Associate Professor Carol Tilley has been elected second vice president of the Comics Studies Society (CSS) in the organization’s first election since its founding in 2014.

When I saw the ad for the director of library and archives position at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008, I jumped at it. At the time, I had a terrific job as a librarian and archivist at the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College in Chicago. Because my area of expertise is American popular music, I was confident I would at least get an interview. But things worked out better than expected.

MS/LIS, CAS, and nondegree students who hold a Professional Educator License (PEL) can now add a Technology Specialist (TS) endorsement to their PEL with GSLIS coursework.

Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke is sharing her research on topics related to digital literacy, including pedagogical approaches to using social media in the classroom and identifying and confronting misleading information, with two conference presentations this month.

This week Associate Professor Victoria Stodden delivered the opening plenary address of the spring membership meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The event was held April 4-5 in San Antonio, Texas.

GSLIS doctoral student Kirstin Phelps has been selected by the Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) to receive one of ninety Scholar Awards given in the United States and Canada. PEO Scholar Award winners are a select group of women chosen for their high level of academic achievement and potential to positively impact society.

The year’s best comics and graphic novels will be honored with Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in July at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Carol Tilley, a University of Illinois associate professor of library and information science, is one of six judges selecting the comics that will appear on the awards ballot in more than two dozen categories.

Doctoral candidate Damian Duffy successfully defended his dissertation, "Educational Hypercomics: Learners, Institutions, and Comics in E-Learning Interface Design," at GSLIS on March 31.

As society ages and human knowledge progresses, we expect innovations from scientists that will improve quality of life for older adults and help society adapt to the realities of a changing population. Yet the scientific workforce itself is aging, potentially affecting its own capacity for innovation. The relationship between innovation in the scientific workforce and the increasing demand for innovation is complex, with far-reaching implications influencing everything from healthcare to the economy.

Students and recent graduates interested in working in special collections librarianship are invited to attend the upcoming workshop, “A Rare Choice: Career Workshop for Special & Specialized Collections Librarianship,” at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) on Saturday, May 7.