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…
Professor Michael Twidale will speak this Friday, February 27, at a lightning symposium hosted by the University of Illinois College of Education. The event, Toward an Illinois Learning Sciences Design Laboratory, will launch the new Illinois Learning Sciences Design Laboratory (ILSDL), a venture developed by campus leaders in response to recommendations made in the 2013 Visioning Future…
The Center for Children’s Books will host the 2015 Gryphon Lecture on Friday, March 6. Featuring a leading scholar in the field of youth and literature, media, and culture, the annual Gryphon Lecture is free and open to students and the public.
Delivering this year’s lecture, "Research on Children, Youth and Media: Applications for LIS Education and Practice,” is Rebekah Willett, an assistant…
GSLIS Professor Emeritus Abdul Alkalimat and Associate Professor Kate Williams have teamed up to produce their latest book, Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González. The book follows Terry’s work as an influential library director in Cuba from the 1960’s through the turn of the century, establishing her as an example of Afro-Cuban involvement in Cuban…
GSLIS and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) are partnering to host the Data Curation Spring Institute to be held February 25-27, 2015.
Intended for academic librarians in Hong Kong and neighboring regions, the institute will feature lectures, hands-on lab exercises, and case studies that explore data management and curation, including sessions on data mark-up, understanding data provenance,…
While it may be tempting to dismiss as a censor anyone who wants to restrict access to a book, such individuals understand that books are powerful and have the potential to change lives, said Emily Knox, who recently wrote about the people who raise challenges to reading material.
Her new book, Book Banning in 21st-Century America, was published in January by Rowman & Littlefield. Knox is…
