Champaign’s Figure One Gallery celebrates the opening of "A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time," an exhibit created by GSLIS Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak and master's student Julia Pollack. The exhibit will be held at the gallery's downtown Champaign location (116 N. Walnut) on February 17-18 from 5:00-9:00pm. GSLIS will sponsor a reception on Friday evening. [image1-left:…

Scott Walter, associate university librarian for services, associate dean of libraries and professor of library administration and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the recipient of the 2012 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences…

DePaul University has appointed Scott Walter as university librarian. Walter, a GSLIS affiliated faculty member, currently serves as associate university librarian for services and associate dean of libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Walter also holds faculty appointments as professor of library administration and professor of library and information science and has held…

Jerome McDonough, GSLIS associate professor, has received the Best Paper award in the Digital Media: Content and Communication track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, held in Maui in January. His paper, “Knee-Deep in Data: Practical Problems in Applying the OAIS Reference Model to the Preservation of Computer Games,” examines the reference model for an Open Archival…

Paula T. Kaufman, Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and university librarian and GSLIS affiliated faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the 2012 Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. The award, sponsored by YBP Library Services, recognizes an outstanding member of the library profession who…