The Center for Children's Books

The Center for Children’s Books (CCB) is a crossroads for critical inquiry, professional training, and educational outreach related to youth-focused resources, literature, and librarianship. The Center’s mission is to facilitate the creation and dissemination of exemplary and progressive research and scholarship related to all aspects of children’s and young adult literature; media and resources for young (age 0-18) audiences; and youth services librarianship.

The CCB supports its mission by providing space, staff, and other support to affiliates; housing collections and other research tools; and sponsoring outreach, scholarly conferences, and instructional activities. Affiliates include GSLIS and University faculty and academic staff; the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB); and the GSLIS K-12 Library Information Specialist Certification Program.

In partnership with the BCCB—an authoritative analytic review journal—the Center aims to inspire and inform adults who connect young people with resources in person, in print, and online. The Center sponsors activities and hosts interdisciplinary research projects involving both theory and practice. In its dual role as research collection and educational community, the Center has national impact on the future of reading and readers.

Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship

The GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) studies the information lifecyle in the contexts of science and scholarship. Center members contribute to our understanding of how data curation, information modeling, and data analytics can enable scientists and scholars to leverage digital information resources.

CIRSS members have expertise in digital preservation, interview methods, information retrieval, data and text mining, knowledge discovery, ubiquitous systems, collaborative systems, socio-technical systems, author disambiguation, persuasive technologies, reading behaviors, information modeling, scientific publishing, institutional repository development, cultural heritage collections, gaming, social networking and digital music retrieval and evaluation.

Funding partners include Google, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Library of Congress, the Environmental Change Institute, and Institute for Museum and Library Science.

Community Informatics Initiative

The Community Informatics Initiative (CII) works with people to develop information and communication technologies to achieve their goals. It fosters collaborations across campus, local, national and international communities, working together to build innovative community networks, community technology centers, software, and library services. The CII has four primary and intersecting goals:

• Research—to create new knowledge about community inquiry, including its processes, practices, technologies;
• Teaching—to help both individuals and organizations engage in more productive community inquiry;
• Public Engagement—to engage in community inquiry through the development of, and action in, living laboratories that bring together people from all walks of life; and
• Institutional Infrastructure—to establish democratic and sustainable infrastructure for community inquiry.