Two GSLIS
alumni were selected this year
as Public Library Association (PLA) Leadership Fellows to attend the PLA
Leadership Academy: Navigating Change · Building Community.
Toby Greenwalt (MS ’04) and Marc Gartler (MS ’05) were among
twenty-four public librarians selected for the PLA Leadership Academy, a pilot program that seeks to develop a leadership training model
for advancing…
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alumna and adjunct lecturer Christine A. Kujawa (MS '03) has been selected by the Public Library Association as the 2013
recipient of the Gordon M. Conable Award. The award honors her work in leading intellectual freedom
education and advocacy on local, state, and national levels.
Kujawa
is currently head of circulation services at Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library in…
GSLIS alumna Lorraine Haricombe (MS ’88, PhD ’92) has been elected chair of the Steering Committee for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly publishing, and the Steering Committee acts as an advisory board to its executive director.
Currently…
Kathi Carlisle Fountain (MS ’97), head of collection
development at the Washington State University - Vancouver Library, has been
awarded the 2013 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and
Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/CQ Press Award. The award,
established in 1996 by LPSS, honors an academic or law librarian who has made
distinguished contributions to…
[image1-right]Alumna Lizabeth (Betsy) A. Wilson (MS ’78) has been named
the winner of the 2013 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The award, jointly sponsored by four
divisions of the American Library Association, recognizes an academic librarian
who has worked in library automation or management for his or her significant
accomplishments towards improving library services or research.…
GSLIS alumna Kathleen Willis (MS ’05) has been elected to the Illinois General
Assembly to represent the 77th legislative district of the state.
Willis, who will be inaugurated to the legislature on January 9, currently
serves as coordinator of access services for Elmhurst College’s library. In
addition to her role at the library, Willis teaches courses in children’s and
youth literature at…
Four GSLIS alumni have been selected to participate in the
American Library Association’s 2013 Emerging Leaders program.
Tarida Anantachai (MS ’11), Amanda Binder (MS ’08), Margaret
Heller (MS ’08), and Yasmeen Shorish (MS ’11) joined the 2013 class of Emerging
Leaders, which includes a total of fifty-five individuals from across the
country. Now in its seventh year, this leadership…
GSLIS alumni Peggy Glatthaar (MS ’07) and Sandy Wolf (MS ’93) are
recipients of the first Outstanding Civil Service Staff Award from the
University of Illinois Library. The award recognizes civil service staff members for their
exceptional accomplishments and distinctive service to the library.Glatthaar is a library operations associate, supervising the main stacks
circulation desk and…
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alumna Ana Peso (MS ’07), a librarian at Glenbrook North High School, will appear on the December 31 episode of the popular game show "Jeopardy." The episode will air in Champaign, Illinois, at
4:30 p.m. on WAND-TV.
Peso took Jeopardy’s online timed test twice before receiving an invitation to appear on the show. An avid reader throughout her life, she prepared by brushing up on…
[image1-right:resize-300w]Safiya
Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) is a recipient of a 2013 INTERSECT Award for her
participation in the curricular initiative, “Learning to See Systems.”
INTERSECT, an effort by the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, seeks to encourage collaboration and innovation in
interdisciplinary arts and humanities research and training. INTERSECT…
