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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Associate Professor, School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China, September 2015-.

Visiting Scholar, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2018-

Associate Professor, Department of Information Resource Management, Business School, Nankai University, December 2013 to August 2015.

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Resource Management, Business School, Nankai University, July 2010 to December 2013.

Research Associate, Community Informatics Research Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 2009-.

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Information Science, Department of Information Management, Peking University. July 2010. Dissertation title: “Digital inequality among China’s communities and information institutions for public benefits”.

Visiting doctoral student, Community Informatics Research Lab, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. September 2008 to September 2009.

Master of Management, Library Science. Department of Information Resource Management, Business School, Nankai University, June 2006.

Bachelor of Management, Library Science, Department of Information Resource Management, Business School, Nankai University, June 2004.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Reviewers for Journal of Library Science in China, Library and Information Service, Information and Documentation Services, Journal of Academic Libraries, Library Tribune, Library and Information, China Scientific Data, The Journal of Data and Information Science, iConference, etc.

Membership in ASIS&T, China Library Association, Library Science Education Committee, Policy Research Committee in Public Library Association, Compilation and Publication Committee, HCI Chapter in ACM.

Main research directions

Community informatics, digital inequality, information behavior, LIS education

Lectures

TEACHING

Undergraduate

Community informatics (English), Fall 2017-

Community informatics (Chinese), 2011-2015

Introduction to information management, spring 2020- (Joint course with Professor Wang Yingwei, Zhou Xiaoying, Qian Minghui)

Information Consulting, 2018-

Data mining, 2015-2019

Web analysis and textual mining, 2016-2017

Information and communication technologies, 2012-2016

Information architecture, 2012-2014

Digital publishing, 2010-2015

Digital library (English), 2013-2015

 

Master

Community informatics, 2015-

Introduction to library and information science, 2016-

Basics in information science, 2014

Information architecture, 2015

Business Information Resources Management (English) for International MBA, 2014

Business Information Resources Management (Chinese) for MBA, 2014-2015

Information analysis 2012-2014

 

Ph.D.

Information behaviors: Theory and Advances, spring, 2020-

Advances in information science, 2014.

 

Conference Presentations

Yan Hui. (2019). Information seeking behaviors for Lisu ethnic groups in Yunnna of China: Applicability and limitations of “life-in-a-round”. Young Scholar Forum on Data Ecology and Smart Services by School of Management at Jilin University. Dec. 14, 2019, Jilin University.

Yan Hui. (2019). Passive ICT adoption behaviors and positive externality. Keynote at the China Information Science Annual Meeting. Nov. 8-10, 2019, Central China Normal University.

Yan Hui. (2019). Digital Equity: Measuring the temperature of information and technology. Keynote at the Ninth Information Science Doctoral Forum. April 26, 2019. Nanjing University of Agriculture.

Yan Hui. (2019). Paper or screen: Study on preschool children’s reading and ICT using behaviors. Keynote at the International Symposium of Children Reading, Learning, and Empowering: Professional, standards, and collaboration (ISC 2019). April 6-9, 2019, Sun Yat-Sen University.

Yan Hui. (2017). Structural origins of digital poverty in rural China. iConference 2017, March 22-25, 2017, Wuhan University.

Yan Hui. (2011). Status quo and review of public information institutions in Mainland China. The 17^th Cross Straits Seminar on Information Management Developing Strategies. Sepember 2011, Nanjing University.

Yan Hui. (2011). Research on influencing factors of information consciousness in digital poor community. // In: The Proceedings of 2011 International Council for Scientific and Technical Information Annual Conference, June 7-8, 2011, Beijing, 293-297.

Yan Hui, Lai Maosheng. (2010) Recognizing the Digital Poor Communities in China: Proof from a Three-Cities Field Study. The 5th International Conference on Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology.

Aysha S M, Kate Williams, Hui Yan. (2010) Community digitization, digital literacy, cultural heritage, and community memory: The Chinese American Museum of Chicago. The 5th International Conference on Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology.

Ke Ping, Yan Hui. (2005) The constructing of web-based reading culture for youth in China. The proceeding of China Society of Library Science 2005 annual conference. Beijing Library Press, 2005: 132-137.

 

INVITED TALKS

Yan Hui. (2017) Big data in governance in governments. Lecture at School of Public Administration, Renmin University of China, Nov. 15^th, 2017.

Hui Yan. (2016) Digital citizenship in urban and rural China. Information city lecture, November 10^th, 2016, Online lecture for graduates in School of Information Sciences at UIUC.

Yan Hui. (2016) Origins of digital poverty. Lecture at Department of Information Management, East China Normal University, October 21^st, 2016.

