Associate Professor Carol Tilley has been selected to serve on the judging panel of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Presented annually by Comic-Con International, the Eisner Awards are the industry’s most prestigious, recognizing the best in comics publication, writing, art, and scholarship. "Many youth services library faculty and professionals hope to serve on one of the 'Big…

GSLIS will offer a new special topics course, LIS490GH: Global Health Informatics, for the first time in Spring 2016. Developed and taught by Research Scientist Ian Brooks, the course will be the first on the Urbana campus to expose students to the changing field of health informatics in developing parts of the world.

GSLIS Associate Professor Victoria Stodden will speak at SC15 (formerly Supercomputing), the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. The conference is an annual meeting of researchers, industry representatives, journalists, and others with an interest in high performance computing. It will be held on November 15-20 in Austin, Texas.

GSLIS Professor Bertram Ludäscher will give the keynote address, "YesWorkflow: More Provenance Mileage from Scientific Workflows and Scripts," at the WORKS 2015 Workshop: Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, on Sunday, November 15. This is the tenth WORKS Workshop, which is held annually in conjunction with the SC Conference, and focuses on topics related to the scientific workflow…

Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke and affiliated faculty member Clara Chu have been appointed to serve on a new American Library Association (ALA) task force on LIS accreditation. The Task Force on the Context of Future Accreditation is charged with drafting a white paper describing the fields and context for which ALA will be making accreditation decisions in the future. Based on their…

GSLIS faculty and students will participate in the 78th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, which will be held on November 6-10 in St. Louis.

Several members of the GSLIS community will participate in the 2015 Charleston Conference, an annual meeting that draws librarians, publishers, vendors, and others to discuss issues relating to the acquisition of books and serials. The conference will be held November 4-7 in Charleston, South Carolina. On November 6, Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn will participate in a panel discussion of…

GSLIS Associate Professor Catherine Blake is a co-principal investigator on a newly announced, five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, “A Big Data-Theoretic Approach to Quantify Organizational Failure Mechanisms in Probabilistic Risk Assessment.” Led by Zahra Mohaghegh, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at Illinois, the $899,000 project is funded by two NSF programs: Science of Organizations (SoO) and Big Data Science and Engineering (BIGDATA)

Associate Professor Carol Tilley, an expert in comics readership and history, is featured in The New York Times’s Retro Report documentary, Sex, Drugs and Gore. The documentary explores two societal battles in the history of pop culture, “one over gory comic books in the 1950s, the other over sex- and violence-laden rock songs in the 1980s.” Tilley’s comments in the documentary focus on the…

Senior Lecturer Maria Bonn will serve as a guest columnist for the "Scholarly Communication" column in College & Research Libraries News twice in the coming months. Bonn’s first column was published in the magazine’s October 2015 issue. In “Maximizing the benefits of open access: Strategies for enhancing the discovery of open access content,” she discusses current models of open access and…