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Deng receives CALA President's Recognition Award

[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…

Four alumni honored with LSAA Awards

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…
Brigitta Denning, Allen Renear, Chancellor Phyllis Wise, Katrina Stierholz, Maurice York, Jill Gengler, and Jim Obst

Roberts, Sweeney travel to Dublin for panel presentation

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,…

Reflections on Inclusion: Nicole Cooke

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,…

Meza receives SLA's Impact Award

[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…

Anselmo highlighted in SLA 'Illuminate Illinois' feature

[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…

McDade tells story of Thieves of Book Row

[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,…
Author Travis McDade (photo courtesy of U of I College of Law)

DHDC Institute workshops underway at GSLIS

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…

Chao and Kwong selected to participate in ALA Leadership Institute

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,…

Schnuer receives 2013 John Ames Humphry/OCLC/Forest Press Award

[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…