Professor Allen Renear has been named the dean of the school. His appointment becomes effective August 16, pending approval of the
university’s board of trustees. Renear has been serving as interim dean since
February 2012.
“He has worked diligently to improve the financial
condition of the school, made critical hires in strategic areas of faculty
strength and is working with faculty on a…
Georgeann Burch, K-12 program coordinator, and Karla Lucht, academic advisor and doctoral student, will lead an upcoming workshop for high school teachers titled, “American Literary Resources for the Classroom.” The workshop, to be held on June 25, is one of several offered as part of the Global Institute for Secondary Educators, a program organized by the Center for Global Studies at the…
Margaret Mary "Maggie" Kimmel, a former GSLIS adjunct professor who taught summer LEEP courses from 1997 to 2007, passed away on June 10. Kimmel team-taught the summer LEEP offering of Libraries, Information and Society with Dean Emerita Leigh Estabrook beginning with LEEP cohort 2 and ending with cohort 12.
Kimmel earned bachelor of arts and master of library science degrees in Illinois at…
Deborah Stevenson, director of the Center for Children’s Books (CCB), will chair a panel and deliver a presentation at the 41st Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference, held on June 18-21 in Columbia, South Carolina. Stevenson is editor of The Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books, one of the nation’s leading children’s book review journals for school and public librarians.The…
GSLIS doctoral student Melissa Villa-Nicholas has been invited to teach research methods at the iSchool Inclusion Institute of Information Sciences (i3) held this June at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences. She will join a cohort of four doctoral students from iSchools around the country who will teach qualitative research methods to undergraduate students preparing for…
Six members of the GSLIS community and of the Midwest chapter of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) participated in a global exchange via CALA Midwest’s first virtual annual conference this past May. Chapter chair Sharon Hu (PhD ’87) made the decision to go virtual in order to attract more people—and attendance doubled. Hu, Mingyan Li (MS ’04), Vincci Kwong (MS ’05), Lian…
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This fall GSLIS will welcome Elizabeth Hoiem as an assistant professor teaching and conducting research in youth services. She comes to GSLIS from East Carolina University, where she has been an assistant professor since Fall 2013. While a doctoral student and instructor at Illinois, Hoiem was named in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for four semesters. She teaches in…
Each year, GSLIS 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 GSLIS Convocation on May 18, 2014.
Bryce Allen Award for Reference Services
Presented to Holly Luetkenhaus by Assistant Professor Dr. Nicole A. Cooke:
During her time at…
Professor Dan Schiller, who has been a member of the GSLIS faculty since 2001, will retire from the University of Illinois on May 31. "GSLIS has been my home for thirteen years. The cooperative spirit of the School, which staff, faculty members, and school administrators actively create day to day, has been an inspiration to me. Going forward, I plan to pursue my research in the political economy…