Gant leads campus effort around US Ignite and development of next-generation applications
Illinois is a campus with a long history of innovation in computing, from the first graphical web browser to Blue Waters, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. A new partnership with US Ignite, a national effort to foster the creation of transformative next-generation Internet applications,…
Twenty-nine GSLIS master’s students traveled to
Champaign this month for the School’s first spring LEEP (online) cohort since
2001. The new spring admissions cycle allowed them to begin their studies in
January, rather than waiting until the summer.Students visited campus from January 3-9, 2013,
traveling from as far away as Minnesota, New York, and Louisiana as well as
from various…
Safiya Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12), GSLIS
alumna and assistant professor of African-American Studies at Illinois, has
been named an affiliated faculty
member of GSLIS.
Noble’s research interests include the
socio-cultural, economic, and ethical implications of information with
a specific focus on the intersection of race, gender, and technology. Noble
found her way to academia after a twelve…
The staff at the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB)
has announced the 2012 Blue Ribbons, their choices for the best of children's
and young adult literature for the previous year. Blue Ribbons are chosen annually by
the Bulletin reviewers and represent what they believe to be
outstanding examples of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for youth.
Over thirty titles…
Join GSLIS faculty, staff, and students for a number of presentations and activities during the 2013 ALISE Conference.
Awards and RecognitionsGSLIS faculty, staff, and students will be recognized during the
ALISE Awards Reception to be held Thursday, January 24, from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at
the Seattle Public Library:Nicole Cooke, GSLIS assistant professor, will receive the
2013 Norman Horrocks…
GSLIS
Assistant Professor Kate McDowell has been invited to serve on a committee
convened by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that is seeking
nominations for a new nonfiction Summertime Reading List for children and young adults. “I see this list as a significant step in acknowledging the
importance of nonfiction for children, as well as the readers who have always…
Librotraficante is the 2012 recipient of
the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award given by the faculty of the Graduate School of
Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Librotraficante, a movement led by Tony Diaz, is being
recognized for its efforts to oppose the censorship of ethnic and cultural
studies materials in Arizona.
In…
Digital Humanities Data Curation, a series of three-day workshops, will provide a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the humanities. Workshops are aimed at humanities researchers—whether traditional faculty or alternative (alt-ac) professionals—as well as librarians, archivists, cultural heritage…
The
University of Illinois Library has appointed Daniel Tracy (MS ’12) to the
position of interim library and information science (LIS) and research support services
librarian, effective January 1. Tracy’s position will involve functions both
within the University Library and at GSLIS in order to support the needs of
faculty and students.
“I'm
most looking forward to working with the…
In
December, Associate Professor Terry Weech visited Enssib, France’s national
school for information and librarianship, to talk to students, staff, and
faculty about an exchange program with GSLIS. The program, which was recently
authorized by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, is the
formalization of a nearly 20-year informal collaborative relationship with
Enssib (École…
