Join GSLIS faculty, staff, and students at the 2016 ALISE Annual Conference, which will be held January 5-8 in Boston. The theme of the conference is "Radical Change: Inclusion & Innovation."
Associate Professor Bonnie Mak will present, “Confessions of a 21st-Century Memsahib: The Off-Shore Sweatshops of the Digital Humanities,” at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in Austin in January 2016. Her paper will be offered as part of the MLA panel, “Critical Informatics and the Digital Humanities,” an initiative that seeks to document emergent methods for the…
Abbott's nutrition business has awarded GSLIS $25,000 for a project led by Assistant Professor Vetle Torvik titled, “Computer-assisted text-mining across biomedical papers and patents for competitive intelligence.” Working with Torvik on this year-long project is doctoral student Adam Kehoe (MS ’09).
Associate Professor Carol Tilley has been selected to serve on the judging panel of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Presented annually by Comic-Con International, the Eisner Awards are the industry’s most prestigious, recognizing the best in comics publication, writing, art, and scholarship.
"Many youth services library faculty and professionals hope to serve on one of the 'Big…
GSLIS is pleased to announce plans to launch a Master of Science degree in information management (MS/IM). The proposal for the new degree was approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education on December 1.
The MS/IM will be tailored to preparing individuals for information-intensive professional roles in a broad range of employment sectors. The curriculum was designed to meet the growing…
J. Stephen Downie, GSLIS professor and associate director for research, gave a keynote at the 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) held in Malaga, Spain, this fall.
James LaRue (MS '81) has been named director of the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom and executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation, effective January 4, 2016. In his application, LaRue noted “My passion for this core principle of librarianship is tightly bound with my own history….For me, librarianship—and life—is predicated on a respect for the…
The Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at GSLIS recently welcomed Timothy Cole (MS '89) to the Center staff as coordinator for library applications. In this newly-created role, Cole will coordinate projects focusing on academic library applications of informatics research.
Cole’s projects will emphasize metadata schema design and application, linked data-based…
As a GSLIS student, Kirsten Y. Howley focused on government and business information. Now she puts those skills to work daily in a role that facilitates information sharing and more at a large technology company.
Where do you work and what is your role?
I am a senior business analyst with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a technology integrator in technical,…
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a new research grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore the benefits for users of linked open data (LOD) for digitized library special collections. Timothy Cole (MS '89), mathematics librarian in the University Library and coordinator for library applications within the Center for Informatics Research in Science and…
