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Research

GSLIS faculty, staff, and students are involved in numerous collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects. In 2006, GSLIS researchers had grant proposals totaling more than $9 million funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Illinois State Library.

• Read more about the major areas of faculty research and doctoral specialization.
• Browse our list of ongoing research projects.
• Find a research group to participate in.
• See the various organizations and individuals who comprise our research partners, including our Corporate Roundtable.
• Visit the Research Services page to learn about support for GSLIS research activities, including grant proposal development, project planning and management, and research computing.
• Visit the Office of Information Technology and Research.
• Find out what's going on in the Center for Children's Books, a non-circulating collection of more than 16,000 recent and historically significant trade books for youth, birth through high school, plus review copies of nearly all trade books published in the U.S. in the current year.
• Learn about the Community Informatics Initiative, and one of its major components, Prairienet.
• Find out more about the work of the GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, which conducts research on the use and impacts of information resources and tools in scientific and scholarly inquiry.
• Learn how the LIS Access Midwest Program (LAMP)--a regional network of library and information science schools--is working to promote careers within the field by targeting promising undergraduate students at its member institutions to participate in activities and events designed to increase their awareness of the profession and to provide support for subsequent graduate studies in LIS.