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…

For many students of rare books and manuscripts, it's the tangible aspects of the occupation that first draw them in—the look, feel, and smell of paper and bindings crafted in another time. But the work of most professionals in this field blends old and new, using modern resources and technologies to connect today’s scholars with historical artifacts. Sarah Hoover (MS '14) experienced this…

Assistant Professor Jana Diesner and two GSLIS doctoral students began their work on one of the University of Illinois's first grants from leading international brewer Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev. The project team, including Diesner as principal investigator and doctoral students Jinseok Kim and Shubhanshu Mishra, will use data mining and social network analysis techniques advance techniques for…

[image1-right]As a master’s student at GSLIS, Brian Wu worked as a data analysis intern at Neustar, Inc. at the University of Illinois Research Park. Since graduating and moving into and associate data analyst position he’s enjoyed the variety of tasks that come with work in a corporate data analysis setting. He hopes to use what he’s learned at GSLIS and Neustar as he begins to further…

LEEP student Lilach Manheim will present her paper, “Information non-seeking behavior,” at the Information Behaviour Conference (ISIC), an international biennial conference to be held this year in Leeds, United Kingdom, from September 2-5. Manheim has received funding from GSLIS to travel and attend the conference.  Manheim’s paper analyzes how the decision to not seek information has…

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois (GSLIS) is pleased to announce that Victoria Stodden has joined the GSLIS faculty. A leading figure in the area of reproducibility in computational science, Stodden is exploring how can we better ensure the reliability and usefulness of scientific results in the face of increasingly sophisticated computational approaches to…

GSLIS doctoral student Noah Lenstra will serve on the concluding panel at the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) Fall Symposium, which will take place September 12 and 13 at the Illini Union. The theme of the symposium is “Oral History, Archives, and Innovation.” Lenstra will present his work as the project director of eBlack Champaign-Urbana, a collaborative program focused on creating a…