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…

Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke, Assistant Professor Jana Diesner, and Senior Research Scientist Martin Wolske will participate in the International Communication Association’s 64th Annual Conference May 22-26. The theme of the 2014 conference, which will be held in Seattle, is “Communication and ‘the Good Life.’” Cooke will present at the preconference session, “Sharing: A Keyword…

GSLIS alumnus Tomas A. Lipinski (PhD ‘98) has been named dean of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) School of Information Studies. Lipinski will assume his new role on October 1.Since completing his doctoral studies at GSLIS, Lipinski has been active in the field of library and information science. Most recently he served as director of the School of Library and Information Science at…

Assistant Professor Carol Tilley will deliver a keynote address at the 2014 Comics & Medicine Conference on June 27 at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus in Baltimore, Maryland. This multidisciplinary conference will bring together healthcare professionals, artists, scholars, comics enthusiasts, and students to explore applications of graphic medicine—the use of comics in healthcare and medical…

With more than thirty-five years of service to GSLIS each, Sally Eakin and Kathy Painter will both retire on May 31.Eakin, a staff clerk, joined the staff of what was then the Graduate School of Library Science in November 1978. Painter, an office administrator, was hired in September 1979. Through decades of change, not only have Eakin and Painter served as indispensable members of the front…

[image1-right]The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is pleased to announce the recipients of four Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis (WCSA) prototyping project awards. These projects represent a range of approaches to developing new tools and techniques designed to assist researchers and scholars in: (1) identifying and selecting resources from within the HathiTrust; and (2) creating…

GSLIS will offer a Summer Getaway professional development workshop series for school librarians on June 23-25. Workshops will focus on current topics in the field of school librarianship and will offer opportunities to gain hands-on experience using the newest technologies and to connect with like-minded professionals in the field. Participants can register for one, two, or three days. The cost…

Two GSLIS alumni have recently been elected to national leadership positions, and a third to a national board of directors position.Ann Campion Riley (MS '77) has been elected vice-president/president-elect of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). Her term as president-elect will begin in July 2014, and her one-year term as president will begin in July 2015. Riley is the…

Students of LIS590AP: Publishing as an Information Profession have learned the ins and outs of publishing during the first offering of the course this semester. To put theory into practice, the students have created InfoBlitz, a blog that will feature posts on a variety of LIS topics. Entries will include editorials, commentary on current issues in the field, and reports on field experiences,…