Assistant Professor Emily Knox will participate in a panel discussion on “Libraries and Public Access to Books” at the Tucson Festival of Books on Saturday, March 12. Knox and fellow experts will explore the topic of information access and the ways libraries have shaped conversations surrounding issues of access.
GSLIS staff and students will participate in the upcoming 11th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), to be held on February 22-25 in Amsterdam. IDCC is organized annually by the UK-based Digital Curation Centre. The theme of the 2016 conference is, “Visible Data, Invisible Infrastructure.”
GSLIS presentations include:
“Simulation Data of Cold Front-Related Hydrodynamics…
GSLIS master’s students Jessica Colbert and Annabella Irvine will participate in the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference (MBLGTACC) this week, where they will lead a workshop on locating LGBT materials in libraries and will represent the GSLIS student group, Queer Library Alliance (QLA). Held annually, the interdisciplinary conference is organized by students and is…
Associate Professor Victoria Stodden will speak this Friday at the Association of Data Science and Analytics (ADSA) Data Summit 2016, a tech conference focusing on big data and data science. Organized and hosted by ADSA, an Illinois student group, the event will take place on February 5-6 at the Siebel Center for Computer Science on the Urbana campus.
Several members of the GSLIS community participated in the 2016 Computational Social Science Workshop at Illinois. Hosted by the University Library Scholarly Commons and The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS), the workshop was held at the I Hotel and Conference Center on January 30. Presentations and hands-on sessions by speakers representing an array of…
Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke will be the featured speaker at the inaugural event of the newly-formed Midwest Chapter of REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking. The event, which is open to the public, will be held on February 5 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in room 1-470 of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Library.
Professor Alistair Black is the lead organizer for the annual conference of the Library and Information History Group of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). The mission of CILIP is to support library and knowledge practitioners in promoting its vision of "a fair and economically prosperous society [that] is underpinned by literacy, access to information, and the transfer of knowledge."
Associate Professor Terry Weech and more than a dozen GSLIS students will travel to Lyon, France, next week to participate in the BOBCATSSS 2016 symposium, held January 27-29.
Join GSLIS faculty, staff, and students at the 2016 ALISE Annual Conference, which will be held January 5-8 in Boston. The theme of the conference is "Radical Change: Inclusion & Innovation."
Associate Professor Bonnie Mak will present, “Confessions of a 21st-Century Memsahib: The Off-Shore Sweatshops of the Digital Humanities,” at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in Austin in January 2016. Her paper will be offered as part of the MLA panel, “Critical Informatics and the Digital Humanities,” an initiative that seeks to document emergent methods for the…
