Sharon Irish, project coordinator at the GSLIS Center for Digital Inclusion and lecturer at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded a 2013-2014 Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) Colston Research Fellowship from the University of Bristol in Bristol, England. The IAS Colston Research Fellowship is a multidisciplinary award that draws…

GSLIS Interim Dean and Professor Allen Renear recently discussed the value of inclusion in his teaching and research with Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre. His remarks are part of a new interview series exploring the School’s efforts to respect varied perspectives and diversity of experiences. Renear teaches courses in information modeling, data curation, and digital publishing. His…

Associate Professor Jerome McDonough recently was a guest on CBC Radio’s Spark with Nora Young. McDonough spoke with Young about digital preservation and gaming, emphasizing the importance of preserving not only the software and the servers, but also the nuances of gaming culture and history. “What do we need to preserve about the game, that isn’t the game? What do we need to document in…

J. Stephen Downie, GSLIS professor and associate dean for research, recently presented "Unlocking the Secrets of 3 Billion Pages: Introducing the HathiTrust Research Center," at the Centre for Information Technology in Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Downie is co-director HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). In his presentation, Downie outlined the…

Five GSLIS master's students will make presentations at the LOEX Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 2-4, 2013. The conference, which focuses on information literacy and instruction, is a long-standing event in a field that is highly competitive for presentations and registration. Presentations include:Blogging is Half the Battle: Best Practices for Content Development,…

Graduation is approaching, and at this time of the year, we reflect on those individuals who have made a difference in our lives. New graduates and alumni are encouraged to honor GSLIS faculty and/or staff through the LSAA Tassel Project, which was established in 2011 by the Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) to support the creation of an endowed professorship in the School.With a…

GSLIS doctoral student Noah Lenstra was recently named recipient of the Fred S. Bailey Fellowship for Community Leadership, Service, and Activism by the University YMCA. The award supports graduate students who have shown a strong commitment to community organizing, activism, and/or service.Lenstra is the project director of eBlack Champaign-Urbana, a collaborative program focused on creating a…

This week the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) announced the availability of data mining and analytics tools for the HathiTrust Digital Library, a collection of digital texts from over 70 research libraries around the world. The new tools provide a much-needed entry point to large-scale analysis of HathiTrust’s contents. “All of us at Indiana University and the University of Illinois, who…

A new and ongoing series of interviews conducted by Kathryn La Barre, associate professor and chair of the GSLIS Curriculum Committee (AY 2012-2013), furthers GSLIS efforts to respect varied perspectives and diversity of experiences. This series asks core faculty to reflect upon the ways in which the values expressed in the statement of inclusion are integrated into their pedagogical and/or research practices.

GSLIS is pleased to share the announcement of the newly established UNESCO Center for Global Citizenship (UCGC), a community-university organization founded on the belief that multicultural knowledge and intercultural understanding generate a better, more interesting, more productive, and—above all—more peaceful world in which to live. UCGC is supported by the Center for Global Studies at the…