[image1-right:resize-180w]GSLIS alumna Katie Blakeman (MS ’11) has been named one of the prestigious “Forty Under 40” award winners announced annually by Central Illinois Business Magazine.The “Forty Under 40” awards honor young professionals “based
on achievement, experience, innovation, leadership and community involvement,”
according to an
announcement in the News-Gazette.
Honorees are…
GSLIS doctoral candidates Claudia
Serbanuta and Miriam E. Sweeney have been honored with 2013
Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships from Beta Phi Mu,
the International Library and Information Studies Honor Society. Up to six
recipients are selected each year for this prestigious award, a national
competition among doctoral students who are working on their dissertations…
Five GSLIS master's degree students and one doctoral student have been named 2013 Spectrum Scholars by the American Library Association (ALA). Established in 1997, the Spectrum Scholarship Program was created to promote diversity among graduate-level library school students. Each master's-level scholar receives $5,000 from the ALA as well as over $1,500 toward professional development…
[image1-right:resize-180w]Sai Deng (MS ’05) is a recipient of a 2013 President’s
Recognition Award, given annually by the Chinese American Library Association (CALA). She is one of three award winners—including Maria Fung and Michael Bailou Huang—who were recognized with honorary plaques during CALA's 40th Anniversary Celebration and Awards Banquet on June 30, 2013.Deng joined CALA in 2006 and…
The GSLIS Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) has announced the
recipients of its annual awards. The recipients were recognized on June 30,
2013, at the GSLIS reception held at the annual meeting of the ALA in Chicago.
Katrina Stierholz (MS ’93) has been awarded the
Distinguished Alumnus Award. Each year this award is given to an alum who has
made an outstanding contribution to the…
[image1-right]Ozzie Meza (MS ’05) has received the Impact Award from the Business
& Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). Meza
received the award in recognition of his efforts to create and implement a
method of using knowledge management to improve recruitment of executives at
Allstate Insurance. Meza’s system was successfully expanded to other levels of…
[image1-right:resize-180w]Linda Anselmo (MS '10) is the focus of a recent Illuminate Illinois feature by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Illinois Chapter. Anselmo is a research librarian and manager of information services at the Chicago
offices of the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich. Before beginning her
master’s degree program at GSLIS, she worked as an accountant at the…
[image1-right]The American Library Association's International Relations
Committee has chosen Susan M. Schnuer (MS ’92), associate director at the
University of Illinois Mortenson Center for International Library
Programs, to receive this year's John Ames/Humphry/OCLC/ Forest Press
Award.
OCLC/Forest Press donated the cash award of $1,000, which is given to
an individual for…
[image1-right]GSLIS alumna Rose Allen (MS ’01) has been named an Illinois
Library Luminary by the Illinois Library
Association (ILA).
Friends and colleagues came together to nominate her
and raise funds in her honor for the
Illinois Library Association Endowment. Luminaries are selected for their
significant contributions to Illinois libraries.
Allen began her career as a library…
CU-CitizenAccess.org, a community online news and information project directed by GSLIS-affiliated faculty member Brant Houston, has won the 2012 Peter Lisagor Award for its work with Hoy Chicago to examine changing demographics and racial issues in Central Illinois.
