Thursday September 19, 2024

34th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture

"Reading as Belonging: Implications for Library and Information Practice," by Nadia Caidi, professor and director of international student experience, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

The lecture will be offered in person and online. Register here.

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  Chen appointed interim executive associate dean

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  Schreiber receives ILA scholarship

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  New grant to create inclusive learning environment and advance workplace equity

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  New project to prepare global and area studies units for emerging technologies

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  September 26

  Writing Strategies - Writers Workshop

  5:00 - 6:00 PM

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  Thacker recognized by Research Park for outstanding work

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Other recent news

Knox to receive ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award

September 19 2024

Professor Emily Knox has been selected for the 2024 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Excellence in Teaching Award. She will receive the award at an awards presentation during the ALISE 2024 Annual Conference, which will be held from October 14-17 in Portland, Oregon.

Get to know Grant Florence, user experience designer

September 17 2024

Grant Florence (BSIS '23) used final projects from his iSchool courses to assemble a portfolio of case studies, which helped him land his job as a user experience designer for Microsoft. Now he is helping to design solutions for the cloud computing platform Azure. 

Library Research Seminar to include iSchool researchers

September 16 2024

Members of the iSchool community will present their research this week at the Library Research Seminar, a program of the American Library Association’s Library Research Round Table. Library Research Seminar VIII: Telling Library Stories will be held from September 16-18 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

iSchool faculty and students to present research in argumentation

September 16 2024

iSchool faculty and students will present their research at the 10th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2024), which will be held from September 18-20 in Hagen, Germany, as well as pre-conference workshops. The conference brings together researchers interested in computational models of argument and the representation of argumentation structures in natural language texts.