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…

Community leaders in East St. Louis plan to honor Martin Wolske, senior research scientist at the GSLIS Center for Digital Inclusion, for his years of service learning work in the region. The Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House has announced that Wolske will be the guest of honor at the organization’s 104th Anniversary Dinner on November 9, 2013, at the Gateway Center in Collinsville, Illinois…

[image1-right]GSLIS master's student and LAMP Scholar Katrina Spencer recently attended the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) regional conference held at the St. Louis Public Library from October 18-20. Her trip was partially funded by GSLIS and the Center for Children's Books (CCB). The CCB sat down with Spencer, who is interested in translation of children’s literature and…

[image1-right:resize-180w]With a background in nonprofits and a passion for keeping the web open and accessible, Gemma Petrie has put the skills she gained at GSLIS to good use in her job as a user experience researcher for Mozilla. Where do you work and what is your role? I work at Mozilla as a user experience researcher. It is my job to learn about the goals and challenges faced by…

For someone with a background in medieval literature and bibliography, as well as a love of books and paper, pursuing a degree in library and information science seems like a natural choice. In the case of Sidney Berger (MS ’87), GSLIS adjunct professor, a degree from GSLIS followed nearly 20 years of working as a professor, author, and rare book expert.