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Impressive showing by GSLIS scheduled for 2013 ALISE Conference

Join GSLIS faculty, staff, and students for a number of presentations and activities during the 2013 ALISE Conference.

Awards and Recognitions

GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will be recognized during the ALISE Awards Reception to be held Thursday, January 24, from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at the Seattle Public Library:

Nicole Cooke, GSLIS assistant professor, will receive the 2013 Norman Horrocks Leadership Award in honor of her leadership in a variety of professional ALISE activities, including her service on multiple committees such as the Doctoral Student SIG, the Diversity Task Force, and the ALISE Multicultural, Ethnic and Humanistic Concerns SIG.

GSLIS doctoral student Karla Lucht will receive the ALISE/University of Washington Information School Youth Services Graduate Student Travel Award.

GSLIS Senior Research Scientist Martin Wolske and GSLIS doctoral student Colin Rhinesmith will be recognized as contributors to a Featured Presentation (see below), a selection based on reviewer scores and comments.

Conference Presentations

January 22 — WISE Pedagogy Pre-conference Workshop: “Inquiry across Time and Space,” presenters include GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke and GSLIS doctoral student Karla Lucht; GSLIS Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Rae-Anne Montague, moderator

January 23 — “Inquiry into the Practice of Advising in LIS,” GSLIS Associate Professor Terry Weech, panelist

January 24 — “Where Do We Go from Here? Exploring Perceptions of Community-based Research as ‘Serious Research’ in Higher Education,” GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke, co-convener

January 24 — Featured Presentation: “Community Informatics Studio: Designing Experiential Learning to Support Teaching, Research, and Practice,” GSLIS Senior Research Scientist Martin Wolske and GSLIS doctoral student Colin Rhinesmith

January 25 — “Development and Fundraising for IS Programs,” GSLIS Assistant Dean for Advancement and Alumni Relations Diana Stroud

Works in Progress Poster Presentations (Tuesday, January 22, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.)

“Youth Advocacy in Theory and Practice: Centering Youth in Young Adult Librarianship,” GSLIS doctoral students Jeanie Austin and Claire Gross

“Hapas, Eurasians, and Blasians, Oh My!: The Search for the Hapa in Youth Literature,” GSLIS doctoral student Karla Lucht

“The Genesis of Youth Services in Public Libraries in China 1900-1937,” GSLIS doctoral student Yang Luo

“Wait, What Do You Mean It Won’t Work Online? The Challenge of Building Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives for Traditional and Distance Education Students,” GSLIS master’s student Ben Rodriguez and GSLIS doctoral student Karla Lucht

Creating a Guide to Data Archiving for LIS Researchers,” GSLIS doctoral student Cheryl A. Thompson with co-authors Joanne Gard Marshall, Jennifer Craft Morgan, Susan Rathbun Grubb, and Amber Wells

Doctoral Student Research Poster Session (Wednesday, January 23, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.)

“‘Procure, Propagate, and Distribute among the People’: The Information Services of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1862-1888,” GSLIS doctoral candidate Christine D’Arpa

“Desperate Times and Innovative Measures: How Librarians and Documentalists Collaborated to End War and Poverty in the 1930s,” GSLIS doctoral candidate Caroline Nappo

“Document and Knowledge Reincarnation in a Bumblebee Organization,” GSLIS doctoral candidate Ingbert Schmidt

“A Familiar Face: A Critical Analysis of Microsoft’s ‘Ms. Dewey’,” GSLIS doctoral candidate Miriam Sweeney

“Behind the Screen: The Hidden Labor of Online Content Moderation,” GSLIS doctoral candidate Sarah T. Roberts

Special Session

“Inclusive Gigabit Libraries: Learn, Discuss, and Brainstorm”
Friday, January 25, from 10:30 to noon

Sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the forum is organized by Dr. Jon Gant, director of the Center for Digital Inclusion at GSLIS, with U.S. Ignite and the Office for Information Technology Policy of the American Library Association.

Inclusive Gigabit Libraries is an interactive forum that examines how libraries can play a leading role in building next-generation Internet applications and services designed to operate on ultra-fast broadband networks that several communities are building. The forum will feature case studies tailored to libraries to showcase how next-generation networks can meet the current challenges faced by libraries. The aim of the forum is to promote the exchange of ideas among leaders with different types of expertise. Multiple perspectives are needed for developing innovations to demonstrate the potential of high-speed broadband in areas such as community and economic development, education, health care, government service delivery, and civic engagement.

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