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Mak, Pollack publish paper on Cabinet of Curiosity

An article by Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack (MS '12) was recently published in the Fall 2013 issue of Art Documentation.  The article, "The Performance and Practice of Research in A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time," discusses their exhibition held at the Figure One Gallery in Champaign, Illinois, which investigated how the materiality of information shapes…

CIRSS researchers to present at IDCC14

CIRSS faculty and students will participate in the upcoming 9th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) to be held February 24-27 in San Francisco. This year's theme, "Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society," will focus on how data-driven tools and services allow us to explore, manage, use, and benefit from…

GSLIS to participate in 2014 ALISE Conference

GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will participate in the 2014 ALISE Annual Conference, which will be held January 21-24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The theme of the conference is "Educational Entrepreneurship," and sessions will focus on a variety of topics related to incorporating entrepreneurship into LIS pedagogy and research. Tuesday, January 21 WISE Pedagogy Pre-conference…

Downie to speak at University of Oxford

GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie is slated to speak at the University of Oxford on January 22 about the ongoing work of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). His talk, “Unlocking the Secrets of 3 Billion Pages: Introducing the HathiTrust Research Center,” will provide an overview of the HTRC’s mission and projects and will introduce scholars to ways they can…

Diesner to deliver keynote at DISC 2013

GSLIS Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will deliver a keynote speech at the Daegu Gyeongbuk International Social Network Conference (DISC) 2013, which will be held in South Korea from December 12-14. The theme of the conference is "Knowledge Network Analysis in the Emerging Big Data Research." Diesner’s keynote, "Words and Networks: Relevance of methodological choices for practical…

CIRSS researchers to present at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting

CIRSS researchers will make a strong showing as they share their expertise in scientific data curation at this week’s 46th annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The meeting, scheduled for December 9-13 in San Francisco, California, is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, gathering more than 24,000 earth and space scientists, educators,…

Black receives 2013 Library History Essay Award

GSLIS Professor Alistair Black is the recipient of the Library History Essay Award for 2013. The prize is awarded annually by the Library and Information History Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) to the best essay on library history relating to, or published in, the British Isles in the previous calendar year. Black’s essay is titled, “…

Kendall named president of AoIR

GSLIS Associate Professor Lori Kendall has been named the president of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). She takes office during the AoIR annual conference (IR 14) held October 23-26, 2013 in Denver, Colorado. 

Lori Kendall

Downie to deliver keynote at computer music symposium

GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie will deliver a keynote address at the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM), which will be held October 31 to November 2 at the Escola de Música de Brasília in Brasília, Brazil. The invited talk, “Using MIREX to Examine the Evolution of Music Information Retrieval Research,” will be given on November 2: Abstract: The "…

Renear delivers keynote at this week's TEI conference

GSLIS Professor and Interim Dean Allen Renear delivered a keynote address at the Text Encoding Initiative's 2013 International Conference and Members’ Meeting (#tei2013). The theme of the conference, held October 2-5 in Rome, Italy, is "The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web." Renear's address, "Text encoding, ontologies, and the future," was delivered on October 2.Abstract: SGML/XML text…