An article by Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack (MS '12) was recently published in the Fall 2013 issue of Art Documentation.
The article, "The Performance and Practice of Research in A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library's Dead Time," discusses their exhibition held at the Figure One Gallery in Champaign, Illinois, which investigated how the materiality of information shapes…
CIRSS faculty and students will participate in the upcoming 9th International Digital Curation Conference
(IDCC) to be held February 24-27 in San Francisco. This year's theme, "Commodity,
catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research,
education, business & society," will focus on how data-driven tools
and services allow us to explore, manage, use, and benefit from…
GSLIS faculty, staff, and students will participate in the 2014 ALISE Annual Conference, which will be held January 21-24 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The theme of the conference is "Educational Entrepreneurship," and sessions will focus on a variety of topics related to incorporating entrepreneurship into LIS pedagogy and research.
Tuesday, January 21
WISE Pedagogy Pre-conference…
GSLIS Professor and
Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie is slated to speak at the University
of Oxford on January 22 about the ongoing work of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). His
talk, “Unlocking the Secrets of 3 Billion Pages: Introducing the HathiTrust
Research Center,” will provide an overview of the HTRC’s mission and projects
and will introduce scholars to ways they can…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Jana Diesner will deliver a keynote speech at the Daegu Gyeongbuk International Social Network Conference (DISC) 2013, which will be held in South Korea from December 12-14. The theme of the conference is "Knowledge Network Analysis in the Emerging Big Data Research." Diesner’s keynote, "Words and Networks: Relevance of methodological choices for practical…
CIRSS researchers will make a strong showing as they share their
expertise in scientific data curation at this week’s 46th annual Fall
Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The meeting, scheduled for December
9-13 in San Francisco, California, is the largest worldwide conference
in the geophysical sciences, gathering more than 24,000 earth and space
scientists, educators,…
GSLIS Professor Alistair Black is the recipient of the Library History Essay Award for 2013. The prize is awarded annually by the Library and Information History Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) to the best essay on library history relating to, or published in, the British Isles in the previous calendar year. Black’s essay is titled, “…
GSLIS Associate Professor Lori Kendall has been named the president of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). She takes office during the AoIR annual conference (IR 14) held October 23-26, 2013 in Denver, Colorado.
GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean
for Research J. Stephen Downie will deliver a keynote address at the Brazilian
Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM), which will be held October 31 to November 2
at the Escola de Música de Brasília in Brasília, Brazil. The invited talk, “Using
MIREX to Examine the Evolution of Music Information Retrieval Research,” will be given on November 2: Abstract: The "…
GSLIS Professor and Interim Dean Allen Renear delivered a keynote address at the Text Encoding Initiative's 2013 International Conference and Members’ Meeting (#tei2013). The theme of the conference, held October 2-5 in Rome, Italy, is "The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web." Renear's address, "Text encoding, ontologies, and the future," was delivered on October 2.Abstract: SGML/XML text…
Carole Palmer, GSLIS professor and director of CIRSS, and Nicholas Weber, GSLIS doctoral candidate,
will share their expertise in data curation at the upcoming John Deere Big Data
Summit, which will be held in Champaign on October 1 and 2. The summit is
intended to bring together analytic and big data thought leaders from inside
and outside the company to showcase cutting edge academic…
GSLIS Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir was recently invited to give a presentation to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees at their September meeting.
Nicole Cooke, GSLIS assistant professor, recently published "Diversifying the LIS faculty" in Library Journal's opinion section, Backtalk. In tandem with the need to increase diversity in LIS student populations, Cooke calls for recruitment efforts that will diversify LIS faculties.LIS faculties need diversity: more so of gender, of ability, of thought, and of race and ethnicity. If we as a…
Carole Palmer (PhD ’96), director of the Center for
Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) and professor at the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Illinois, has received
the 2013 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award given by
the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
A member of the GSLIS faculty…
GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean for Research J. Stephen Downie and GSLIS-affiliated faculty member Professor Tim Cole (MS '89) recently traveled to Kyoto, Japan, to participate in the third annual Japanese Association for Digital Humanities conference, which was held September 19-21 at Ritsumeikan University.
Through digitization, the accessibility of cultural resources has improved in the…
In his article titled, "Masters of the Internet," published by Le Monde Dipliomatique, GSLIS Professor Dan Schiller provides an in-depth look at the controversy over global Internet governance, which was raised at the World Conference on International Telecommunications in December 2012. "In the wake of continuing
revelations by Edward Snowden, the issues attaching to global Internet
governance…
Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke and Merinda Kaye Hensley
(MS ’06) were awarded a best paper award at the Eighth International Conference
on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS 8) held in Copenhagen,
Denmark, in August 2013. Their paper was titled, “The
Critical and Continuing Role of the LIS Curriculum in the Teacher Training of
Future Librarians.” The award, given by…
Assistant Professor Bonnie Mak has been named the GSLIS
Centennial Scholar for 2013-2014. The Centennial Scholar award is endowed by
alumni and friends of GSLIS and is given in recognition of outstanding
accomplishments and/or professional promise in the field of library and
information science.
Mak holds a PhD in medieval studies from the University of
Notre Dame. Her research areas…
Jon
Gant, GSLIS associate professor and director of the Center for Digital Inclusion, and Warren Cheetham,
coordinator of information and digital services at CityLibraries in Townsville,
Australia, will give a presentation about community broadband adoption at the
Champaign Public Library on June 17, 2013.
Gant
will discuss his work surrounding libraries and community broadband adoption…
CU-CitizenAccess.org, a community online news and information project directed by GSLIS-affiliated faculty member Brant Houston, has won the 2012 Peter Lisagor Award for its work with Hoy Chicago to examine changing demographics and racial issues in Central Illinois.