Lian Ruan (MS '90, PhD '11), GSLIS adjunct lecturer, has been awarded a 2013 Diversity Research Grant from the American Library Association’s Office for Diversity. Ruan, director/head librarian of the Illinois Fire Service Institute, shares the grant with Weiling
Liu, director of the Office of Libraries Technology, University of
Louisville. Their project "The Role of Chinese American…
GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 76th Annual Meeting, which will be held November 1-5 in Montreal.
Representatives from the
Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) are slated to participate and present at the 2013 Community Informatics Research
Network (CIRN) Conference. The topic of the conference, scheduled for October 28-30 in Prato, Italy, will be "Nexus,
Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives Meets Community
Informatics." CDI is a sponsor of the event.
CIRN
is an…
“Mainstreaming Innovation in Online Education” is the theme for this year’s campus Summit on Online Education. The event will take place on October 29, 2013 at the Illini Union. Now in its third year, the Summit is designed to provide a forum for educators and learners, on- and off-campus, to meet and discuss topics of interest to them. Dr. Harrison Keller, Vice Provost of Higher Education Policy…
GSLIS Associate Professor Lori Kendall has been named the president of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). She takes office during the AoIR annual conference (IR 14) held October 23-26, 2013 in Denver, Colorado.
GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean
for Research J. Stephen Downie will deliver a keynote address at the Brazilian
Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM), which will be held October 31 to November 2
at the Escola de Música de Brasília in Brasília, Brazil. The invited talk, “Using
MIREX to Examine the Evolution of Music Information Retrieval Research,” will be given on November 2: Abstract: The "…
In this essay, master's student Regina Sierra Carter recounts her summer at the Smithsonian Institution, where she worked as a multicultural junior fellow. If you are interested in hosting a GSLIS student for an internship or practicum, please contact Roy Brooks, practicum coordinator.
[image1-right]As a result of the generous support of the Goldman Sachs
Group, Inc., I was blessed to serve…
[image1-right]The iSchool at Illinois welcomes Raphaëlle
Bats for a campus visit on October 23-25. Bats is an international relations officer at École Nationale Supérieure des
Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques (Enssib), the premier library
and information science school in France, and a 2012-2014 GSLIS research
fellow.
A technology showcase scheduled for October 10-11 will
highlight the societal impact of research innovation. “Share the Vision 2013” will
feature breakthrough research in human health, bioinformatics, global
challenges, advanced materials, and information technology. Among those
scheduled to present are Catherine Blake, GSLIS associate professor and CIRSS associate director;
Ian Brooks,…
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