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Get to know Alana Callender (MS '80), museum director

[image1-right]The research and organizational skills Alana Callender developed at GSLIS have contributed to her success in several departments of the college where she has made a career for more than three decades.Where do you work and what is your role?I work for the Palmer College of Chiropractic. It is the first chiropractic school in the world, and I am developing their museum. I also run the…

GSLIS faculty, students work to create data literate citizenry

Every day, we make decisions based on data. If selected for a trial, jurors would hear testimony from expert witnesses before deciding guilt or innocence. Parents choose medical treatments for their children based on scientific research. Democracy relies on engaged citizens who base their decisions on information drawn from an array of sources. In these situations and many others, we are called…

School librarians walk away with network, knowledge after Summer Getaway

[image1-left:resize-600w]GSLIS hosted a series of workshops recently that brought together school librarians from across the state to learn about current topics in K-12 librarianship from experts and from each other.The Summer Getaway: Professional Development for School Librarians event consisted of four workshops spread across a three-day period, June 23-25, which focused on emerging trends and…

CIRSS, HTRC represented at Digital Humanities 2014

Several members of the GSLIS community will participate in Digital Humanities 2014, and will present on topics related to research conducted at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) and HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). The conference, held July 7-11 in Lausanne, Switzerland, is organized annually by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. The theme of…

GSLIS welcomes nominations for annual intellectual freedom award

GSLIS seeks nominations for the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award. The deadline for nominations is October 1, 2014. 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…

Flores-Clemons receives SAA Minority Student Award

GSLIS master's student Raquel Flores-Clemons is a 2014 recipient of the Society of American Archivists's (SAA) Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award. The award recognizes minority graduate students of African, Asian, Latino, or Native American descent who, through scholastic achievement, manifest an interest in becoming professional archivists and active members of SAA.While pursuing her…

LSAA honors 2014 award recipients

The GSLIS Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) has announced the recipients of its annual awards. The recipients were recognized on June 29, 2014, at the GSLIS reception held at the annual meeting of the American Library Association in Las Vegas.Loriene Roy (PhD ’87) has been awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Each year this award is given to an alum who has made an outstanding…

La Barre named to BRAJIS editorial board

Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre has been appointed to the editorial board of BRAJIS, the Brazilian Journal of Information Science. She will serve on the board for three years. 

Kathryn La Barre

Berger publishes Rare Books and Special Collections

GSLIS alumnus and adjunct professor Sidney E. Berger (MS '87) presents a landmark examination of rare books and special collections in his latest book, recently published by ALA-Neal Shuman. Rare Books and Special Collections provides a meticulous and systematic understanding of this growing area, aimed at practitioners and instructors of library and information science, booksellers, private…

Join GSLIS at ALA Annual 2014

GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will participate in the American Library Association’s 2014 Annual Conference from June 26 - July 1 in Las Vegas. Visit us in the exhibits hall at Booth #1923. In addition to the presentations listed below, please join us for the GSLIS Reception on Sunday, June 29, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Bally’s, Skyview 2.

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