On June 13, SIU was honored at the SLA conference. SIU is one of the top 50 university libraries for research productivity in special librarianship.
From the email announcement that I got from Tony Stankus, "...we are announcing the roll call of honor of the top 50 universities which contributed the most papers to the literature of special librarianship from 2000-2010, based on an analysis of the author affiliations of over 2,000 papers of substantive research or professional commentary in the eleven most cited journals in these areas, using procedures adapted from Wiberley, Hurd & Weller (College & Research Libraries 46(4): 334-342; 2006)
Using the US News & World Report listings of over 1400 institutions of higher education as our baseline, we calculate that your presence on the top 50 list places you in the highest 4% of the country in terms of scholarly productivity in this area, something I am sure would not greatly surprise you."
I missed the award ceremony, so I don't know where in the top fifty we fell. In other rankings of research in library and information science, SIU hasn't made it to the top ten for published articles but made it to the top ten for conference presentations.
I would quibble with the statement that being in the top 50 puts us in the highest 4% of scholarly productivity. The 1400 institutions in the US News listings include about a thousand colleges and universities no publications. Nevertheless, even being in the top quarter says something about the faculty in Library Affairs.
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