[image1-right:resize-180w]Rare book collectors aren’t the only ones with their eyes on
valuable first editions, a fact made clear by GSLIS adjunct professor Travis
McDade in his latest book, Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious
Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It (Oxford University Press, 2013). Tracing the activity of the
most infamous book-theft ring in American history,…
The
first in a series of three-day Digital Humanities
Data Curation
(DHDC) Institute workshops is currently underway at GSLIS. The
workshop provides 20 researchers from around the country with a strong
introductory grounding in data curation concepts, focusing on topics in the
digital humanities.
Conducting
research with digital materials poses new challenges for humanities scholars and…
GSLIS alumni Szu-Yu Chao (MS ’05) and Vincci Kwong (MS ’05) are among forty librarians selected to participate in Leading to the Future, a unique four-day immersive leadership development program sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA). The inaugural event will be held from August 12-15 in Itasca, Illinois.The program will be led by Maureen Sullivan, ALA president, and Kathryn Deiss,…
[image1-right]The American Library Association's International Relations
Committee has chosen Susan M. Schnuer (MS ’92), associate director at the
University of Illinois Mortenson Center for International Library
Programs, to receive this year's John Ames/Humphry/OCLC/ Forest Press
Award.
OCLC/Forest Press donated the cash award of $1,000, which is given to
an individual for…
GSLIS master's students I-Ju Chen and Brian Flota earned
stipend awards to attend the Special
Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference, which was held earlier this
month in San Diego, California.
Chen, whose studies focus on competitive intelligence and
knowledge management, received the student travel award from the Business and
Finance Division of the SLA. The annual award is…
Cathy Blake, associate professor and CIRSS associate director, has been invited to present at the Symposium on Cognitive Systems and Discovery Informatics at Carnegie Mellon University, to be held at the Silicon Vally Campus on June 21-22, 2013. The symposium will explore the intersection of the discovery informatics and cognitive systems movements, bringing together researchers from a number of…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Kate McDowell recently discussed the importance of inclusion in her teaching and research with Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre. McDowell’s remarks are part of the interview series Reflections
on Inclusion, which explores the School’s efforts to respect varied perspectives and diversity of experiences.McDowell teaches courses in storytelling, literature and…
[image1-right]“I tell myself that no matter how I’m feeling, I have to be
the Mick Jagger of the library world,” said GSLIS alumnus James E. “Jack” Bales (MS ’74) in a recent interview for the University of
Mary Washington (UMW) Magazine. He approaches his library-research classes with enthusiasm and energy, much like musicians approach rock concerts. Bales has worked as a reference and…
[image1-right]GSLIS alumna Rose Allen (MS ’01) has been named an Illinois
Library Luminary by the Illinois Library
Association (ILA).
Friends and colleagues came together to nominate her
and raise funds in her honor for the
Illinois Library Association Endowment. Luminaries are selected for their
significant contributions to Illinois libraries.
Allen began her career as a library…
Join GSLIS
for the following activities during the 2013 ALA Annual Conference, including our alumni and friends reception on Sunday, June 30, from 6:00 to
8:00 p.m. at Petterino’s Restaurant, 150 North Dearborn Street, Chicago. Please
stop by the exhibit hall and visit us at Booth 141!A Wild Ride: 75 Years of the Caldecott Medal
Friday, June
28, 7:45 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (sold out)
Deborah…
