[image1-right]Stephanie Davis-Kahl (MS '98) has been selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) to receive the 2014 Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award.
Davis-Kahl, scholarly communications librarian and associate professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, was selected for the award based on…
GSLIS master’s students and representatives from the corporate sector gathered at the iHotel on Friday, February 28, for a meeting of the Corporate Roundtable and the Fourth Annual Applied Project Poster Session.
Master’s student and former W. W. Grainger intern Kelsey Heffren and Erwin Cruz, Grainger’s director of intellectual property strategy and management and GSLIS adjunct lecturer,…
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On a panel at the College Art Association in February, Professor Abdul Alkalimat provided personal history and political context in the Organization of Black American…
Jon Gant, director of the Center for Digital Inclusion and
GSLIS faculty member, was recently a guest on CIO Talk Radio, an internet-based
talk show that discusses the ways in which technology is changing business and society.
The show, “Could Global Connectivity Transform the World’s Economy?” aired on
February 19, 2014. CIO Talk Radio reaches a global audience of CIOs and
business leaders…
Anna Maria Watkin (MS '96), director of the
Parkland College Library, and Erika Hackman, director of the Center for
Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Parkland College,
will accept the 2014 ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS) EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Award on behalf of the project Scholarship at Parkland (SPARK) at the 2014 ALA Annual…
GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in iConference 2014, which will
be held March 4-7 in Berlin.
The annual iConference, hosted by the iSchools organization, brings together scholars, researchers, and information professionals from around the world. The theme of the ninth annual conference, which will take place at Humboldt University of Berlin, is "Breaking Down Walls:…
The life and career of GSLIS research fellow Michelle H. Martin was fundamentally influenced by a woman named Augusta Baker. As a child, Martin knew Baker and had opportunities to see and hear the storytelling specialist, who was a storyteller-in-residence at the University of South Carolina (USC) for fourteen years. Today, Martin is the Augusta Baker Chair in Childhood Literacy at USC. The chair…
An article by Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack (MS '12) was recently published in the Fall 2013 issue of Art Documentation.
The article, "The Performance and Practice of Research in A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time," discusses their exhibition held at the Figure One Gallery in Champaign, Illinois, which investigated how the materiality of information shapes…
Two GSLIS alumni have won awards from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Kimberly Willson-St. Clair (MS '01), along with colleagues at Portland State University, has been selected to receive the 2014 ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award. Wendy Holliday (MS '02) has received the 2014 ACRL Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award with co-author…
Terry von Thaden (PhD '04) has been appointed to serve as vice chairperson of the U.S.
Air Force Scientific Advisory Board’s study on Combatting Sexual Assault (CoSA). Von Thaden is a human factors research scientist with the University of Illinois Fire Service Institute’s (IFSI)
Firefighter Life Safety and Research Center.
The
study will focus on reviewing the scientific work regarding…
