Bonnie Mak, associate professor, will visit Yale University to participate in two events this fall. She is an invited discussant in the symposium of the Yale Program in the History of the Book. Mak will participate in seminars that explore how handwritten notes or visual elements added to books affect the relationship of those books to specific locations and times. The symposium, “Time and the…

LEEP student Lilach Manheim will present her paper, “Information non-seeking behavior,” at the Information Behaviour Conference (ISIC), an international biennial conference to be held this year in Leeds, United Kingdom, from September 2-5. Manheim has received funding from GSLIS to travel and attend the conference.  Manheim’s paper analyzes how the decision to not seek information has…

GSLIS doctoral student Noah Lenstra will serve on the concluding panel at the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) Fall Symposium, which will take place September 12 and 13 at the Illini Union. The theme of the symposium is “Oral History, Archives, and Innovation.” Lenstra will present his work as the project director of eBlack Champaign-Urbana, a collaborative program focused on creating a…

Assistant Professor Jana Diesner and GSLIS doctoral student Shubhanshu Mishra recently attended the ACM Web Science 2014 conference held in Bloomington, Indiana. They presented their paper, “Comparison of communication networks built from explicit and implicit data,” co-authored with Illinois engineering master’s student Amirhossein Aleyasen, as well as PhD candidate Aaron Schecter and Professor…

GSLIS will participate in the upcoming International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress in Lyon, France, on August 16-22. This annual conference brings together LIS professionals and students from more than 120 countries and provides opportunities for networking and professional development. Among the presenters will be the GSLIS faculty and students listed below. Attendees are invited meet with faculty and staff at Booth #D-108.