25 February 2002
OCLC Research Grant Awards
The OCLC Office of Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded three grants to university researchers for 2002.
Jane Greenberg, assistant professor, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received a grant for her project, "Optimizing Metadata Creation: A Model for Integrating Human and Automatic Processes."
Dr. Greenberg's research will develop a model to facilitate the most efficient and effective means of metadata production by integrating human and automatic processes. Three tiers of metadata will be explored: metadata created by resource authors, catalogers and automatic processing tools.
Protocols will be established for collaboration between resource authors and professionals and for integrating these human metadata generation processes with automatic processes.
-Lorna Peterson, associate professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY, was granted funding for a study entitled, "Operationalizing Barriers in Dissemination of African Research and Scholarship." Dr. Peterson's research seeks to operationalize and measure the barriers in the dissemination of indigenous African scholarship at a case-study level. The intended outcome s to move beyond assertion of the problem to a measurement of the problem. This research will assist with the preservation, access and dissemination of African scholarship, while presenting opportunities for additional research and solutions.
-Wonsik Shim, assistant professor, Florida State University, was awarded a grant for his research entitled, "Reification of Information Seeking Habits." This study will investigate innovative and effective methods of collecting information about undergraduate students' information-use habits and factors affecting them. In addition to two existing data collection methods, online surveys and case studies, the study will use personal digital assistants (PDAs) to collect the raw data relating to user information behaviors as they occur in the natural settings. This approach, along with the use of multiple methods of data collection, will enhance the quality of data collection. Results may be used to conduct and evaluate information literacy programs, develop other PDA-based library services and design research studies of information seeking behaviors.
The OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grant Program awards grants of up to $15,000 to foster quality research by faculty in schools of library and information science.
Application materials for the grants are available on the OCLC web site: www.oclc.org/research/grants/
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