Carole Palmer (PhD ’96), director of the Center for
Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) and professor at the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois, has received
the 2013 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award given by
the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
A member of the GSLIS faculty…
GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie and GSLIS-affiliated faculty member Professor Tim Cole (MS '89) recently traveled to Kyoto, Japan, to participate in the third annual Japanese Association for Digital Humanities conference, which was held September 19-21 at Ritsumeikan University.
Through digitization, the accessibility of cultural resources has improved in the…
On Wednesday, September 25, GSLIS will participate in Inclusive Illinois Day, a campus-wide day of activities celebrating diversity and inclusion on our campus. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is committed to the idea of "one campus, many voices" and to cultivating a campus community where differences are embraced, and everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. GSLIS shares…
In his article titled, "Masters of the Internet," published by Le Monde Dipliomatique, GSLIS Professor Dan Schiller provides an in-depth look at the controversy over global Internet governance, which was raised at the World Conference on International Telecommunications in December 2012. "In the wake of continuing
revelations by Edward Snowden, the issues attaching to global Internet
governance…
Carole Palmer, director of CIRSS and professor at GSLIS, delivered a keynote address at the second biannual plenary meeting
of the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The three-day meeting was held September
16-18 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington,
D.C., and involved conversations between top leaders from the White
House and US science agencies, and their international…
Assistant Professor Emily Knox has written a chapter in the newly published book, Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America, edited by Christine Pawley and Louise S. Robbins and published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Using the heated 2009 challenge at the West Bend (Wisconsin) Community Memorial Library as a case study, Knox analyzes letters and newspaper accounts…
Graduate students and parents of elementary-school children are coming
together to learn about technology as part of a new initiative at Kenwood
Elementary School in Champaign, Illinois.
Martin Wolske, senior research scientist at the Center for Digital
Inclusion at GSLIS, will lead the “Demystifying the Computer” workshop series to
help bridge the home-school technology gap. Parents will…
GSLIS welcomes Ian Brooks, who has joined the staff as a research scientist. He will represent both GSLIS and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as a liaison to the health sciences community. In this role, Brooks will help maintain and develop research relationships between GSLIS and NCSA in the area of health science information and work with GSLIS faculty on externally…
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Professor Linda Smith recently discussed the importance of inclusion in her
teaching and research with Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre. Smith’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.Smith, who
also serves as associate dean for academic programs, teaches…
GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will participate in
several conferences focusing on a variety of topics this fall:Information Technology and
Africa: Practices, Potentials and Challenges September
11-13, 2013University
of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSharon
Irish, project coordinator for GSLIS Center for Digital
Inclusion, will serve on a panel moderated by GSLIS alumna and Assistant…
