Assistant Professor Elizabeth Hoiem’s current research is built around questions of how we define children’s literature. She studies childhood literacy during the Industrial Revolution and the ways in which our understanding of literature, readers, and change agents of this time period is impacted by how we choose to define childhood literature in the first place.
Two chapters written by members of the GSLIS community are featured in the latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship book series titled, Perspectives on Libraries as Institutions of Human Rights and Social Justice (Volume 41).
Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn will participate in the FORCE2016 Research Communication and eScholarship Conference in Portland, Oregon, on April 17-19. FORCE2016 is a meeting of the FORCE11 community, which includes scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers, and research funders who share the goal of improving scholarly communication through use of information technology.
Assistant Professor Emily Knox will speak at the Information Ethics Roundtable on April 8 at the University of Arizona. This annual interdisciplinary meeting addresses the ethical questions raised by life in an information society.
Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke is the 2016 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) Equality Award. The annual award is given to an individual or group for outstanding contributions toward promoting equality in the library profession.
Professor Alistair Black addressed a gathering of historians in the Great Hall of historic Lambeth Palace in London on March 1. The event was held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the publication of Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland (CHLBI).
The following GSLIS faculty and students will participate in iConference 2016, which will be held March 20-23 in Philadelphia. This year marks the eleventh anniversary of the annual conference, which is presented by the iSchools, a worldwide association of information schools dedicated to advancing the information field. The event brings together scholars, researchers, and information…
Fifteen GSLIS instructors were named to the University’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Fall 2015. The rankings are released every semester, and results are based on the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) questionnaire forms maintained by Measurement and Evaluation in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Only those instructors who gave out ICES forms during…
Thanks to research conducted by Associate Professor Carol Tilley, the work of one of the most influential anti-comics voices has been debunked. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s evidence of the negative effects of comic readership on young people hasn’t been taken seriously by scholars in decades, but a new discovery by Tilley shows that even when Wertham’s claims were taken as fact by many—in the 1940s and 1950s—a small but vocal group was already questioning his methods.
Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke is one of three winners of the 2016 Kenneth and Sylvia Marantz Fellowship for Picturebook Research, which encourages scholars from the United States and abroad to make use of resources available at the Marantz Picturebook Collection for the Study of Picturebook Art in their research.
