GSLIS doctoral student Noah Lenstra will serve on the concluding panel at the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) Fall Symposium, which will take place September 12 and 13 at the Illini Union. The theme of the symposium is “Oral History, Archives, and Innovation.”
Lenstra will present his work as the project director of eBlack Champaign-Urbana, a collaborative program focused on creating a…
Kate McDowell (MS ’99, PhD ’07), GSLIS associate professor,
has been appointed assistant dean for the Office of Student Affairs as of August 16, 2014.
McDowell has been serving as interim assistant dean since January and will
continue to oversee admissions, advising, career services, and recruiting while
managing Student Affairs as it expands its services and renews its focus
on student…
Assistant Professor Jana Diesner and GSLIS doctoral student Shubhanshu Mishra recently attended the ACM Web Science 2014 conference held in Bloomington, Indiana. They presented their paper, “Comparison of communication networks built from explicit and implicit data,” co-authored with Illinois engineering master’s student Amirhossein Aleyasen, as well as PhD candidate Aaron Schecter and Professor…
[image1-right]Jennifer Borchardt built on a strong background in user experience design and strategy with a master’s degree from GSLIS. Now Borchardt is a VP at a major bank and speaks professionally to peer groups and graduate students.Where do you work and what is your role?I am a group lead and vice president in the online customer experience team at Wells Fargo, one of the largest banks in…
With a book under contract, a nationwide research project underway,
a recent publication in The Library
Quarterly, and plans to teach a unique new course to students across the
country this fall, Assistant Professor Emily Knox (MS ’03) is gaining national
attention for her research in the area of intellectual freedom.
First inspired to study banned books by her mother, a former
high…
Documentary films are powerful storytelling vehicles. The best social justice films take us to places we’ve not been before, engaging our minds and our hearts as they explore some of the most significant issues of society: poverty, education, the environment, health, social equality. In ninety minutes or less, we are moved by these stories. But are we moved to action?
That is the question that…
Members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Committee on Diversity and Leadership have selected thirteen LIS master's students to participate in the 2014–2016 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) as ARL Diversity Scholars.Underwritten by ARL member libraries, the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce offers numerous financial benefits to program participants as well as…
GSLIS will participate in the upcoming International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress in Lyon, France, on August 16-22. This annual conference brings together LIS professionals and students from more than 120 countries and provides opportunities for networking and professional development. Among the presenters will be the GSLIS faculty and students listed below. Attendees are invited meet with faculty and staff at Booth #D-108.
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The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is pleased to announce an exciting new project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.The NEH awarded $324,841 for “Exploring the Billions and Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm: HathiTrust + Bookworm” (HT+BW), a two-year project that begins September 1, 2014, and will conclude August 31, 2016. This project will be directed…
