Completed Ph.D. Dissertations

2000

Jerome McDonough. Under Construction: The application of a Feminist Sociology to Information Systems Design. Ph.D. Dissertation. Advisor: Ray R. Larson. University of California, Berkeley 2000.

1998

Aitao Chen. Comparative Study of Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, and Statistical Regression Approaches to Information Retrieval. PhD Dissertation. Advisor: William S. Cooper. University of California, Berkeley. 1998.

Jianzhang He. Survey Data Management and Access. Ph.D. Dissertation. Advisor: Michael D. Cooper. University of California, Berkeley 1998.

1997

Alan Inouye. The Egocentric Social Networks of Software Designers: An Empirical Study of Their Association with the Features and Quality of Microcomputer Software Packages. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Nancy Van House. University of California, Berkeley. 1997.
Noam Kaminer. Network Use and Scholar's Productivity. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Yale Braunstein. University of California, Berkeley. 1997.
Megan Benton. Tradition, taste, and the cult of the book: Bibliophilia in America, 1920-1930. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Mary Kay Duggan. University of California, Berkeley. 1997.

Christian Plaunt. A Functional Model of Information Retrieval Systems. Ph.D. Dissertation. Advisor: Ray R. Larson. University of California, Berkeley 1997.

1995

Ann M. Hotta. Children, Books and Children's Bunko: A Study of an Art World in the Japanese Context. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Michael Buckland. University of California, Berkeley. 1995.
William R. Lemberg. A Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of the Creation, Storage and Dissemination of a Digitized Document Collection. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Michael Buckland. University of California, Berkeley. 1995.

1994

Michael G. Berger. Information-Seeking in the Online Bibliographic System: An Exploratory Study. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Michael Buckland. University of California, Berkeley. 1994.

1993

Denise Bedford. Productivity, Efficiency, and Production Functions in Research Library Technical Services Operations. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Michael Cooper. University of California, Berkeley. 1993.
Fredric C. Gey. Probabilistic Dependence and Logistic Inference in Information Retrieval. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: William Cooper. University of California, Berkeley. 1993.
Shue-Leung Chan. A Simulation Model of User Satisfaction with Library Policy Decisions. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Michael Cooper. University of California, Berkeley. 1993.
Daniel P. Dabney. Statistical Modeling of Relevance Judgments for Probabilistic Retrieval of American Case Law. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: William Cooper. University of California, Berkeley. 1993.

1992

Steven R. Brandt. Jean Girard: Genevan Publisher (1536-1557). Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Mary Kay Duggan. University of California, Berkeley. 1992.
Mary Susan Easun. Identifying Inefficiencies in Resource Management: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Selected School Libraries in California. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Yale Braunstein. University of California, Berkeley. 1992.

Yasar Ahmet Tonta. An Analysis of Search Failures in Online Library Catalogs. Ph.D. Dissertation. Advisor: Michael D. Cooper. University of California, Berkeley 1992.

1991

Samia Benidir. Information Seeking Behavior During the Decision Making Process: A Case Study. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Michael Buckland. University of California, Berkeley. 1991.
Karen Marie Gardner. A Metaphorical Analysis of the Knowledge Acquisition Process. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Wilson. University of California, Berkeley. 1991.
Thomas K. Gillespie. User Illusion and Information Retrieval. Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Michael Cooper. University of California, Berkeley. 1991.