Yan Hui. (2016) Library and information professionals’ engagement in LIS program. Pudong Library Annual Conference 2016, October 20^th, 2016.

Yan Hui. (2016) Focusing on poverty reproduction in digital society: Field evidence from China. Talk in Management College of Hebei University, October 14^th, 2016.

Yan Hui. (2016) Research methods in information science. Training lecture at Beijing Institute of Science and Technology Information, April 21^st, 2016.

Yan Hui. (2015) Library professionals: Basics and value. Training lecture at Tianjin Airport Economic Zone Public Library, October 29^th, 2015.

Hui Yan. (2014) Reflections on digital poverty and information policy for the disadvantaged in China. The 6th International Conference on Information Capital, Property & Ethics Conference, Dec, 20-21, 2014, Beijing.

Hui Yan. (2014) How do rural residents attribute their distance from Information City in China. Information City Lecture Series of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 6^th, 2014.

Yan Hui. (2014) Applications of field study in community informatics. Seminar on LIS frontiers tracing, theory and method innovations. Peking University. June 2014.

Hui Yan (2014). Broadband China Strategy and Opportunities for Chinese Librarianship, 2014 CALA Midwest Chapter Annual Web-Conference: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities, May 24^th, 2014.

Yan Hui. (2011) New developments in information resource management. Lecture by Patents Literature Department in State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R. China. April 22nd, 2011.

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Yan Hui. Social Classes in China's Digital Society. Beijing: National Library of China Press House, October, 2013.

 

Book Editors and Chapters

Yan Hui, Zhang Yuhao, Zhang Xincan. (2018) Global digital divide advances. // In: 2018 Blue Book on Digital Economics Development. Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, to be published.

Yan Hui. Library material culture, library spiritual culture. // In: Ke Ping. Library organizational culture: CIS, visual design and culture. Beijing: National Library of China Press, 2017.

Kate Williams, Han Shenglong, Yan Hui, Abdul Alkalimat. (2012) Community informatics in China and U.S.: Theory and research. Beijing: National Library of China Press House.

Lai Maosheng. Yan Hui. (2010) Empirical study on integration of information industry and other related industries. Beijing: China Information Encyclopedia.

Qu Peng, Yan Hui. (2010) Knowledge information organization and retrieval.// In: Ma Feicheng. Research advances in information management and information system. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press.

 

Referred Journal Articles

Yan Hui. (2020) A Review of Research Hotspots in Chinese Library, Information and Archives Management Fields in 2019. Information and Documentation Services, 31(4), 5-19.

Feng Huiling, Yan Hui, Zhang Shuting, Yu Zitong, Chen Siyu, Gao Chunzhi, Han Leiqian, Zhang Yuhao. (2020) Higher Education of Library, Information and Archives Management in China: History and Status Quo. Journal of Library Science in China, 46(1), 38-52.

Yan Hui, Han Leiqian, Wu Meng, Han Yanfang. (2019) Development Prospects of Library Science, Information Science and Archival Science in 2029. Library and Information, (6), 2-17.

Yu Zhangkui, Yan Hui, Zhang Xincan, Liu Jialiang, Yin Xianbing, Shijunhao. (2019) Information Seeking Behavior Model of Lisu Minorities Group. Journal of Documentation and Data Science, (4), 24-35.

Han Leiqian, Yan Hui, Zhao Kunming, Gao Zihan. (2019). WeChat information anxiety scale: Development and application. Library Forum, (9), 82-92.

Yan Hui. (2019) Core Knowledge and developing directions for Library, Information and Archives Studies: Review on Young Scholar Salon 2019. Journal of Library Science in China, 45(1), 121-127.

Yan Hui, Zhang Xincan, Yin Xianbin. (2018) Research advances in digital inclusion: Definitions, influencing factors and public policy. Library and Information, (3), 80-89.

Yan Hui, Zhang Yuhao, Zhang Xincan, Yin Xianbin. (2018) An Investigation into the Status Quo of iSchools alliance data science education program. Information and Documentation Services, 29(4), 95-100.

Yan Hui. (2018) Fuel in the snowy weather or icing on the cake? Exploration of social network’s value in alleviation of digital poverty. Journal of Library Science in China, 44(2), 17-26.

Yan Hui, Yu Zhangkui, Jiang Yiting. (2017) Research advances in consumer health informatics. Library and Information Service, 61(6), 134-141.

Yan Hui. (2017) Structural origins of digital poverty in rural China. Journal of Library Science in China, 43(2), 24-39.

Liu Yuenan, Yan Hui, Yang Jianliang, Liu Binfang. (2017) Governance in the context of big data: Research advances and theory framework. Library and information, 38(1), 87-93.

