Several members of the GSLIS community gave presentations at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, which was held on July 20-24 at the University of Oxford. Attendees followed one of eight workshops throughout the week, and attended several additional lectures and a poster session. Presenters from GSLIS included: J. Stephen Downie, professor and associate dean for research; Nushrat Khan…

Several members of the GSLIS faculty and student body will participate in Library History Seminar XIII on July 31 - August 2 at Simmons College. The seminar, which takes place every five years, is sponsored by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association. The theme of the 2015 event is “Libraries: Traditions and Innovations.” Presentations by GSLIS faculty and students…

GSLIS is pleased to announce that Jodi Schneider will join the faculty in August 2016. For the next year, Schneider will be a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, supported by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at INRIA, the national French Computer Science Research Institute, funded by a highly competitive ERCIM Marie Curie Fellowship.

GSLIS is pleased to announce that Rachel Magee will join the faculty this fall. Magee’s research focuses on how young people engage with technology, and considers their social relationships and values as important factors in their technology use. She is also interested in developing technologies, strategies, and techniques to better support teens’ information access and use. “Rachel is a…

GSLIS is pleased to announce that Peter Darch will join the faculty this fall. After receiving his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Oxford, Darch was most recently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, working on the Knowledge Infrastructures project. Darch conducted longitudinal case studies of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere…

Think of a scientist at work, and you might picture someone at a lab bench, doing a physical experiment involving beakers or petri dishes and recording his or her findings, which will eventually form the basis for a scientific paper. That’s the old model of science, says University of Illinois professor of library and information science Victoria Stodden, who was recently interviewed by the…

How do heritages travel? How is trans-Atlantic tourism shaped by heritage? To what extent have traditions crossed and recrossed the Atlantic? Professor Alistair Black and fellow scholars from both sides of the Atlantic will gather in Liverpool, UK, July 13-16 to discuss these questions. Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Hertiage: Heritage, Tourism, and Traditions is hosted jointly by the…

Associate Professor Kathryn La Barre has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Her three-year term as a director-at-large will begin in 2016.

Associate Professor Bonnie Mak has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), a global network of book historians. Mak’s eight-year appointment (2015-2023) will be confirmed at the society’s annual meeting and conference held July 7-10 in Longueuil and Montreal, Canada. Established in the early 1990s, the SHARP…

Associate Professor Carol Tilley will join thousands of her fellow comic book fans in San Diego July 9-12 for Comic-Con International, one of the largest comics and entertainment events in the world. Tilley will share her expertise in comics and comics history through her participation in the following panel discussions: "Lost (and Found) Comics Studies of the Past," with authors Brad Ricca…