Six GSLIS alumni are among thirty Illinois librarians selected to participate in the tenth year of "Synergy: the Illinois Library Leadership Initiative.” The unique yearlong program sponsored by the Illinois State Library (ISL) is designed to develop future leaders in the library profession and Illinois community.
The group of librarians will attend three sessions over a six-month period and…
In the new book, Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers, GSLIS Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn and coeditor Mike Furlough, executive director of the HathiTrust Digital Library, have assembled chapters from experts in library publishing that explore current practices and potential developments in the field. Contributors include GSLIS alumni Kevin S. Hawkins (MS '03), Cyril…
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Feb. 26 to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility. The “net neutrality” rules aim to ensure open Internet access. Dan Schiller, an emeritus professor of library and information science and communication at the University of Illinois, talked with News Bureau arts and humanities editor Jodi Heckel about the decision and its…
Four GSLIS master's students have been named the 2015 recipients of the C. Barber Mueller Prizes for Excellence in Exhibition Design, which is awarded annually by the University of Illinois Library's Library Exhibitions Committee.
Linsy DePooter and Meredith Knoff, graduate assistants at the Undergraduate Library, were selected for their exhibit titled, "Words into Music," which is on display…
Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will speak Saturday at the 2015 Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium. Cosponsored by GSLIS, the symposium will bring together graduate students, faculty, and researchers from across campus to discuss current work and methodologies in digital humanities. Registration is free and open to anyone.
Diesner's talk, “Bringing Computational Social Science to the Real…
The 2015 Illinois Digital Humanities Symposium will be held on campus February 28. Learn about digital humanities tools and research methods from Illinois faculty and experts, and join us in building a research community for digital humanities practitioners at Illinois. Registration is free.
GSLIS Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will deliver a research presentation at the…
Associate Professor Carol Tilley has several speaking engagements scheduled in March, including two on campus at the University of Illinois.
On March 3, Tilley will deliver the opening address of Central Michigan University’s (CMU) ComiConference 3. Her talk is titled, “The Secret History of Comics Readers,” and will be held in the CMU Park Library Auditorium. ComiConference 3 is free and open…
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (MS ’94), coordinator for information literacy services and instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library and GSLIS adjunct professor, is the winner of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section’s (IS) Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award. The award honors Miriam Dudley, whose efforts in the field of…
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has named Myung-Ja (MJ) Han (MS ’06), metadata librarian and associate professor of library administration at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2015 Esther J. Piercy Award. The award will be presented on Saturday, June 27, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2015 American Library…
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) will host its 2015 UnCamp March 30-31 at the University of Michigan. The HTRC UnCamp brings together digital humanities researchers and tool developers as well as librarians and graduate students. It is part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-case study, part community building, part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting…
