Trends in library STEM education projects: A review of publicly funded projects from the institute of museum and library services

IF 2.4 3区管理学 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Library & Information Science Research Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.lisr.2025.101368

Soo Hyeon Kim, Ayoung Yoon, Jaihyun Park

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Considering the growing national investment in informal STEM education and libraries' emerging role within that landscape, it is timely to systematically review library-based STEM education projects to understand how libraries have contributed to STEM education over time in the US. This study conducts a systematic review of grant-funded projects related to STEM education from 2012 to 2022 from the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS). One hundred and twenty-eight library STEM education projects were analyzed to understand trends in growth and focus of IMLS-funded library STEM education projects. Based on the content analysis of project abstracts and Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) topic modeling method, library STEM education projects contribute to diversification at multiple levels, such as participant populations, program structures, STEM disciplinary focus, funding scale and distribution, and network of collaboration were demonstrated. Findings highlight the unique role libraries have played in broadening the landscape of informal STEM learning.

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图书馆STEM教育项目的趋势：博物馆和图书馆服务研究所公共资助项目的回顾

考虑到国家对非正式STEM教育的投资不断增加，以及图书馆在这一领域的新角色，现在是时候系统地审查基于图书馆的STEM教育项目，以了解图书馆在美国长期以来如何为STEM教育做出贡献。本研究对图书馆与博物馆服务研究所（IMLS） 2012年至2022年与STEM教育相关的资助项目进行了系统回顾。分析了128个图书馆STEM教育项目，以了解imls资助的图书馆STEM教育项目的增长趋势和重点。基于项目摘要的内容分析和非负矩阵分解（Non-negative Matrix Factorization， NMF）主题建模方法，揭示了图书馆STEM教育项目在参与者群体、项目结构、STEM学科重点、资助规模和分布、协作网络等多个层面对多元化的贡献。研究结果强调了图书馆在拓宽非正式STEM学习领域方面发挥的独特作用。

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Library & Information Science Research INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： Library & Information Science Research, a cross-disciplinary and refereed journal, focuses on the research process in library and information science as well as research findings and, where applicable, their practical applications and significance. All papers are subject to a double-blind reviewing process.