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Marcia Bates

Professor Emerita
Information Studies

230 GSE&IS

(310) 206 9353

mjbates@ucla.edu

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Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Studies, 1972
MLS, University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Studies, 1967
BA, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 1963

Research Interests

Information-seeking behavior; search strategy; subject access in manual and automated systems; user-centered design of information retrieval systems.

Recent Publications

Bates, Marcia J. "Fundamental Forms of Information."  Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57, #8 (2006): 1033-1045.

Bates, Marcia J. "Speculations on Browsing, Directed Searching, and Linking in Relation to the Bradford Distribution." In: Emerging Frameworks and Methods: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS 4). Edited by Harry Bruce, Raya Fidel, Peter Ingwersen, and Pertti Vakkari. Greenwood Village, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2002, pp. 137-150.

Bates, Marcia J. "The Cascade of Interactions in the Digital Library Interface." Information Processing and Management 38 (2002):381-400.

Bates, Marcia J. "The Invisible Substrate of Information Science." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50, #12 (1999): 1043-1050.

Bates, Marcia J. "Indexing and Access for Digital Libraries and the Internet: Human, Database, and Domain Factors." Journal of the Ame



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