Faculty and student research at the School aims to advance knowledge of key areas in information studies and apply it to the design, use, and management of information resources and services. Our diverse faculty, with expertise in psychology, computer science, education, history, business, anthropology, chemistry, and political science, bridge these disciplines to develop theories, models, and applications in the following broad areas:

• Human Computer Interaction & Information Architecture
• Organization of Knowledge and Information
• Preservation and Conservation of Physical and Digital Artifacts
• Development, Management, and Evaluation of Collections and Services
• History of the Cultural Record
• Information Advocacy, Ethics, and Policy
• User Behavior

Funded Projects

Students have the opportunity to work on research with faculty in a variety of ways: in classes, independent studies, Capstone experiences, and dissertations. You can find specific details of faculty research interests and outputs on their individual pages. Here is a selection of currently funded research projects:

• Digitization in the Round: Educating Digital Librarians for the 21st Century
  (http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~digitize)
  The project aims to recruit students and build curriculum in the art and science of creating and managing digital libraries. (PI: Rice-Lively)
  
  
• OpenChoice: A Platform for Web Content Classification & Filtering
  OpenChoice will provide an open source filtering system to allow organizations to configure and tune for their own Web information filtering requirements. Using webs of trust and open source statistical modeling software, OpenChoice is intended to further the open source community's efforts to be independent from commercial software vendors. (PI: Turnbull)
  
  
• The Open Video Digital Library Toolkit Project
  (http://www.open-video-toolkit.org/)
  An IMLS-funded project that will provide museums, libraries and other institutions holding moving image collections with the tools to create their own Web-based digital video libraries. (PI: Geisler)