GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will participate in
several conferences focusing on a variety of topics this fall:Information Technology and
Africa: Practices, Potentials and Challenges September
11-13, 2013University
of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSharon
Irish, project coordinator for GSLIS Center for Digital
Inclusion, will serve on a panel moderated by GSLIS alumna and Assistant…
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is currently hosting its second annual UnCamp at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The 1.5-day event began yesterday afternoon and will conclude this evening with a closing keynote from Christopher Warren (Carnegie Mellon University).
Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke and Merinda Kaye Hensley
(MS ’06) were awarded a best paper award at the Eighth International Conference
on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS 8) held in Copenhagen,
Denmark, in August 2013. Their paper was titled, “The
Critical and Continuing Role of the LIS Curriculum in the Teacher Training of
Future Librarians.” The award, given by…
GSLIS alumna Ellen Swain (MS ’95) has been named a distinguished Fellow of the
Society of American Archivists (SAA). Swain was recognized at Archives 2013,
the joint annual meeting of the SAA and the Council of State Archivists, which
was held in New Orleans on August 11-17. SAA members who have made exceptional
contributions to the archives profession are selected as fellows, which is the…
GSLIS welcomes Xiaoguang Wang as a scholar-in-residence for
the 2013-2014 academic year. Wang is a professor in the School of Information
Management at Wuhan University (WU) in the Hubei Province of China. He looks
forward to continuing his research at GSLIS, particularly in the area of
semantic publishing, and he plans to collaborate with GSLIS faculty who share
his research interests.…
This fall, Maria Bonn joins the Graduate School of
Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign as a senior lecturer. Bonn will teach courses on the role of
libraries in scholarly communication and publishing.
Most recently, Bonn served as the associate university
librarian for publishing at the University of Michigan Library, with
responsibility…
GSLIS
Professor Michael Twidale recently discussed the importance of inclusion in his
teaching and research with Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre. Twidale’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.
Twidale
teaches courses in museum informatics, interaction…
F. W. “Wilf” Lancaster, GSLIS professor emeritus, passed
away on Sunday, August 25, at his home in Urbana, Illinois. He was 79 years old.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Cesaria; his children, Miriam,
Owen, Jude, Aaron, Lakshmi, and Raji; and his 13 grandchildren.
A visitation will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, August 30,
at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Urbana with a funeral…
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant in the amount of $437,000 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Indiana University for an exciting new project in the HathiTrust Research Center. The “Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project” (WCSA) project will be directed by HTRC Codirector and GSLIS Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen…
Washington, DC—The ARL Committee on Diversity and Leadership has selected 15 masters of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2013–2015 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) as ARL Diversity Scholars.The ARL IRDW offers numerous financial benefits to program participants as well as leadership development provided through the annual ARL Leadership…
