Biography of Liyun Hu

    Professor Liyun Hu’s research interests include social informatics, information retrieval, organization, and service, folk literature, theory of library science. She has been teaching in the Department of Information and Archives, The School of Public Administration, Yunnan University since 1998, and worked in the Yunnan University Library from 1988-1998. She received a Master of Arts from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Yunnan University in 1998, and a Bachelor of Science in Technology Information Major from Wuhan University in 1988. She was a visiting scholar in the School of Library and Information Science, University of Wisconsin Madison.
    She has independently completed the “Information Organization and Utilization of Humanities and Social Science” project (funded by the Department of Education of Yunnan Province), the “Investigation and Analysis of the Research Literature on Yunnan Minority Myths, Legends, and Folktales” project (funded by Taiwan Zhongliu Fund), the “Study on Community Informatics for Rural Development” project (funded by Yunnan University), the “Preservation and Utilization of Indigenous Knowledge in the Minority Regions” project (funded by the Department of Education of Yunnan Province). She is currently leading the “Research of The Protection and Utilization of Oral Literature in Ethnic Regions” project (funded by National Social Science Fund).
    She was the editor-in-chief or editor of ten books, and has published more than 70 research papers in national core professional journals such as Studies of Ethnic Literature, Tribune of folk culture, Journal of Library Science in China.