Jon Gant, director of the Center for Digital Inclusion and
GSLIS faculty member, was recently a guest on CIO Talk Radio, an internet-based
talk show that discusses the ways in which technology is changing business and society.
The show, “Could Global Connectivity Transform the World’s Economy?” aired on
February 19, 2014. CIO Talk Radio reaches a global audience of CIOs and
business leaders…
Anna Maria Watkin (MS '96), director of the
Parkland College Library, and Erika Hackman, director of the Center for
Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Parkland College,
will accept the 2014 ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS) EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Award on behalf of the project Scholarship at Parkland (SPARK) at the 2014 ALA Annual…
GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in iConference 2014, which will
be held March 4-7 in Berlin.
The annual iConference, hosted by the iSchools organization, brings together scholars, researchers, and information professionals from around the world. The theme of the ninth annual conference, which will take place at Humboldt University of Berlin, is "Breaking Down Walls:…
The life and career of GSLIS research fellow Michelle H. Martin was fundamentally influenced by a woman named Augusta Baker. As a child, Martin knew Baker and had opportunities to see and hear the storytelling specialist, who was a storyteller-in-residence at the University of South Carolina (USC) for fourteen years. Today, Martin is the Augusta Baker Chair in Childhood Literacy at USC. The chair…
An article by Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack (MS '12) was recently published in the Fall 2013 issue of Art Documentation.
The article, "The Performance and Practice of Research in A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time," discusses their exhibition held at the Figure One Gallery in Champaign, Illinois, which investigated how the materiality of information shapes…
Two GSLIS alumni have won awards from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Kimberly Willson-St. Clair (MS '01), along with colleagues at Portland State University, has been selected to receive the 2014 ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award. Wendy Holliday (MS '02) has received the 2014 ACRL Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award with co-author…
Terry von Thaden (PhD '04) has been appointed to serve as vice chairperson of the U.S.
Air Force Scientific Advisory Board’s study on Combatting Sexual Assault (CoSA). Von Thaden is a human factors research scientist with the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute’s (IFSI)
Firefighter Life Safety and Research Center.
The
study will focus on reviewing the scientific work regarding…
In 1991, a group of
scholars on the University of Illinois Urbana campus came together to form the
Women, Information Technology and Scholarship (WITS) group to explore how
issues of gender, race, and class were interwoven in emerging information
technologies. This group was hosted at GSLIS in its final two years (1996-1998)
and former GSLIS dean Leigh Estabrook was an active member.…
[image1-right:resize-180w]Karen G. Schneider (MS '92), university librarian at Holy Names University,
Oakland, California, is the 2014 recipient of the American Library
Association (ALA) Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award. This award
is given biennially to an individual for making positive changes in the
profession of librarianship and consists of a 24K gold-framed citation
and $…
[image1-right]Battle Bunny, written by Jon Scieszka and Mac
Barnett, illustrated by Matthew Myers, and published by Simon & Schuster, is the winner of the 2014
Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature.
The Gryphon Award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is given
annually by the Center for Children’s Books. This year’s committee was chaired
by Deborah Stevenson, director of the…
