Associate Professor Carol Tilley has been elected second vice president of the Comics Studies Society (CSS) in the organization’s first election since its founding in 2014.

Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke is sharing her research on topics related to digital literacy, including pedagogical approaches to using social media in the classroom and identifying and confronting misleading information, with two conference presentations this month.

This week Associate Professor Victoria Stodden delivered the opening plenary address of the spring membership meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The event was held April 4-5 in San Antonio, Texas.

The year’s best comics and graphic novels will be honored with Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in July at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Carol Tilley, a University of Illinois associate professor of library and information science, is one of six judges selecting the comics that will appear on the awards ballot in more than two dozen categories.

As society ages and human knowledge progresses, we expect innovations from scientists that will improve quality of life for older adults and help society adapt to the realities of a changing population. Yet the scientific workforce itself is aging, potentially affecting its own capacity for innovation. The relationship between innovation in the scientific workforce and the increasing demand for innovation is complex, with far-reaching implications influencing everything from healthcare to the economy.

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.