Artist, writer, zinester, crafter, student, mother—Ann Chiu is many things. She balances her eclectic interests with the help of the supportive GSLIS community and like-minded people in Portland, Oregon. Why did you decide to pursue an LIS degree? About four years ago, I found myself working part time as a waitress at an assisted living housing facility, and part time as a barista at a local…

GSLIS Adjunct Associate Professor Yoo-Seong Song has been named a 2014 Instructor of the Year by the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium. Song was nominated by a student for his excellent instruction last fall in the course Applied Business Research: Competitive Intelligence & Knowledge Management (LIS 590AC).

GSLIS master's students Ray Ostman and Madison Sullivan have been selected as two of fifteen recipients nationwide to receive a 2015 ACRL Library School Student Scholarship. The purpose of the scholarship is to provide opportunities for students to participate in an Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) professional development experience and learn more about current issues in…

Associate Professor Christine Jenkins and coauthor Michael Cart have written a book they hope will serve as a guide for young adults and for those who support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teenagers, including parents, educators, and librarians. Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens: Coming Out, Being Out, and the Search for Community is now available from Huron Street Press…

Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, written by GSLIS alumna Patricia Hruby Powell (MS ’94), was honored with two American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards at the ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in Chicago on February 2. Josephine (published by Chronicle Books LLC) was named a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award honor book. The Sibert award recognizes the most…

GSLIS Associate Professors Kathryn La Barre and Carol Tilley are collaborating with John Walsh, associate professor of information and library science in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington, on a new project called The Comic Book Readership Archive, or CoBRA.

The GSLIS eUpdate, published every other month, summarizes current news, events, alumni and advancement highlights, and continuing professional development opportunities. Other publications that may be of interest to alumni and friends are listed on the GSLIS Publications web page. IN THIS ISSUE GSLIS Spotlight GSLIS News Summary Continuing Professional Development Alumni News…

Last fall the Office of Student Affairs welcomed Delicia Tiera Greene as the School’s new visiting diversity and recruiting specialist. Greene brings to GSLIS years of experience in graduate-level diversity recruiting as well as master’s degrees in secondary education and administration and supervision, master’s and doctoral degrees in LIS, and significant service to the LIS field. “As…

CIRSS faculty and students will participate in the upcoming 10th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), February 9-12 in London. This year's theme, "Ten years back, ten years forward: achievements, lessons and the future for digital curation," will focus on how the digital curation research community will be moving the domain forward in the years to come.  Posters Crediting…

Skateboard Party, written by Karen English, illustrated by Laura Freeman, and published by Clarion Books, is the winner of the 2015 Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature. The Gryphon Award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is given annually by The Center for Children’s Books. This year’s committee was chaired by Deborah Stevenson, director of the Center for Children’s Books, and Kate…