[image1-right]With a background in history and initially inspired by an interest in archives and special collections, Christina John decided to pursue a master’s degree at GSLIS. She now plans to apply her research and LIS skills to a career in the corporate or nonprofit sector.Why did you decide to pursue an LIS degree?I decided to pursue an LIS degree when I was an undergrad at DePaul…
Information management in a corporate setting can take many forms. For Shannon Roberts (MS ’12), it involves working as a price and market analyst for John Deere. For GSLIS master’s student Kelsey Heffren, it means conducting oral history interviews of longtime staff at W. W. Grainger, Inc., and working to organize, preserve, and expand the company’s intellectual property collection. And for…
[image1-right]GSLIS master's student and LAMP Scholar Katrina Spencer recently attended the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) regional conference held at the St. Louis Public Library from October 18-20. Her trip was partially funded by GSLIS and the Center for Children's Books (CCB). The CCB sat down with Spencer, who is interested in translation of children’s literature and…
In this essay, master's student Regina Sierra Carter recounts her summer at the Smithsonian Institution, where she worked as a multicultural junior fellow. If you are interested in hosting a GSLIS student for an internship or practicum, please contact Roy Brooks, practicum coordinator.
[image1-right]As a result of the generous support of the Goldman Sachs
Group, Inc., I was blessed to serve…
Carole Palmer, GSLIS professor and director of CIRSS, and Nicholas Weber, GSLIS doctoral candidate,
will share their expertise in data curation at the upcoming John Deere Big Data
Summit, which will be held in Champaign on October 1 and 2. The summit is
intended to bring together analytic and big data thought leaders from inside
and outside the company to showcase cutting edge academic…
Washington, DC—The ARL Committee on Diversity and Leadership has selected 15 masters of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2013–2015 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) as ARL Diversity Scholars.The ARL IRDW offers numerous financial benefits to program participants as well as leadership development provided through the annual ARL Leadership…
[image1-right]GSLIS master’s student Yan Liu has demonstrated time and
again that she is dedicated to pursuing a career in librarianship and willing
to put in the extra effort required to stand out from the crowd. Since moving from
her home in Beijing to the United States to study library and
information science at GSLIS, Liu’s dedication has garnered well-deserved
attention and praise.…
Five GSLIS master's students participated in the University of Illinois’s 2013 Summer Pre-doctoral Institute (SPI). SPI is a campus-wide orientation program that accepts incoming graduate students from U.S. populations that are underrepresented in campus graduate programs. During the eight-week program, students enroll in an independent study, participate in a series of research-based seminars,…
[image1-right]LEEP
student Christina Nhek was recently named the recipient of two scholarships, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association or APALA Scholarship and the California Library
Association or CLA Scholarship for Minority
Students in Memory of Edna Yelland.
Nhek, the
daughter of Cambodian refugees, is currently pursuing a master’s degree and certificate
in special…
GSLIS doctoral candidates Sarah T. Roberts and Miriam E. Sweeney presented on a panel at the International
Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Dublin, Ireland, on
June 28. The presentation, "Free Speech, Visual Discourses and
the Invisible," also included panelists Ergin Bulut, doctoral candidate in Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois,…
