[Asis-l] Research News from the Syracuse iSchool

[John David Ross]

Research News from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University
Spring, 2014


iSchool Hosts Workshop for NSF-Funded Social Computing Researchers
Faculty members recently hosted a one-day workshop for New York researchers doing National Science Foundation-funded work in the area of social-computational systems.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1630>

Faculty, Students Using Big Data to Analyze Energy-Use Patterns
An iSchool team of researchers is conducting analysis using big data sets from the Pecan Street Research Consortium, a global collaboration working on utility system operations, climate change, integration of distributed energy and storage, and customer needs and preferences.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1625>

IMLS Grant Funding Program to Boost Library Workers’ Online Teaching Skills
The grant will enable development of a program to guide transfer of in-person teaching skills and pedagogy to the online environment, and help librarian-trainers evaluate and gain experience with various online delivery platforms.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1620>

Yu Awarded IMLS Grant to Build Citation Opinion Analysis Tool
A team at the iSchool will be able to start building a valuable new academic research citation tool with newly awarded grant funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1615>

Stripling’s ALA Year Focuses on Library Declaration, Advocacy, Transformations
Assistant Professor of Practice Barbara Stripling is also the 2013-2014 president of the American Library Association (ALA). She has spent much of the past nine months assuring that the conversations about libraries are focused on their high value and their positive, productive futures.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1609>

Wind Power Can Be Cost-Comparable, New Analysis Reveals
Analysis shows that wind energy comes within .35 cents per kWh when levelized over the 20-year life of a typical wind contract, compared on an equivalent basis to the full costs for natural gas-fired energy, according to Jason Dedrick, associate professor at the iSchool.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1607>

Hurst-Wahl Garners WISE Accolades
Associate professor of practice Jill Hurst-Wahl has been recognized by the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium for excellence in teaching.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1602>

Faculty, Doctoral Students Present at iConference
The gathering brings together researchers from more than 50 information and library science schools across the globe for a week of sharing and learning through paper sessions, poster presentations, talks, tours, and special events.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1597>

Lankes Makes Book Available for Free Download
R. David Lankes, Professor and Dean’s Scholar for the New Librarianship at the iSchool has released his book, Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries for Today’s Complex World for free on the online publishing platform Medium, as well as providing files available for downloading on his own blog.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1592>

Faculty Book Examines Digital Communication Technologies in Presidential Campaigns
Heavy use of the Internet and digital communications technologies in recent American presidential campaigns may make it seem that the Internet Age has had a democratizing effect on those efforts.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1577>

Stanton Featured on WAMC's Academic Minute
Professor and Senior Associate Dean Jeffrey Stanton was featured on Academic Minute - a daily radio program that airs on Northeast Public Radio - where he discussed the sonification of data.
Read more...<http://ischool.syr.edu/newsroom/index.aspx?recid=1573>


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