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Special Funding Opportunities

The following areas of emphasis currently have designated funding (e.g. – assistantships, scholarships and/or fellowships) available.

Community Informatics (M.S. campus or online)

Funding is available through the Community Informatics Initiative (CII), a research and teaching center devoted to enabling communities through information and communication technologies. This initiative aims to encourage access to and participation in careers in LIS by individuals from U.S. populations traditionally underrepresented in graduate study and research. Students learn through active engagement: for example, in literacy and digital storytelling projects with after-school programs in the Champaign Public Schools; health, youth, arts, and participatory democracy programs in Chicago’s Paseo Boricua neighborhood, and community technology centers in East St. Louis (Illinois) and São Tomé, West Africa. Questions? Contact "Sharon Irish"-slirish, at uiuc.edu-.

Data Curation (M.S. campus or online)

Data curation is the active and on-going management of data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to scholarship, science, and education. Data curation activities enable data discovery and retrieval, maintain its quality, add value, and provide for re-use over time. This emerging field includes authentication, archiving, management, preservation, retrieval, and representation. Questions? Contact "Melissa Cragin"-cragin, at uiuc.edu-.

History, Policy, and Economics (Ph.D.)

Inquisitive students with strong academic backgrounds and an interest in conducting independent research should consider doctoral studies in LIS. The GSLIS Ph.D. program is based on a four-year cycle including two years of coursework and two years of supervised research. Doctoral graduates provide leadership in academia, public institutions, and private corporations. Designated funding is currently available for incoming students with interest in exploring information in society, including policy, economic, and historical dimensions. Questions? Contact "Linda Smith"-lcsmith, at uiuc.edu-.

LIS Access Midwest Program (LAMP)

LAMP is a regional network of academic libraries and information science schools dedicated to promoting careers within the field of library and information science (LIS) by targeting promising undergraduate students at its member institutions to participate in activities and events designed to increase their awareness of the profession and to provide support for subsequent graduate studies in library and information science. LAMP seeks to employ a range of recruitment techniques including summer institutes and internships, peer and professional mentorship and guidance, and financial assistance for the completion of a master's degree in LIS. LAMP specifically seeks to encourage the participation of students from statistically and historically underrepresented populations in LIS.