Maria Bonn, GSLIS senior lecturer, recently assumed the role of editor for the Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP). The first issue produced under her direction, Volume 17, Issue 1 (Winter 2014), is now available online.Before joining GSLIS in 2013, Bonn served as associate university librarian for publishing at the University of Michigan and oversaw the University of Michigan Press, which…
Assistant
Professor Bonnie Mak will visit Haverford College on March 26-27 where she will
deliver an invited talk and teach an undergraduate seminar. Her presentation,
“Material Acts of Publication,” will kick off Haverford College Libraries’
Texts and Technologies Lecture Series, which will explore the intersection of
text, publishing, and technology.
Abstract: This…
An article by Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack (MS '12) was recently published in the Fall 2013 issue of Art Documentation.
The article, "The Performance and Practice of Research in A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time," discusses their exhibition held at the Figure One Gallery in Champaign, Illinois, which investigated how the materiality of information shapes…
CIRSS faculty and students will participate in the upcoming 9th International Digital Curation Conference
(IDCC) to be held February 24-27 in San Francisco. This year's theme, "Commodity,
catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research,
education, business & society," will focus on how data-driven tools
and services allow us to explore, manage, use, and benefit from…
GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will participate in the 2014 ALISE Annual Conference, which will be held January 21-24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The theme of the conference is "Educational Entrepreneurship," and sessions will focus on a variety of topics related to incorporating entrepreneurship into LIS pedagogy and research.
Tuesday, January 21
WISE Pedagogy Pre-conference…
GSLIS Professor and
Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie is slated to speak at the University
of Oxford on January 22 about the ongoing work of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). His
talk, “Unlocking the Secrets of 3 Billion Pages: Introducing the HathiTrust
Research Center,” will provide an overview of the HTRC’s mission and projects
and will introduce scholars to ways they can…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will deliver a keynote speech at the Daegu Gyeongbuk International Social Network Conference (DISC) 2013, which will be held in South Korea from December 12-14. The theme of the conference is "Knowledge Network Analysis in the Emerging Big Data Research." Diesner’s keynote, "Words and Networks: Relevance of methodological choices for practical…
CIRSS researchers will make a strong showing as they share their
expertise in scientific data curation at this week’s 46th annual Fall
Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The meeting, scheduled for December
9-13 in San Francisco, California, is the largest worldwide conference
in the geophysical sciences, gathering more than 24,000 earth and space
scientists, educators,…
GSLIS Professor Alistair Black is the recipient of the Library History Essay Award for 2013. The prize is awarded annually by the Library and Information History Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) to the best essay on library history relating to, or published in, the British Isles in the previous calendar year. Black’s essay is titled, “…
GSLIS Associate Professor Lori Kendall has been named the president of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). She takes office during the AoIR annual conference (IR 14) held October 23-26, 2013 in Denver, Colorado.
