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.
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant Proposal
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.