Doctoral research is a treasure trove of useful information for LIS practitioners. Ten notable dissertations of 2015 are featured in this month’s American Libraries magazine, each with useful findings and recommendations for practitioners in a variety of library settings.
GSLIS students and staff spoke last week at the fifteenth annual Information Literacy Summit, held on April 29. The theme of the conference was “Shifting Perspectives: Developing Critical Approaches in Information Literacy.”
A design background led master’s student Lorin Bruckner to study data visualization at GSLIS. This spring, she will complete her MS in LIS with specializations in socio-technical data analytics and data curation and pursue a career as a data visualization developer.
Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) Project Coordinator Sharon Irish’s research on the London-based artist Stephen Willats has taken her to the UK, where she will deliver two talks during a month-long visit.
GSLIS Professor Les Gasser will speak this Friday at an Information Systems/Information Technology Seminar hosted by the College of Business’ Department of Business Administration.
Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer Martin Wolske visited several libraries in the Netherlands this week, where he discussed current issues in community informatics and the future of public libraries in the United States and Europe.
Professor Les Gasser has been selected as a 2016-2017 National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Faculty Fellow. NCSA's competitive fellowship program is designed to cultivate collaborations among faculty and researchers across the Urbana campus and with NCSA.
Graduation is approaching, and at this time of the year, we reflect on those individuals who have made a difference in our lives. New graduates and alumni are encouraged to honor GSLIS faculty and/or staff through the LSAA Tassel Project, which was established in 2011 by the Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) to support the creation of an endowed professorship in the School.
Krystal Cooper is pursuing her interests in digital humanities, analytics, and archiving as a master’s student at GSLIS and as a graduate assistant with the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). She also is broadening her educational scope through participation in scholars programs of two multidisciplinary organizations, and this month she participated in the Computing Research Association: Women’s 2016 Grad Cohort Workshop.
