Each year, the School recognizes a group of outstanding students for their achievement in academics as well as a number of attributes that contribute to professional success. The following student awards were presented at the School's Convocation ceremony on May 15, 2016.

GSLIS alumna Lorraine Haricombe (MS ’88, PhD ’92) will deliver the 2016 GSLIS Convocation address, "Imagine." The event will be held on Sunday, May 15, at 9:30 a.m. For those who would like to watch the ceremony online, live video will be available as well as archived for future viewing.

This fall, the first cohort of students will begin their studies in our School’s new Master of Science degree in information management (MS/IM) program. These students will have the opportunity to choose from four professional pathways to prepare for successful careers in the design and management of information systems.

MS/LIS, CAS, and nondegree students who hold a Professional Educator License (PEL) can now add a Technology Specialist (TS) endorsement to their PEL with GSLIS coursework.

Students and recent graduates interested in working in special collections librarianship are invited to attend the upcoming workshop, “A Rare Choice: Career Workshop for Special & Specialized Collections Librarianship,” at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) on Saturday, May 7.

Coursera, a leading online education company known for massive open online courses (MOOCs), today announced that they are partnering with CS @ ILLINOIS on a professional data science master’s degree.

GSLIS and the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) are pleased to announce a partnership to offer an online graduate-level course on intellectual freedom for library and information science (LIS) students around the country.

Fifteen GSLIS instructors were named to the University’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2015. The rankings are released every semester, and results are based on the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) questionnaire forms maintained by Measurement and Evaluation in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Only those instructors who gave out ICES forms during…

Betty Sue Flowers, former director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, will deliver the inaugural Taylor Willingham Lecture in Change Management at GSLIS on Tuesday, March 29.

The Center for Children’s Books will host the 2016 Gryphon Lecture on Friday, March 11. The annual lecture, which is free and open to campus and the public, features a leading scholar in the field of youth and literature, media, and culture. Denise Agosto, GSLIS research fellow and professor in Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics, will deliver this year’s lecture