renee Franklin. Dissertation: "Be Careful, Little Eyes, What You See: Factors Effecting Challenges to Materials in Private College Preparatory School Libraries."
• Ruth Hodges. Dissertation: "The impact of collaborative tools on digital reference users: An Exploratory study."

2005

Spring

• Arif Dagli. Dissertation: "Culture and Information Needs in Web-based Learning: An Instrumental Case Study of Multilingual Graduate Students."
• Gloria Horning. Dissertation: "Social Network Theory and Environmental Justice: A Case Study in Perry, Florida."
• Jong-Ae Kim. Dissertation: "User Acceptance of Web-based Subscription Databases: Extending the Technology Acceptance Model."
• Daniel Phelps. Dissertation: "Information System Security: Self-Efficacy and Security Effectiveness in Florida Libraries."

2004

Spring

• Ahmad Abdulla. Dissertation: "Online Instructor Competencies."
• Sharyn Ladner. Dissertation: "Career Narratives of High-Tech Women Librarians."

Summer

• Yasir Nasser Al-Saleh. Dissertation: "Graduate Students' Information Needs from Electronic Information Resources in Saudi Arabia."

Fall

• Jeong-Mee Lee. Dissertation: "Usability Assessment of Integrated Cataloging and Metadata Services: A Case Study of the OCLC Connexion System."
• Brenda Turner. Dissertation: "Academic Librarians' Participation in Shared Governance: Effects of Faculty Leaders' Motivational Type."

2003

Spring

• Amgad Elgohary. Dissertation: “Educational Preparation of Entry-Level Professional Librarians Employed By Florida Research Libraries.”
• Stephanie Maatta. Dissertation: “Adult Literacy Programs in Community Information Resource Centers in Florida Comparative Case Studies.”
• Ronald Reid. Dissertation: "The Effect of Digitally Shortening and Lengthening Pauses on Listening Comprehension."

Summer

• Dangzhi Zhao. Dissertation: "A Comparative Citation Analysis Study of Web-based and Print Journal-based Scholarly Communication.”

Fall

• Abdulrahman Alqarni. Dissertation: "Managerial Decision Styles of Florida State University Library Directors."
• Kimberly Black-Parker. Dissertation: "The Importance, Review and Holdings of Contemporary African-American Women's Poetry and Fiction in ARL Libraries, 1980-1990."