Professor Allen Renear has been named the dean of the school. His appointment becomes effective August 16, pending approval of the university’s board of trustees. Renear has been serving as interim dean since February 2012. “He has worked diligently to improve the financial condition of the school, made critical hires in strategic areas of faculty strength and is working with faculty on a…

Georgeann Burch, K-12 program coordinator, and Karla Lucht, academic advisor and doctoral student, will lead an upcoming workshop for high school teachers titled, “American Literary Resources for the Classroom.” The workshop, to be held on June 25, is one of several offered as part of the Global Institute for Secondary Educators, a program organized by the Center for Global Studies at the…

[image1-right]Before she had even graduated, GSLIS's Instructional Technology and Design Office hired Aisha Conner-Gaten to join their team. Now she's putting the skills she learned as a GSLIS student to work in support of current students and faculty who connect via the LEEP program and the Moodle course management system. Where do you work and what is your role? I work in the GSLIS…

Margaret Mary "Maggie" Kimmel, a former GSLIS adjunct professor who taught summer Leep courses from 1997 to 2007, passed away on June 10. Kimmel team-taught the summer Leep offering of Libraries, Information and Society with Dean Emerita Leigh Estabrook beginning with Leep cohort 2 and ending with cohort 12.

The International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults will feature an invited talk by Kate McDowell, GSLIS interim assistant dean for student affairs and associate professor. Hosted by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the symposium will be held June 19-20 in Seoul, South Korea.The theme of the symposium will be “Reading Towards…

Deborah Stevenson, director of the Center for Children’s Books (CCB), will chair a panel and deliver a presentation at the 41st Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference, held on June 18-21 in Columbia, South Carolina. Stevenson is editor of The Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books, one of the nation’s leading children’s book review journals for school and public librarians.The…

An assistantship with John Deere during his time at GSLIS helped Derek Riddle redirect his career path to the business information field. Now the senior business information analyst at John Deere’s Research Park office, Riddle enjoys working in a variety of research areas and stays connected to GSLIS by supervising current students who gain work experience at John Deere.

GSLIS faculty and staff have collaborated with the Oxford e-Research Centre to organize a five-day workshop to be held this July. The workshop, Data Curation and Access for the Digital Humanities, is part of Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2014 and will introduce data curation concepts and practices to a group of students, faculty, and information professionals who work with humanities…

GSLIS doctoral student Melissa Villa-Nicholas has been invited to teach research methods at the iSchool Inclusion Institute of Information Sciences (i3) held this June at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences. She will join a cohort of four doctoral students from iSchools around the country who will teach qualitative research methods to undergraduate students preparing for…

Six members of the GSLIS community and of the Midwest chapter of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) participated in a global exchange via CALA Midwest’s first virtual annual conference this past May. Chapter chair Sharon Hu (PhD ’87) made the decision to go virtual in order to attract more people—and attendance doubled. Hu, Mingyan Li  (MS ’04), Vincci Kwong (MS ’05), Lian…