S.O.S. for Information Literacy (2001-2008)
PI - Marilyn Arnone

New York State Impact Study (2006-2009)
PI - Ruth Small

Perceived Competence in Information Literacy
by Middle School Students (2006-2008)
PI - Marilyn Arnone

Motivational Influences and Information Requirements(2008-2009)
PI - Ruth Small

Reinventing Urban School Libraries:
Creating Effective Programs, Service and Resources
for Children in High-Risk Elementary Schools (2002-2004)
PI - Ruth Small

Coming Into the Classroom from the Outside:
Childhood Contexts and Dispositions to Learning (2004-2006)
PI - Ruth Small

Virtual Markets in Wireless Communication
and Computation Grids (2006)
PI - Lee McKnight

S.O.S. for Information Literacy (2001-2008)
School library media specialists do much more than simply provide learning support to students. While teaching children the skills they need to be independent users of ideas and information, they also excite them about the process of learning and stimulate their curiosity and exploration of information and information resources. This two-year study will help the school library community better understand the impact of New York State's school libraries on student learning and motivation.
PI: Ruth Small
Funded by Institute of Museum & Library Services and US Department of Education

New York State Impact Study (2006-2009)
This six-year project is dedicated to improving the teaching of information literacy and research skills, to students at both the K-12 and college levels, through the development of a, freely-accessible, Web-based, multimedia database of motivating,, tried-and-true lesson plans, contributed by and shared among classroom teachers and library media specialists throughout the world. The project includes an online, multimedia magazine called "Educators’ Spotlight Digest."
PI: Marilyn Arnone
Funded by Institute of Museum & Library Services
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Perceived Competence in Information Literacy by Middle School Students (2006-2008)
In today's digital world, the importance of addressing affective/motivational issues during information literacy tasks has never been greater. The overall purpose of the study is to explore the relationships among affective, motivational, and performance-based facets of information-seeking among youth. The study also addresses the potential role of interest as an intervening variable that may strengthen the relationship between perceived competence and information-seeking performance.
PI: Marilyn Arnone
Funded by Institute of Museum & Library Services

Facilitating the Innovative Process: Motivational Influences and Information Requirements (2008-2009)
Innovation is the very essence of the American spirit. The innovative process requires identifying a problem, researching it, generating ideas, planning, testing and persisting long enough to find a viable solution to that problem. But what happens along the way? We know very little about the factors that contribute to or support inventive thinking and the innovation creation process. This project explores (1) what role information seeking skills, resources, and technologies play in supporting that process and related activities and (2) what human and other influences motivate that process.
PI: Ruth Small
Funded by the Kauffman Foundation/Enitiative Project

Reinventing Urban School Libraries (2002-2004)
Reinventing Urban School Libraries: This two-year project documents the impact of a specially-designed, professional graduate program to prepare library media specialists for service to elementary schools in New York City in order to develop a model for effective interventions by pre-service and in-service educators in high-need, urban school districts.
PI: Ruth Small
Funded by The John Ben Snow Foundation

Coming Into the Classroom from the Outside (2004-2006)
Childhood Contexts and Dispositions to Learning: This two-year catalyst grant addresses the ways in which institutional and non-institutional contexts of development in childhood (grades 3-9) affect the development of children’s learning and dispositions to learning, particularly the development of children’s foundational academic skills. The project partnered Syracuse University, Cornell University, University of Michigan, and Upstate Medical University, as well as more than 25 organizational partners such as the Bronx Zoo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Libraries for the Future, Apple Computer, and NASA.
PI: Ruth Small
Funded by The National Science Foundation

Virtual Markets in Wireless Communication and Computation Grids (2006)
Wireless Grids: This project, "Virtual Markets in Wireless Communication and Computation Grids" is investigating the value proposition that wireless grid networks offer to increase access to wireless communication services. CDL designed and implemented the project’s Summer Institute on Wireless Grids at the Boston Museum of Science in summer 2005. Students from three Boston-area high schools participated.
PI: Lee McKnight
Funded by The National Science Foundation