GSLIS will serve as a key intellectual and infrastructural partner for a new grant awarded to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The $3 million grant will fund the first two years of an extensive consortium of fifteen humanities institutes. IPRH, a division of the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, provides…

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Elementary school librarian DaNae Leu is the recipient of the 2013 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award given by the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Leu is being honored for her efforts to defend the picture book In Our Mothers’ House by Patricia Polacco against her school administration’s…

Assistant Professor Carol Tilley has been elected director of external relations for the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). She will officially begin her work after the ALISE annual meeting in January, 2014.

GSLIS students William Langston and Sophie Young have been selected to receive 2014 Spectrum Scholar/PLA Conference Travel Grants from the Public Library Association. In total, ten of the nation's 2013 Spectrum Scholars were selected to receive funding to attend the conference. Langston and Young, both master's students, were named ALA Spectrum Scholars earlier this year along with four other…

GSLIS staff, students, and alumni will participate in the upcoming Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) 2013 Conference, which will be held October 31 to November 2 at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield. The theme of the conference is "School Libraries: The Core of Student Success." Visit GSLIS at booth #202 and join us for a gathering on Friday, November 1 from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza.

GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 76th Annual Meeting, which will be held November 1-5 in Montreal.

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.