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  McDowell examines benefits and obstacles of library data storytelling

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  NYT bestselling author credits MSLIS degree with improving his research, writing

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• Thursday

  September 28

  Virtual symposium celebrating Linda C. Smith

  12:00 - 2:00 PM

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  Internship Spotlight: AbbVie

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• Thursday

  September 28

  So You Think You Want to Go to Grad School? Ask Grad Students!

  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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  Tilley shares comics research at European universities

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Other recent news

NYT bestselling author credits MSLIS degree with improving his research, writing

September 25 2023

According to Daniel Kraus (MSLIS '05), the most beneficial course he took at the University of Illinois was Adult Popular Literature (LIS 590), in which students read a book from every popular genre—romance, western, sci-fi, fantasy, and more.

Internship Spotlight: AbbVie

September 22 2023

BSIS student Miranda Ma discusses her internship at the AbbVie Innovation Center. Ma advises job seekers to keep an open mind and not limit their job search to a specific industry, especially for a field like user experience.

Tilley shares comics research at European universities

September 22 2023

Associate Professor Carol Tilley shared her expertise in comics research at several invited talks in Europe this month. Tilley served as the keynote speaker for the international conference, “Comics, the Children and Childishness,” at Ghent University in Belgium. In her keynote, “Re-Centering Children in Comics,” she encouraged researchers studying comics and children to give more focus to the lived experiences of young people, moving away from an over-reliance on studying specific texts or their uses. 

Knox testifies before U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on book bans

September 20 2023

Associate Professor Emily Knox testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 12. She was one of five witnesses offering testimony for the hearing "Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature."