Jon
Gant, GSLIS associate professor and director of the Center for Digital Inclusion, and Warren Cheetham,
coordinator of information and digital services at CityLibraries in Townsville,
Australia, will give a presentation about community broadband adoption at the
Champaign Public Library on June 17, 2013.
Gant
will discuss his work surrounding libraries and community broadband adoption…
Current and prospective LIS students from across the Midwest
traveled to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in
the 2013 LIS Access Midwest Program (LAMP) Summer Institute, which was hosted
by the University Library from May 30 through June 2. LAMP is a network of
information schools and academic libraries in the Midwest that collaborate to
encourage students from…
The Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) has announced the results of its 2013 election. Among those selected for new assignments beginning July 1, 2013, are the following GSLIS alumni:
Lian Ruan (MS ’90, PhD ’11), vice president/president-elect (2013-2014)Sai Deng (MS ’05), member, Board of Directors (2013-2016)Win Shih (MS ’87), member, Board of Directors (2013-2016)
CALA is a…
What do Occupy Wall Street, Free Burma, the Zapatista Movement, and Uzbek dissidents have in common? All have mobilized social media for their causes, and all were topics in the new course Social Media and Global Change in the Spring 2013 semester at the University of Illinois. The course was developed and sponsored by the Global Informatics Initiative as the first phase in its efforts to further…
Do you finish every book you start? Or do you
abandon books partway through? The Wall Street Journal recently explored the topic in an article, "Guilt Complex: Why Leaving a Book Half-Read is So Hard." Mary Wilkes Towner, adjunct
lecturer at GSLIS and librarian at the Urbana Free Library, was interviewed for the article and cast her vote for letting go of the guilt:Librarians like Mary Wilkes…
GSLIS seeks nominations for the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award. The deadline for nominations is October 1, 2013.Given annually, the award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas. Granted to those who have resisted censorship or efforts to abridge…
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has announced the results of its 2013 elections. Several GSLIS alumni have assumed positions in the association’s specialized
sections:
Wayne Bivens-Tatum (MS ’00), member-at-large
(three-year term), University Libraries Section (ULS)Marianne Bracke (MS ’97), vice-chair/chair-elect,
Science and Technology Section (STS)Lynda Duke (MS…
GSLIS master's students Karen Barton and Tracy Drake and doctoral students LaTesha Velez and Melissa
Villa-Nicholas discussed librarianship, diversity, and technology at
the University of California, Irvine’s History Graduate Student
Association’s 17th Annual Conference, "Responding to Crisis:
Historical and Contemporary Strategies of Resistance."
The conference brought together…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Emily Knox recently discussed the
importance of inclusion in her teaching and research with Associate Professor
Kathryn La Barre. Knox’s remarks are part of a new interview series, Reflections
on Inclusion, which explores the School’s efforts to respect varied
perspectives and diversity of experiences.Knox teaches courses in intellectual freedom and
censorship;…
CU-CitizenAccess.org, a community online news and information project directed by GSLIS-affiliated faculty member Brant Houston, has won the 2012 Peter Lisagor Award for its work with Hoy Chicago to examine changing demographics and racial issues in Central Illinois.
