Education

Teaching Experience

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Studies, SCILS (School of Communication, Information and Library Studies), Rutgers University (July 1999-June 2000)
• Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Studies, SCILS (School of Communication, Information and Library Studies), Rutgers University (Summer 1997-Spring 1999)
• Lecturer, Deparment of English Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (spring 1992)

Courses taught

• 17:610:562 Advanced Database Searching (Summer 2000,  Spring 2000, Fall, 1999,Spring, 1999; Fall, 1998)
• 17:610:572 Needs Assessment and Evaluation (Spring 2000, Fall, 1999, Spring, 1999; Summer, 1998; Summer, 1997)
• 17:510:550 Technology for Libraries and Information Agencies(Spring 2000, Spring 1998)
• 17:510:550 Technology for Libraries and Information Agencies (co-taught with Kwong Bor Ng , Fall 1997)

Research Interests

• Technology for Librarids and Informagion Agencies
• Design and production of multimedia information resources
• Organization of information: metadata in the Internet environment
• Information retrieval (IR) interface design
• Digital libraies
• Human Computer Interaction
• Quantitative Methodology

Ph.D. Dissertation

• Supporting Interaction with Distributed and Heterogeneous Information Resources
• Dissertation Committee: Professors Nicholas J. Belkin (Chair), Daniel O.O'Connor, Jose Perez-Carballo, and James Allan (Outside member)
• Dissertation Abstract

Selected Publications

• Park, S. (2000). Usability, User Preferences, Effectiveness, and User Behaviors When Searching Individual and Integrated Full-text Databases: Implications for Digital Libraries. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51 (5), pp.456-468. .
• Belkin, N.J., Cool, C., Kelly, D., Lin, S.J., Park, S.Y., Perez-Carballo, J., Sikora, C. (2000). Iterative Exploration, Design and Evaluation of Support for Query Reformulation in Interactive Information Retrieval. Information Processing & Management(in press)
• Park, S. (1999). User Preferences When Searching Individual and Integrated Full-text Databases. In Fox, E. (Ed.), Digital Libraries '99, the Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 195-203. University of California, Berkeley. (August 11-14, 1999).
• Burnett, K., Ng, KB., & Park, S. (1999). A Comparison of the Two Traditions of Metadata Development. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50 (13), pp.1209-1217.
• Belkin, N.J.,Cool, C., Koenemann, J., Ng, KB., & Park, S. (1996). Using relevance feedback and ranking in interactive searching . In Harmann, D. (Ed.), TREC 4, Proceedings of the Fourth Text Retrieval Conference. Washington, DC: GPO
• Belkin, NJ., Cabezas, A., Cool, C., Kim, K., Ng, KB., Park, S., Pressman, R., Rieh, S., Savage, P., & Xie, H. (1997). Rutgers Interactive Track at TREC 5. In Harmann, D., (Ed.), TREC 5, Proceedings of the Fifth Text Retrieval Conference , (in press). Washington, DC: GPO.
• Cool, C., Park, S., Belkin, N.J., Koeneman, J., & Ng, KB. (1996). Information seeking behavior in new searching environments. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Informaion Science. Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Rice, R., Chapin,J., Pressman, R., Park, S, & Funkhouser, E. (1996). What's in a name: Bibliometrical analysis of 40 years of the Journal of Broadcasting (and Electronic Media). Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 40, pp.511-539
• Ng, KB., Park, S.,& Burnett, K. (1997). Control or Management: A Comparison of the Two Approaches for Establishing Metadata Schemes in the Digital Environment. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) , November, 1997
• N.J. Belkin, J. Perez Carballo, C. Cool, S. Lin, S.Park, S.Y. Rieh, P. Savage, C. Sikora, H. Xie and J. Allan. (1997). Rutgers' TREC-6 Interactive Track Experience. In Harmann, D., (Ed.),TREC 6, Proceedings of the Six Text REtrieval Conference , (in press). Washington, DC:GPO.