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AwardNo Year Funding amount School PI Abstract TLDR
RE-04-07-0073-07 2007 301618 Arizona Patricia Montie In this Early Career Development project, Dr. Patricia Montiel Overall at the University of Arizona, in partnership with Sunnyside Unified School District and Tucson Unified School District, will examine the effect of teacher/librarian collaboration on science information literacy of Latino students. Using qualitative and quantitative methodologies over three years, this study will look at teacher/librarian collaboration in the preparation of science instructional modules for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders in predominantly Latino elementary schools. This research will examine questions about the relationship of teacher/librarian collaboration to Latino students performance on standardized tests of science proficiency and information literacy. examine the effect of teacher/librarian collaboration on science information literacy of Latino students
RE-04-07-0078-07 2007 199796 Dominican Kate Williams In this Early Career Development project, Dr. Kate Williams at Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science will use a social capital/social network model to research actual and potential IT use in six disadvantaged communities across Chicago. The research will analyze how people and communities are already using computers and the Internet, and how their own lives and identities might be represented as part of our nation’s cyberinfrastructure. SNA of IT use in disadvantaged chicago neighborhoods. (Fun fact - this included my childhood neighborhood!)
RE-04-08-0034-08 2008 255040 UT-Austin Megan Wingett This Early Career Development grant will provide support for Assistant Professor Megan Winget to study the collection and preservation of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. Currently, preservation models for many types of digital creations focus on the “end” product, resulting in the loss of most of the artifacts from the creative process. This becomes especially problematic as an increasing number of digital products have no definite “completion.” Using ethnographic research techniques, the investigator will seek to better understand the video game industry’s methods, behaviors, and attitudes for the purpose of building more meaningful models of collection and preservation of complex, community-built digital creations. This research carries the promise of informing a wide array of issues in digital preservation, from digital media art to immersive learning environments. Preservation of MMO
RE-04-08-0047-08 2008 155885 South Carolina Jennifer Arns In this Early Career Development Grant, Assistant Professor Jennifer Arns at the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science will gather, summarize, and integrate recent studies on the economic impact of public libraries in their communities, building a more comprehensive understanding of the capabilities and limitations of these studies. Based upon this integration and analysis, the project will create and disseminate models for further public library economic benefits studies, as well as methods for incorporating the findings from this research into library promotional materials. Economic impact of public libraries
RE-04-08-0069-08 2008 339420 Kentucky Sujin Kim This Early Career Development grant will provide support for Assistant Professor Sujin Kim to study four different existing methods of describing and representing medical pathology images, leading to one standardized descriptive framework so that clinicians and medical researchers can more readily share information about these images. The researcher will convene focus groups of experts from both the medical and information professions to inform the model, test that model against industry standards for pathologic imaging properties, and evaluate its effectiveness in data retrieval. This project will extend librarianship’s knowledge and skills to a non-traditional library “collection,” while significantly aiding medical imaging through the creation of an integrated standard that will foster seamless searching across different image storage systems. Metadata for patholgy images
RE-04-08-0096-08 2008 99981 Colorado Laura Summers In this early career development project, Assistant Professor Laura Summers will investigate how professional development in culturally responsive school librarianship changes school library practices. Working with the Culturally Responsive Urban Education Center (CRUE), Summers will develop a hybrid, face-to-face and distance education course, pilot it with 15 practicing school librarians, and supplement the course with site-based coaching from a certified How professional development impacts library practices.
RE-04-09-0055-09 2009 309344 FSU Marcia Mardis In this research project, Marcia Mardis at Florida State University will investigate how school libraries can successfully integrate open-source science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) materials into their collections and services. Very few school libraries take advantage of the large amount of STEM-related materials available for free on the Internet. This project will enhance school library media specialists' collection building practices in these STEM materials, increase student engagement with these resources, and provide professional development on the subject to the school library media specialists, while sharing research findings with both the digital library and education communities. Open Source materials in collections + services
RE-04-09-0065-09 2009 348325 Maryland Jean Dryden In this Early Career Development project, Jean Dryden of the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies will examine the copyright practices of libraries, archives, and museums in the digitization of their holdings and the impact of these practices upon their users. This research will aid libraries, archives, and museums as they continue to develop best practices that will make their holdings more widely available to the public while still protecting the legitimate interests of rights holders. The proposed research will potentially have an impact on institutional practice, professional education, scholarly research, and copyright policy. Copyright Practices
