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…
Library Journal’s annual “Movers & Shakers” list recognizes professionals who
are shaping the future of libraries in a variety of ways. The recently released 2013
class of Movers & Shakers includes two GSLIS
alumni, Annette
Bailey (MS ’01) and Maurice
York (MS ’03), who have been recognized in the
category of tech leaders.
Bailey is the assistant director for electronic…
Two GSLIS
alumni were selected this year
as Public Library Association (PLA) Leadership Fellows to attend the PLA
Leadership Academy: Navigating Change · Building Community.
Toby Greenwalt (MS ’04) and Marc Gartler (MS ’05) were among
twenty-four public librarians selected for the PLA Leadership Academy, a pilot program that seeks to develop a leadership training model
for advancing…
GSLIS
alumna and adjunct lecturer Christine A. Kujawa (MS '03) has been selected by the Public Library Association as the 2013
recipient of the Gordon M. Conable Award. The award honors her work in leading intellectual freedom
education and advocacy on local, state, and national levels.
Kujawa
is currently head of circulation services at Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library in…
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…
