The Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) is seeking nominations for three distinguished awards. The awards are given annually at the GSLIS alumni reception held at the American Library Association conference. The deadline for nomination is April 1, 2014.
The Distinguished Alumnus Award recognizes an individual alumnus of GSLIS who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of…
Library Journal’s annual “Movers & Shakers” list recognizes professionals who
are shaping the future of libraries in a variety of ways. The recently released 2014
class of Movers & Shakers includes two GSLIS
alumni: Stephanie Davis-Kahl (MS '98) in the "Change Agents" category, and Cathryne Kaufman (MS '09) in the "Marketers" category. Omar Poler, a LAMP alumnus, also was honored in…
Two research projects at GSLIS recently received support
from the Illinois-Sweden Program for
Educational and Research Exchange (INSPIRE) program.
Michael Twidale, professor, and Cathy Blake, associate professor
and associate director of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and
Scholarship (CIRSS), have received a $7,000 grant from INSPIRE. Their project,
“Collaborative…
GSLIS faculty, staff, and students are included among the presenters at the sixth annual University of Illinois Public Engagement Symposium on March 11, 2014. The symposium will feature poster presentations and displays on community engagement projects. All symposium activities will focus on this year's theme, Shaping Our World.
The symposium is free and open to the public and is sponsored by…
David Larsen (MS '04) has been selected by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) to receive the 2014 Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award. The award honors professional achievement, leadership, and contributions
to interlibrary loan and document delivery. Larsen, head of access services and assessment at the University of Chicago Library, was selected for his…
GSLIS will host prospective students on Friday, March 14, as part of the campuswide Community of Scholars (COS) Campus Visit Program.
The program brings admitted graduate students from underrepresented
backgrounds to campus to meet with faculty and staff from their intended academic programs and give them
the opportunity to network with current and prospective students. GSLIS
will welcome…
Two teams of GSLIS students have been selected to present at the social media expo during the 2014 iConference on “Leveraging Social Media to Foster Smarter Societies.” An overall winning team will be selected from the student team presentations at the conference.The two student teams are:SentiNets, advised by Assistant Professor Jana Diesner, comprised of doctoral students Jinlong Guo, Kirstin…
[image1-right]Stephanie Davis-Kahl (MS '98) has been selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) to receive the 2014 Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award.
Davis-Kahl, scholarly communications librarian and associate professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, was selected for the award based on…
GSLIS master’s students and representatives from the corporate sector gathered at the iHotel on Friday, February 28, for a meeting of the Corporate Roundtable and the Fourth Annual Applied Project Poster Session.
Master’s student and former W. W. Grainger intern Kelsey Heffren and Erwin Cruz, Grainger’s director of intellectual property strategy and management and GSLIS adjunct lecturer,…
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On a panel at the College Art Association in February, Professor Abdul Alkalimat provided personal history and political context in the Organization of Black American…
