Kathi Carlisle Fountain (MS ’97), head of collection development at the Washington State University - Vancouver Library, has been awarded the 2013 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/CQ Press Award. The award, established in 1996 by LPSS, honors an academic or law librarian who has made distinguished contributions to…

The Center for Children's Books will host the annual Gryphon Lecture on March 1, 2013. Brian Sturm, associate professor at the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science, will present "Paradoxically Speaking: Just One of the Ways Children's Folktales Engage Listeners." His talk will address engagement in storytelling and children's folktales, merging the theory and the practice of storytelling to examine the inherent qualities of children's folk literature and its use in libraries and schools.

The New York Times covered Assistant Professor Carol Tilley's recently published research on Fredric Wertham, a psychiatrist and anti-comics critic whose 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent inspired federal hearings that decimated the comic book industry. Tilley's research is based on a review of Wertham’s personal archives, which were made available to researchers in 2010. During her review…

GSLIS affiliated faculty member Safiya Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) was interviewed by the University of Illinois News Bureau for their campus feature A Minute With… where she discussed how stereotypes, especially of black women and girls, affect results in search engines. This topic was the core of Noble’s doctoral research, and her dissertation was titled, "Searching for Black Girls: Old…

At the recent iConference, a group of GSLIS students and faculty earned an Honorable Mention award for their poster, "Identifying Claims in Social Science Literature." The group included doctoral student Shameem Ahmed, Associate Professor Catherine Blake, Assistant Professor Kate Williams, doctoral student Noah Lenstra, and master’s student Qiyuan Liu.The poster presented initial findings from…

Safiya Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12), assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Illinois in collaboration with the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Cybersecurity Group has been awarded a startup allocation grant on the National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and…

Join GSLIS alumnus André Brock (PhD ’07) on Tuesday, February 19, from 3:00-4:30pm in GSLIS 126 as he presents, “Critical Cultural Informatics: Twitter and Black Discourse.” This presentation, sponsored by the GSLIS Inclusions and Exclusions Group and part of Black Geek Week, will be recorded and archived.Black Geek Week is a campus event highlighting the achievements of African Americans who…

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), a collaboration launched in 2011 by the University of Illinois and Indiana University, is developing software tools and cyberinfrastructure to provide researchers with advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The following informational video, produced by HTRC, addresses issues surrounding access to digital cultural…

GSLIS Assistant Professor Carol Tilley has been appointed to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Common Core Implementation Assistance Task Force. She will serve on the task force for one year. “School libraries and the librarians who work in them are integral parts of the K-12 education community. The near-universal adoption of the Common Core State Standards in the…

[image1-right]Alumna Lizabeth (Betsy) A. Wilson (MS ’78) has been named the winner of the 2013 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The award, jointly sponsored by four divisions of the American Library Association, recognizes an academic librarian who has worked in library automation or management for his or her significant accomplishments towards improving library services or research.…