EDUCATION

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

Ph.D. in Information Sciences

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

M.A. in Library and Information Science
B.A. in Library and Information Science
Certification of Knowledge Management Program

RESEARCH

Research  Interests

  • Cyberbullying
  • Affective Information Need
  • Information Behavior
  • Digital Literacy
  • Social Media & Social informatics
  • Youth Informatics
  • Human–Computer Interaction (HCI)

Current  Projects

  • Emoji and emotion categories for fictions
  • Voice digital assistants and embodiment
  • A systematic review of cyberbullying research on the minorities

PUBLICATIONS

Journal  Articles

  • Cho, H., Lee, W. C., Huang, L. M., & Urban, A. (Accepted). Reading when stressed: Understanding motivations for reading fiction and enhancing future recommendation services. The Library Quarterly.
  • Cho, H., Lee, W. C., Huang, L. M., & Kohlburn, J. (2023). User-centered categorization of fiction moods. Journal of Documentation, 79(3), 567-588. [DOI]
  • Huang, L. M., & Bilal, D. (2019). Speaking out: international doctoral students’ information needs, seeking behaviors, feelings, and experience during the process of applying for graduate study in the US. Libri, 69(3), 213-228. [DOI]
  • Bilal, D. & Huang, L. M. (2019). Readability and word complexity of SERPS snippets and web pages on children’s search queries: Google vs. Bing. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(2), 241-259. [DOI]

Conference  Presentation

  • Huang, L. M. (2021). Young adults' perspectives of cyberbullying on Instagram. Doctoral Colloquium, iConference 2021.

Conference  Papers

  • Cho, H., Lee, W. C., Urban, A., Huang, L. M., & Long, Y. (2021). “I don't want a book that's going to make me sad or stressed out, especially in this day and age”: Fiction reading (and healing) in a pandemic. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 420-424.
  • Huang, L. M. (2019). Stand to stop: A content analysis of YouTube videos about cyberbullying in schools and library-based interventions. In ICERI2019 Proceedings (pp.8246-8255).
  • Chen, H. H. & Huang, L. M. (2014). The study of fundraising in academic libraries. The 12th Conference on Library and Information Science across the Taiwan Straits. Tianjin, China.

Conference  Posters

  • Huang, L. M. (2022). University students’ perspectives of visual-based cyberbullying on Instagram. Poster was awarded the 2nd place of ALISE/Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition.
  • Tahamtan, I., & Huang, L. M. (2019). # Cyberbullying in the digital age: Exploring people's opinions with text mining. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1), 672-673.
  • Huang, L. M., & Tahamtan, I. (2018). Why do people come? The factors influencing public library visits. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 832-833.
  • Huang, L. M., & Bilal, D. (2017). “Not what I thought!” information seeking behaviors of international students during the application for graduate study in the USA. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 709-711.
  • Huang, L.M. & Bilal, D. (2017). International students’ information seeking behavior during the application for graduate study in the U.S. Poster presented at the meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, Atlanta, GA.
  • Huang, L.M. (2017). Cyberbullying and School Librarians’ Role as Perceived in YouTube. iConference Proceedings, Poster session.

Doctoral Dissertation

  • Huang, L.M. (2022). University Students’ Perspectives of Visual-based Cyberbullying on Instagram. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US.

Master  Thesis

  • Huang, L.M. (2015). Research on fundraising for university libraries in Taiwan. Unpublished master’s thesis, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. [WorldCat Record]

TEACHING

Assistant Professor / National Taiwan University

  • LIS3001: Organization of Information
  • LIS3035: Information Sources and Services in Social Science
  • LIS1017: Library and Information Service Field Work (I)
  • LIS1018: Library and Information Service Field Work (II)

Lecturer / University of Tennessee Knoxville

  • INSC 310: Information Seeking: Resources and Strategies
  • INSC 102: Technologies for Information Retrieval

SERVICES

Professional  Services

Journal Reviewer
    Frontiers in Psychology (SSCI, ISSN:1664-1078)
    Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace (SSCI, ISSN: 1802-7962)
    Journal of Library and Information Studies (TSSCI, ISSN 1606-7509)
Conference Reviewer
    ASIS&T 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
    ALISE 2020, 2021
Conference Session Chair
    12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Committee
    UTK SIS Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee

Practical  Services

Online Learning Support
Social Studio Sessions Assistant
Library Assistant
    National Taiwan University Library
    Department Library in Dept. of LIS, NTU
Internship
    Library of Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), Minister of Economic Affairs, R.O.C. (Taiwan)

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