GSLIS will be well represented at the upcoming conference, "Interpreting the Information Age: New Avenues for Research and Display," which will be held at the Science Museum in London on November 3-5.
The conference is linked to the opening of a new permanent gallery in the museum, which is named "Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World." The gallery will expose, examine, and…
Associate Professor Terry L. Weech has been appointed to a four-year term on the American Library Association’s Committee on Accreditation beginning in the fall of 2014. The Committee on Accreditation is responsible for carrying out the accreditation program of the American Library Association (ALA), which involves development of standards for library and information studies education programs.…
Associate Professor Carol Tilley will make two appearances at New York Comic Con (NYCC), an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. Known as the largest pop culture event on the East Coast, NYCC will be held on October 9 - 12 at the Javits Center.
Tilley, one of the nation's leading experts and a popular…
Professor Alistair Black has been named the GSLIS Centennial Scholar for
2014-2015. The Centennial Scholar award is endowed by alumni and friends of
GSLIS and given in recognition of outstanding accomplishments and/or
professional promise in the field of library and information science.
A member of the GSLIS faculty since 2009, Black’s research interests
include the history of…
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…
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.