RE-04-09-0067-09 2009 387541 Maryland Bo Xie As the American population ages, the need for trusted sources of health-related information and services increases. In this Early Career Development project, Bo Xie of the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies will design a public-library-based program to provide high-quality, Internet-based health information to seniors from diverse backgrounds. Key to the project will be the incorporation of a cadre of committed, older adult volunteers who will help design the curriculum and then serve as peer trainers, teaching other senior volunteers how to access, assess, and use a broad range of quality online resources. This research project, grounded in participatory design methodology, will develop curricula, procedures, and other guides, which will be made available to public libraries nationwide. Health information for senious
RE-04-09-0073-09 2009 321178 Tennessee Vandana Singh In this Early Career Development project, Vandana Singh of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville will compare the level of technical support required by open-source integrated library systems (the computer systems used to acquire, manage, and circulate library materials) and the off-the-shelf, proprietary versions of these systems. This research project seeks to better inform librarians about the maintenance and management costs associated with one of the key tools that they use to serve the public. Evaluate open source vs proprietary OPECs
RE-04-09-0074-09 2009 215862 UT-Austin Lynn Westbrook In this Early Career Development project, Lynn Westbrook of the University of Texas at Austin's School of Information will investigate public library service to victims of domestic violence. Approaching the task from the viewpoint of users and their needs rather than from an examination of existing library services, this project will seek to develop, test, and implement an assessment mechanism that public libraries can use to determine how well they serve these individuals. Public libraries supporting domestic violence
RE-04-10-0038-10 2010 601837 Michigan Tiffany Veinot This Early Career Development grant will provide support for Assistant Professor Tiffany Veinot at the University of Michigan to study the information activities and networks of chronically ill people and their family members and the roles they play in chronic illness-related coping, care, and support within families. The research will involve individual interviews, family group interviews, and family network analysis with members of families dealing with HIV/AIDS or diabetes. Results of this study will inform the development of innovative consumer health information services and systems to better support families. Information activities of chrnocially ill
RE-04-10-0039-10 2010 122683 San Jose Lili Luo Lili Luo, Assistant Professor, San Jose School of Library and Information Science, will use this Early Career Development grant to conduct research regarding text messaging as a platform for providing virtual reference services. Luo will explore how libraries can provide text reference service and if it helps libraries engage new users. The study will use data available via InfoQuest, a multistate text reference collaborative. Results will establish a solid understanding of the text reference user community and provide a roadmap for libraries interested in using texting. SMS for virtual reference
RE-04-10-0045-10 2010 280550 Syracuse Megan Oakleaf In this Early Career Development project, Megan Oakleaf, Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, will conduct research on assessing student learning and will develop a standards-based rubric that will measure the information literacy skills of college students. Rubrics are tools that promote valid and reliable scores and offer descriptive results data. For academic librarians, rubrics communicate agreed-upon learning values, focus on standards, and align with current educational theory. Rubrics tell students what they need to learn, provide direct feedback and facilitate self-evaluation. Info literacy in college students
RE-04-11-0062-11 2011 334641 Rutgers Jacek Gwizdka Rutgers will use its grant to support an Early Career Development Project, in which Jacek Gwizdka will develop and validate a new framework for non-intrusive, continuous monitoring and assessment of cognitive load (mental effort) experienced by users of digital libraries. This framework will then be validated in an experiment where cognitive load will be controlled. After successful validation, a second experiment will be conducted, in which the developed framework will be applied to assessing cognitive load in realistic information seeking scenarios. This project will result in a new understanding of the mental effort required by those engaged in information seeking. Results of the study will inform the design of digital libraries and other interactive information systems. Framework for cognitive load of Digital Library Users
RE-04-11-0078-11 2011 123436 Simmons Katherine Wisser Historians, genealogists, literary critics and others have long made use of the interconnected nature of archival materials in their research. New standards in archival description provide an opportunity to more easily reveal and better leverage this interconnectivity. In Simmons College’s Early Career Development Project, Katherine Wisser explores this potentially transformative new capability by studying manuscript finding aids that have been constructed using one new descriptive standard, “Encoded Archival Context – Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF).” As a form of controlled vocabulary for the names of creators or subjects of archival materials, EAC-CPF carries the promise of linking the holdings of archives together, making it easier for researchers to see connections in the past. Using social network analysis, this project seeks to explore these connections among some American literary figures as revealed by the new standard. The project will result in recommendations for best practices in archival description. SNA to understand connectivity of research in archives
