[image1-right:resize-180w]Sai Deng (MS ’05) is a recipient of a 2013 President’s
Recognition Award, given annually by the Chinese American Library Association (CALA). She is one of three award winners—including Maria Fung and Michael Bailou Huang—who were recognized with honorary plaques during CALA's 40th Anniversary Celebration and Awards Banquet on June 30, 2013.Deng joined CALA in 2006 and…
The GSLIS Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) has announced the
recipients of its annual awards. The recipients were recognized on June 30,
2013, at the GSLIS reception held at the annual meeting of the ALA in Chicago.
Katrina Stierholz (MS ’93) has been awarded the
Distinguished Alumnus Award. Each year this award is given to an alum who has
made an outstanding contribution to the…
GSLIS doctoral candidates Sarah T. Roberts and Miriam E. Sweeney presented on a panel at the International
Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Dublin, Ireland, on
June 28. The presentation, "Free Speech, Visual Discourses and
the Invisible," also included panelists Ergin Bulut, doctoral candidate in Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois,…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke recently discussed the importance of inclusion in her teaching and
research with Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre. Cooke’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.
Cooke teaches courses that focus on information
behavior,…
[image1-right]Ozzie Meza (MS ’05) has received the Impact Award from the Business
& Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). Meza
received the award in recognition of his efforts to create and implement a
method of using knowledge management to improve recruitment of executives at
Allstate Insurance. Meza’s system was successfully expanded to other levels of…
[image1-right:resize-180w]Linda Anselmo (MS '10) is the focus of a recent Illuminate Illinois feature by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Illinois Chapter. Anselmo is a research librarian and manager of information services at the Chicago
offices of the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich. Before beginning her
master’s degree program at GSLIS, she worked as an accountant at the…
[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…