Virginia Eubanks, information scholar-activist and cofounder of two grassroots community organizations, will be presenting her free public lecture, “Can Technology Serve Social Justice?” at the Champaign Public Library on September 12, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. Her talk is sponsored by the proposed Center for Digital Inclusion at GSLIS. According to Eubanks, despite widespread celebrations of…

GSLIS is opening a spring admissions cycle for our popular LEEP distance learning option. The new MS cohort will begin in January. The priority application deadline is November 15, 2012. Dates for the on-campus orientation are tentatively set for January 3-9, 2013. Since its beginning in 1996, LEEP has been an innovative hybrid program that combines web-based education with brief periods…

Terry von Thaden (PhD ’04), GSLIS assistant professor, has been elected to the Flight Safety Foundation's first Maintenance Advisory Committee which plays a key role in advancing aviation safety. The mission of the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is to pursue the continuous improvement of global aviation safety.According to the Committee’s charge letter, the Maintenance Advisory Committee has been…

The GSLIS eUpdate, published every other month, summarizes current news, events, alumni and advancement highlights, and continuing professional development opportunities. Other publications that may be of interest to alumni and friends are listed on the GSLIS Publications web page._____________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE1. GSLIS Spotlight – GSLIS Fall…

A new series of workshops on data curation for humanities scholars, librarians, and archivists will take place next year as part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Digital Humanities Data Curation Institutes project, directed by Trevor Muñoz (MS ’11), associate director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and assistant dean for…

In “Critical Issues in Juvenile Detention Center Libraries,” a new paper posted at the Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, GSLIS CAS student Jeanie Austin (MS '09) discusses the challenges that staff face in juvenile detention center libraries and argues for libraries to take a more active role in societal and political change. JRLYA is published on a continuous basis by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) at http://yalsa.ala.org/jrlya.

Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Committee on Diversity and Leadership has selected 14 masters of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2012–2014 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) as ARL Diversity Scholars. Among those named is GSLIS student Thomas Padilla.The ARL IRDW offers numerous financial benefits to program…

GSLIS doctoral student Sarah T. Roberts has spent the first few weeks of this record-breaking July heat organizing a campaign to help a small community library on the South Side of Chicago. The William Leonard Public Library in Robbins provides essential services to a financially disadvantaged community but has recently fallen on hard times due to a declining tax base in the community.…

Where did you grow up? I grew up in southern New York state, but on the Jersey side of the Hudson River. I lived in a small town (at least at that time it was small) called Pearl River - a place with no rivers, and I never found any pearls. What year did you begin working for GSLIS? I started in August 2001, after having completed my master's degree at GSLIS in May of that year. Thank…

Carol Tilley, GSLIS assistant professor, has been selected to give the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Past Presidents’ Paper Presentation at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in January 2013. The award includes $1,500 to fund travel and registration costs. The YALSA Past Presidents’ Paper Presentation is an annual event at which librarians, educators, and students examine a topic…