Research teams
The only "grande école" in France specialising in Information and Library Science, enssib, like the other grandes écoles, is dedicated to teaching and research in its specific skills areas.
The school has a number of different research centres and teams :
The Gabriel Naudé Centre
The Gabriel Naudé Centre is an extension of the History of the Book Research Centre. Its three research strands are :
- the history of the book
- the history of libraries
- the socio-anthropology of the library of today
Thus the team's area of interest now includes today's library considered as a social object, while continuing to focus also on the history of the book and of libraries.
The members of the team are either academics or chief librarians qualified to supervise research.
The doctoral students are from enssib and include a substantial proportion of scholarship holders and working library directors.
The associate researchers represent many different establishments, thus testifying to the national reach of this project.
ELICO – Lyon Information and Communication Science Research Team
The team's four research strands are media, the library users and culture, documents and society, and communication and organisations.
ELICO has been an officially recognised research unit since March 2007. It is the result of the merger of three earlier information and communication science laboratories:
- Media and Identities (EA no. 1858 - Lyon University 2/IEP)
- ERSICOM (EA no. 1858 - Lyon University 3)
- URSIDOC (EA no. 3718 -Lyon University 1/enssib)
ELICO comprises teacher-researchers and doctoral students in the information/communication field from 6 Lyon establishments and pursues 4 research strands: media, the library users and culture, documents and society, and communication and organisations.
For all addition information, consult the ELICO website.