GSLIS eUpdate
Volume 11, Number 5: March 2012

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1. GSLIS Spotlight – Renear Assumes Interim Deanship
2. News Summary
3. Continuing Professional Development
4. Alumni Highlights
5. Calendar of Events
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1. GSLIS SPOTLIGHT

“There is nothing more fun, synergistic, and fulfilling than to have a patron who is ready to dig in, excited about what they are doing, and cannot wait to tell you all about it.”Maggie Cusick’s (MS ’11) interest in special collections began during her time as an art history major at DePaul University. After visiting DePaul’s Special Collections and Archives Department for a class, Maggie fell in…

Where did you grow up?  Chicago—my dad used to push my stroller around Wrigley Field, so I had an early indoctrination into being a Cubs fan! What year did you begin working for GSLIS? In the fall of 2005. Where did you work prior to GSLIS? Westview Elementary School in Champaign as a school library media specialist; before that I worked at an instructional television…

Christian Sandvig, an associate professor in the College of Media and an affiliated faculty member at GSLIS, appeared recently on American Public Media's Marketplace. Sandvig is a frequent guest on the program. February 23, 2011Will Verizon become the only wireless company in the country?February 17, 2011Congress finds funds in the spectrumIn addition to his appointments in Media and GSLIS,…

Anna Hartmann (MS ’09) has been named Advocate of the Month by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). This monthly feature on the YALSA blog, sponsored by the Legislative Committee, highlights the advocacy work of passionate individuals on behalf of teens in libraries. As the teen services librarian at the Council Bluffs Public Library in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Hartmann…

On the south side of Chicago, Sandra Aya Enimil was arguing with one her seatmates on the bus when someone told her she’d make a good lawyer. She was seven years old at the time. “I didn’t know exactly what the word meant, so I asked my mother what a lawyer was, and she told me it is somebody who helps other people,” Enimil, a current GSLIS student and LAMP scholar, recalls. “I became…

GSLIS faculty and doctoral students were honored at the 2012 iConference that was held from February 7-10, 2012, and was hosted by the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. A Best Paper Award was given to doctoral student Noah Lenstra and Professor Abdul Alkalimat for their paper, “Networked Cultural Heritage and Socio-Digital Inequalities: A Case Study in an African-American…

Beth Kumar (MS '06, CAS '07), e-resources and serials librarian at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, is the recipient of the 2012 First Step Award-A Wiley Professional Development Grant presented by the ALCTS Continuing Resources Section. The award will be presented on Sunday, June 24, at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony during the 2012 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference…

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,…