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…
US IGNITE LAUNCHES TO CATALYZE THE NEXT GENERATION OF
INTERNET APPLICATIONS: Public-private partnership will spur development of 60 next-gen apps within 5
yearsA new public-private effort, the US Ignite Partnership, has
launched to capitalize on what is possible through virtualized, ultra-fast
broadband networks, and “ignite” the development of next-generation Internet
applications and…
Christian Sandvig, associate professor in the Department of Communication and GSLIS affiliated faculty member, has been appointed to the Broadband Deployment Council, an executive body reporting jointly to the Illinois governor and the State of Illinois assembly. The council is tasked with promoting the development and deployment of broadband technology in an effort to keep Illinois economically…
