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Craig Murray Awarded AOL Research GrantAmerica Online, Inc (AOL) has recently awarded $40,000 research grant to doctoral student Craig Murray and Assistant Professor Jimmy Lin to support their study on Web user search behavior. This is their second grant award from AOL, building on collaboration over the past two years. From the perspective of computational linguistics, the project involves an investigation of user search behavior using advanced analysis tools developed by Craig himself.
Kara Reuter Wins 2nd place at the 2007 ALISE Poster Competition
iSchool doctoral student Kara Reuter received second place honors at the 2007 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Doctoral Student Poster Competition. There were approximately fifty entries from colleges across the US and Canada, including all the top LIS schools. Kara’s work titled Children Selecting Books in a Library: Extending Models of Information Behavior to a Recreational Setting, investigates children’s selection of books for recreational reading in a public library. Using a multiple case study design and a grounded theory approach, her work extends LIS models of information behavior to a recreational setting and contributes to the development of an expanded understanding of human information behavior.