Brant Houston, GSLIS-affiliated faculty member and professor of journalism in the College of Media, is a 2012-2013 recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement (CAEPE). The awards, given annually by the Office of Public Engagement, recognize individuals and teams who engage the public to address critical societal issues.

Carisse Berryhill, GSLIS adjunct faculty member, has received the 2012 WISE Excellence in Online Teaching Award. This year marks the third time she has received this honor, following recognition in both in 2007 and 2009.

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…

Christine Jenkins, GSLIS associate professor, has been appointed to the 2014 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award committee. The Sibert Book Medal, established by the American Library Association's Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC) in 2001, is given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book(s) for youth (ages 0-14)…

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…

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…

At the recent iConference, a group of GSLIS students and faculty earned an Honorable Mention award for their poster, "Identifying Claims in Social Science Literature." The group included doctoral student Shameem Ahmed, Associate Professor Catherine Blake, Assistant Professor Kate Williams, doctoral student Noah Lenstra, and master’s student Qiyuan Liu.The poster presented initial findings from…

[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.…

Nicole Cooke, GSLIS assistant professor, will receive the 2013 Norman Horrocks Leadership Award given by the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Cooke is being honored for her leadership in a variety of professional ALISE activities including her service on multiple committees including the Doctoral Student special interests group, the Diversity Task Force, and…

The staff at the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB) has announced the 2012 Blue Ribbons, their choices for the best of children's and young adult literature for the previous year. Blue Ribbons are chosen annually by the Bulletin reviewers and represent what they believe to be outstanding examples of fiction, nonfiction, and picture books for youth. Over thirty titles…

Librotraficante is the 2012 recipient of the 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. Librotraficante, a movement led by Tony Diaz, is being recognized for its efforts to oppose the censorship of ethnic and cultural studies materials in Arizona. In…

GSLIS master’s student Lucas McKeever recently received an Acorn Scholarship for volunteerism and community activism from the Acorn Equality Fund, a grassroots organization that supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered students and their allies in downstate Illinois. The $3,000 scholarship was presented to McKeever at the 14th Annual Acorn Equality Fund Breakfast on December 1,…

Tim Offenstein (MS ’11), GSLIS alumnus and adjunct instructor, was recently honored with a Larine Y. Cowan "Make a Difference" Award, which is given annually by the Office of Equal Opportunity and Access (OEOA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the award for Excellence in Access and Accommodations, which recognizes either individuals or campus units whose efforts…

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…

[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…

Doctoral student Nic Weber spent the past summer working at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) as part of their Advanced Studies Fellowships Program. The Advanced Studies Program (ASP) at NCAR allows graduate students and post-docs to work with NCAR scientists and use NCAR’s high performance computing facilities to pursue topics important to their future career. Typically, this…

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.…

Six GSLIS students are recipients of the 2012 Sylvia Murphy Williams Scholarship Fund, and all are recipients of the Spectrum Scholarship awarded by the American Library Association. GSLIS is very proud of these students—be sure to read their profiles in the ILA Reporter to learn more about each award winner!Anthony BishopLiza BookerChristina NhekThomas PadillaCharlotte RohJose Miguel Ruiz 

Martin Wolske, GSLIS research scientist and adjunct lecturer, presented his paper, "Technology Education and Engaged Scholarship: The Professional, Personal, and Political," at the National Outreach Scholarship Conference (NOSC) at the University of Alabama on October 1. NOSC brings together faculty, staff, administrators, students, and community partners to disseminate research, discuss…