Library & Information Science News

New Faculty Join CCI

September 24, 2024

Drexel CCI welcomes eight new faculty members this autumn.

$398K Grant Fuels CCI’s Research into Digital Ad Archiving

July 31, 2024

Mat Kelly, PhD, assistant professor, and Alex Poole, PhD, associate professor, have received a 2024 National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Drexel CCI Faculty Featured in WHYY Article on ChatGPT's Information Retrieval

March 14, 2024

Denise Agosto and Michael Ekstrand weighed in on ChatGPT and its role within the broader landscape of artificial intelligence, information retrieval and human-computer interaction.

Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics Faculty Present at ASIS&T 2023

October 20, 2023

Drexel CCI is proud to announce our faculty members will present and be recognized for awards at the 86th ASIS&T Annual Meeting in London.

Drexel CCI Faculty & Students Present at iConference 2023

March 31, 2023

Associate Professor Alexander H. Poole, PhD was nominated for the iConference’s Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper.

Drexel CCI Faculty and Students at 2022 ALISE and ASIS&T Conferences

October 26, 2022

Drexel CCI faculty and students are participating in the 85th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting and ALISE 2022 Annual Conference.

Drexel CCI Researchers Receive IMLS Grant in Support of Collaborative Study on the Preservation of Digital Ads

August 31, 2022

The project serves to analyze preservation practices of past online advertisements help to inform future archiving methods.

Deborah A. Garwood, PhD ‘21 Receives 2022 ALISE Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award and 2022-23 Beckman Center Fellowship

May 31, 2022

Advised by CCI Associate Professor Alex H. Poole, PhD, Garwood received the 2022 ALISE Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation award for her dissertation titled “To Our Health: A Case Study of Archivists’ Information Work and Information Practices at History of Medicine Collections in Philadelphia.”

Alex Poole Receives Davis Award and Winsor Prize from ALA's Library History Round Table

May 24, 2022

Poole is the first Drexel faculty member to receive the American Library Association’s Donald G. Davis Article Award and the Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award.