GSLIS alumni Szu-Yu Chao (MS ’05) and Vincci Kwong (MS ’05) are among forty librarians selected to participate in Leading to the Future, a unique four-day immersive leadership development program sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA). The inaugural event will be held from August 12-15 in Itasca, Illinois.The program will be led by Maureen Sullivan, ALA president, and Kathryn Deiss,…
[image1-right]The American Library Association's International Relations
Committee has chosen Susan M. Schnuer (MS ’92), associate director at the
University of Illinois Mortenson Center for International Library
Programs, to receive this year's John Ames/Humphry/OCLC/ Forest Press
Award.
OCLC/Forest Press donated the cash award of $1,000, which is given to
an individual for…
GSLIS master's students I-Ju Chen and Brian Flota earned
stipend awards to attend the Special
Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference, which was held earlier this
month in San Diego, California.
Chen, whose studies focus on competitive intelligence and
knowledge management, received the student travel award from the Business and
Finance Division of the SLA. The annual award is…
Cathy Blake, associate professor and CIRSS associate director, has been invited to present at the Symposium on Cognitive Systems and Discovery Informatics at Carnegie Mellon University, to be held at the Silicon Vally Campus on June 21-22, 2013. The symposium will explore the intersection of the discovery informatics and cognitive systems movements, bringing together researchers from a number of…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Kate McDowell recently discussed the importance of inclusion in her teaching and research with Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre. McDowell’s remarks are part of the interview series Reflections
on Inclusion, which explores the School’s efforts to respect varied perspectives and diversity of experiences.McDowell teaches courses in storytelling, literature and…
[image1-right]“I tell myself that no matter how I’m feeling, I have to be
the Mick Jagger of the library world,” said GSLIS alumnus James E. “Jack” Bales (MS ’74) in a recent interview for the University of
Mary Washington (UMW) Magazine. He approaches his library-research classes with enthusiasm and energy, much like musicians approach rock concerts. Bales has worked as a reference and…
[image1-right]GSLIS alumna Rose Allen (MS ’01) has been named an Illinois
Library Luminary by the Illinois Library
Association (ILA).
Friends and colleagues came together to nominate her
and raise funds in her honor for the
Illinois Library Association Endowment. Luminaries are selected for their
significant contributions to Illinois libraries.
Allen began her career as a library…
Join GSLIS
for the following activities during the 2013 ALA Annual Conference, including our alumni and friends reception on Sunday, June 30, from 6:00 to
8:00 p.m. at Petterino’s Restaurant, 150 North Dearborn Street, Chicago. Please
stop by the exhibit hall and visit us at Booth 141!A Wild Ride: 75 Years of the Caldecott Medal
Friday, June
28, 7:45 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (sold out)
Deborah…
Jon
Gant, GSLIS associate professor and director of the Center for Digital Inclusion, and Warren Cheetham,
coordinator of information and digital services at CityLibraries in Townsville,
Australia, will give a presentation about community broadband adoption at the
Champaign Public Library on June 17, 2013.
Gant
will discuss his work surrounding libraries and community broadband adoption…
Current and prospective LIS students from across the Midwest
traveled to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in
the 2013 LIS Access Midwest Program (LAMP) Summer Institute, which was hosted
by the University Library from May 30 through June 2. LAMP is a network of
information schools and academic libraries in the Midwest that collaborate to
encourage students from…
