GSLIS affiliated faculty member Safiya Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) was interviewed by the University of Illinois News Bureau for their campus feature A Minute With… where she discussed how stereotypes, especially of black women and girls, affect results in search engines. This topic was the core of Noble’s doctoral research, and her dissertation was titled, "Searching for Black Girls: Old…

At the recent iConference, a group of GSLIS students and faculty earned an Honorable Mention award for their poster, "Identifying Claims in Social Science Literature." The group included doctoral student Shameem Ahmed, Associate Professor Catherine Blake, Assistant Professor Kate Williams, doctoral student Noah Lenstra, and master’s student Qiyuan Liu.The poster presented initial findings from…

Safiya Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12), assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Illinois in collaboration with the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Cybersecurity Group has been awarded a startup allocation grant on the National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and…

Join GSLIS alumnus André Brock (PhD ’07) on Tuesday, February 19, from 3:00-4:30pm in GSLIS 126 as he presents, “Critical Cultural Informatics: Twitter and Black Discourse.” This presentation, sponsored by the GSLIS Inclusions and Exclusions Group and part of Black Geek Week, will be recorded and archived.Black Geek Week is a campus event highlighting the achievements of African Americans who…

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), a collaboration launched in 2011 by the University of Illinois and Indiana University, is developing software tools and cyberinfrastructure to provide researchers with advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The following informational video, produced by HTRC, addresses issues surrounding access to digital cultural…

GSLIS Assistant Professor Carol Tilley has been appointed to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Common Core Implementation Assistance Task Force. She will serve on the task force for one year. “School libraries and the librarians who work in them are integral parts of the K-12 education community. The near-universal adoption of the Common Core State Standards in the…

[image1-right]Alumna Lizabeth (Betsy) A. Wilson (MS ’78) has been named the winner of the 2013 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The award, jointly sponsored by four divisions of the American Library Association, recognizes an academic librarian who has worked in library automation or management for his or her significant accomplishments towards improving library services or research.…

The U of I News Bureau recently interviewed Carol Tilley, GSLIS assistant professor, about her research into the personal archives of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, an 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…

Please join the Graduate School of Library and Information Science for the following activities during the 2013 iConference, including our reception on February 13 at Vidalias Restaurant in the Worthington Renaissance.WORKSHOPS “Filling the Workforce Gap in Data Science and Data Analytics” February 12, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Co-chairs include: GSLIS Associate Professor Catherine Blake “…

Jana Diesner, assistant professor, has received a start-up allocation award from the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). This award provides Diesner and her co-PI Brent Fegley, a doctoral student in the Informatics program, with time on XSEDE’s high-performance computing resources and help from XSEDE staff members with parallelizing their code.