The GSLIS International Music Information Retrieval
Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) is the principal organizer of the 2012 Music
Information Exchange (MIREX), which took place at the 13th International
Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference in Porto, Portugal held
from October 8-12, 2012.
MIREX is an evaluation campaign of music information retrieval…
GSLIS Professor and Interim Dean Allen Renear will deliver
the opening keynote address at the National Information Standards Organization
(NISO) Forum, Tracking it Back to the Source: Managing and Citing Research Data
which takes place on September 24, 2012, in Denver, Colorado.
The forum will examine challenges posed by the exponential
rise of data creation across nearly all scholarly…
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…
[image1-right:resize-180w]The
School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University
announces the appointment of Tomas A. Lipinski, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., as its new
director. Lipiniski (PhD '98) is a GSLIS adjunct faculty member.
Lipinski
will join the department in January 2013 to replace Richard Rubin, Ph.D., who
left in 2010 to become Kent State’s associate provost…
Robert L. Bothmann, an adjunct instructor at GSLIS, has been
awarded the 2012 Nancy B. Olson Award. The annual award, sponsored by the
Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) network, recognizes a librarian who has
made significant contributions to the advancement and understanding of
audiovisual cataloging and electronic resources. Bothmann was recognized for
his multiple leadership roles in…
Bonnie Mak, GSLIS assistant professor, is speaking at the conference "Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book" held at MIT on May 3-4, 2012.This symposium explores the future potential of the book by engaging practitioners and performers of this versatile technology to ask some key questions: is the book an artifact on its deathbed or a mutable medium transitioning into future forms? What…
Sue Searing, LIS librarian and GSLIS affiliated faculty
member, has been appointed interim associate university librarian for user services
at the University of Illinois Library. She will serve in this position for
three years, providing coordination and leadership for a variety of library-wide
programs and initiatives, including information literacy and instruction, staff
training and…
[image1-right:resize-180w]GSLIS Professor Emeritus D. W. Krummel has received the 2012 Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Society for American Music for his distinguished
research and teaching in American-music printing, publishing, and resources.
Krummel earned degrees in music from the University of Michigan, where
he briefly served on the music faculty. He completed his doctorate in…
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty members: Nicole A. Cooke and Emily Knox will join GSLIS as assistant professors in August 2012.
The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded Bonnie Mak, GSLIS assistant professor, a Faculty Fellowship for the academic year 2012–13. Mak will focus on her project, Implications of a Digital Revolution, a critical investigation of the processes and products of digitization and their ultimate cultural impact. “[The]…