Associate Professor Carol Tilley will participate in Banned Books Week with a talk at Harper College titled, “Comics, Classrooms, and Censorship.” Her talk is one of several events hosted by Harper College Library during the week of September 27 - October 3, when the American Library Association will hold their annual celebration of the freedom to read. She will speak on Wednesday, September 30,…

Fourteen GSLIS instructors were named to the University’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2015.

Research Associate Professor Jon Gant will lead a series of webinars this fall designed for local government officials across the state of Illinois. Webinars will focus on e-government topics, such as best practices (September 17), technology planning (October 15), and using data and analytics (November 19). 

Assistant Professor Emily Knox is the 2015 recipient of the Illinois Library Association (ILA) Intellectual Freedom Award.The award, presented by the ILA Intellectual Freedom Committee, recognizes an individual or group for outstanding contributions in defending intellectual freedom or the advancement of these principles.

Research Associate Professor David Dubin and doctoral candidate Cheryl A. Thompson will participate in the sixth Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary Meeting in Paris, France, on September 23-25. Dubin will cochair a meeting of the Research Data Provenance interest group, and represent that group in a joint meeting with the Metadata, Data in Context, and Metadata Standards Catalog…

Associate Professor Christine Jenkins, who has been a member of the GSLIS faculty since 1994, retired on May 31.

At GSLIS, Jenkins taught courses on literature and resources for young adults; youth services librarianship; literacy, reading, and readers; the history of children’s literature; and gendered perspectives in LIS. In addition to her GSLIS appointment, Jenkins was also a faculty member in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.

GSLIS Professor Michael Twidale and doctoral candidates Karen Baker and Nic Weber participated in the Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) Summer Research Institute, held on July 20-24 at The Nature Place near Colorado Springs, Colorado. CSST is a community of scholars from academia and industry who apply concepts of socio-technical systems to tackle an array of current…

Professor Michael Twidale has joined a research collaboration based at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) that seeks to discover correlations between the treatment of convicts sentenced to transportation from Europe to Tasmania in the first half of the nineteenth century and health trends among their descendants.   UTAS Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart is leading the research group in the…

Bonnie Mak has been named visiting senior fellow at the Center for Humanities and Information (CHI), a newly-formed collaboration at Pennsylvania State University between the university’s College of the Liberal Arts and the University Libraries.   Mak joins faculty and graduate students from Penn State as well as two postdoctoral fellows to form CHI’s inaugural class of scholars for the…

Two members of the GSLIS faculty have been elected to national officer positions of Beta Phi Mu, the international library and information studies honor society. Linda Smith (MS '72), professor and associate dean for academic programs, has been elected vice president and president-elect. She will serve one year as vice president, one as president, and a third year as past president.…