GSLIS has enjoyed a long history of scholarly engagement
with China, and a new exhibit currently on display in the GSLIS building
highlights the work of faculty members Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat. Complete
with photographs as well as publications and artifacts, the exhibit displays
the impact of the School’s research, teaching, and service in community
informatics in the country. The…
Are you working at a
library or information science-related job? If so, what do you do at your job
on an average day? I'm
currently working as a map cataloger and part time reference librarian.
My position is tenure-track, which means that I participate in
university committees and create scholarly presentations and publications
that contribute to the library profession…
Are you working at a library or information science-related job? If so,
what do you do at your job on an average day? I
am currently the pre-professional graduate assistant for Career and Information
Services at The Career Center at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Considered a special library, I perform a variety tasks on a
typical day. As the assistant to the…
Are you working at a library or information science-related job? If so,
what do you do at your job on an average day? I
am not, but I am pretty close. I am a PhD student in Information Science and
Technology at Syracuse University. I consider this a job so on an average day I
have one class, 3 meetings, 1 brown bag, 40 emails, 6 academic journals to
“read”, and homework. It is certainly…
[image1-right]Are you working at a library or information science-related job? If so, what do you do at your job on an average day? Yes,
I am currently the business and patent & trademark librarian at
Milwaukee Public Library in Milwaukee, WI. An average day in my position
involves working at both a general reference desk, answering reader's
advisory questions and computer…
Are you working at a library or information science-related job? If so, what do you do at your job on an average day? Yes.
Currently, I work at the UIC Daley Library as a graduate assistant for
the reference department, as well as a building manager/aide for the circulation department. Therefore, my "average day" shifts depending on
where I'm stationed. [image1-right]As
a…
GSLIS alumna Lorraine Haricombe (MS ’88, PhD ’92) has been elected chair of the Steering Committee for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly publishing, and the Steering Committee acts as an advisory board to its executive director.
Currently…
Kathi Carlisle Fountain (MS ’97), head of collection
development at the Washington State University - Vancouver Library, has been
awarded the 2013 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and
Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/CQ Press Award. The award,
established in 1996 by LPSS, honors an academic or law librarian who has made
distinguished contributions to…
The Center for Children's Books will host the annual Gryphon Lecture on March 1, 2013. Brian Sturm, associate professor at the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science, will present "Paradoxically Speaking: Just One of the Ways Children's Folktales Engage Listeners." His talk will address engagement in storytelling and children's folktales, merging the theory and the practice of storytelling to examine the inherent qualities of children's folk literature and its use in libraries and schools.
The New York Times covered Assistant Professor Carol Tilley's recently published research on Fredric Wertham, a psychiatrist and anti-comics critic whose 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent inspired federal hearings that decimated the comic book industry. Tilley's
research is based on a review of Wertham’s personal archives, which
were made available to researchers in 2010. During her review…
