Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant Proposal
Grant Information
This three-year Laura Bush 21st century Early Career Development Research in Service to Practice Grant at Syracuse University, requests $328,728 (cost share an additional $156,413) for LaVerne Gray, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the iSchool, to investigate the African American genealogical community. The project seeks to examine information behavior, explore familial collection building, and support dissemination of unearthed histories of African Americans and serve as a Community Catalyst
ISchool Faculty Receive Prestigious Institute for Museum and Library Services Grants
News Announcement
The iSchool is excited to announce it recently earned three grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which will fund Library and Information Science projects. Two of these grants are Early Career Research Development grants, which are very prestigious. IMLS only awards a handful of these grants, and it is rare for an institution to receive two in the same grant cycle. “This is a record in the history of the LIS community,” notes Dr. Qin, director of the LIS program.
Locating Black Information Lives: “Scoping” the Literature on African American Genealogical Research
Conference Paper
As a part of a larger project, Uncovering Black Lives, we are comprehensively exploring the literature on African American genealogical researchers across disciplines. To accomplish this, we conducted a five round literature search using EBSCO Host, ProQuest, and Web of Science making iterative shifts in the search terms and fields to gather relevant materials. This paper details the scoping literature review as method for determining the size and nature of an under-researched multidisciplinary topic.
This project, RE-250139-OLS-21, was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
