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The School of Information Studies of Syracuse University was known as the School of Library Science until 1974. This name change signalled a shift in emphasis from the traditional study of the library and library activities to a concern with the needs, uses, acquisition, organization, storage and retrieval of information. It also indicated a shift toward a research environment. Since 1974 the School has moved from essentially no outside research income to a fairly stable base of approximately $500, 000 per year. Research activities now include topics such as the study of ranking algorithms in information retrieval systems; the development and study of a health information sharing project; a study of the user-search intermediary question negotiation process; and a study of the impact of the representation of documents in an information retrieval system.