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Making a Difference: Research and Service Opportunities
Drawing on its 80 years of leadership in the library community, the School of Information puts the needs of people and the health of communities as its core values. These values are apparent in much of the School's extensive research program. Here are just a few of the projects SI faculty and students have worked on or are now engaged in.
American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Virtual Library
The Alliance for Community Technology (ACT) and Internet Public Library (IPL) worked with the AIHEC to build a virtual library to serve tribal colleges with limited resources.
Archives of the Liberation Movement
Working over several summers in close collaboration with South African counterparts, SI faculty and students helped develop the Archives of the Liberation Movement, a collection of cultural artifacts and primary sources documenting that country's anti-apartheid struggle. The archives are maintained at the University of Fort Hare in Alice, South Africa.
Community Information Corps (CIC)
The CIC brings together information professionals from many disciplines who all share one goal: using the information age's latest techniques in the service of public goals.
CIC Web site →
Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach (CHICO)
This set of projects by SI students celebrate the arts and cultural expressions within and across communities. The focus is on preserving artistic and cultural heritage materials and making them widely available, particularly as resources for K-12 students and teachers.
CHICO Web site →
Tribal Finance Information Clearinghouse (TFIC)
The TFIC facilitates a comprehensive understanding of tribal interaction with capital markets, specifically identifying those factors that are critical to the success of Tribes as minority enterprises.
More on TFIC
Last updated: Oct 08, 2007
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Faculty Enhance Diversity at SI
Assistant Professor Ixchel Faniel's research interests are in IT design, knowledge management, and socially shared and distributed cognition. Before coming to SI, she served as a marketing specialist at IBM and as a consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).
Assistant Professor Soo Young Rieh's research seeks to better understand people's information-seeking behaviors and their interactions with information. Her longer term goal is to design information retrieval systems that will effectively support those behaviors and strategies.
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