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…
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…
