Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn traveled across the pond recently to participate in the 2014 Fiesole Collection Development Retreat, held April 10-12 in Cambridge, England. This annual meeting draws information professionals and industry representatives from around the world to discuss developments and issues in collection development.“Fiesole is a wonderful opportunity to engage in high-level…
The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) and GSLIS are pleased to announce a partnership to offer an online graduate-level course on intellectual freedom for library and information science students around the country. The course, to be taught by GSLIS professor Emily Knox, is the first education-related project of FTRF’s Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund.“Intellectual Freedom and Censorship” will be…
As a GSLIS student specializing in data curation, Lynn Yarmey completed an internship at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The position led to a job offer following her graduation, and today Yarmey holds leadership roles on multiple research projects. She will talk more about her experiences as a student and professional during the Data Curation Alumni Panel event on April 22.
Where do…
In his newly published book, Information Beyond Borders: International Cultural and Intellectual Exchange in the Belle Époque, GSLIS Professor Emeritus W. Boyd Rayward has assembled a collection of essays by international scholars exploring the globalization of culture and information in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Published by Ashgate, the book analyzes the dynamics of…
Excited about using new technologies and motivated by a desire to connect people with information, Aaron Collie specialized in data curation when he earned his master's at the iSchool. He now gets to do both of these things and more as a digital curation librarian at Michigan State University. Collie will talk more about his experiences as a student and professional during the Data Curation…
Programmers from around the world will flock to Montreal on April 9-17 for PyCon 2014, the world’s largest gathering for users of the programming language Python. Among the participants will be two GSLIS master’s students, Elizabeth Surbeck and Elizabeth Wickes.Wickes, a first-semester student specializing in data curation and socio-technical data analytics (SODA), will present a poster titled, “…
Prospective master’s students now have additional time to apply for Summer 2014 admission through GSLIS’s cutting-edge LEEP program. The new deadline is May 1.
LEEP, an innovative hybrid program, combines synchronous web-based education with brief periods of on-campus instruction. It is a popular online option that provides the brightest students with access to the nation’s top LIS program…
Linda C. Smith, professor and
associate dean for academic programs, will serve as a partner on a recently
awarded Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) national forum planning
grant that will look at the future of library and information science
education. The grant, "Educate to Innovate: Re-visioning Library and
Information Science Education," is led by Eileen G. Abels, dean of…
With a background in the humanities, master's student Elizabeth Surbeck was anxious about using technology and studying information science when she arrived at GSLIS. Now she's about to complete her degree with a specialization in socio-technical data analytics, co-leads the Champaign-Urbana Python Users Group, and is ready to pursue a career as a data analyst.
Why did you decide to pursue an…
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