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GSLIS presents at ISLMA Conference

GSLIS and the Center for Children’s Books (CCB) will be well represented at the Illinois School Library Media Association Conference (ISLMA), held from November 6 - 8 at the Tinley Park Convention Center in Tinley Park, IL. Deborah Stevenson, director of the Center for Children's Books and editor of the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and Kate Quealy-Gainer, assistant editor of…

GSLIS students to present at Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium

GSLIS doctoral students Emily Lawrence and K.R. Roberto and master's student Kellee Warren will present separate talks at the Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium at the University of Toronto on October 18, 2014. The colloquium aims to view the information field through the critical lens of gender and sexuality, considering the challenges and advantages of that interaction.…

Kendall caps first year of AoIR presidency with IR15 in South Korea

Halfway through her two-year term as president of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Associate Professor Lori Kendall has been busy making plans for the group’s annual conference, which will be held October 22-24 in Daegu, South Korea. Internet Research 15 (IR15): Boundaries and Intersections will draw academics, students, and other researchers from around the world to this…
Kendall (left) and Pearson (right) met with Daegu Mayor Kwon Youngjin.

GSLIS faculty, student present at Digital Memories conference

Associate Professor Lori Kendall, Associate Professor Jerome McDonough, and doctoral candidate Rhiannon Bettivia presented their research recently at the Digital Memories 5th Global Conference, held at Mansfield College, Oxford University, at the end of September.

Mansfield College, Oxford University

GSLIS to be well represented at 'Interpreting the Information Age' conference

GSLIS will be well represented at the upcoming conference, "Interpreting the Information Age: New Avenues for Research and Display," which will be held at the Science Museum in London on November 3-5. The conference is linked to the opening of a new permanent gallery in the museum, which is named "Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World." The gallery will expose, examine, and…

GSLIS to make strong showing at ASIS&T 2014

GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in the 77th American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, which will be held October 31-November 5 in Seattle. The ASIS&T Annual Meeting is the premier international conference dedicated to the study of information, people, and technology in contemporary society. This year’s theme is “Connecting…

Wolske speaks on engagement, CI at several events this month

Senior Research Scientist Martin Wolske will be trekking the globe this month, giving presentations and keynote addresses in Canada, Italy, and Illinois. His presentations will share a focus on scholarship related to engagement and social change and draw on his work in community informatics. Wolske will be joined by recent graduate Colin Rhinesmith (PhD ’14) in making presentations at one of the…

Tilley to share expertise at New York Comic Con

Associate Professor Carol Tilley will make two appearances at New York Comic Con (NYCC), an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. Known as the largest pop culture event on the East Coast, NYCC will be held on October 9 - 12 at the Javits Center. Tilley, one of the nation's leading experts and a popular…

Blake presents paper at the 2014 International Symposium on Inconsistency Robustness

Catherine Blake, GSLIS associate professor and associate director of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS), presented a paper at the 2014 International Symposium on Inconsistency Robustness, held at Stanford University on July 29-31. The symposium connected an interdisciplinary group of researchers from around the globe to discuss concepts related to inconsistency…

CIRSS to present at the 12th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Several students and faculty affiliated with CIRSS and active in the Site-Based Data Curation at Yellowstone National Park (SBDC) project will present at the 12th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in Mammoth, Wyoming, on October 6-8. The theme of the conference, which is hosted by the National Park Service, is "Crossing Boundaries in Science, Management, &…