GSLIS alumna Gwen Evans (MS
’02) was named executive director of the Ohio Library and Information network,
OhioLINK. OhioLINK is a consortium of 88 college and university libraries in
Ohio, providing approximately 600,000 students, faculty, and staff with access
to millions of books, articles, and other information sources. Evans had served
as interim director of OhioLINK before being…
[image5-right]To
commemorate Veterans Day, Kevin McLaughlin (MS ’04) helped organize “Called to
Serve: A History of Military Service at the University of Illinois,” a
month-long exhibit at the University of Illinois Main Library. McLaughlin, a
senior library specialist at the University Library and a veteran, wanted to
create the exhibit to honor and support veterans on campus.
“I was…
At
the annual meeting of Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu held on November 3,
2012, the following graduates of the Graduate School of Library and
Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
became members of Beta Phi Mu.Anthonia AhonsiBarbara A. AlvarezVictor M. BenitezLaura Anne BuchholzMeira ChefitzRobin C. DavisLinda Mary DiekmanDave J. EllenwoodKatherine C.…
Lynn Yarmey (MS '11) has been profiled in Library Journal's "Librarians Abroad" series,
which highlights professionals who either work outside libraries and archives
or who hold somewhat less traditional positions in libraries and archives. Yarmey, who completed the GSLIS Specialization in Data Curation, currently works for the National Snow and Ice Data
Center in Boulder, Colorado, as the…
The
Library School Alumni
Association (LSAA) at the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced
the recipients of its annual awards.
Becky
Lyon (MS ’72) has been selected to receive the Distinguished
Alumnus Award. Each year this award is given to an alum who has made an
outstanding contribution to the field…
MBMS
Spotlight: Ziba Zehdar
“Working in an archive and using my special collections skills and
knowledge is like being a detective, investigating the story of a life once
lived.”
[image1-right]When Ziba
Zehdar (MS ’12) goes to work at her practicum, every day is a small brush with
fame. Combining her lifetime love of libraries with a background in film and
media studies, Ziba puts…
[image1-right]Lizzie Johnson (MS ’10) was recently named the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship through the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Program. The assistantship placed Johnson at the St. Kliment Ohridski University in Bitola in the southwest part of Macedonia for the 2011–2012 academic year. There, she worked with a U.S.-based professor as the on-site assistant for a…
Several GSLIS alumni have recently been elected to leadership positions in the following professional associations:
JoAnn Jacoby (MS ’97), Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect, Steering Committee of the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) of the American Library Association (ALA)
M. Kathleen Kern (MS ’99), Vice-President/President-Elect, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American…
[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…
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.…
