The GSLIS faculty have selected three scholars to be appointed research fellows from August 2014 to August 2016. GSLIS research fellows are chosen because their work is relevant to the interests of GSLIS faculty and students. Each will give at least one lecture during their appointment.Nominated by Professor Les Gasser is Kristen Haring, assistant director of and lecturer in Stanford University’s…

Several members of the GSLIS community will participate in Digital Humanities 2014, and will present on topics related to research conducted at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) and HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). The conference, held July 7-11 in Lausanne, Switzerland, is organized annually by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. The theme of…

The GSLIS Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) has announced the recipients of its annual awards. The recipients were recognized on June 29, 2014, at the GSLIS reception held at the annual meeting of the American Library Association in Las Vegas.Loriene Roy (PhD ’87) has been awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Each year this award is given to an alum who has made an outstanding…

GSLIS alumnus and adjunct professor Sidney E. Berger (MS '87) presents a landmark examination of rare books and special collections in his latest book, recently published by ALA-Neal Shuman. Rare Books and Special Collections provides a meticulous and systematic understanding of this growing area, aimed at practitioners and instructors of library and information science, booksellers, private…

GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will participate in the American Library Association’s 2014 Annual Conference from June 26 - July 1 in Las Vegas. Visit us in the exhibits hall at Booth #1923. In addition to the presentations listed below, please join us for the GSLIS Reception on Sunday, June 29, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Bally’s, Skyview 2.

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…