GSLIS welcomes Ian Brooks, who has joined the staff as a research scientist. He will represent both GSLIS and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as a liaison to the health sciences community. In this role, Brooks will help maintain and develop research relationships between GSLIS and NCSA in the area of health science information and work with GSLIS faculty on externally…
GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will participate in
several conferences focusing on a variety of topics this fall:Information Technology and
Africa: Practices, Potentials and Challenges September
11-13, 2013University
of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSharon
Irish, project coordinator for GSLIS Center for Digital
Inclusion, will serve on a panel moderated by GSLIS alumna and Assistant…
GSLIS welcomes Xiaoguang Wang as a scholar-in-residence for
the 2013-2014 academic year. Wang is a professor in the School of Information
Management at Wuhan University (WU) in the Hubei Province of China. He looks
forward to continuing his research at GSLIS, particularly in the area of
semantic publishing, and he plans to collaborate with GSLIS faculty who share
his research interests.…
This fall, Maria Bonn joins the Graduate School of
Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign as a senior lecturer. Bonn will teach courses on the role of
libraries in scholarly communication and publishing.
Most recently, Bonn served as the associate university
librarian for publishing at the University of Michigan Library, with
responsibility…
GSLIS
Professor Michael Twidale recently discussed the importance of inclusion in his
teaching and research with Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre. Twidale’s
remarks are part of the interview series Reflections
on Inclusion, which
explores the School’s efforts to respect varied perspectives and diversity of
experiences.
Twidale
teaches courses in museum informatics, interaction…
F. W. “Wilf” Lancaster, GSLIS professor emeritus, passed
away on Sunday, August 25, at his home in Urbana, Illinois. He was 79 years old.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Cesaria; his children, Miriam,
Owen, Jude, Aaron, Lakshmi, and Raji; and his 13 grandchildren.
A visitation will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, August 30,
at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Urbana with a funeral…
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Alkalimat hosts forum at Archives 2013
Professor Abdul Alkalimat
led a forum at Archives
2013, the joint
annual meeting of the Society of American…
Five GSLIS master's students participated in the University of Illinois’s 2013 Summer Pre-doctoral Institute (SPI). SPI is a campus-wide orientation program that accepts incoming graduate students from U.S. populations that are underrepresented in campus graduate programs. During the eight-week program, students enroll in an independent study, participate in a series of research-based seminars,…
GSLIS is pleased to announce that Masooda Bashir will join the GSLIS faculty as an assistant professor on August 16, 2013. Bashir holds degrees in mathematics, computer science, and psychology and received her PhD in psychology from Purdue University. She worked for several years as a systems analyst, technical trainer, manager, and global manager for a number of corporations in Silicon Valley, including Lotus and IBM.
GSLIS Professor Alistair Black recently discussed the
importance of inclusion in his teaching and research with Associate Professor
Kathryn La Barre. Black’s remarks are part of the interview series Reflections
on Inclusion, which explores the School’s efforts to respect varied
perspectives and diversity of experiences.
Black’s research focuses on the history of libraries,
librarianship,…
