Christine Jenkins, GSLIS associate professor, has been appointed
to the 2014 Robert
F. Sibert Informational Book Award committee. The Sibert Book
Medal, established by the American Library Association's Association of Library
Service to Children (ALSC) in 2001, is given annually to the author(s) and
illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book(s) for youth (ages 0-14)…
Two GSLIS
alumni were selected this year
as Public Library Association (PLA) Leadership Fellows to attend the PLA
Leadership Academy: Navigating Change · Building Community.
Toby Greenwalt (MS ’04) and Marc Gartler (MS ’05) were among
twenty-four public librarians selected for the PLA Leadership Academy, a pilot program that seeks to develop a leadership training model
for advancing…
GSLIS
alumna and adjunct lecturer Christine A. Kujawa (MS '03) has been selected by the Public Library Association as the 2013
recipient of the Gordon M. Conable Award. The award honors her work in leading intellectual freedom
education and advocacy on local, state, and national levels.
Kujawa
is currently head of circulation services at Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library in…
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,…
