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The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is pleased to announce an exciting new project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.The NEH awarded $324,841 for “Exploring the Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm: HathiTrust + Bookworm” (HT+BW), a two-year project that begins September 1, 2014, and will conclude August 31, 2016. This project will be directed…
GSLIS is pleased to announce that Professor Bertram Ludäscher will join the GSLIS faculty in Fall 2014.
Ludäscher is a leading figure in data and knowledge management, focusing on the modeling, design, and optimization of scientific workflows, provenance, data integration, and knowledge representation. He is one of the founders of the open source Kepler scientific workflow system project, and a…
Assistant Professor Emily Knox (MS ’03) knows her way around a reference desk. She is a scholar working in intellectual freedom and censorship. She holds multiple degrees from prestigious universities. And now, thanks to Makerspace Urbana, she has added even more talents to her toolbox. She can work a soldering iron. And sew a flapper dress.
When Knox moved to Champaign to begin teaching at…
The GSLIS faculty have selected three scholars to be appointed research fellows from August 2014 to August 2016. GSLIS research fellows are chosen because their work is relevant to the interests of GSLIS faculty and students. Each will give at least one lecture during their appointment.Nominated by Professor Les Gasser is Kristen Haring, assistant director of and lecturer in Stanford University’s…
GSLIS doctoral student Peter Organisciak is among the recipients of the 2014 Outstanding Contribution Award given by the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. The award recognizes a landmark contribution to the field of digital humanities made by a Canadian researcher or team or researcher(s) at a Canadian institution. The 2014 award honors the group that created and initially maintained a…
[image1-right]Former ALA Spectrum Scholar and LEEP graduate, Sally Ma has held a variety of jobs in the information professions since completing her MS. She now enjoys tackling new challenges and learning new things as the lead technical librarian at BAE Systems.Where do you work and what is your role?I work at BAE Systems, a global defense, security, and aerospace company, as the lead technical…
Professor Abdul Alkalimat, who has been a member of the faculty at GSLIS and the Department of African American Studies since 2007, retired from the University of Illinois on May 31.
Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak’s most recent publication, "Archaeology of a Digitization," will appear in the August edition of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). In this article Mak proposes an approach to analyzing databases and other digitized resources as "artefacts of the modern day, evidence of how we are now collectively perceiving, imagining,…
[image1-right]In late June, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new policy that asks pediatricians to strongly encourage parents to read to their children daily, especially in the first three years of a child’s life. GSLIS alum and pediatrician Dr. Dipesh Navsaria (MS ’04) works on a national scale to draw attention to the importance of reading to a child’s physical and social…
