Chad Kahl (MS '98), interim associate dean for public services and information technology at Illinois State University, has been awarded the 2016 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award. The award, established in 1996 by LPSS, honors an academic or law librarian who has made distinguished contributions to…

Associate Professor Miles Efron has been named the GSLIS Centennial Scholar for 2015-2016. The Centennial Scholar award is endowed by alumni and friends of GSLIS and given in recognition of outstanding accomplishments and/or professional promise in the field of library and information science. “This is a real honor. One of the things that makes GSLIS a great academic home is the excellence and…

GSLIS adjunct lecturer Ruth Duerr, from the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholars, was honored with the Martha Maiden Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Earth Science Information Community by the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) at the January 2016 ESIP meeting. Duerr teaches Foundations of Data Curation at GSLIS. The award, named for Martha Maiden, program…

Ten GSLIS instructors were named to the University’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Summer 2015.

Fourteen GSLIS instructors were named to the University’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2015.

Doctoral student Andrea K. Thomer and recent graduate Nic Weber (PhD '15) are the winners of the 2015 Best Paper Award given by the Association for Information Science and Technology’s (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group for Scientific and Technical Information (SIG-STI). Thomer and Weber presented their paper, "The Phylogeny of a Dataset," at the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, held October…

Assistant Professor Emily Knox is the 2015 recipient of the Illinois Library Association (ILA) Intellectual Freedom Award.The award, presented by the ILA Intellectual Freedom Committee, recognizes an individual or group for outstanding contributions in defending intellectual freedom or the advancement of these principles.

GSLIS alumna Gail Bush (MS ’77) has been named an Illinois Library Luminary by the Illinois Library Association. Bush’s passionate career in Illinois libraries spans five decades of service in academic, corporate, and school librarianship, as well as public library trusteeship. After earning a doctorate in educational psychology, Bush’s tenure as a library practitioner was followed by moving…

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has selected four master’s students to participate in the 2015–2017 ARL/Music Library Association (MLA) Diversity and Inclusion Initiative (DII), including one from GSLIS. The fellows are: Opetoritse Agbejuleoritse Adefolalu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Avery Boddie, University of Maryland, College Park Morgan Davis, University…

Four GSLIS master’s students have been selected by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Committee on Diversity and Leadership to participate in the 2015-2017 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) as ARL diversity scholars. Underwritten by ARL member libraries, the IRDW offers numerous financial benefits to program participants as well as leadership development provided…