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News from GSLIS at Illinois
Faculty news
Alkalimat hosts forum at Archives 2013
Professor Abdul Alkalimat
led a forum at Archives
2013, the joint
annual meeting of the Society of American
Archivists and the Council of State Archivists, which took
place from August 11-17 in New
Orleans, Louisiana. The topic was “Memory and Power: How Diversifying the
Archives Can Help Us Welcome the Future.”
Efron presents at SIGIR 2013
Associate Professor Miles Efron presented his paper, “Query Representation for
Cross-Temporal Information Retrieval,” at the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Conference in Dublin, Ireland
on July 30.
Hotchkiss named University of Cincinnati distinguished alumna
Valerie Hotchkiss, GSLIS affiliated professor and director of the
University of Illinois’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, was chosen by the
University of Cincinnati (UC) McMicken College of Arts and Sciences to receive one
of two Distinguished Alumni
Awards awarded last spring. Hotchkiss received a bachelor’s degree in
classics from UC in 1982.
La Barre speaks at
ISKO conference
Associate
Professor Kathryn
La Barre was invited to speak at the International
Society for Knowledge Organization Conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from May 27-29. She presented her paper, “Facets, Views and Frames: Enhancing
Connectedness in Knowledge Organization.”
Mak presents in
London, Montreal
Assistant
Professor Bonnie Mak was invited to speak at London, England’s
Centre
for Creative Collaboration (C4CC), where she presented “Eight Minutes on Publication” on June 14.
Mak also was invited to participate in a launch event of the archivefutures
research network in Montreal, Quebec, on June 21, at which she
co-presented a session on material transformations.
Staff and student news
Andracki,
Martaus, and Smith present at ChLA Conference
Three GSLIS students gave
presentations at the 40th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference
held in Biloxi, Mississippi, on June 13-15.
Doctoral student Alaine Martaus presented “Playing with Time: Historicizing the
Future in Contemporary Young Adult Science Fiction”; doctoral student Mikki
Smith presented “Learning to Play, Playing to Learn:
Oliver Optic’s Magazine, 1867–1875”; and master’s student Tad
Andracki presented his paper, “Playing with Everything:
Childhood, Biopower, and Animacy in The Brave Little Toaster.”
Barton, Booker receive scholarships to attend NCAAL conference
Master’s student Karen Barton and
recent GSLIS graduate Liza Booker (MS ’13) each received one of six $1,000 scholarships
to attend the ALA Black Caucus’s 8th National Conference of African
American Libraries (NCAAL), which was held August 7-11
in the greater Cincinnati/northern Kentucky area. Booker presented her poster
titled, “The Importance of African-American Archives.”
Burch
attends AASL/ISLMA Leadership Conference
GSLIS K-12 Program Coordinator Georgeann
Burch
attended the American Association of School Librarians/Illinois School Library
Media Association (AASL/ISLMA) Leadership Conference in Bloomington, Illinois,
on June 19.
Jett wins Balisage Student Award
Master’s student Jacob Jett is one of three winners of a 2013 Balisage
Student Award. This annual award provides support for students to attend Balisage, a conference devoted to markup
languages, technologies, theories, and practices. The 2013 conference was held August 6-9 in Montreal, Quebec.
Martin presents at Archives 2013
Master’s student Stephanie Martin presented her poster, "Over
a Century of Collaboration: Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the United
States,” at Archives 2013, the joint annual meeting of the Society
of American Archivists and the Council of State Archivists.
Moore receives ARLIS travel award
Dan Moore received a student travel award to attend the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) annual conference, which was held in Pasadena, California from April 25-29. Moore earned his
master’s degree at the end of the summer semester.
Nhek wins APALA and CLA scholarships
Master's student Christina
Nhek
was recently named the recipient of two scholarships, the Asian Pacific
American Librarians Association or APALA Scholarship and the California Library Association or
CLA Scholarship for Minority Students in Memory of Edna Yelland.
Organisciak gives talks at Digital
Humanities, JCDL
Doctoral
student Peter
Organisciak gave presentations at two
conferences this summer. He presented his paper, “Incidental Crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing in the Periphery,”
at Digital Humanities 2013 in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 17. At the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), which was held July 22-26 in Indianapolis, Indiana,
he presented “Addressing Diverse Corpora with Cluster-based Term
Weighting.”
Serbanuta
and Sweeney awarded Garfield Dissertation Fellowships
GSLIS doctoral candidates Claudia
Serbanuta and Miriam
E. Sweeney have been honored with 2013 Eugene Garfield Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowships from Beta Phi Mu,
the International Library and Information Studies Honor Society. Up to six
recipients are selected each year for this prestigious award, which is a
national competition among doctoral students who are working on their
dissertations. The amount awarded for each fellowship is $3,000.
Smith presents at SHARP conference
Doctoral student Mikki Smith presented “Geographies of Amateur
Newspapers: Late 19th-Century Youth Collaborations and Exchanges” at the
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Annual Conference, “Geographies
of the Book,” which was held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,
from July 18-21.