Yan Hui, Liu Jiqun.(2016) A Study of ICT acceptance behavior of rural digital poverty communities: Field reports from China’s six provinces and municipalities. Journal of Library Science in China (English), Volume 8.

Yan Hui, Liu Jiqun. (2016) A Study of ICT acceptance behavior of rural digital poverty communities: Field reports from China’s six provinces and municipalities. Journal of Library Science in China, 42(3), 74-90.

Zhou Wenjie, Yan Hui, Han Shenglong. (2015) Exploring information divide based on a theoretical view of information source horizon. Journal of Library Science in China(English), Volume 7.

Liu Jiqun, Yan Hui. (2015) Overall assessment aimed at different types of digital inequality: Situational investment and digital efficiency. Information and Documentation Services, 36(6), 56-61.

Zhou Wenjie, Yan Hui, Han Shenglong. (2015) Exploring information divide based on a theoretical view of information source horizon. Journal of Library Science in China, 41(1), 50-61.

Liu Jiqun, Yan Hui. (2015) Understanding information seeking behavior of rural women: Field studies in China. Documentation, Information & Knowledge, (1), 4-13.

Liu Jiqun, Yan Hui (2014) Understanding information seeking behavior of rural women: Field studies in China. Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science (English), 7(4), 16-30.

Yan Hui, Yan Ximin. (2014) Self-attribution of digital poverty by rural residents and its implications: Evidences from field studies in Anhui, Gansu and Tianjin. Journal of Library Science in China (English), Volume 6.

Yan Hui, Yan Ximin. (2014) Self-attribution of digital poverty by rural residents and its implications: Evidences from field studies in Anhui, Gansu and Tianjin. Journal of Library Science in China, 40(5), 68-81.

Yan Hui, Lin Huan. (2014) Assessment of public digital cultural policy in China: Electronic reading room construction plan as a sample. Library and Information Service, 58(11), 54-59.

Yan Hui. Hong Pingzhang. (2014) Impacts of social capital on digital poverty alleviation process of ethnic rural residents: Field study on liye, Tujia-Miao autonomous prefecture of Xiangxi. Information and Documentation Services, 35(3), 89-94.

Yan Hui, Zhou Wenjie, Han Shenglong. (2013) Social capital, digital inequality, and a glocal community informatics project in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu Province. Library Trends, summer, 62(1), 234-260.

Yan Hui. (2013) Research on influencing factors of realizing social flow of information in digital poor community: An empirical analysis based on the survey of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shanghai and Guangdong. Information and Documentation Services, 34(4), 91-96.

Wang Ming, Yan Hui. (2013) Value of social capital in bridging accidental digital divide among rual residents: A field report on Jinghai County of Tianjin. Journal of Library Science in China, 39(5), 39-49. (Corresponding author)

Liu Jiqun, Yan Hui, Wang Youran. (2013) Bonding social capital in job information acquisition of new generation migrant workers: Field report on Dongzhi County, Anhui province. Documentation, Information & Knowledge, (6).  (Corresponding author)

Yan Hui, Sun Lili. (2012) Looking back on the digital divide research literature since 1989: A review on definitions, dimensions and deciding variables. Journal of Library Science in China, 38(5), 82-94.

Yan Hui. (2012) Digital inequality in communities: A theoretical model and its application in the context of China. Library and Information Service, 56(6), 90-94.

Kate Williams, Adrian Kok, Hui Yan.  (2012) Skyping with seniors: An academic, professional, and community collaboration between China and the US. Journal of Community informatics, 8(1).

Yan Hui. (2011) Successor of digital divide research: Advances in digital inequality. Journal of Library Science in China, 37(4), 87-93.

Li Yuelin, Yan Hui, Ke Ping. (2011) Shaping MLIS as MBA: Reflections on MLIS Education in China.  Library and Information Service, 55(13), 24-27, 120.

Lai Maosheng, Yan Hui. (2011) Strategic insight for information institutions for public welfare in China. Library and Information Service, 55(8), 5-8, 61.

Yan Hui. (2010) Community informatics: An emerging field.  Library and Information Service, 54(4), 53-55, 99.

Kate Williams, Hui Yan. (2009) Towards the global measurement of the information society: a US-China comparison of national government surveys. First Monday, (10).

Yan Hui. (2009) Trends of policies on information resources exploiting and usage for public benefits in China: Research based on content analysis. Library and Information Service, 53(14), 49-53.

Lai Maosheng, Yan Hui, Ye Yuanling, Li Lu. (2009) Research on theories and practices of integration and synergetic effects between content industry and culture industry. Information Science, 27(1),12-16, 25.

Lai Maosheng, Yan Hui. (2008) On the Relationship between Content Industry and Culture Industry. Information Science, 26(11), 1601-1605.

