GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in iConference 2014, which will be held March 4-7 in Berlin. The annual iConference, hosted by the iSchools organization, brings together scholars, researchers, and information professionals from around the world. The theme of the ninth annual conference, which will take place at Humboldt University of Berlin, is "Breaking Down Walls:…

The life and career of GSLIS research fellow Michelle H. Martin was fundamentally influenced by a woman named Augusta Baker. As a child, Martin knew Baker and had opportunities to see and hear the storytelling specialist, who was a storyteller-in-residence at the University of South Carolina (USC) for fourteen years. Today, Martin is the Augusta Baker Chair in Childhood Literacy at USC. The chair…

The GSLIS eUpdate, published every other month, summarizes current news, events, alumni and advancement highlights, and continuing professional development opportunities. Other publications that may be of interest to alumni and friends are listed on the GSLIS Publications web page. _____________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE GSLIS Spotlight GSLIS News Summary…

Five GSLIS students will join Associate Professor Terry Weech at BOBCATSSS, an international symposium under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) that brings together library and information science professionals, researchers, educators, and students. CAS student Nicole Helregel and master's students Emilia Marcyk, Erik Radio, Angela…

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 will serve as a key intellectual and infrastructural partner for a new grant awarded to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The $3 million grant will fund the first two years of an extensive consortium of fifteen humanities institutes. IPRH, a division of the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, provides…

The GSLIS eUpdate, published every other month, summarizes current news, events, alumni and advancement highlights, and continuing professional development opportunities. Other publications that may be of interest to alumni and friends are listed on the GSLIS Publications web page. _____________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE GSLIS Spotlight News Summary…

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…

Assistant Professor Carol Tilley has been elected director of external relations for the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). She will officially begin her work after the ALISE annual meeting in January, 2014.

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…

GSLIS staff, students, and alumni will participate in the upcoming Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) 2013 Conference, which will be held October 31 to November 2 at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield. The theme of the conference is "School Libraries: The Core of Student Success." Visit GSLIS at booth #202 and join us for a gathering on Friday, November 1 from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza.

GSLIS faculty, students, and staff will participate in the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 76th Annual Meeting, which will be held November 1-5 in Montreal.

Representatives from the Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) are slated to participate and present at the 2013 Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference. The topic of the conference, scheduled for October 28-30 in Prato, Italy, will be "Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives Meets Community Informatics." CDI is a sponsor of the event. CIRN is an…

“Mainstreaming Innovation in Online Education” is the theme for this year’s campus Summit on Online Education. The event will take place on October 29, 2013 at the Illini Union. Now in its third year, the Summit is designed to provide a forum for educators and learners, on- and off-campus, to meet and discuss topics of interest to them. Dr. Harrison Keller, Vice Provost of Higher Education Policy…

[image1-right]The iSchool at Illinois welcomes Raphaëlle Bats for a campus visit on October 23-25. Bats is an international relations officer at École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques (Enssib), the premier library and information science school in France, and a 2012-2014 GSLIS research fellow.

The GSLIS eUpdate, published every other month, summarizes current news, events, alumni and advancement highlights, and continuing professional development opportunities. Other publications that may be of interest to alumni and friends are listed on the GSLIS Publications web page.________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE GSLIS SpotlightGSLIS Fall Reunion Begins October…

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…

Additional activities are being scheduled. Check back frequently for details! Please join us in October for the third annual GSLIS Fall Reunion, a month-long series of on-campus and online events providing opportunities to connect with current faculty, staff, students, and other alumni. The reunion offers an in-depth view of the GSLIS community as well as the opportunity to experience it—…

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…