Each year, GSLIS recognizes a group of outstanding students for their achievement in academics as well as a number of attributes that contribute to professional success. The following student awards were presented at the GSLIS Convocation on May 18, 2014.
Bryce Allen Award for Reference Services
Presented to Holly Luetkenhaus by Assistant Professor Dr. Nicole A. Cooke:
During her time at…
In honor of the academic career and contributions of GSLIS Professor Emeritus W. Boyd Rayward to the field of library and information science, a festschrift containing essays by his colleagues has been published, composing the two most recent issues of Library Trends, 62(2) and 62(3). Rayward was presented with the festschrift on May 6 at a reception at GSLIS. Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward…
[image1-right]GSLIS affiliated faculty member Safiya U. Noble (MS ’09, PhD ’12) has been honored with the 2014 Faculty Scholar Award by the University of Illinois Women’s Resources Center (WRC). This award recognizes scholarship that contributes to the advancement of feminism, promotes justice and equity, and supports anti-oppression education. Noble was honored for her work to reveal the role of…
The Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) is seeking nominations for three distinguished awards. The awards are given annually at the GSLIS alumni reception held at the American Library Association conference. The deadline for nomination is April 1, 2014.
The Distinguished Alumnus Award recognizes an individual alumnus of GSLIS who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of…
Library Journal’s annual “Movers & Shakers” list recognizes professionals who
are shaping the future of libraries in a variety of ways. The recently released 2014
class of Movers & Shakers includes two GSLIS
alumni: Stephanie Davis-Kahl (MS '98) in the "Change Agents" category, and Cathryne Kaufman (MS '09) in the "Marketers" category. Omar Poler, a LAMP alumnus, also was honored in…
David Larsen (MS '04) has been selected by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) to receive the 2014 Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award. The award honors professional achievement, leadership, and contributions
to interlibrary loan and document delivery. Larsen, head of access services and assessment at the University of Chicago Library, was selected for his…
[image1-right]Stephanie Davis-Kahl (MS '98) has been selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) to receive the 2014 Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Distinguished Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian Award.
Davis-Kahl, scholarly communications librarian and associate professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, was selected for the award based on…
Two GSLIS alumni have won awards from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Kimberly Willson-St. Clair (MS '01), along with colleagues at Portland State University, has been selected to receive the 2014 ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award. Wendy Holliday (MS '02) has received the 2014 ACRL Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award with co-author…
[image1-right]Battle Bunny, written by Jon Scieszka and Mac
Barnett, illustrated by Matthew Myers, and published by Simon & Schuster, is the winner of the 2014
Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature.
The Gryphon Award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is given
annually by the Center for Children’s Books. This year’s committee was chaired
by Deborah Stevenson, director of the…
The staff at The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) has announced the 2013 Blue Ribbons, their choices for the best of children's and young adult literature for the year. Blue Ribbons are chosen annually by BCCB reviewers and represent what they believe to be outstanding examples of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for youth.
Over thirty titles received Blue Ribbons for…
Elementary school librarian DaNae Leu is
the recipient of the 2013 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award given by
the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Leu is being honored for her
efforts to defend the picture book In Our
Mothers’ House by Patricia Polacco against her school administration’s…
Five GSLIS master's students have been chosen by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as 2014 Career Enhancement Program (CEP) fellows: Alonso Avila, Raquel Flores-Clemons, Sophie Hou, Bradley Kuykendall, and Jerrod Moore. Each year, ARL member libraries select a group of library and information science master's students to participate in this competitive program, which provides avenues…
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 students William Langston and Sophie Young have been selected to receive 2014 Spectrum Scholar/PLA Conference Travel Grants from the Public Library Association. In total, ten of the nation's 2013 Spectrum Scholars were selected to receive funding to attend the conference. Langston and Young, both master's students, were named ALA Spectrum Scholars earlier this year along with four other…
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Special Collections and Bechtel Fellowship Committee have awarded the 2014 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship to Natalie Ziarnik.The Bechtel Fellowship is designed to allow qualified children’s librarians to spend a total of four weeks or more reading and studying at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, a part of the…
Community leaders in East St. Louis plan to honor Martin Wolske, senior research scientist at the GSLIS Center for Digital Inclusion, for his years of service learning work in the region. The Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House has announced that Wolske will be the guest of honor at the organization’s 104th Anniversary Dinner on November 9, 2013, at the Gateway Center in Collinsville, Illinois…
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…
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…
GSLIS alumna Ellen Swain (MS ’95) has been named a distinguished Fellow of the
Society of American Archivists (SAA). Swain was recognized at Archives 2013,
the joint annual meeting of the SAA and the Council of State Archivists, which
was held in New Orleans on August 11-17. SAA members who have made exceptional
contributions to the archives profession are selected as fellows, which is the…
Washington, DC—The ARL Committee on Diversity and Leadership has selected 15 masters of library and information science (MLIS) students to participate in the 2013–2015 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) as ARL Diversity Scholars.The ARL IRDW offers numerous financial benefits to program participants as well as leadership development provided through the annual ARL Leadership…