[Asis-l] Rutgers iSchool welcomes Dr. Kaitlin Costello

[Ross Todd]

Rutgers University’s iSchool, the School of Communication & Information, is pleased to welcome Dr. Kaitlin Costello as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Library and Information Science department. Dr Costello holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and M.S in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her dissertation was titled: “Social information behaviors in the context of chronic kidney disease: Information seeking and disclosure in online support groups” and her dissertation committee was chaired by Professor Barbara Wildemuth.  Her dissertation was a grounded theory study on the relationship between online information seeking and personal health information disclosure in online support groups for chronic kidney disease.  In her dissertation, she found that individuals assess their similarity with other users in online support groups as a way to understand relevance, both when they search for and when they disclose personal health information online. Dr. Costello’s ongoing work will examine how these assessments of relevance evolve over time when people search for health information online. She is also investigating how patients communicate with their healthcare providers about the information they find online. In her future work, she plans to study the health effects of participating in online support groups.

Dr Ross J Todd 
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Library and Information Science
Director, Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) 
School of Communication & Information 
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 
4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick , New Jersey USA 08901 
Tel: 848 932 7602, Fax: 732 932 6916 
Office:  Room 201 Huntington House (184 College Av) 
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~rtodd
Email: rtodd at rutgers.edu




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