About

i3r@UMD is an alliance among UMD College of Information (INFO) faculty, staff, and students to

1. produce evidence-based tools to strengthen immigrants’ trust in information
2. offer research support through various gatherings
3. promote information professionals’ awareness of community members’ lived experiences

Topics include but are not limited to:

• highlighting and investing in immigrants’ and international communities’ information capacities;
• understanding the intersection between information, language, cognition, and affective states;
• studying the history of information flows among immigrant/international communities;
• uncovering the impact of migration and integration on children and adolescent development;
• redressing the misuse of information tools in framing immigrant and international communities;
• and exploring information behavior in transnational, cultural, and social contexts–including how individuals change their information behavior in different settings.