Researchers

Michael Eisenberg, Co-Director
Dean Emeritus and Professor
University of Washington
Information School

Dr. Michael Eisenberg’s expertise is in use of information and technology literacy, information management in learning and teaching, and school library and information programs, K-12. Professor Eisenberg has an MLS from the State University of New York at Albany (1973) and a PhD in Information Transfer from Syracuse University (1986). He joined the School as Director in August 1998.

R. David Lankes, Co-Director
Associate Professor and Director Information Institute of Syracuse
Syracuse University
School of Information Studies

R. David Lankes, PhD, is Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS) and an Associate Professor at Syracuse University?��s School of Information Studies. Lankes’ past research projects include the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM), the Virtual Reference Desk (VRD), the Educator’s Reference Desk. He is currently involved in projects related to the NSF’s National Science Digital Library (NSDL), and several IMLS studies. Lankes was director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology from 1998-2003 and co-founded the award winning AskERIC project in 1992. He was a visiting scholar to Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and a visiting fellow at the National Library of Canada.

Support

• Peyina Lin,  Ph.D. Candidate, The Information School
• Yuan Lin, Ph.D. Student, The Information School
• Lisa Pawlewicz, System Administrator

Alumni & Former Staff

• Sandra Fan, Ph.D. Student, Developer, Computer Science & Engineering 
• Shaun Kane, Ph.D. Student, The Information School 
• Cathy Elmore, Developer