Digital information sharing breaks down geographic barriers between scholars, research labs, and institutions, and in doing so, revolutionizes the research process. However, the benefits realized in the hard sciences outstrip the pace of collaborative growth in the humanities.

"How do you want to contribute?" Alumna Liza Booker poses this question to GSLIS students. Find your answer, she says, and then use your education to help you make a difference in the world. As a UX analyst, Booker uses her skills to support research that addresses scientific and societal challenges facing the nation.

Betty Sue Flowers, former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, will deliver the inaugural Taylor Willingham Lecture in Change Management at GSLIS on Tuesday, March 29.

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) 2016 National Committee has awarded fellowships to nearly two hundred LIS professionals and students from around the world, including two GSLIS students and several alumni.

Thanks to research conducted by Associate Professor Carol Tilley, the work of one of the most influential anti-comics voices has been debunked. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s evidence of the negative effects of comic readership on young people hasn’t been taken seriously by scholars in decades, but a new discovery by Tilley shows that even when Wertham’s claims were taken as fact by many—in the 1940s and 1950s—a small but vocal group was already questioning his methods.

Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke is one of three winners of the 2016 Kenneth and Sylvia Marantz Fellowship for Picturebook Research, which encourages scholars from the United States and abroad to make use of resources available at the Marantz Picturebook Collection for the Study of Picturebook Art in their research.

Sayan Bhattacharyya, HathiTrust Research Center postdoctoral research associate, will speak during a panel titled, “What Do Comparative Literature and Digital Humanities Have To Say To Each Other? A Critical Approach,” which he co-organized, at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.

Every month, Google alone fields billions of search requests. The staggering demand for information, coupled with the exponentially growing amount of information available, means that reliable search results are key to maneuvering a flooded information landscape. Associate Professor Miles Efron is among the leading scholars investigating ways to improve search. With funded research projects…

A new book by alumnus David Hunter (PhD '89), The Lives of George Frideric Handel, is part biography and part genre case study. The famous composer’s life has been documented in numerous biographies, which Hunter scrutinized to differentiate history from interpretation. His findings led to this new work, which was published recently by Boydell Press.

Associate Professor Bonnie Mak will travel to the United Arab Emirates in March to take part in a workshop at New York University’s Abu Dhabi Institute. “Charisma of the Book: Global Perspectives for the 21st Century,” will be held March 12-14.