[image1-right]GSLIS affiliated faculty member Safiya U. Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) has been honored with the 2014 Faculty Scholar Award by the University of Illinois Women’s Resources Center (WRC). This award recognizes scholarship that contributes to the advancement of feminism, promotes justice and equity, and supports anti-oppression education. Noble was honored for her work to reveal the role of…
Professor Alistair Black gave an invited talk at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies on April 24 as part of the school’s Social Studies of Information Research Group speaker series. His presentation, “Information History: A Subject in Search of an Identity,” addressed the “fractured identity” of information history and its emergence in the field of library and…
Navigating career opportunities in libraries, research, and knowledge management? This month's Essential
Information Workshop series will provide information about the variety of
careers available to graduates of LIS programs, as well as assistance in applying to a graduate program and opportunities for networking and recruitment. GSLIS and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Richard J…
“Graduate school is about expanding the breadth of your knowledge and finding the area in which you also want to achieve some depth.” Andi Ogier received this advice from an advisor and took it to heart. She chose data curation as her area of expertise and found that the GSLIS specialization in that field prepared her for data-focused work in a variety of projects.
Where do you work and what…
Graduation is approaching, and at this time of the year, we reflect on those individuals who have made a difference in our lives. New graduates and alumni are encouraged to honor GSLIS faculty and/or staff through the LSAA Tassel Project, which was established in 2011 by the Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) to support the creation of an endowed professorship in the School.
With a…
The GSLIS Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) will co-host this month's Chicagoland Broadband Communities Meetup, which will address "Cook County Broadband Initiatives and Thought Leadership." Fitz Miller, director of telecommunications and network infrastructure for Cook County, will discuss Cook County broadband initiatives, and Craig Settles, a national thought leader, will join the group…
[image1-right]The third and final in a series of Digital Humanities Data Curation
workshops will be held April 30-May 2 at the Snell Library at
Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The series of three-day intensive
workshops is hosted by Digital Humanities Data Curation (DHDC),
a collaborative research project supported by CIRSS, Maryland Institute for Technology in the…
[image1-right]Courtney Busscher came to GSLIS to pursue an interdisciplinary degree that would complement her broad interests—including literature, psychology, and languages—and prepare her for work in a fast-paced environment. As a data management intern, Foreign Language and Area Studies fellow, and president of the Special Libraries Association student group, she's making the most of her last…
Linda C. Smith, professor and associate dean for academic programs, will participate in a panel discussion at the Access to Success Colloquium on April 28. Smith, fellow Illinois faculty members, and the colloquium’s keynote speaker will discuss the future of online graduate education.The colloquium is part of the ongoing Access to Success (A2S) research project, which works to develop strategies…
The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC recently acquired for their permanent collection two pieces of art created by GSLIS adjunct faculty member Bea Nettles.
