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As part of a major research university, one of the school’s top priorities is generating new knowledge in the field of information and library science.

Research at SILS

Faculty research focuses on the social, organizational and technical issues of information seeking and use in today's world. Topics of study include:

Information and people
How people act as users of information and technology
- Cognition: Carr, Lee
- Creating metadata (information about information): Greenberg
- User modeling: Kelly
- Specific populations: Gollop, Blake
- Human-computer interaction: Hemminger, Marchionini, Wildemuth
- Finding and using archival materials: Tibbo, Lee
- Information seeking: Gollop, Kelly, Marchionini, Pomerantz, Solomon, Wildemuth, Hemminger
- Reading, listening: Carr, Sturm
- Information use: Barreau, Blake
Information Research
General properties of information and collections
- Theory of information: Losee
- Stories: Sturm
- Popular materials: Moran
- Archival materials, records: Tibbo , Lee
- Video: Marchionini, Wildemuth
- Scientific literature: Blake
Information Organization
Tools that effectively represent and organize information
- Classification and organization: Greenberg, Losee, Saye, Solomon
- Natural Language Processing: Haas
- Text Mining: Blake
- Ontologies and Notational Systems for Bioinformatics: Hemminger
- Metadata, ontologies, the Semantic web: Greenberg
Information Tools and Technologies
Tools for the creation, storage, management, preservation, retrieval or use of information
- Text mining: Blake
- Information retrieval: Haas, Kelly, Losee, Hemminger, Greenberg
- Digital libraries and archives: Hemminger, Jones, Marchionini, Pomerantz, Lee
- Self-archiving: Tibbo
Information Contexts
Affecting people's interactions with information and information technologies
- Academic libraries: Moran
- School libraries: Daniel
- Public libraries: Gollop, Sturm
- History of libraries: Saye
- Cultural institutions: Carr, Tibbo
- Medical and health information: Gollop, Marshall, Wildemuth, Blake
- Bioinformatics: Blake, Hemminger
- Corporate libraries, publishing: Barreau
Overarching information issues
- Management of information organizations: Daniel, Marshall, Moran, Solomon
- Information policies: Daniel, Marchionini
- Information and library science education: Daniel, Saye, Carr
- Information technology standards and standardization: Lee
- Censorship, privacy, and freedom to read: Carr, Jone

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Research at SILS