GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke recently discussed the importance of inclusion in her teaching and
research with Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre. Cooke’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.
Cooke teaches courses that focus on information
behavior,…
[image1-right]Ozzie Meza (MS ’05) has received the Impact Award from the Business
& Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). Meza
received the award in recognition of his efforts to create and implement a
method of using knowledge management to improve recruitment of executives at
Allstate Insurance. Meza’s system was successfully expanded to other levels of…
[image1-right:resize-180w]Linda Anselmo (MS '10) is the focus of a recent Illuminate Illinois feature by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Illinois Chapter. Anselmo is a research librarian and manager of information services at the Chicago
offices of the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich. Before beginning her
master’s degree program at GSLIS, she worked as an accountant at the…
[image1-right:resize-180w]Rare book collectors aren’t the only ones with their eyes on
valuable first editions, a fact made clear by GSLIS adjunct professor Travis
McDade in his latest book, Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious
Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It (Oxford University Press, 2013). Tracing the activity of the
most infamous book-theft ring in American history,…
The
first in a series of three-day Digital Humanities
Data Curation
(DHDC) Institute workshops is currently underway at GSLIS. The
workshop provides 20 researchers from around the country with a strong
introductory grounding in data curation concepts, focusing on topics in the
digital humanities.
Conducting
research with digital materials poses new challenges for humanities scholars and…
GSLIS alumni Szu-Yu Chao (MS ’05) and Vincci Kwong (MS ’05) are among forty librarians selected to participate in Leading to the Future, a unique four-day immersive leadership development program sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA). The inaugural event will be held from August 12-15 in Itasca, Illinois.The program will be led by Maureen Sullivan, ALA president, and Kathryn Deiss,…
[image1-right]The American Library Association's International Relations
Committee has chosen Susan M. Schnuer (MS ’92), associate director at the
University of Illinois Mortenson Center for International Library
Programs, to receive this year's John Ames/Humphry/OCLC/ Forest Press
Award.
OCLC/Forest Press donated the cash award of $1,000, which is given to
an individual for…
GSLIS master's students I-Ju Chen and Brian Flota earned
stipend awards to attend the Special
Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference, which was held earlier this
month in San Diego, California.
Chen, whose studies focus on competitive intelligence and
knowledge management, received the student travel award from the Business and
Finance Division of the SLA. The annual award is…
Cathy Blake, associate professor and CIRSS associate director, has been invited to present at the Symposium on Cognitive Systems and Discovery Informatics at Carnegie Mellon University, to be held at the Silicon Vally Campus on June 21-22, 2013. The symposium will explore the intersection of the discovery informatics and cognitive systems movements, bringing together researchers from a number of…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Kate McDowell recently discussed the importance of inclusion in her teaching and research with Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre. McDowell’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.McDowell teaches courses in storytelling, literature and…
