GSLIS alumna Lorraine Haricombe (MS ’88, PhD ’92) has been elected chair of the Steering Committee for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly publishing, and the Steering Committee acts as an advisory board to its executive director.
Currently…
Kathi Carlisle Fountain (MS ’97), head of collection
development at the Washington State University - Vancouver Library, has been
awarded the 2013 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and
Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/CQ Press Award. The award,
established in 1996 by LPSS, honors an academic or law librarian who has made
distinguished contributions to…
[image1-right]Alumna Lizabeth (Betsy) A. Wilson (MS ’78) has been named
the winner of the 2013 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award. The award, jointly sponsored by four
divisions of the American Library Association, recognizes an academic librarian
who has worked in library automation or management for his or her significant
accomplishments towards improving library services or research.…
GSLIS alumna Kathleen Willis (MS ’05) has been elected to the Illinois General
Assembly to represent the 77th legislative district of the state.
Willis, who will be inaugurated to the legislature on January 9, currently
serves as coordinator of access services for Elmhurst College’s library. In
addition to her role at the library, Willis teaches courses in children’s and
youth literature at…
Four GSLIS alumni have been selected to participate in the
American Library Association’s 2013 Emerging Leaders program.
Tarida Anantachai (MS ’11), Amanda Binder (MS ’08), Margaret
Heller (MS ’08), and Yasmeen Shorish (MS ’11) joined the 2013 class of Emerging
Leaders, which includes a total of fifty-five individuals from across the
country. Now in its seventh year, this leadership…
GSLIS alumni Peggy Glatthaar (MS ’07) and Sandy Wolf (MS ’93) are
recipients of the first Outstanding Civil Service Staff Award from the
University of Illinois Library. The award recognizes civil service staff members for their
exceptional accomplishments and distinctive service to the library.Glatthaar is a library operations associate, supervising the main stacks
circulation desk and…
GSLIS
alumna Ana Peso (MS ’07), a librarian at Glenbrook North High School, will appear on the December 31 episode of the popular game show "Jeopardy." The episode will air in Champaign, Illinois, at
4:30 p.m. on WAND-TV.
Peso took Jeopardy’s online timed test twice before receiving an invitation to appear on the show. An avid reader throughout her life, she prepared by brushing up on…
[image1-right:resize-300w]Safiya
Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) is a recipient of a 2013 INTERSECT Award for her
participation in the curricular initiative, “Learning to See Systems.”
INTERSECT, an effort by the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, seeks to encourage collaboration and innovation in
interdisciplinary arts and humanities research and training. INTERSECT…
GSLIS alumna Gwen Evans (MS
’02) was named executive director of the Ohio Library and Information network,
OhioLINK. OhioLINK is a consortium of 88 college and university libraries in
Ohio, providing approximately 600,000 students, faculty, and staff with access
to millions of books, articles, and other information sources. Evans had served
as interim director of OhioLINK before being…
[image5-right]To
commemorate Veterans Day, Kevin McLaughlin (MS ’04) helped organize “Called to
Serve: A History of Military Service at the University of Illinois,” a
month-long exhibit at the University of Illinois Main Library. McLaughlin, a
senior library specialist at the University Library and a veteran, wanted to
create the exhibit to honor and support veterans on campus.
“I was…
At
the annual meeting of Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu held on November 3,
2012, the following graduates of the Graduate School of Library and
Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
became members of Beta Phi Mu.Anthonia AhonsiBarbara A. AlvarezVictor M. BenitezLaura Anne BuchholzMeira ChefitzRobin C. DavisLinda Mary DiekmanDave J. EllenwoodKatherine C.…
Lynn Yarmey (MS '11) has been profiled in Library Journal's "Librarians Abroad" series,
which highlights professionals who either work outside libraries and archives
or who hold somewhat less traditional positions in libraries and archives. Yarmey, who completed the GSLIS Specialization in Data Curation, currently works for the National Snow and Ice Data
Center in Boulder, Colorado, as the…
The
Library School Alumni
Association (LSAA) at the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced
the recipients of its annual awards.
Becky
Lyon (MS ’72) has been selected to receive the Distinguished
Alumnus Award. Each year this award is given to an alum who has made an
outstanding contribution to the field…
MBMS
Spotlight: Ziba Zehdar
“Working in an archive and using my special collections skills and
knowledge is like being a detective, investigating the story of a life once
lived.”
[image1-right]When Ziba
Zehdar (MS ’12) goes to work at her practicum, every day is a small brush with
fame. Combining her lifetime love of libraries with a background in film and
media studies, Ziba puts…
[image1-right]Lizzie Johnson (MS ’10) was recently named the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship through the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Program. The assistantship placed Johnson at the St. Kliment Ohridski University in Bitola in the southwest part of Macedonia for the 2011–2012 academic year. There, she worked with a U.S.-based professor as the on-site assistant for a…
Several GSLIS alumni have recently been elected to leadership positions in the following professional associations:
JoAnn Jacoby (MS ’97), Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect, Steering Committee of the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) of the American Library Association (ALA)
M. Kathleen Kern (MS ’99), Vice-President/President-Elect, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American…
[image1-right:resize-180w]The Southeastern Conference (SEC) has awarded Carol Tenopir (PhD '84),
professor and director of the Center for Information and Communication
Studies at the University of Tennessee (UT), with one of its first Faculty Achievement Awards.
The new SEC award program was created to honor professors from the
SEC with outstanding records in teaching and scholarship. A…
James Blank (MS '97) is the recipient the of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Engineering Librarian of the Year Award. The Engineering Librarian of the Year, sponsored by IHS, highlights the accomplishments and contributions of SLA Engineering Division members to the engineering librarian profession.Blank is a technical knowledge specialist in the engineering library at Caterpillar Inc.…
Graduation is approaching, and at this time of the year, we reflect on those individuals who have made a difference in our lives. New graduates and alumni are encouraged to honor GSLIS faculty and/or staff through the LSAA Tassel Project, which was established in 2011 by the Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) to support the creation of an endowed professorship in the School.
With a…
Rebecca Graham (MS '98) has been named the University of Guelph’s new chief
information officer (CIO) and chief librarian. Her five-year term begins
May 23.
The announcement was made on March 22 by provost and vice-president (academic) Maureen Mancuso, who chaired the search committee.
“Rebecca
possesses the knowledge, skills and qualities that we were looking for
in our next CIO…