CIRSS researchers will make a strong showing as they share their expertise in scientific data curation at this week’s 46th annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The meeting, scheduled for December 9-13 in San Francisco, California, is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, gathering more than 24,000 earth and space scientists, educators,…

Library Journal recently interviewed GSLIS Associate Professor Jerome McDonough in an article about the preservation of video games. McDonough is the principal investigator on the Preserving Virtual Worlds II project, which aims to build upon the findings of the original PVW project and create a set of best practices for digital preservation.

GSLIS Professor Alistair Black is the recipient of the Library History Essay Award for 2013. The prize is awarded annually by the Library and Information History Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) to the best essay on library history relating to, or published in, the British Isles in the previous calendar year. Black’s essay is titled, “…

GSLIS PhD student Yang Luo successfully defended her dissertation proposal last spring and promptly left on a trip to China for field research over the summer. The CCB was excited to find the opportunity to meet with Luo and to talk about her research and trip.“My research is on the history of children’s libraries in China. I’m specifically looking at the time period from 1912-1937,” says Luo…

[image1-right]Cynthia Kremer (MS '11) is the focus of a recent Illuminate Illinois feature by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Illinois Chapter. Kremer is a part-time reference librarian at National Louis University (NLU) and is currently working on a practicum in health sciences librarianship at Rush Medical Center and the University of Illinois at Chicago's Library of the Health…

GSLIS students William Langston and Sophie Young have been selected to receive 2014 Spectrum Scholar/PLA Conference Travel Grants from the Public Library Association. In total, ten of the nation's 2013 Spectrum Scholars were selected to receive funding to attend the conference. Langston and Young, both master's students, were named ALA Spectrum Scholars earlier this year along with four other…

[image1-right]With a background in history and initially inspired by an interest in archives and special collections, Christina John decided to pursue a master’s degree at GSLIS. She now plans to apply her research and LIS skills to a career in the corporate or nonprofit sector.Why did you decide to pursue an LIS degree?I decided to pursue an LIS degree when I was an undergrad at DePaul…

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Special Collections and Bechtel Fellowship Committee have awarded the 2014 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship to Natalie Ziarnik.The Bechtel Fellowship is designed to allow qualified children’s librarians to spend a total of four weeks or more reading and studying at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, a part of the…

Sarah Roberts, doctoral candidate at GSLIS and assistant professor at Western University in Ontario, was recently interviewed by NPR's All Things Considered regarding new safeguards used by Internet search engines to eliminate images of child pornography online. In order for these automated programs to capture and remove these images, according to NPR’s report, workers must first scan “known…

A special issue of the journal Library Trends focuses on challenges facing local communities in China as they make use of information technology while coping with wrenching social and economic change. Kate Williams, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, served as guest editor of the issue (Volume 62, Issue 1…