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Information Institute of Syracuse

Director – R. David Lankes
Location – 205 Hinds Hall
Phone number – 315-443-3640
Email – iis@iis.syr.edu
 
Mission:
The Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS) is a long standing research center in the areas of education, technology and librarianship. It has been the source and host for a number of highly visible and widely successful digital education information services. The IIS created The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education), The Virtual Reference Desk (VRD), AskERIC and the Educator's Reference Desk. All projects share the same goal: to improve student learning by providing educators, policy makers and parents with quality information to improve teaching and the educational environment. IIS projects bring together universities, government agencies and private enterprises to promote easy access to high quality educational information to a diverse user population.
 
Projects:
1) The National Science Digital Library
The NSDL (National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library) is a program designed to establish a national digital library that will constitute an online network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and amthematics (STEM) education at all levels.
See project web site http://nsdl.org 

2)  The NSDL SUN Project 
SUN (Students Using NSDL) is an NSF/NSDL-funded research project that supports the creation of entry-points to NSDL that can be used by students to learn science information literacy and to engage in using NSDL resources. These access points will be NSDL-based interactivities designed to teach science information literacy to young students and introduce them to the NSDL Collections and Services. 
See Project website http://nsdlsun.org/

3)  The Future of Libraians in the Workforce
This is a two-year study sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Science (IMLS) that will identify the nature of anticipated labor shortages in the library and information science (LIS) field over the next decade; assess the number and types of library and information science jobs that will become available in the U.S. either through retirement or new job creation; determine the skills that will be required to fill such vacancies; and recommend effective approaches to recruiting and retaining workers to fill them. The study will result in better tools for workforce planning and management, better match of demand and supply, and improved recruitment and retention of librarians. The study is led by Dr. José-Marie Griffiths, Dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and includes researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, Syracuse University, the Special Libraries Association (SLA), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T).
See Project website http://libraryworkforce.org/


Center for Emerging Network Technologies

CENT provides leading industry insight and analysis with regard to emerging Information Technologies within enterprise IT, and consults with local businesses and involvement with other community projects within the iSchool and Syracuse University.
Center for Digital Literacy

CDL is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research and development center at Syracuse University dedicated to understanding the impact of information, technology, and media literacies on children and adults; and studying the impact having or not having these literacies has on people, organizations, and society.