Libraries and Librarianship

Research related to the assessment, management, development, and delivery of services provided by professional librarians in libraries and similar information institutions

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Data Storytelling Toolkit for Libraries (DSTL)

Time frame
2022-Present
Investigators
Kate McDowell, Matthew Turk
Total funding to date
$99,330.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

The University of Illinois, in collaboration with multiple community college and public libraries, will develop a data storytelling toolkit for libraries (DSTL) to support meaningful and effective data communication, empowering libraries to utilize the rapidly growing data landscape. DSTL will connect real-world examples of data use with data stories (including narrative strategies and data…

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Designing OERs to Prepare the Next Generation of Scholarly Communication Librarians

Time frame
2017-2018
Investigator
Maria Bonn
Total funding to date
$50,000.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

This IMLS-supported (LG-72-17-0132-17) collaboration* among librarians at North Carolina State University Libraries, University of Kansas Libraries, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences is exploring the need for, and ideal components of, a corpus of open educational resources (OER) for teaching library students and professionals about scholarly…

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Mapping Information Access

Time frame
2013-Present
Investigator
Emily Knox

Mapping Information Access is a collaborative academic research project to study and understand the landscape of information access and availability in public schools and libraries in the United States.

There are more than 18,000 public school districts and more than 9,000 public library systems in the US. Each of these institutions is as a central node of information access for the…

Measuring the Impact and Value of Makerspaces in Public Libraries

Time frame
2020-Present
Investigators
Emily Knox, Kyungwon Koh
Total funding to date
$100,000.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

The University of Illinois and Indian Trails Public Library District (ITPLD, Illinois) will collaborate on an exploratory project to provide the tools needed for the development of an initial framework and future toolkit for measuring the impact and value of public library makerspaces in the lives of users and the communities that libraries serve. Public libraries need to seek new ways of…

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Promoting Computational Thinking Skills for Blind and Visually Impaired Teens Through Accessible Library Makerspaces

Time frame
2022-Present
Investigators
JooYoung Seo, Kyungwon Koh
Total funding to date
$498,638.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Library makerspaces offer community members the opportunity to tinker, design, experiment, and create with a range of technology in an informal learning space. However, because current makerspaces and maker tools are highly vision oriented, blind and visually impaired (BVI) people have limited access to these learning opportunities. This project (…

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Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination (SCWAReD)

Time frame
2021-Present
Investigator
J. Stephen Downie
Total funding to date
$1,031,655.00
Funding agency
Indiana University

The Scholar-Curated Worksets for Analysis, Reuse & Dissemination (SCWAReD, pronounced “squared”) project is intended to produce a suite of curated, targeted HTRC (HathiTrust Research Center) worksets and illustrative, reusable research models that demonstrate the collaborative workset-building, textual analysis, workflow development, and dataset creation activities typically carried out by…

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Scholarly Communication Notebook

Time frame
2019-Present
Investigator
Maria Bonn
Total funding to date
$32,867.00
Funding agency
North Carolina State University

This project is a repository of community-designed open resources for teaching about scholarly communication and for doing scholarly communication work in libraries. The SCN is intended to be the locus of an active, inclusive, empowered community of practice for teaching scholarly communications to emerging librarians, where practitioners, LIS educators, and library students work together to…

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Strengthening Public Libraries’ Information Literacy Services Through an Understanding of Knowledge Brokers’ Assessment of Technical and Scientific Information

Time frame
2021-Present
Investigator
Jodi Schneider
Total funding to date
$416,760.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Scientific and technical information is often translated for the public, by knowledge brokers such as journalists, Wikipedia editors, activists, and public librarians. This project will research how knowledge brokers assess the quality of scientific and technical information and the implications for public access, information literacy, and understanding of science. The project will use case…

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