Projects
SFI seeks opportunities for collaboration accross the University and with external public and private organizations.
Annual Lecture
SFI lecture ~ November 8, 2007 ~
21st Century Skills, Education, and Economic Development for Global, Knowledge-based Workplaces
Graduate Student Seminar ~ November 8, 2007 ~
Augmented Realities via Handheld Devices: Sifting Knowledge through Our Fingertips
A campus-wide meeting with proponents of online education
~ November 9, 2007 ~
How Virtual Interactions Deepen Learning for Real Students
Current Projects
Go to College Wiki
http://gotocollege.wikispaces.com/
This wiki is a University of Pittsburgh class project created on November 8, 2006. The class is Digital Citizenship, and it focuses on the relative advantages and disadvantages of inequitable access to computers and the Internet.
Recent Projects
SFI symposium ~ October 11, 2007 ~
Beyond the Politics of Making Things Visible: Crawling, Scraping and Mapping Issues with the Web
SFI symposium ~ October 4, 2007 ~
Web 2.0 - Library 2.0: Introducing Democratic Technologies in Kazakhstan
SFI symposium ~ July 25, 2007 ~
Service-Learning at Pitt: Challenges and Opportunities
First SFI-sponsored research symposium ~ May 4, 2007
Web Services for Individuals Faced with Mental Health Challenges
Previous Projects
National Study of Users & Potential Users of Online Information
Funding Agency: Institute
of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Project Duration: September 30, 2003 - September 30, 2005
Understanding of Digital Information Production, Distribution and Use
Funding Agency: The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Project Duration: December 1, 2003 - June 1, 2004
The Measurement of Taxpayer Return-On-Investment (ROI) in Public Libraries in Florida
Project Duration: November 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Library Consortia & Electronic Journal Services, September 2002
Funding Agency: The Ingenta Institute, United Kingdom
Duration: September 2002 more 
Cost, Use and Value of Scholarly Journals at the University of Pittsburgh
Funding Agency: The University of Pittsburgh,
University Library System
Duration: October 2002 more
Information Technology Success Criteria and Best Practices: Perspectives of Executives of Higher Education Institutions
Funding Agency: Collegis, Inc., The Leadership
Alliance Program
Duration: November 2002 more
Influences of the Digital Revolution on the Conduct of Scientific Research
Funding Agency: American Association for
the Advancement of Science (Women's International Science
Collaboration travel grant)
Duration: October 2002 more
Study of the Comparison of the Cost and Use of Print and Electronic Collections at Drexel University
Funding Agency: Institute for Museum and
Library Services
Duration: 2003 more
Services of Readership Surveys Performed by the University of Tennessee
Funding Agency: The University of Tennessee,
School of Information Sciences
Duration: 2003 more