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…

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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