The University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences (SIS) is pleased to announce that it has won a third grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services this year for a total of $1,281,232.
Associate Professor Peiling Wang has been awarded a $199,995 National Leadership Grants for Libraries for her project “Modeling Web searching behaviors and designing new effective interactions for digital libraries.” Wang is the principal investigator on a two-year project that will analyze the needs and query behaviors of users who search for information on the Web.
Wang, in partnership with Dietmar Wolfram and Jin Zhang at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, will create new models for information discovery that incorporate algorithms for conceptual matching, allowing users to search for concepts as an alternative to entering search terms. The research will affect the design of new search interactions for digital libraries and Web search engines.
“This IMLS Research and Demonstration grant is a significant measure of the impact of Dr. Wang’s research into information system design,” said SIS Director Ed Cortez. “We are very pleased now to have our faculty working on three significant IMLS grants simultaneously.”
SIS Associate Professor Bill Robinson is co-principal investigator on a $632,249 IMLS grant to help recruit and educate the next generation of librarians; and SIS Professor Carol Tenopir is the principal investigator on a $446,988 IMLS grant to help librarians maximize their use of data about how electronic resources are used.
Peiling Wang was recently the recipient of a 2005 OCLC/ALISE Research Grant Award.
For questions, please contact Peiling Wang at (865) 974-3700 or peilingw@utk.edu. For more information about the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, visit http://www.sis.utk.edu.
