Kathi Carlisle Fountain (MS ’97), head of collection
development at the Washington State University - Vancouver Library, has been
awarded the 2013 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and
Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/CQ Press Award. The award,
established in 1996 by LPSS, honors an academic or law librarian who has made
distinguished contributions to…
At the recent iConference, a group of GSLIS students and faculty earned an Honorable Mention award for their poster, "Identifying Claims in Social Science Literature." The group included doctoral student Shameem Ahmed, Associate
Professor Catherine Blake, Assistant Professor Kate Williams,
doctoral student Noah Lenstra, and master’s student Qiyuan
Liu.The poster presented initial findings from…
[image1-right]Alumna Lizabeth (Betsy) A. Wilson (MS ’78) has been named
the winner of the 2013 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The award, jointly sponsored by four
divisions of the American Library Association, recognizes an academic librarian
who has worked in library automation or management for his or her significant
accomplishments towards improving library services or research.…
Nicole Cooke, GSLIS assistant professor, will receive the
2013 Norman Horrocks Leadership Award given by the Association for Library and
Information Science Education (ALISE).
Cooke is being honored for her leadership in a variety of professional
ALISE activities including her service on multiple committees including the
Doctoral Student special interests group, the Diversity Task Force, and…
The staff at the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB)
has announced the 2012 Blue Ribbons, their choices for the best of children's
and young adult literature for the previous year. Blue Ribbons are chosen annually by
the Bulletin reviewers and represent what they believe to be
outstanding examples of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for youth.
Over thirty titles…
Librotraficante is the 2012 recipient of
the 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. Librotraficante, a movement led by Tony Diaz, is being
recognized for its efforts to oppose the censorship of ethnic and cultural
studies materials in Arizona.
In…
GSLIS
master’s student Lucas McKeever recently received an Acorn
Scholarship
for volunteerism and community activism from the Acorn Equality Fund, a grassroots
organization that supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered students and their
allies in downstate Illinois. The
$3,000 scholarship was presented to McKeever at the 14th Annual Acorn Equality
Fund Breakfast on December 1,…
Tim Offenstein (MS ’11), GSLIS alumnus and adjunct
instructor, was recently honored with a Larine Y. Cowan "Make a Difference" Award, which is given annually by the Office of Equal Opportunity
and Access (OEOA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the award for
Excellence in Access and Accommodations, which recognizes either individuals or campus units whose efforts…
GSLIS alumni Peggy Glatthaar (MS ’07) and Sandy Wolf (MS ’93) are
recipients of the first Outstanding Civil Service Staff Award from the
University of Illinois Library. The award recognizes civil service staff members for their
exceptional accomplishments and distinctive service to the library.Glatthaar is a library operations associate, supervising the main stacks
circulation desk and…
[image1-right:resize-300w]Safiya
Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) is a recipient of a 2013 INTERSECT Award for her
participation in the curricular initiative, “Learning to See Systems.”
INTERSECT, an effort by the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, seeks to encourage collaboration and innovation in
interdisciplinary arts and humanities research and training. INTERSECT…
