Open Access Week 2015 will be recognized around the world October 19-25. GSLIS Associate Professor Victoria Stodden will deliver the keynote address for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University’s OA Week celebration. Her talk, "Scholarly communication in the era of big data and big computation," is sponsored by the Virginia Tech’s University Libraries, Division of Computational…

Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke will speak at several events this fall, talking on topics ranging from inclusion in LIS to social structures of "small worlds."

Cooke is slated to speak at the 2015 Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Library & Information Science (CIDLIS), held on October 15-16 at the University of Maryland. She also will speak at the National Communication Association’s Annual Convention, held on November 19-22 in Las Vegas.

Assistant Professor Vetle Torvik participated in the 2015 Conference on Complex Systems, held from September 28 to October 2 in Tempe, Arizona. He spoke at the satellite event, “Quantifying Science,” at which he presented a paper coauthored with GSLIS alumna Laura G. Cruz (MS '15) titled, “Sex-bias in Biomedical Research: a Bibliometric Perspective.”

“Answering Your Burning Questions” is the theme for this year’s campus Summit on Online Education. Now in its fifth year, the interdisciplinary event is designed to provide a forum for researchers, educators, and learners, both on and off campus, to meet and discuss topics related to online, blended, and technology-enhanced learning. The event will take place on October 14 at the Illini Union and…

A four-year, $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help University of Illinois humanities scholars identify digital publishing options and produce new publications that will best disseminate their research.

Master's student Elisandro Cabada has his sights set on academic librarianship. As a 2015-2017 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Diversity Scholar, and with experience working at two University of Illinois libraries, he is well on his way to achieving his goal. Why did you decide to pursue an LIS degree? I have been working or volunteering in libraries since I was a freshman in high…

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a grant of more than $25,500 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the efforts of GSLIS Associate Professors Jerome McDonough and Lori Kendall and Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn to cultivate a new research community focused specifically on the preservation of intangible cultural heritage.

Ten GSLIS instructors were named to the University’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Summer 2015.

Associate Professor Carol Tilley will participate in Banned Books Week with a talk at Harper College titled, “Comics, Classrooms, and Censorship.” Her talk is one of several events hosted by Harper College Library during the week of September 27 - October 3, when the American Library Association will hold their annual celebration of the freedom to read. She will speak on Wednesday, September 30,…

GSLIS is pleased to announce the establishment of Leep Welcome Weekend, a three-day event for students enrolled in our Leep online learning option that will serve as an orientation to the school and to our learning community of online classmates, on campus students, faculty, and staff. Beginning in Fall 2016, admitted Leep students will attend Leep Welcome Weekend during their first semester,…