GSLIS Professor Emeritus Dan Schiller has published a new book titled, Digital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis. It is the first in a new series called, “The Geopolitics of Information,” which Schiller co-edits, and is now available from the University of Illinois Press. The new series will explore the role of information within today's conflicted global political economy…

GSLIS faculty member Michael Twidale delivered a talk on September 9 as part of the Information Trust Institute’s Trust & Security Seminar Series. The series highlights many aspects and applications of information security. In his talk, “The Usability of Security,” Twidale discussed the need for balance between security and usability. Abstract: Is an 8-character password more secure than…

Bonnie Mak, associate professor, will visit Yale University to participate in two events this fall. She is an invited discussant in the symposium of the Yale Program in the History of the Book. Mak will participate in seminars that explore how handwritten notes or visual elements added to books affect the relationship of those books to specific locations and times. The symposium, “Time and the…

Fifteen GSLIS instructors were named to the University’s List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2014.

GSLIS is pleased to announce that Professor Bertram Ludäscher will join the GSLIS faculty in Fall 2014. Ludäscher is a leading figure in data and knowledge management, focusing on the modeling, design, and optimization of scientific workflows, provenance, data integration, and knowledge representation. He is one of the founders of the open source Kepler scientific workflow system project, and a…

Professor Abdul Alkalimat, who has been a member of the faculty at GSLIS and the Department of African American Studies since 2007, retired from the University of Illinois on May 31.

Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak’s most recent publication, "Archaeology of a Digitization," will appear in the August edition of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). In this article Mak proposes an approach to analyzing databases and other digitized resources as "artefacts of the modern day, evidence of how we are now collectively perceiving, imagining,…

Assistant Professor Carol Tilley will join more than 130,000 of her fellow comic book fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego July 24-27. This annual convention is considered by many to be the premier comics and entertainment event in the world. It focuses on creating awareness of and appreciation for comics and related artforms and celebrates the historic and ongoing contribution of comics…

The International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults will feature an invited talk by Kate McDowell, GSLIS interim assistant dean for student affairs and associate professor. Hosted by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the symposium will be held June 19-20 in Seoul, South Korea.The theme of the symposium will be “Reading Towards…

This fall GSLIS will welcome Elizabeth Hoiem as an assistant professor teaching and conducting research in youth services. She comes to GSLIS from East Carolina University, where she has been an assistant professor since Fall 2013. While a doctoral student and instructor at Illinois, Hoiem was named in the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for four semesters. She teaches in…