Simmons College

Professor Tang received her Ph.D. from the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught evaluation of information services, technology for information professionals, library automation systems, digital information services and providers, and research methods and design. Her research areas range from usability testing and evaluation, user studies and needs assessment, mental models of online searching, bibliometrics and citation behavior research, to user community generated metadata and question-answering services. Professor Tang is the Director of Simmons Usability Lab. She has received multiple research grants and awards. One of her papers has won the 2008 Wynar/ALISE research paper competition. She is a recipient of 2007 APA PsycINFO Needs Assessment Contract Award, 2007 Simmons College President's Fund for Faculty Excellence, 2008 OCLC/ALISE Research Grant Award, and a 2010 contractual award from Harvard University Center for Biomedical Informatics.

Courses Taught

LIS 403: Evaluation of Information Services
LIS 454: Digital Information Services and Providers
LIS 488: Technology for Information Professionals
LIS 531R: Library Automation Systems
LIS 531Y: Usability and User Experience Research
LIS 621: Conducting Research

Curriculum Vitae

Rong Tang Profile