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,…
GSLIS master's students I-Ju Chen and Brian Flota earned
stipend awards to attend the Special
Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference, which was held earlier this
month in San Diego, California.
Chen, whose studies focus on competitive intelligence and
knowledge management, received the student travel award from the Business and
Finance Division of the SLA. The annual award is…
Current and prospective LIS students from across the Midwest
traveled to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in
the 2013 LIS Access Midwest Program (LAMP) Summer Institute, which was hosted
by the University Library from May 30 through June 2. LAMP is a network of
information schools and academic libraries in the Midwest that collaborate to
encourage students from…
GSLIS master's students Karen Barton and Tracy Drake and doctoral students LaTesha Velez and Melissa
Villa-Nicholas discussed librarianship, diversity, and technology at
the University of California, Irvine’s History Graduate Student
Association’s 17th Annual Conference, "Responding to Crisis:
Historical and Contemporary Strategies of Resistance."
The conference brought together…
Each year, GSLIS recognizes a group of outstanding students for their
achievement in academics as well as a number of attributes that
contribute to professional success. The following student awards were presented at the GSLIS Convocation on May 12, 2013.
Bryce Allen Award for Reference Services
Presented to Carl Lehnen by JoAnn Jacoby:
As a graduate assistant in Reference, Research and…
