GSLIS is enhancing its top-ranked
program in youth services librarianship with a new certificate that will
better prepare students for their careers. The Certificate
in Youth Services is designed to fully meet the educational needs of GSLIS
students who are interested in working with young people in a public library
setting. The certificate also will provide a competitive edge to graduates…
The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced today that the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a Laura Bush
21st Century Librarian Program grant in the amount of $99,168 for
"Inclusive Gigabit Libraries: Learn, Discuss, and Brainstorm." With this
IMLS support, GSLIS will hold a series of…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Miles Efron has been chosen by the
Alumni Association Board of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as their latest
featured alumnus. After graduating from SILS in 2003, Efron has conducted research in information retrieval (IR) with a focus on projects related to microblogging and the digital humanities…
[image1-right]Recent GSLIS graduate Tiffanie Bui has earned a Fulbright English teaching assistantship to Norway for the 2012-2013 academic year. Bui will be splitting her time between the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) and Ås Upper Secondary School in Aas, Norway, a short distance from Oslo. At UMB, Bui will be working in the Department of International Environment and Development…
Where did you grow up?Buffalo, NY for a few years and then Pittsburgh, PA. What year did you begin working for GSLIS?I began at GSLIS in June 2010. Where did you work prior to GSLIS?I coordinated the Information Specialist Internship Program (ISIP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison libraries. The ISIP is an experiential learning opportunity with the mission to recruit students from…
First-year GSLIS students Karen Barton and Tracy Drake participated in this year’s Summer Pre-doctoral Institute (SPI) at
the University of Illinois. SPI is a campus-wide
orientation program that accepts incoming graduate students from U.S.
populations that are underrepresented in campus graduate programs. During the
eight-week program, students enroll in an independent study, participate in…
Lynn Yarmey (MS '11) has been profiled in Library Journal's "Librarians Abroad" series,
which highlights professionals who either work outside libraries and archives
or who hold somewhat less traditional positions in libraries and archives. Yarmey, who completed the GSLIS Specialization in Data Curation, currently works for the National Snow and Ice Data
Center in Boulder, Colorado, as the…
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…
