The GSLIS International Music Information Retrieval
Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) is the principal organizer of the 2012 Music
Information Exchange (MIREX), which took place at the 13th International
Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference in Porto, Portugal held
from October 8-12, 2012.
MIREX is an evaluation campaign of music information retrieval…
GSLIS Professor and Interim Dean Allen Renear will deliver
the opening keynote address at the National Information Standards Organization
(NISO) Forum, Tracking it Back to the Source: Managing and Citing Research Data
which takes place on September 24, 2012, in Denver, Colorado.
The forum will examine challenges posed by the exponential
rise of data creation across nearly all scholarly…
The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced today that the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a Laura Bush
21st Century Librarian Program grant in the amount of $99,168 for
"Inclusive Gigabit Libraries: Learn, Discuss, and Brainstorm." With this
IMLS support, GSLIS will hold a series of…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Miles Efron has been chosen by the
Alumni Association Board of the School of Information and Library Science (SILS), University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as their latest
featured alumnus. After graduating from SILS in 2003, Efron has conducted research in information retrieval (IR) with a focus on projects related to microblogging and the digital humanities…
Terry von Thaden (PhD ’04), GSLIS assistant professor, has been elected to the Flight Safety Foundation's first Maintenance Advisory Committee which plays a key role in advancing aviation safety. The mission of the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is to pursue the continuous improvement of global aviation safety.According to the Committee’s charge letter, the Maintenance Advisory Committee has been…
Carol Tilley, GSLIS assistant professor, has been selected to give the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Past Presidents’ Paper Presentation at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in January 2013. The award includes $1,500 to fund travel and registration costs.
The YALSA Past Presidents’ Paper Presentation is an annual event at which librarians, educators, and students examine a topic…
J. Stephen Downie, professor and associate dean for research, was quoted in the article "When computers listen to music, what do they hear?" that was published in the Boston Globe on Sunday, July 8, 2012. The article covers work being done in computational musicology and music information retrieval. Downie, an expert in music information retrieval, is the principal investigator for the project…
Assistant
Professor Kate McDowell has been named the 2012-2013 GSLIS Centennial Scholar in
recognition and support of her accomplishments and promising scholarship in the
field of library and information science.
McDowell, a
member of the youth services faculty at GSLIS, is an accomplished storyteller
whose research focuses on the history of children as readers and of youth
services…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Carol Tilley recently spoke with the U of I News Bureau about kids and summer reading. Tilley, a former school librarian and expert on comics and youth services librarianship, spoke with News Bureau news editor
Dusty Rhodes. The full interview is available on the campus website.Parents tend to regard comics as the “candy” of the
reading pyramid — treats to be consumed…
Professor Alistair Black has been invited to give a talk at
the Institute of English Studies (IES) at the School of Advanced Study,
University of London on July 3, 2012. His talk, titled:
"'The necessity of clear expression’: home-grown writing, organisational
learning and the library staff magazine in Britain in the first half of the
twentieth century,” is part of IES’s History of Libraries…
