The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) awarded Allison Cabaj the 2012 MAE Award for Best Literature Program for Teens. The MAE Award provides $500 to the recipient and $500 to the recipient’s library and is sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust.Cabaj, a library and media specialist and English teacher, created a program that brought together reading and technology at the…

Rae-Anne Montague, assistant dean for student affairs at GSLIS, has been named the February 2012 Ally of the Month by the SODA Committee of the Counseling Center, the LGBT Ally Network, and the LGBT Resource Center on campus. Upon announcing the honor, the SODA Committee shared the following interview with Montague: On behalf of the SODA Committee of the Counseling Center, the LGBT Ally Network,…

The Center for Children’s Books (CCB) at GSLIS at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is hosting its Eleventh Annual Book Sale February 20 through February 22, 2012. Sale hours are 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each of these days. Thousands of brand-new children’s books will be available for youth ages birth through high school. The titles available represent the full spectrum of children’s…

Champaign’s Figure One Gallery celebrates the opening of "A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time," an exhibit created by GSLIS Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak and master's student Julia Pollack. The exhibit will be held at the gallery's downtown Champaign location (116 N. Walnut) on February 17-18 from 5:00-9:00pm. GSLIS will sponsor a reception on Friday evening. [image1-left:…

The master’s program in library and information science at GSLIS has been granted continued accreditation status by the Committee on Accreditation (COA) of the American Library Association (ALA). The decision was made at the 2012 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas in January. The decision was based on the Program Presentation, the External Review Panel Report, all reports submitted by GSLIS since…

Scott Walter, associate university librarian for services, associate dean of libraries and professor of library administration and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the recipient of the 2012 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences…

DePaul University has appointed Scott Walter as university librarian. Walter, a GSLIS affiliated faculty member, currently serves as associate university librarian for services and associate dean of libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Walter also holds faculty appointments as professor of library administration and professor of library and information science and has held…

Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, written by Julie Sternberg, illustrated by Matthew Cordell, and published by Amulet Books, is the winner of the 2012 Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature.The Gryphon Award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is given annually by the Center for Children’s Books. This year’s committee was chaired by Deborah Stevenson, director of the Center for Children’s Books, and…

Jerome McDonough, GSLIS associate professor, has received the Best Paper award in the Digital Media: Content and Communication track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, held in Maui in January. His paper, “Knee-Deep in Data: Practical Problems in Applying the OAIS Reference Model to the Preservation of Computer Games,” examines the reference model for an Open Archival…

Paula T. Kaufman, Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and university librarian and GSLIS affiliated faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the 2012 Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. The award, sponsored by YBP Library Services, recognizes an outstanding member of the library profession who…