An assistantship with John Deere during his time at GSLIS helped Derek Riddle redirect his career path to the business information field. Now the senior business information analyst at John Deere’s Research Park office, Riddle enjoys working in a variety of research areas and stays connected to GSLIS by supervising current students who gain work experience at John Deere.
GSLIS faculty and staff have collaborated with the Oxford e-Research Centre to organize a five-day workshop to be held this July. The workshop, Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities, is part of Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2014 and will introduce data curation concepts and practices to a group of students, faculty, and information professionals who work with humanities…
GSLIS doctoral student Melissa Villa-Nicholas has been invited to teach research methods at the iSchool Inclusion Institute of Information Sciences (i3) held this June at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences. She will join a cohort of four doctoral students from iSchools around the country who will teach qualitative research methods to undergraduate students preparing for…
Six members of the GSLIS community and of the Midwest chapter of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) participated in a global exchange via CALA Midwest’s first virtual annual conference this past May. Chapter chair Sharon Hu (PhD ’87) made the decision to go virtual in order to attract more people—and attendance doubled. Hu, Mingyan Li (MS ’04), Vincci Kwong (MS ’05), Lian…
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.
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[image1-right]Where do you work and what is your role?I work at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago as a web producer. Poetryfoundation.org is one of the leading websites for American poetry, and the website for the Poetry Foundation and its programs, which include the monthly serial Poetry. What do you like best about your job?I enjoy the fact that I am part of an organization committed to making…
This fall GSLIS will welcome Elizabeth Hoiem as an assistant professor teaching and conducting research in youth services. She comes to GSLIS from East Carolina University, where she has been an assistant professor since Fall 2013. While a doctoral student and instructor at Illinois, Hoiem was named in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for four semesters. She teaches in…
Each year, GSLIS recognizes a group of outstanding students for their achievement in academics as well as a number of attributes that contribute to professional success. The following student awards were presented at the GSLIS Convocation on May 18, 2014.
Bryce Allen Award for Reference Services
Presented to Holly Luetkenhaus by Assistant Professor Dr. Nicole A. Cooke:
During her time at…
Professor Dan Schiller, who has been a member of the GSLIS faculty since 2001, will retire from the University of Illinois on May 31. "GSLIS has been my home for thirteen years. The cooperative spirit of the School, which staff, faculty members, and school administrators actively create day to day, has been an inspiration to me. Going forward, I plan to pursue my research in the political economy…
In honor of the academic career and contributions of GSLIS Professor Emeritus W. Boyd Rayward to the field of library and information science, a festschrift containing essays by his colleagues has been published, composing the two most recent issues of Library Trends, 62(2) and 62(3). Rayward was presented with the festschrift on May 6 at a reception at GSLIS. Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward…