RE-04-12-0041-12 2012 218063 UNC Ryan Shaw Ryan Shaw, Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will use this Early Career Development grant to invent new tools for understanding large collections of histories through computational text processing techniques. The project will focus on a promising technique for automatically identifying within narrative texts individual events and their participants. These events will then be used as basic units for building up larger-scale models of narrative structure that can be used to link and compare related histories. The specific histories to be used for this project are 80 scholarly monographs and 350 oral histories related to the civil rights movement Text processing to extract entitites, build models narrative structure to compare historical narratives based on events and people
RE-04-12-0048-12 2012 399995 Rutgers Rebecca Reynolds Rutgers University Assistant Professor Rebecca Reynolds will use a guided, discovery-based program to investigate the impact of gaming on learning among disadvantaged middle and high school students in three states. This Early Career Development Research project aims to cultivate digital fluency, product development expertise, computational thinking, and core curriculum knowledge among students traditionally left behind in the digital divide. Research has provided early evidence indicating that student participation in such a program positively influences standardized test scores in science and social studies. But other research indicates that extrinsically motivated students—those driven to perform a task in order to attain an outcome rather than for the enjoyment of the task itself—may not find the program as conducive to learning as others. The research conducted with this grant cold lead to better understanding of the mechanisms at work.. Impact of gaming on middle and high school students digital literacy
RE-04-12-0105-12 2012 272996 Rutgers Chirag Shah This grant will fund an Early Career Development research project, in which Rutgers University Assistant Professor Chirag Shah will investigate the need to introduce and support collaborative information seeking for people working in information intensive domains like libraries. The intended audience of this project includes, but is not limited to, students, educators, researchers, developers, and practitioners. While much has been made of the collaborative nature of information systems’ content creation (wikis, blogs, etc.), the seeking and retrieval of information can also be enhanced through collaboration, one scenario of which might include networked expert reference. Collaborative information seeking
RE-04-13-0042-13 2013 287654 UT-Austin Matthew Lease Enabling a New Scale of Conversational Speech Archives via Crowdsourcing, a three-year research project conducted by Assistant Professor Matthew Lease of the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, focuses on content developed by groups (crowdsourcing) in combination with transcription technology. Lease will investigate the MALACH oral history of Holocaust eyewitnesses in order to identify more cost-effective preservation and curation practices and develop more scalable practices that can be applied to conversational speech archives at large. He will conduct a content analysis of the capabilities and limitations of six crowdsourcing platforms, pilot test methods for task and evaluation, scale and refine methods and evaluation, and rigorously evaluate and analyze his findings to test two hypotheses about crowdsourcing practices and technology use. Build platforms to refine methods of crowd-soruced text transcription (I think?)
RE-07-14-0015-14 2014 386030 Syracuse Bei Yu Syracuse University will use this Early Career award to build the Citation Opinion Retrieval and Analysis (CORA) tool. The tool will help researchers get citation statements about published literature and will help them analyze and classify citations to assist and expedite research. The tool can plug into a full-text bibliographic database and will save librarians and researchers time when trying to find useful comments from large collections of citations. CORA will also contribute a new approach for assessing research impact and help monitor the quality of scientific publications by making it easier to identify citation bias and inaccuracy. The project supports one doctoral student and hourly graduate students to assist with project research and development. Tool for citation analysis
RE-07-14-0051-14 2014 294536 Drexel NA This three-year Early Career research project investigates ways to meet the information needs of people who are underserved, namely the urban poor who face issues unaddressed in the delivery of many digitized library services. This project will help library and informal science professionals and researchers gain understanding of how oral information services may be designed, organized, and managed. The project director will work with community and library staff in urban public libraries to investigate the needs of patrons who are poor, design library services to meet those needs, and evaluate the services with the goal of improving service models. The project supports one doctoral student Investigate need of urban poor for specialized library services, goal of improving service models
RE-07-15-0060-15 2015 247713 Drexel NA Drexel will build an entity-based research framework with methods and analytical tools that allow for the identification, categorization, and analysis of scientific publications. This framework will be employed to enhance the digital services of two groups of audiences in library and information science: one group retrieves scientific publications to satisfy their information needs and the other analyzes scientific publications to study scholarly communication. Through this work, the project will accomplish two objectives: to discover latent knowledge from large linked data and to deliver knowledge more effectively to satisfy users’ information needs by the use of entity-level analytics. An open-access corpus will be employed as a proof-of-concept for the framework design. Entity extraction for better citation analysis
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The Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS) provides a grant to early-career researchers. They have offered this award since 2007 (I think).

