The Center for Information as Evidence (CIE) is located within the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles. The Center serves as an interdisciplinary forum addressing the ways in which information objects and systems are created, used, and preserved as legal, administrative, scientific, social, cultural and historical evidence.   CIE is committed to incorporating perspectives from ethnic communities from around the world in order to sustain the diversity within indigenous cultural heritages and broaden methods of information analysis and conservation.

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:

CIE has been awarded a four-year, $950,000 grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The project, entitled Building the Future of Archival Education and Research, will facilitate the growth of Archival Science scholarship as part of the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. CIE's Director, Anne Gilliland, will be the project's Principal Investigator, together with co-Principal Investigator Professor Elizabeth Yakel from the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Together they will lead a collaboration between UCLA, the University of Michigan, and six other participating academic institutions to support a minimum of four doctoral fellowships in Archival Science.

The 2009 and 2010 Doctoral Fellowships in Archival Science will provide four years of funding to each recipient to undertake a doctoral degree specializing in Archival Science at one of the participating institutions. The other partnering institutions are the University of Maryland, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pittsburgh, University of Texas, Simmons College, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The project will also strengthen the growing network of archival educators nationally and internationally through the development of a series of four annual Archival Education and Research Institutes (AERI). These weeklong summer institutes will be held each year at one of the participating universities for doctoral students and faculty in Archival Science from academic institutions nationally and around the world. The institutes will address pedagogical techniques, research methodologies, curriculum development, and technical and social issues relevant to teaching and scholarship in the field. The first institute will be held at UCLA in July 2009. A limited number of scholarships to attend the institutes will be available each year for doctoral students who are enrolled in any U.S. program.

To learn more about the project, please visit the website at http://aeri.gseis.ucla.edu/index.htm.

upcoming events

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WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THE CONTINUATION OF OUR COLLOQUIUM SERIES,

INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND INFORMATION NEXT FALL. IF THERE IS A TOPIC YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE ADDRESSED, PLEASE EMAIL US.