GSLIS students William Langston and Sophie Young have been selected to receive 2014 Spectrum Scholar/PLA Conference Travel Grants from the Public Library Association. In total, ten of the nation's 2013 Spectrum Scholars were selected to receive funding to attend the conference. Langston and Young, both master's students, were named ALA Spectrum Scholars earlier this year along with four other…
[image1-right]With a background in history and initially inspired by an interest in archives and special collections, Christina John decided to pursue a master’s degree at GSLIS. She now plans to apply her research and LIS skills to a career in the corporate or nonprofit sector.Why did you decide to pursue an LIS degree?I decided to pursue an LIS degree when I was an undergrad at DePaul…
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Special Collections and Bechtel Fellowship Committee have awarded the 2014 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship to Natalie Ziarnik.The Bechtel Fellowship is designed to allow qualified children’s librarians to spend a total of four weeks or more reading and studying at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, a part of the…
Sarah Roberts, doctoral candidate at GSLIS and assistant professor at Western University in Ontario, was recently interviewed by NPR's All Things Considered regarding new safeguards used by Internet search engines to eliminate images of child pornography online. In order for these automated programs to capture and remove these images, according to NPR’s report, workers must first scan “known…
A special issue of the journal Library Trends focuses on challenges facing local communities in China as they make use of information technology while coping with wrenching
social and economic change.
Kate Williams, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, served as guest editor of the issue (Volume 62, Issue 1…
A relocation to Portland, Maine required Elizabeth Pope (MS ’09) to get creative with her job search, but the skills she gained at GSLIS allowed her to find her current position at a nonprofit research company. Where do you work and what is your role?[image1-right]I'm the director of research and operations at Idealware, a nonprofit based out of beautiful Portland, Maine. Our mission is to help…
Information management in a corporate setting can take many forms. For Shannon Roberts (MS ’12), it involves working as a price and market analyst for John Deere. For GSLIS master’s student Kelsey Heffren, it means conducting oral history interviews of longtime staff at W. W. Grainger, Inc., and working to organize, preserve, and expand the company’s intellectual property collection. And for…
Assistant Professor Carol Tilley is an invited speaker for
the A.W.
Mellon Workshop on Comics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her presentation,
to be held on Friday, November 15, is titled “Children, Comics, and Print
Culture.” Over the year-long A.W. Mellon Workshop series, scholars at the Center for Humanities at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison host invited speakers, share readings…
Five GSLIS alumni have been selected to participate in the
American Library Association’s 2014 class of Emerging Leaders. Joy McGehee (MS '09), Ashley Rayner (MS '11), Ben Rodriguez (MS '13), Soraya Silverman-Montano (MS '11), and Samuel Suber (MS '12) are included in this year's class of 56 individuals from across the
country. Now in its eighth year, this leadership development initiative…
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books has released the 2013 Guide Book to Gift Books. This annual publication highlights over 300 of the best books for giving and receiving, with recommendations for children from birth to high school. “The Guide Book is our chance to draw on our professional expertise in recommending books for the current giving season and well beyond. As much as we'd…
