GSLIS has been awarded a $117,187 grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity as part of the Eliminate the Digital Divide Grant Program. The grant will help fund the Sowing Seeds project, a project within the Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) led by faculty member and director Jon Gant, by funding a new public computing center in Danville, Illinois, and expanding…

Research Associate Professor Jon Gant, director of the GSLIS Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI), has been invited to participate in an invitation-only broadband research conference on December 7 in Washington, DC. The event, sponsored by NC Broadband, a division of the North Carolina Department of Commerce, will "design a research agenda for how the country can best measure the economic impact…

Four GSLIS alumni have been selected to participate in the American Library Association’s 2013 Emerging Leaders program. Tarida Anantachai (MS ’11), Amanda Binder (MS ’08), Margaret Heller (MS ’08), and Yasmeen Shorish (MS ’11) joined the 2013 class of Emerging Leaders, which includes a total of fifty-five individuals from across the country. Now in its seventh year, this leadership…

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) has released the 2012 Guide Book to Gift Books. This annual publication includes over 300 book recommendations for children from birth to high school. “Books make wonderful gifts, but between the rush of holiday shopping and the overwhelming amount of books out there, choosing the right one for your recipient can be difficult,” said Deborah…

GSLIS alumni Peggy Glatthaar (MS ’07) and Sandy Wolf (MS ’93) are recipients of the first Outstanding Civil Service Staff Award from the University of Illinois Library. The award recognizes civil service staff members for their exceptional accomplishments and distinctive service to the library.Glatthaar is a library operations associate, supervising the main stacks circulation desk and…

GSLIS alumna Ana Peso (MS ’07), a librarian at Glenbrook North High School, will appear on the December 31 episode of the popular game show "Jeopardy." The episode will air in Champaign, Illinois, at 4:30 p.m. on WAND-TV. Peso took Jeopardy’s online timed test twice before receiving an invitation to appear on the show. An avid reader throughout her life, she prepared by brushing up on…

[image1-right:resize-300w]Safiya Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) is a recipient of a 2013 INTERSECT Award for her participation in the curricular initiative, “Learning to See Systems.” INTERSECT, an effort by the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, seeks to encourage collaboration and innovation in interdisciplinary arts and humanities research and training. INTERSECT…

GSLIS alumna Gwen Evans (MS ’02) was named executive director of the Ohio Library and Information network, OhioLINK. OhioLINK is a consortium of 88 college and university libraries in Ohio, providing approximately 600,000 students, faculty, and staff with access to millions of books, articles, and other information sources. Evans had served as interim director of OhioLINK before being…

GSLIS alum Christopher Hamb (MS ’04) has been named one of Central Illinois Business magazine’s 2012 Forty under 40 Award winners. The magazine, published by The News-Gazette, gives the awards to young professionals in recognition of their career achievements, leadership ability, and dedication to community service.  Hamb is the owner of and developer/designer for Chrisp Media, a…

Faculty and staff from GSLIS authored three out of the four articles published in the most recent issue of Information & Culture: A Journal of History (University of Texas Press, vol. 47, no. 4). The interdisciplinary journal, which broadly examines the history of information in cultural environments such as professional, academic, and societal settings, featured articles written by Professor…