Yan Hui, Yang Zhiwei, Huang Peng. (2008) On Community Informatization Progresses in Finland. CIT, (6), 70-73.

Lai Maosheng, Gao Xinmin, Zhao Xiaofan, Zhou Xiaoying, Yan Hui. (2008) Information resource: a new factor of production, intangible asset and social welfare. IChina, (9), 16-17.

Yan Hui, Li Lu. (2008) Evaluation of legal system of disclosure of government information in EU. Digital Library Forum, (5), 30-34.

Lai Maosheng, Yan Hui. (2008). Survey on public perceptions on the regulations on open government information of People's Republic of China (PRC). Digital Library Forum, (5), 10-14.

Lai Maosheng, Yan Hui. (2009) Strategies and policies of information resource industries in Taiwan and Mainland China: A comparative study in management mechanism and financial area. Information Science, 26(7), 967-970.

Lai Maosheng, Yan Hui. (2008) Strategies and policies of information resource industries in Taiwan and Mainland China: A comparative study in human resources, marketing and R&D. Information Science, 26(5), 647-651.

Lai Maosheng, Yan Hui, Long Jian. (2008) On the information resource industries and its sub-industries. Information Science, 26(4), 481-484, 490.

Yan Hui. (2008) The application of information accessibility in the information services industries for public interests: an investigation research. Library and Information Service. 52(2), 124-128, 91.

Ke Ping, Yan Hui. (2007) Web-based reading culture research: a theoretical research. Library Work and Research, 29(5), 3-7.

Yan Hui. (2006) Environmental analysis of abandon of professionalism in Chinese library science education. Library and Information, 27(4), 44-48, 84.

Ke Ping, Yan Hui. (2005) A theoretical research on library culture. Library forum, 25(6), 77-82, 93.

Yan Hui. (2005) Advances of research on knowledge management in public sectors abroad. Library Science Research, 26(11), 30-32.

Yan Hui. (2005) Advances of research on information management in public sectors abroad. E-government, 2(8), 42-47.

Yan Hui. (2005) On the elements of documentary information science. Library Journal, 24(6), 16-20.

Yan Hui. (2005) Research on the Trends of Information Management Theories in China. Information Science, (23)6, 937-939, 949.

Yan Hui. (2005) Book review of "Textbook for Bibliographical Science " By Feizhang Peng. Document, Information & Knowledge, (4), 109-111.

Yan Hui. (2005) Literature review of research on information management theories between 1994-2003. Information and Documentation Services, 26(1), 78-82.

Yan Hui . (2004) Evaluation of ICTs applications in education: A system architecture of indicators. Journal of Information, 23(7), 70-74.

Ke Ping, Yan Hui . (2004) Developing education of library, lnformation and archives on the focus of discipline construction. Journal of The Sichuan Society for Library Science, (2), 2-7.

Yan Hui. (2003) A statistical analysis of research papers on education informationalization: 1994-2002. Tianjin Library Journal, 21(6), 53-57.

Main Research Projects

GRANTS

2018- Action research in digital poverty alleviation in context of digital China. National Social Science Foundation, NSSF. RMB 200,000. (Grant No.: 18BTQ007)

2017- Young outstanding scholar fund, six years support plan. Renmin University of China. RMB 150,000 per year.

2017- Social experiments in digital poverty alleviation. Renmin University Research Foundation. RMB80,000.

2014-2016. Digital poverty and reflections on digital cultural policies in Mainland China. Nankai University Basic Research Funds.  RMB 50,000.

2012-2013. Social classes in China’s digital society. Publishing fund for monograph by Asia Research Center of Nankai University. RMB 25,000.

2011-2016. Field study on digitally poor communities in China rural areas: Phenomena, origins and policy implications. National Social Science Foundation, NSSF. RMB 150,000. (Grant No.: 11CTQ009)

2010-2012. Digital inequality in Chinese Context. Nankai University Young Scholar Research Foundation. RMB 5,000.

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

August 2008-August 2009, research assistant, Studying technology access, use and support in a set of ethnic communities of Chicago chaired by Professor Kate Williams, UIUC.

August 2008-January 2009, research assistant, ICT use measurements meta-study project, led by Professor Kate Williams in Community Informatics Lab of GSLIS, UIUC.

2007-2008, research assistant, Information resources as production factors, intangible assets, and social wealth, National Informationization Expert Consultation Committee Project.

2007, research assistant, An empirical research on the integration and cooperation of information resources industry and related industries. China National Social Sciences Foundation.

2007, research assistant, Study on the strategy of development and utilization of information resources for public welfare. State Council Informatization Office.

2007, research assistant, Research on community informatization standard, Ministry of Information Industry.