The GSLIS eUpdate, published every other month, summarizes current news, events, alumni and advancement highlights, and continuing professional development opportunities. Other publications that may be of interest to alumni and friends are listed on the GSLIS Publications web page.
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[image1-right]Where do you work and what is your role?I work at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago as a web producer. Poetryfoundation.org is one of the leading websites for American poetry, and the website for the Poetry Foundation and its programs, which include the monthly serial Poetry. What do you like best about your job?I enjoy the fact that I am part of an organization committed to making…
This fall GSLIS will welcome Elizabeth Hoiem as an assistant professor teaching and conducting research in youth services. She comes to GSLIS from East Carolina University, where she has been an assistant professor since Fall 2013. While a doctoral student and instructor at Illinois, Hoiem was named in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for four semesters. She teaches in…
Each year, GSLIS recognizes a group of outstanding students for their achievement in academics as well as a number of attributes that contribute to professional success. The following student awards were presented at the GSLIS Convocation on May 18, 2014.
Bryce Allen Award for Reference Services
Presented to Holly Luetkenhaus by Assistant Professor Dr. Nicole A. Cooke:
During her time at…
Professor Dan Schiller, who has been a member of the GSLIS faculty since 2001, will retire from the University of Illinois on May 31. "GSLIS has been my home for thirteen years. The cooperative spirit of the School, which staff, faculty members, and school administrators actively create day to day, has been an inspiration to me. Going forward, I plan to pursue my research in the political economy…
In honor of the academic career and contributions of GSLIS Professor Emeritus W. Boyd Rayward to the field of library and information science, a festschrift containing essays by his colleagues has been published, composing the two most recent issues of Library Trends, 62(2) and 62(3). Rayward was presented with the festschrift on May 6 at a reception at GSLIS. Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward…
Assistant
Professor Nicole Cooke, Assistant Professor Jana Diesner, and Senior Research Scientist Martin Wolske will
participate in the International Communication Association’s 64th Annual
Conference May 22-26. The theme of the 2014 conference, which will be held in
Seattle, is “Communication and ‘the Good Life.’”
Cooke
will present at the preconference session, “Sharing: A Keyword…
GSLIS alumnus Tomas A. Lipinski (PhD ‘98) has been named dean of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) School of Information Studies. Lipinski will assume his new role on October 1.Since completing his doctoral studies at GSLIS, Lipinski has been active in the field of library and information science. Most recently he served as director of the School of Library and Information Science at…
Assistant Professor Carol Tilley will deliver a keynote address at the 2014 Comics & Medicine Conference on June 27 at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus in Baltimore, Maryland. This multidisciplinary conference will bring together healthcare professionals, artists, scholars, comics enthusiasts, and students to explore applications of graphic medicine—the use of comics in healthcare and medical…
With more than thirty-five years of service to GSLIS each, Sally Eakin and Kathy Painter will both retire on May 31.Eakin, a staff clerk, joined the staff of what was then the Graduate School of Library Science in November 1978. Painter, an office administrator, was hired in September 1979. Through decades of change, not only have Eakin and Painter served as indispensable members of the front…
