Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke and Assistant Professor Emily Knox have been selected to join the editorial board of The Library Quarterly, an international journal that publishes scholarship, research, resource reviews, and essays that explore the role of libraries in connecting their communities and information. Cooke and Knox each began a three-year term on the board this month.
Cooke…
Book Banning in 21st Century America, by Assistant Professor Emily Knox, has been selected by international LIS honor society Beta Phi Mu and publisher Rowman & Littlefield to be the first in the new Beta Phi Mu Scholars Series. Book Banning is the result of Knox’s research of the motivations of book challenges. It explores common themes in arguments for censorship and analyzes the role of…
Lori Kendall, GSLIS associate professor, recently gave an invited lecture in the Marshall McLuhan Lecture Series at the National Communication Association (NCA) 100th Annual Convention. NCA is dedicated to fostering and promoting free and ethical communication, focusing on how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels, and media.…
Kathryn La Barre, GSLIS associate professor, has been invited by the Knowledge Organization Research Group to work with doctoral students and faculty in the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM).
On November 19, the University of Illinois will join in the worldwide celebration of GIS Day, an annual event that highlights the value of geospatial technology in transforming society and enhancing lives. GIS Day 2014 at Illinois, “Discovering the World through GIS,” will be held at the iHotel and provide opportunities to learn about the contributions of geographic information science (GIS),…
Two GSLIS faculty members and two alumni will present at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA) on November 6-9 in Toronto. The theme of the 2014 meeting is “Inequalities: Politics, Policy, and the Past.”
Associate Professor Christine Jenkins will chair a session on November 8 titled, “Unequal Access: Censorship and Library Services to Youth,” in which she,…
Associate Professor Kate McDowell will lead the workshop, "Using Storytelling to Persuade and Lead," for the Municipal Clerks of Illinois Institute and Academy on October 17. McDowell was invited by former senator Richard J. Winkel, Jr., who serves as director of the Office of Public Leadership at the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs.The workshop will introduce…
Halfway through her two-year term as president of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Associate Professor Lori Kendall has been busy making plans for the group’s annual conference, which will be held October 22-24 in Daegu, South Korea.
Internet Research 15 (IR15): Boundaries and Intersections will draw academics, students, and other researchers from around the world to this…
Associate Professor Carol Tilley has been studying comics since she was just a child, when she could be found each Saturday morning at her local drug store perusing the week’s new titles. She couldn’t have predicted then that she would become one of the nation’s leading experts and a popular speaker on comics.
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…
