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Previous Grants and Awards - 2005 to 2009
Participation with Elsevier and Seven Universities:
Return on Investment Study (ROI), Phase 2
Agency: Elsevier
Period: FY 2008-09
Data Consultant: Carol Tenopir, SIS
Libraries participants: Gayle Baker, Ken Wise, Debbie Valine, Pauline Bayne
The University Libraries is participating in an Elsevier-sponsored study of the return on investment of academic library journal collections in the grant-writing process.
Phase 2 is a replication of the University of Illinois case study methodology to 8 universities world wide. Carol Tenopir has received a $29,673 award to collect and interpret the data for this expanded study of 10-years of data in FY 2008-09. Participating universities include:
CSIC – Spanish National Research Council
KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
University of Adelaide
University of Hong Kong
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Pretoria
University of Tennessee Knoxville
WASEDA University
UT data will be supplied for library expenditures (Debbie Valine & Pauline Bayne), number of faculty (Institutional Research), and research grants received (Office of Research). A survey of UT faculty, who have received grants, will be conducted in September by Gayle Baker, Ken Wise, and Carol Tenopir, who is the data analyst and consultant on the project.
The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee:
A Grass-Roots Approach to 'Volunteer Voices'
Agency: Institute for Museum and Library Services
Amount: $938,580
Period: 2005-2008
P.I.: Aaron Purcell (UT Libraries) 2005 - Oct. 2007
Aubrey Mitchell (UT Libraries) Dec. 2007 - 2008
and Ken Middleton (MTSU
Library)
Project Director: Tiffani Conner
The University of Tennessee Libraries in partnership with a host of Tennessee's cultural and historical institutions will develop a statewide digital library of primary sources. These will be accessible to the state's residents, K-12 learners, and scholars throughout the world through a free, full-text searchable database of 10,000 unique and significant historical items.
Participation with the School of Information Sciences
Science Links
Agency: Institute for Museum and Library Services
Amount: $632,249
Period: 2005-2008
P.I.: William Robinson (SIS) and Jillian Keally (UT Libraries)
This two-year project will recruit students from underrepresented groups to prepare them for a career in science librarianship. Science Links scholars receive scholarships to the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee. They also gain practical professional experience by working in the Science Links partner institutions: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Scientific and Technical Information at the Department of Energy, and Information International Associates.
From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont: Bringing Education and Economic Development to the Great Smoky Mountains, 1910-2004
Agency: Institute for Museum and Library Services
Amount: $241,775
Period: 2004-2007
P.I.: Kenneth Wise and Anne Bridges
Project created a web site of fully searchable online archives containing selected letters, diaries, photographs and other materials that document the history of the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN.
Participation with the School of Information Sciences
MaxData: Maximizing Library Investments in Digital Collections through Better Data Gathering and Analysis
Agency: Institute for Museum and Library Services
Amount: $446,988
Period: 2004-2007
P.I.: Carol Tenopir (SIS) with participation of Gayle Baker,
Maribeth Manoff, and Ellie Read (UT Libraries)
Project will provide models to help librarians maximize their use of data about how electronic resources are used.
UT Libraries Faculty Research Incentive Program (FRIP) Awards
2006-07
- Anne E. Bridges and Ken Wise - Arrowmont grant, Thompson Digital Photograph project, and Roth digital photographs projects.
- Aaron D. Purcell - Arthur E. Morgan Biography Research
- Kristen A. Bullard - Managing Organizational Change in the Library Instruction Environment
- Jeanine Williamson - Mental Imagery Styles and Library Instruction Methods
2005-2006
- Donna Braquet. - Information Needs and Information Seeking Behaviors of Hurricane Katrina Survivors before, during, and after the Storm
- JoAnne Deeken - To attend a newspaper digitization workshop in preparation for an NEH grant proposal to digitize Tennessee newspapers
- Gayle Baker, Maribeth Manoff and Eleanor Read. - Equipment to support MaxData: Electronic Resources Usage Data at the University of Tennessee
- Linda Behrend - Anne Wetzell Armstrong Biography
- Arwen Hutt - Use of Unqualified Dublin Core Elements in the Open Archives Initiative Framework with a colleague at Indiana University
2004-2005
- Thura Mack - Training Scholars to Self-Archive in in the UT Institutional Repository
- Linda Behrend - Anne Wetzell Armstrong Biography Research
- Marie Garrett - Faculty Experience of Libraries: An Empirical Study
- Aaron Purcell
- Steve Harris
University of Tennessee ITC Grant Recipients
- Kristen Bullard, Library Instruction Modules for First Year Studies, 2006
University of Tennessee Educational Technology Collaborative Grant (SET)
- Jane Row, Teresa Walker, Travis Dolence, 2004/05. Using EndNote Bibliographic Management Software for Research and Instruction, an online tutorial.
University of Tennessee Professional Leave Award
- Anne Bridges, Spring 2005. Editing the Great Smoky Mountains Regional Bibliography
- Pauline Bayne, Spring 2005. Writing Music Research: A Practical Guide
University of Tennessee Summer Research Assistant (SARIF)
- Linda Phillips and Philip Ewell (School of Music). To launch the online music theory journal, Gamut, on Newfound Press. http://www.lib.utk.edu/newfoundpress, 2006
UT Libraries
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Sheree M. Spoons
Business Services Director
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