GSLIS Fall Reunion scheduled for October

Wednesday September 25 2013

Additional activities are being scheduled. Check back frequently for details!

Please join us in October for the third annual GSLIS Fall Reunion, a month-long series of on-campus and online events providing opportunities to connect with current faculty, staff, students, and other alumni. The reunion offers an in-depth view of the GSLIS community as well as the opportunity to experience it—through workshops, conversations, and activities that offer a variety of ideas and perspectives. Alumni are invited to hear about current research, interact with students, and engage socially with the GSLIS community.

Share your story

As part of this year’s reunion, we are asking alumni to share their experiences as an LIS professional through a short video that completes the sentence "Today I..." What is a typical day like for you? How have you made a difference in your position? What is the most rewarding aspect of your job? What surprised/surprises you about your career?

Create a brief video (maximum length of one minute) addressing any or all of the above questions. Remember to include the year you graduated from GSLIS and your current position. Please submit your video to Christy Glaze (cglaze@illinois.edu) as a YouTube link, and we will share it on the GSLIS Facebook page and GSLIS YouTube channel during the reunion. Need assistance creating your video? Just let us know!

Visit us in person

We're taking the GSLIS Fall Reunion on the road at the following professional conferences:

Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association (MLA) Conference: Embassy Suites Hotel & Riverfront Conference Center, East Peoria, Illinois, October 4-8. GSLIS booth number to be announced.

ILA (Illinois Library Association) 2013 Annual Conference: Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, October 16-17. Visit GSLIS at Booth #418. Join GSLIS faculty and fellow alumni for breakfast on October 16 from 8:00-10:00 a.m. at the Grand Ballroom South Balcony at Navy Pier.

201 3 ISLMA (Illinois School Library Media Association) Conference: Crowne Plaza, Springfield, Illinois, October 31-November 1. A reception will be held of November 1 from 5-6 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza (room number to be announced).

Visit us in Champaign-Urbana at the following events:

Central Illinois GSLIS Grads (CIGG) Alumni Gathering: Help kick off the GSLIS Fall Reunion at a networking and book discussion event! Join moderator Laura Barnes (MS '93) and your fellow alumni at Silvercreek (402 N. Race St., Urbana) on October 1 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Discussion of Tell the Wolves I'm Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt, will begin at 6:00 p.m. Please RSVP to gslis@illinois.edu or (217) 333-2973 by Friday, September 27, if you plan to join us.

History Salon
- October 2: Chris D'Arpa, GSLIS a doctoral candidate, will present, “Bibles, Cow Bells, and The Fountainhead: The Peoples Book Club of the Sears Roebuck Mail Order Catalog, 1943-1959”
- October 21: Brian Beaton, assistant professor in the iSchool at the University of Pittsburgh, will present, “On the Idea of Using Crowds and Crowdsourcing to Combat Rape and Sexual Assault”

CIRSS Seminars: The Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship hosts seminars on topics of interest to the GSLIS community. CIRSS Seminars are held in room 126 LIS.
- October 4, 4-5 p.m. Speaker: Seok-Hyuong Lee, adjunct professor at the Department of Library and Information Science at Konkuk University in Korea and Senior Researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI).
- October 18, 4-5 p.m. Speaker: Craig Willis, GSLIS PhD student. Willis will present a preview of his and Associate Professor Miles Efron's 2013 ASIS&T paper titled, "Finding Information in Books: Characteristics of Full-Text Searches in a Collection of 10 Million Books."
- October 25, 4-5 p.m. Speaker: GSLIS 2013-2014 scholar-in-residence Xiaoguang Wang of Wuhan University.

LEEP Breakfast: Get to know current students at the LEEP Breakfast on Saturday, October 5. The pancake breakfast will be held in the east foyer and room 131 of the LIS building from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

GSLIS Tailgate: Join us for a tailgate before the Illinois vs. Wisconsin football game on October 19! Tailgating will begin at 4:00 p.m. in Lot 31 west of the stadium across First Street—look for the GSLIS flag. GSLIS will provide BBQ and alumni are asked to bring a side, dessert, or drinks to share.

Game Nights: The GSLIS Gamers group meets Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Join faculty, staff, and students for face-to-face games in rooms 340 & 341 of the LIS building.

Visit us online

GSLIS Fall Reunion Tweet Days

On Friday, October 11, and Friday, October 18, join us for GSLIS Fall Reunion Tweet Days and post your alumni updates using the #gslisui hashtag. Be sure to follow along and see what your classmates are up to!

Facebook

Be sure to like the GSLIS Facebook page. We’ll post updates and links to reunion events throughout the month.

We look forward to seeing and/or hearing from you during the reunion!

Attend a workshop:

ITD workshops will be open to alumni during Reunion Month. Some workshops are held at GSLIS and many are open for virtual participating via Blackboard Collaborate meeting room. Visit the GSLIS Tech Tutorials page to make sure your system is compatible. Workshop topics include:

Check the GSLIS events calendar for additional dates and topics.

Learn about current projects

(This event has been canceled. Our apologies.) Join us for GSLIS in a Flash: Lightning Talks on Current Projects. A group of master's, CAS, and PhD students will present a series of lightning talks about their current projects in the style of the popular PechaKucha format. The event will take place on Friday, October 25, from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in GSLIS Room 126. For those unable to attend in person, this event will be available for virtual viewing and videos of the presentation will be posted on the GSLIS YouTube channel.