Above are the scraped data from their online database. Variable names should be clear, but just in case:

  • Award number - assigned by IMLS
  • Year - year the project was funded
  • Funding - amount awarded to the PI
  • School - home institution of the PI
  • PI- the PI (geez)
  • Abstract - IMLS provided abstract
  • TL;DR - my brief summary

There are also 4 full text proposals available. I read these and summarized the contents. Each of the examples is interesting / valuable for its own reasons. The one thing I will note is that only one of these described broader impacts that were about training a next generation of researchers, but all of them requested funding to support graduate students :/

Title: Assessing the Use of Community Archives

Funding Amount: $325K

Funding used for:

  • Graduate Students + PhD Candidate
  • Travel

Research Questions:

  • How do members of marginalized communities use community based-archives?
  • What is the impact of such organizations on the individuals and communities they represent and serve?
  • Does the preliminary impact model (ontological/epistemological/ and social impact)developed by the PI apply to these communities of users or does a new model need to be developed?

Methods:

  • Focus groups (10 total x 60 participants total)
  • 50 semi-structured interviews (with users at 5 different sites)

Outcomes / Deliverables:

  • Assesment toolkit
  • Community Archives symposium
  • Three academic articles
  • Presentation at multiple research conferences

Title: Metadata Framework for Pathologic Images

Funding amount: $339

  • Plus a cost-share from UK in the amount of $146K (<--- Damn!)

Funding used for:

  • Graduate Students

Methods:

  • 4 phased study
  • Phase 1 - collect candidate data elements from existing data repositories
  • Phase 2 - create and describe the metadata set from elements id'd in Phase 1
  • Phase 3 - Using protege (how?) candidate elements will be merged. Experts in qualitative interviews (semi-structured and focus groups) will judge merges
  • Phase 4 - Evaluation of IR effectivneess will e measures between queries and described images

Outcomes / Deliverables:

  • Metadata framework to better support pathologic imagining descriptions
  • Advancing understanding of imaging metadata
  • Establishes foundation for academic liason between imaging community and libraries
  • Open-sourced metadata standard, and cross walks between existing metadata schemas
  • Prelim results submitted Conferences and final analyses submitted to journals in IS

Title: No title (RE-07-15-0060-15)

Funding: $247,713

Funding used for:

  • Undergrad and Grad students
  • Consultants
  • Travel
  • Computing

Methods:

  • Corpus construction from 100K OA articles
  • Drawing on JATS markup - parse for full-text analysis
  • Throw NLP at it to extract entities - categorize these (how?)
  • SNA for citation networks
  • Rank and Cluster entities

Outcomes / Deliverables:

  • design new methodologies to compliment the metadata-driven mode of inquiry with a context-driven one for library research and services
  • extend the unit of analysis (citations) to the entity level, examine the creation, dissemination, and provenance patterns of context-rich entities, and identify ways to enhance library services through these entities
  • help enhance users’ information seeking experiences by delivering new practices of research that fit their information needs in the big data era.
  • By incorporating these dynamic analysis methods and tools into the entity-based research framework, the project will contribute to knowledge discovery and delivery and build the capacity to sustain data-driven communities in LIS
  • Journal Publications
  • Facilitating students involvement in research + Plans to use this info in classes (<--- Only one that highlights these two aspects)

Title: Citation Opinion Retrieval and Analysis (CORA)

Funding: $386,030

Funding used for:

  • PhD Student, Hourly RAs
  • Programming assistant and annotators
  • Travel

Research Questions (these are posed as "research problems"):

  • Researchers spend a lot of time gathering citation opinions; it is rarely done comprehensively.
  • Incomplete citation scan particularly jeopardizes interdisciplinary research.
  • Citation biases threaten research validity, but are difficult to monitor.
  • Inaccurate citations mislead researchers and the general public.

Methods:

  • NLP on corpus from two disciplines
  • Annotation for supervised ML, and then model development to automatically classify

Outcomes / Deliverables:

  • Algorithms to categorize citation opinions
  • Annotated corpus
  • OS implementation that makes Algos usable by non-experts
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