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…
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Alkalimat hosts forum at Archives 2013
Professor Abdul Alkalimat
led a forum at Archives
2013, the joint
annual meeting of the Society of American…
[image1-right]GSLIS master’s student Yan Liu has demonstrated time and
again that she is dedicated to pursuing a career in librarianship and willing
to put in the extra effort required to stand out from the crowd. Since moving from
her home in Beijing to the United States to study library and
information science at GSLIS, Liu’s dedication has garnered well-deserved
attention and praise.…
Five GSLIS master's students participated in the University of Illinois’s 2013 Summer Pre-doctoral Institute (SPI). SPI is a campus-wide orientation program that accepts incoming graduate students from U.S. populations that are underrepresented in campus graduate programs. During the eight-week program, students enroll in an independent study, participate in a series of research-based seminars,…
GSLIS is pleased to announce that Masooda Bashir will join the GSLIS faculty as an assistant professor on August 16, 2013. Bashir holds degrees in mathematics, computer science, and psychology and received her PhD in psychology from Purdue University. She worked for several years as a systems analyst, technical trainer, manager, and global manager for a number of corporations in Silicon Valley, including Lotus and IBM.
[image1-right:resize-180w]GSLIS alumna Katie Blakeman (MS ’11) has been named one of the prestigious “Forty Under 40” award winners announced annually by Central Illinois Business Magazine.The “Forty Under 40” awards honor young professionals “based
on achievement, experience, innovation, leadership and community involvement,”
according to an
announcement in the News-Gazette.
Honorees are…
