[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…

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The International Committee of the GSLIS ALA Student Chapter will host a panel discussion, “Libraries Under Siege: Censorship, Access, and Endurance in the Middle East” on February 7, 2014. Kathryn La Barre, GSLIS faculty member and the immediate past president of the International Society for Knowledge Organization: Chapter for Canada and United States will moderate the event. This panel…

CIRSS faculty and students will participate in the upcoming 9th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) to be held February 24-27 in San Francisco. This year's theme, "Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society," will focus on how data-driven tools and services allow us to explore, manage, use, and benefit from…

Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir is part of a four-year, $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation that renews the Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (ICSSP), which teaches students how to protect the nation’s cyber infrastructure by designing more secure systems and methodologies, as well as better cyber policy. Bashir works closely with students in the program as well as with agencies and laboratories who provide student internships.

Five GSLIS students will join Associate Professor Terry Weech at BOBCATSSS, an international symposium under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) that brings together library and information science professionals, researchers, educators, and students. CAS student Nicole Helregel and master's students Emilia Marcyk, Erik Radio, Angela…

GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will participate in the 2014 ALISE Annual Conference, which will be held January 21-24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The theme of the conference is "Educational Entrepreneurship," and sessions will focus on a variety of topics related to incorporating entrepreneurship into LIS pedagogy and research. Tuesday, January 21 WISE Pedagogy Pre-conference…

GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie is slated to speak at the University of Oxford on January 22 about the ongoing work of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). His talk, “Unlocking the Secrets of 3 Billion Pages: Introducing the HathiTrust Research Center,” will provide an overview of the HTRC’s mission and projects and will introduce scholars to ways they can…

GSLIS will serve as a key intellectual and infrastructural partner for a new grant awarded to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The $3 million grant will fund the first two years of an extensive consortium of fifteen humanities institutes. IPRH, a division of the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, provides…

The staff at The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) has announced the 2013 Blue Ribbons, their choices for the best of children's and young adult literature for the year. Blue Ribbons are chosen annually by BCCB reviewers and represent what they believe to be outstanding examples of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for youth. Over thirty titles received Blue Ribbons for…