Safiya Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12), GSLIS
alumna and assistant professor of African-American Studies at Illinois, has
been named an affiliated faculty
member of GSLIS.
Noble’s research interests include the
socio-cultural, economic, and ethical implications of information with
a specific focus on the intersection of race, gender, and technology. Noble
found her way to academia after a twelve…
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Assistant Professor Kate McDowell has been invited to serve on a committee
convened by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that is seeking
nominations for a new nonfiction Summertime Reading List for children and young adults. “I see this list as a significant step in acknowledging the
importance of nonfiction for children, as well as the readers who have always…
Tim Offenstein (MS ’11), GSLIS alumnus and adjunct
instructor, was recently honored with a Larine Y. Cowan "Make a Difference" Award, which is given annually by the Office of Equal Opportunity
and Access (OEOA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the award for
Excellence in Access and Accommodations, which recognizes either individuals or campus units whose efforts…
Professor Alistair Black has received an award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Board for his project "Buildings of Hope: The Design of Public Libraries in Britain in the Long 1960s." The project examines what modernist library design meant to librarians, architects, local politicians and planners, and the public. The research will contribute to recent revisions of the…
Research Associate Professor Jon Gant, director of the GSLIS Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI), has been invited to participate in an invitation-only broadband research conference on December 7 in Washington, DC. The event, sponsored by NC Broadband, a division of the North Carolina Department of Commerce, will "design a research agenda for how the country can best measure the economic impact…
Faculty and staff from GSLIS authored three out of the four articles published in the most recent issue of Information & Culture: A Journal of History (University of Texas Press, vol. 47, no. 4). The interdisciplinary journal, which broadly examines the history of information in cultural environments such as professional, academic, and societal settings, featured articles written by Professor…
Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak has been invited to lead a
session of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Teaching Book History
workshop series on December 13-15, 2012. Hosted as a collaborative effort
between the Folger Institute and the Folger Undergraduate Program, the
three-day series will explore strategies, resources, and challenges in teaching
book history to undergraduate students…
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Assistant Professor Carol Tilley recently launched a new blog featuring
interviews with youth services librarians. The blog, “For the Future: What Today's Youth Services
Librarians Want the Next Generation to Know,” was born out of Tilley’s desire to provide her students with
more access to practicing librarians and to give librarians an opportunity to
share their expertise.“I
wanted…
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…
