Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn will speak at two events this month.

GSLIS Professor Bertram Ludäscher will present, "Unifying Why and Why-Not Provenance using First-Order Query Evaluation Games," at the Yahoo!-DAIS (Database and Information Systems Laboratory) Seminar from 4:00-5:00 p.m. on October 7 at the Siebel Center for Computer Science (Room 216). He also will be the featured speaker at this month's CIRSS Seminar Series at GSLIS on September 19. His…

Jon Gant, GSLIS research associate professor and director of the Center for Digital Inclusion, will moderate a panel at this week’s Telecommunication Policy Research Conference (TPRC42), held at George Mason University School of Law on September 12-14. Gant, a national leader in the areas of digital inclusion and broadband adoption, served on the program committee for the conference as well.…

For six years GSLIS has sponsored ten Digital Divide Lectures each fall. This year, the lectures continue under a new name: the Information City Lectures. Urbana Free Library Director Celeste Choate opened the lecture series in early September.  The lectures are hosted in conjunction with Info City CU, a partnership between the Community Informatics Lab at GSLIS headed by Associate…

From September 15-18, GSLIS Student Affairs will host Career Exploration Week. The week will feature talks by professionals from different career areas in library and information science in order to help students explore the many options open to an LIS professional. Speakers will discuss how their professional interests developed and evolved, share what a typical work day is like, and offer…

GSLIS faculty and students are presenting their research at this week’s Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), held at City University London on September 8-12. The event brings together international scholars focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. The goal is to provide a forum for shared learning and facilitate the…

Several GSLIS faculty and students will be presenting scholarly papers at the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture’s biennial conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on September 19-21, 2014. This year’s conference is titled “African American Expression in Print and Digital Culture.” Presentations will explore potential intersections of African American studies and…

Bonnie Mak, associate professor, will visit Yale University to participate in two events this fall. She is an invited discussant in the symposium of the Yale Program in the History of the Book. Mak will participate in seminars that explore how handwritten notes or visual elements added to books affect the relationship of those books to specific locations and times. The symposium, “Time and the…

Fifteen GSLIS instructors were named to the University’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2014.

Senior Research Scientist Martin Wolske and four GSLIS graduate students are working on a new project called, “Digital Literacy for ALL Learners.” The project, funded by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, will be a collaborative effort involving community volunteers and five local sites that will serve as community technology learning centers in Urbana-Champaign: Urbana…