Robert L. Bothmann, an adjunct instructor at GSLIS, has been
awarded the 2012 Nancy B. Olson Award. The annual award, sponsored by the
Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) network, recognizes a librarian who has
made significant contributions to the advancement and understanding of
audiovisual cataloging and electronic resources. Bothmann was recognized for
his multiple leadership roles in…
Bonnie Mak, GSLIS assistant professor, is speaking at the conference "Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book" held at MIT on May 3-4, 2012.This symposium explores the future potential of the book by engaging practitioners and performers of this versatile technology to ask some key questions: is the book an artifact on its deathbed or a mutable medium transitioning into future forms? What…
Sue Searing, LIS librarian and GSLIS affiliated faculty
member, has been appointed interim associate university librarian for user services
at the University of Illinois Library. She will serve in this position for
three years, providing coordination and leadership for a variety of library-wide
programs and initiatives, including information literacy and instruction, staff
training and…
[image1-right:resize-180w]GSLIS Professor Emeritus D. W. Krummel has received the 2012 Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Society for American Music for his distinguished
research and teaching in American-music printing, publishing, and resources.
Krummel earned degrees in music from the University of Michigan, where
he briefly served on the music faculty. He completed his doctorate in…
[image1-right:resize-180w]The Southeastern Conference (SEC) has awarded Carol Tenopir (PhD '84),
professor and director of the Center for Information and Communication
Studies at the University of Tennessee (UT), with one of its first Faculty Achievement Awards.
The new SEC award program was created to honor professors from the
SEC with outstanding records in teaching and scholarship. A…
GSLIS doctoral student Mikki Smith has received a Kate B. and Hall J.
Peterson Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) for her
project, “Even a boy’s press has ‘a power’: Amateur journalism and youth
information culture, 1867-1890,” which will form the basis of her dissertation.
The Peterson Fellowship is awarded to individuals engaged in
scholarly research and writing…
James Blank (MS '97) is the recipient the of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Engineering Librarian of the Year Award. The Engineering Librarian of the Year, sponsored by IHS, highlights the accomplishments and contributions of SLA Engineering Division members to the engineering librarian profession.Blank is a technical knowledge specialist in the engineering library at Caterpillar Inc.…
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty members: Nicole A. Cooke and Emily Knox will join GSLIS as assistant professors in August 2012.
Brooke Bahnsen (MS '08) was recently highlighted in the Mundelein Review for receiving the Village of Mundelein’s 2012 Diversity Award:
Brooke Bahnsen has been a librarian at Fremont Public Library in Mundelein for only three years, but she already has had a big impact in promoting diversity at the library.
Since beginning at the library in January 2009, Bahnsen of Libertyville helped start…
