Friday October 9, 2026

Reception, Film Screening, and Panel Discussion: "The Librarians"

Join us for a screening of "The Librarians." Special guest, Becky Calzada, a librarian featured in the film, will be present after the screening for a fireside chat with Interim Dean Emily Knox, followed by a live audience Q&A.

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• Tuesday

  September 29

  Graduate School Information Night

  5:00 - 6:00 PM

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  Internship spotlight: Anchorage Museum Library and Archives

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  Beckman announces 2026 research seed grant project

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  Nitin Verma selected as a Public Voices fellow

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  Dong Wang receives grant for human-centered AI project

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• Wednesday

  September 30

  iSchool Discovery Day: Unpack Your Future in Information Sciences

  1:00 - 4:00 PM

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iSchool researchers presenting at HCOMP 2026

September 30 2026

Professor and Associate Dean for Research Dong Wang and students from his Social Sensing and Intelligence Lab are presenting two papers on information integrity at the 2026 ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment (HCOMP 2026). The conference takes place Sept. 27–30 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Get to know: Nicky Martin, open publishing applications specialist

September 29 2026

It’s been a big year for Nicky Martin (MSLIS '26). After graduating in May, he spent the summer as a junior fellow at the Library of Congress, which ended just in time for him to start a new position at the Claremont Colleges. 

Cathy Blake selected for Faculty Entrepreneurial Leadership Program

September 24 2026

Professor Catherine Blake was selected from faculty across the University of Illinois System to participate in the 2026 cohort of the University of Illinois Faculty Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. The program seeks to foster a vibrant university entrepreneurial ecosystem by supporting faculty innovators in realizing the commercial and/or social impact of their research and scholarship.

Newest RDYL issues focuses on representations of adoption in youth literature

September 23 2026

The Center for Children’s Books, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign published today Research on Diversity in Youth Literature (RDYL) 7 (1) "Special Issue:  Representations of Adoption," guest edited by Shannon Gibney and Kimberly D. McKee.