Library Journal’s annual “Movers & Shakers” list recognizes professionals who are shaping the future of libraries in a variety of ways. GSLIS alumna Amita Lonial (MS ’09) is among the 2016 class of Movers & Shakers in the “Advocates” category. Lonial is the learning experiences manager at Skokie (IL) Public Library.

Professor Alistair Black addressed a gathering of historians in the Great Hall of historic Lambeth Palace in London on March 1. The event was held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the publication of Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland (CHLBI).

The History Section of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has selected two GSLIS alumni as the winners of its achievement awards honoring librarians and their contributions to the fields of genealogical and historical research and services.

The following GSLIS faculty and students will participate in iConference 2016, which will be held March 20-23 in Philadelphia. This year marks the eleventh anniversary of the annual conference, which is presented by the iSchools, a worldwide association of information schools dedicated to advancing the information field. The event brings together scholars, researchers, and information…

Fifteen GSLIS instructors were named to the University’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2015. The rankings are released every semester, and results are based on the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) questionnaire forms maintained by Measurement and Evaluation in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Only those instructors who gave out ICES forms during…

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.