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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

Final projects in Government Information course result in publications

September 28 2023

Two students who were enrolled in the Government Information (IS 594) course this past spring are now published authors. Their papers began as their final project for the course, which acquaints students with government publications. With the students' permission, course instructor and Adjunct Lecturer Dominique Hallett submitted the papers to DttP: Documents to the People, and they were published in the journal's most recent edition (Vol. 51, No. 3).

Alteri joins Center for Children’s Books

September 26 2023

Suzan Alteri joined the iSchool this month as assistant director of the Center for Children's Books (CCB). In her new position, she will foster cross-campus and community collaborations around youth media and literature, teach courses on children's literature, and manage the day-to-day operations of the CCB.

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.