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Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute Workshop to be held at Northeastern

[image1-right]The third and final in a series of Digital Humanities Data Curation workshops will be held April 30-May 2 at the Snell Library at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The series of three-day intensive workshops is hosted by Digital Humanities Data Curation (DHDC), a collaborative research project supported by CIRSS, Maryland Institute for Technology in the…

Get to know Courtney Busscher, MS student & SLA president

[image1-right]Courtney Busscher came to GSLIS to pursue an interdisciplinary degree that would complement her broad interests—including literature, psychology, and languages—and prepare her for work in a fast-paced environment. As a data management intern, Foreign Language and Area Studies fellow, and president of the Special Libraries Association student group, she's making the most of her last…

Smith discusses future of online graduate education at A2S Colloquium

Linda C. Smith, professor and associate dean for academic programs, will participate in a panel discussion at the Access to Success Colloquium on April 28. Smith, fellow Illinois faculty members, and the colloquium’s keynote speaker will discuss the future of online graduate education.The colloquium is part of the ongoing Access to Success (A2S) research project, which works to develop strategies…

Cooke, GSLIS welcome Spectrum Doctoral Fellows to campus

The American Library Association hosted a spring retreat for the Spectrum Doctoral Fellows on April 5-7 at the iHotel and Conference Center on the Illinois campus. Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke co-planned the event, which was sponsored by the American Library Association’s Office for Diversity, made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Get to know Leighton Christiansen (MS '12), transportation librarian

Leighton Christiansen’s experience in transportation and the information professions prepared him for work as the single librarian serving the Iowa Department of Transportation. Combined with the skills he learned via the iSchool's Specialization in Data Curation, Christiansen has found himself uniquely positioned to tackle the challenges facing the transportation information industry today.…

Cooke speaks at diversity & fluency conferences, PhD colloquium

Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke’s diverse research interests and experiences as an iSchool faculty member have taken her to an array of events this month. She will speak at three events in April, discussing topics from social justice to the roles of LIS faculty.On April 5 Cooke participated in a panel at the New Directions in Information Fluency conference at Augustana College. As part of a…

Locke to lead new digital humanities lab

[image1-right]This fall GSLIS master’s student Brandon Locke will take on the role of digital social science and humanities specialist at Michigan State University (MSU). In this new position, he will coordinate MSU’s new Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research (LEADR). Located within the university’s Department of History, this digital initiative will launch under Locke’s…

Bonn delivers talk at Fiesole Collection Development Retreat

Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn traveled across the pond recently to participate in the 2014 Fiesole Collection Development Retreat, held April 10-12 in Cambridge, England. This annual meeting draws information professionals and industry representatives from around the world to discuss developments and issues in collection development.“Fiesole is a wonderful opportunity to engage in high-level…

FTRF, GSLIS to collaborate on intellectual freedom course

The Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) and GSLIS are pleased to announce a partnership to offer an online graduate-level course on intellectual freedom for library and information science students around the country. The course, to be taught by GSLIS professor Emily Knox, is the first education-related project of FTRF’s Judith F. Krug Memorial Fund.“Intellectual Freedom and Censorship” will be…

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