Her research focuses on everyday, authentic information behavior over a range of media (text, music, images, and video). Sally Jo was advised by her flute instructor to choose a major other than music as an undergraduate; now she enjoys experiencing music through the eyes and ears of other people with her MIR research. She is active in the digital libraries and human-computer interaction research communities—a member of the steering committee for JCDL; program co-chair for ICADL 2008, JCDL 2014, DL 2015, ISMIR 2017; general chair for ICADL 2017; chair of the IEEE/CS TCDL (2016-2017)—and has over 120 refereed research publications in digital libraries, music information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and machine learning.