Excited about using new technologies and motivated by a desire to connect people with information, Aaron Collie specialized in data curation when he earned his master's at the iSchool. He now gets to do both of these things and more as a digital curation librarian at Michigan State University. Collie will talk more about his experiences as a student and professional during the Data Curation…
Library Journal’s annual “Movers & Shakers” list recognizes professionals who
are shaping the future of libraries in a variety of ways. The recently released 2014
class of Movers & Shakers includes two GSLIS
alumni: Stephanie Davis-Kahl (MS '98) in the "Change Agents" category, and Cathryne Kaufman (MS '09) in the "Marketers" category. Omar Poler, a LAMP alumnus, also was honored in…
David Larsen (MS '04) has been selected by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) to receive the 2014 Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award. The award honors professional achievement, leadership, and contributions
to interlibrary loan and document delivery. Larsen, head of access services and assessment at the University of Chicago Library, was selected for his…
[image1-right]Stephanie Davis-Kahl (MS '98) has been selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) to receive the 2014 Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award.
Davis-Kahl, scholarly communications librarian and associate professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, was selected for the award based on…
Anna Maria Watkin (MS '96), director of the
Parkland College Library, and Erika Hackman, director of the Center for
Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Parkland College,
will accept the 2014 ACRL Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS) EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Award on behalf of the project Scholarship at Parkland (SPARK) at the 2014 ALA Annual…
Two GSLIS alumni have won awards from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Kimberly Willson-St. Clair (MS '01), along with colleagues at Portland State University, has been selected to receive the 2014 ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award. Wendy Holliday (MS '02) has received the 2014 ACRL Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award with co-author…
[image1-right:resize-180w]Karen G. Schneider (MS '92), university librarian at Holy Names University,
Oakland, California, is the 2014 recipient of the American Library
Association (ALA) Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award. This award
is given biennially to an individual for making positive changes in the
profession of librarianship and consists of a 24K gold-framed citation
and $…
[image2-right]Lian Ruan (MS '90, PhD '11) is the focus of a recent Illuminate Illinois feature by
the Special Libraries
Association (SLA) Illinois Chapter. Ruan is the director/head librarian of
the Illinois
Fire Service Institute (IFSI) Library at the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign and an adjunct lecturer at GSLIS. At IFSI, Ruan works to
provide resources to firefighters and…
[image1-right]An assistantship with the Instructional Technology and Design (ITD) office at GSLIS prepared Juliana Perry for her current position as web services project manager at Bryn Mawr College. According to Perry, her degree in LIS brings a new perspective to the IT world.
Where do you work and what is your role?I work at Bryn Mawr College as the web services project manager, which…
[image1-right]An assistantship with The Center for Children's Books (CCB) during her time at GSLIS provided Ayanna Coleman with the knowledge and skills she needs to navigate the publishing world, and now she is launching her own literary agency, Quill Shift Literary Agency.Where do you work and what is your role?I'm the associate manager of events and programs as well as the librarian at the…
