Representatives from the
Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) are slated to participate and present at the 2013 Community Informatics Research
Network (CIRN) Conference. The topic of the conference, scheduled for October 28-30 in Prato, Italy, will be "Nexus,
Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives Meets Community
Informatics." CDI is a sponsor of the event.
CIRN
is an…
“Mainstreaming Innovation in Online Education” is the theme for this year’s campus Summit on Online Education. The event will take place on October 29, 2013 at the Illini Union. Now in its third year, the Summit is designed to provide a forum for educators and learners, on- and off-campus, to meet and discuss topics of interest to them. Dr. Harrison Keller, Vice Provost of Higher Education Policy…
[image1-right]The iSchool at Illinois welcomes Raphaëlle
Bats for a campus visit on October 23-25. Bats is an international relations officer at École Nationale Supérieure des
Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques (Enssib), the premier library
and information science school in France, and a 2012-2014 GSLIS research
fellow.
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GSLIS SpotlightGSLIS Fall Reunion Begins October…
Nicole Cooke, GSLIS assistant professor, recently published "Diversifying the LIS faculty" in Library Journal's opinion section, Backtalk. In tandem with the need to increase diversity in LIS student populations, Cooke calls for recruitment efforts that will diversify LIS faculties.LIS faculties need diversity: more so of gender, of ability, of thought, and of race and ethnicity. If we as a…
Additional activities are being scheduled. Check back frequently for details!
Please join us in October for the third annual GSLIS Fall Reunion, a month-long series of on-campus and online events providing opportunities to connect with current faculty, staff, students, and other alumni. The reunion offers an in-depth view of the GSLIS community as well as the opportunity to experience it—…
Carole Palmer (PhD ’96), director of the Center for
Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) and professor at the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois, has received
the 2013 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award given by
the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
A member of the GSLIS faculty…
GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie and GSLIS-affiliated faculty member Professor Tim Cole (MS '89) recently traveled to Kyoto, Japan, to participate in the third annual Japanese Association for Digital Humanities conference, which was held September 19-21 at Ritsumeikan University.
Through digitization, the accessibility of cultural resources has improved in the…
On Wednesday, September 25, GSLIS will participate in Inclusive Illinois Day, a campus-wide day of activities celebrating diversity and inclusion on our campus. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is committed to the idea of "one campus, many voices" and to cultivating a campus community where differences are embraced, and everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. GSLIS shares…
Carole Palmer, director of CIRSS and professor at GSLIS, delivered a keynote address at the second biannual plenary meeting
of the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The three-day meeting was held September
16-18 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington,
D.C., and involved conversations between top leaders from the White
House and US science agencies, and their international…