ACTIVE
Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine HathiTrust Digital Library Resources
Co-Principal Investigator: Stephen Downie (School of Information Sciences)
Award: Institute of Museum and Library Services, $398,844
End Date: 03/31/2020
This three-year project seeks to address the needs of academic librarians for reconfigured skillsets and updated training to work with the data-driven research practices, digital scholarship, and rapidly expanding user expectations they encounter today. The DDRF project develops training curricula focused on the area of text analysis, and will offer regional and national workshops that leverage tools and data from HathiTrust Research Center in the instructional materials. The curriculum will be released at the end of the project as an open educational resource that librarians can use for both professional development and teaching to others.
Processing Capstone Email Using Predictive Coding
Principal Investigator: Joanne Kaczmarek
Award: Illinois State Archives (ISA), $197,130
End Date: 03/31/2020
The Illinois State Archives, in partnership with the University of Illinois is launching a project that seeks to develop and demonstrate a reliable and sustainable method of identifying and providing appropriate access to the email messages of state agencies that have enduring value. The project will be identifying and testing tools to be used for a sustainable workflow. Of particular note, we will be working with tools that use predictive coding techniques normally found in e-discovery tools.
Illinois Digital Newspaper Project Phases I – IV
Principal Investigator: Kyle Rimkus
Co-PI: Celestina Savonius-Wroth
Award: National Endowment for the Humanities, $1,409,137
End Date: 08/31/2020
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, in cooperation with the Center for Research Libraries, will digitize 100,000 pages of Lithuanian, Czech, and Polish newspaper content published in Chicago from 1836 and later, and publish them in the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America digital newspaper portal. Since 2009, Illinois has contributed over 300,000 pages of English-language newspaper content to Chronicling America. With this project, Illinois will offer unique, historically significant newspaper content from its Eastern European immigrant communities, many of whom played a major role in Chicago’s rapid growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the development of its distinctive cultural and political landscape.
Immersive Scholar (Mellon Prime)
Principal Investigator: Bill Mischo
Award: NCSU, $18,180
End Date: 04/30/2020
Information and Environments: Integration of an IoT-powered Recommender System within the FOLIO Open Source Library Platform
Principal Investigator: Jim Hahn
Award: Campus Research Board, $24,240
End Date: 04/30/2020
Email to PDF/A Standards
Principal Investigator: Christopher Prom
Award: Mellon, $45,000
End Date: 04/30/2020
Transformative Learning Through Zine Making
Principal Investigator: Sarah Christensen
Award: IPRH, $2,500
End Date: 06/01/2020
Zines are self-published, small circulation works, often in booklet form, that are made by piecing together multimedia such as original or appropriated texts and images. This research cluster will work to develop a pedagogical approach to zine-making for students in various disciplines, as well as local community groups. Output of this research cluster will include numerous zines produced by the cluster, U of I students, and community groups, and dissemination of the zines at the 2020 Small Press Fest.
Fashion, Style and Aesthetics
Principal Investigator: Courtney Becks
Award: IPRH, $2,500
End Date: 06/01/2020
American Association of Law Libraries Archives
Principal Investigator: Sarah Christensen
Award: AALL, $190,119
End Date: 06/30/2020
Disability Awareness in the Library
Principal Investigator: JJ Pionke
Award: Campus Research Board, $24,694
End Date: 06/30/2020
Librarianship as a profession is under equipped to work with people who have disabilities. This research project proposal is multi-staged and includes: 1. Ascertain the level of training in library and information science graduate programs, the current requirements and course offerings that focus on disability awareness of programs, and the attitudes and training needs of current practitioners, through the use of tailored national surveys. 2. Utilize a systematic review methodology to perform a comprehensive multidisciplinary literature review of compassion and disability awareness related training programs. 3. Create a training evaluation rubric based on the analysis of the literature review. The project will serve as a pilot for a larger grant to be applied for from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Project STAND
Principal Investigator: Ellen Swain
Award: IMLS, $99,848
End Date: 09/30/2020
Understanding the Needs of Scholar in Contemporary Publishing Environment
Principal Investigator: John Wilkin
Award: Mellon, $1,000,000
End Date: 09/30/2020
Predicting Mortality from Wearable Devices
Principal Investigator: Bruce Schatz
Award: Campus Research Board, $10,000
End Date: 11/30/2020
Building Sustainable and Scalable IDHH Services
Principal Investigator: Thomas Teper
Award: ISL, $168,432
End Date: 12/31/2020
Launching the Data Curation Network (Sloan Foundation Prime Award)
Principal Investigator: Heidi Imker
Award: University of Minnesota, $16,664
End Date: 05/31/2021
Develop library license language related to electronic resources
Principal Investigator: Lisa Hinchliffe
Award: Mellon, $70,500
End Date: 06/30/2021
The Woodward Collection of Advertising: Documenting American Media, Culture, and Consumer Behavior in the 20th Century
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Teper
Award: NHPRC
End Date: 06/30/2021
The Woodward Collection of Advertising consists of over 4 million ads from magazines and newspapers designated by product type, brand, date, and sometimes region, dating from the early period of mass advertising in the late 1800’s through the 1980’s. The collection represents the social, economic, and cultural changes in the United States through printed, ephemeral advertisements particularly targeted at the developing middle class American. In its current state, it is impossible for users to determine whether the advertisement they need is included in the collection, let alone where in the collection it can be found. The key to providing access to the Woodward Collection’s history of American consumer culture and values and the ability to integrate the collection into research and instruction is to improve its preservation, inventory, and access thereby facilitating the research process for a wide variety of users. The grant project will produce a searchable online EAD finding aid, MARC record, and website describing the collection. As part of the dissemination stage of the project, printed postcards will be produced to distribute to students, faculty and researchers both locally and nationally.
CARLI Counts
Principal Investigator: Lisa Hinchliffe
Award: IMLS, $59,298
End Date: 09/30/2021
Prioritizing Privacy: Training to Improve Practice in Library Analytics Projects
Principal Investigator: Lisa Hinchliffe
Award: IMLS, $249,198
End Date: 08/31/2022