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Enhancing the Cyber Security Workforce—The Human Angle

Time frame
2013-2016
Investigator
Masooda Bashir
Total funding to date
$161,708.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

The United States is a world leader in technological innovation. However, as our technology has advanced, the need for cyber security experts has increased dramatically. Unfortunately, the U.S. lacks the cyber security workforce needed to manage many of the threats our society faces.

One method used to attract talented individuals to careers in cyber security has been the…

Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program Renewal 2019

Time frame
2019-2025
Investigator
Masooda Bashir
Total funding to date
$4,000,000.00
Funding agency
National Science Foundation

Securing cyberspace is one of the most significant challenges confronting our society today. This award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will build on the Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (ICSSP). The initial program recruited, prepared, and placed top-notch undergraduate level engineers into the government’s cybersecurity workforce. With this renewal, ICSSP…

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Scholarly Communication Notebook

Time frame
2019-Present
Investigator
Maria Bonn
Total funding to date
$32,867.00
Funding agency
North Carolina State University

This project is a repository of community-designed open resources for teaching about scholarly communication and for doing scholarly communication work in libraries. The SCN is intended to be the locus of an active, inclusive, empowered community of practice for teaching scholarly communications to emerging librarians, where practitioners, LIS educators, and library students work together to…

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Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) Education

Time frame
2012-2016
Investigator
Catherine Blake
Total funding to date
$498,777.00
Funding agency
Institute of Museum and Library Services

This project will create both a master’s and doctoral-level specialization in Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA). Partnerships with local researchers and businesses who already work with large data-sets will enable master's graduates to receive first-hand experience with both the social and technical implications of large digital data collections, and thus be well-prepared for leadership…

News Stories

GSLIS introduces Leep Welcome Weekend

GSLIS is pleased to announce the establishment of Leep Welcome Weekend, a three-day event for students enrolled in our Leep online learning option that will serve as an orientation to the school and to our learning community of online classmates, on campus students, faculty, and staff. Beginning in Fall 2016, admitted Leep students will attend Leep Welcome Weekend during their first semester,…

Knox receives ILA Intellectual Freedom Award

Assistant Professor Emily Knox is the 2015 recipient of the Illinois Library Association (ILA) Intellectual Freedom Award.The award, presented by the ILA Intellectual Freedom Committee, recognizes an individual or group for outstanding contributions in defending intellectual freedom or the advancement of these principles.

Alumni encourage matching gifts to complete first endowed chair at GSLIS

Thanks to a generous pledge from Lionelle Elsesser (AB '66, MS '67) and husband James Elsesser (BS '66, MS '67), GSLIS is one step closer to realizing its first faculty chair, the Endowed Chair in the History of Libraries and the Information Professions. Gifts of any size will be matched on a one-to-one basis up to a total contribution of $225,000 by the Elsessers, and the resulting $450,000…

MS student Opetoritse Adefolalu named ARL/MLA fellow

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has selected four master’s students to participate in the 2015–2017 ARL/Music Library Association (MLA) Diversity and Inclusion Initiative (DII), including one from GSLIS. The fellows are: Opetoritse Agbejuleoritse Adefolalu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Avery Boddie, University of Maryland, College Park Morgan Davis, University…

Four GSLIS students named ARL diversity scholars

Four GSLIS master’s students have been selected by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Committee on Diversity and Leadership to participate in the 2015-2017 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) as ARL diversity scholars. Underwritten by ARL member libraries, the IRDW offers numerous financial benefits to program participants as well as leadership development provided…

Chao, Lenstra, Weber awarded Garfield Dissertation Fellowships

GSLIS doctoral candidates Tiffany Chao, Noah Lenstra, and Nic Weber have been honored with 2015 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships from Beta Phi Mu, the International Library and Information Studies Honor Society. Up to six recipients are selected each year for this prestigious award, a national competition among doctoral students who are working on their dissertations. The amount…

Seven students named ALA 2015 Spectrum Scholars

Seven GSLIS master's students have been named 2015 Spectrum Scholars by the American Library Association (ALA). Established in 1997, the Spectrum Scholarship Program was created to promote diversity among graduate-level library school students. Each master's-level scholar receives $5,000 from the ALA as well as over $1,500 toward professional development opportunities. In addition, GSLIS provides…

Doctoral students design resource for social justice research, action

Within the realm of social justice, professional resources can be scattered widely among the many disparate areas that intersect with this field, impeding research and fieldwork. A group of LIS doctoral students from across the country—all current American Library Association Spectrum Doctoral Fellows—are working together to create a solution to this challenge called the Social Justice Collaboratorium (@SJCollaborate).c

School librarians gain skills at GSLIS Summer Getaway

GSLIS recently hosted the second annual Summer Getaway, a series of workshops that brought together over sixty school librarians from across the state to learn about current topics in K-12 librarianship from experts and from each other. Each day of the three-day event offered a different professional development focus. On Monday, attendees learned about the latest state requirements for…
Laine Pehta (MS '14) at the 2015 GSLIS Summer Getaway

Swatscheno participates in LoC Summer Intern Program

GSLIS master’s student Janet Swatscheno has been selected to participate in the highly competitive 2015 Library of Congress (LoC) Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program. She will spend ten weeks working full time on-site in Washington, DC, at the LoC’s John W. Kluge Center, which hosts scholars from the United States and abroad. Swatscheno’s project is to conduct an evaluation of the center’s…

Tieman named to 2015 class of National Digital Stewardship Residents

The Library of Congress, in conjunction with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has named five members to the 2015 class of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) program. Among those named is Jessica Tieman, who will earn her master's degree from GSLIS this spring. The NDSR program offers recent master’s degree graduates/doctoral candidates in specialized fields—library…

GSLIS to award first Evans Minority Student Scholarship this fall

The GSLIS Office of Advancement is happy to announce that the School's first G. Edward Evans Minority Student Scholarship will be awarded for the Fall 2015 semester. Dr. Evans's (PhD '69) goal in making this gift was to facilitate increased enrollment of underrepresented groups in LIS education and the information professions. In addition to making a substantial personal gift to the School,…

Get to know Eric Phetteplace (MS '11), systems librarian

Look beyond the classroom walls, says Eric Phetteplace, and you’ll find there are lots of ways to expand your educational experience (and you might even get a job while you’re at it). Practicum and work experiences, attending conferences, networking, and getting involved in professional organizations are all great ways to do that. For more tips on working in LIS tech, look for posts by…

Cooke receives Leadership Award in Education

Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke has been selected to receive the University YWCA’s 2015 Leadership Award in Education in recognition of her work in social justice and higher education. The annual award honors individuals or organizations whose work supports the mission of the YWCA, which is “dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity…

Cooke speaks at Digital Sociology conference, publishes in LQ

GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke recently spoke at the Digital Sociology Mini-conference, which was held February 27-28 in New York. Her talk, "Combating Cultural Misinformation/Disinformation on the Internet," was presented as part of a panel discussion titled, "Race, Racism, and Digitally Mediated Spaces." The mini-conference was hosted by the Digital Laboratory Working Group of The…

Willett to deliver 2015 Gryphon Lecture on March 6

The Center for Children’s Books will host the 2015 Gryphon Lecture on Friday, March 6. Featuring a leading scholar in the field of youth and literature, media, and culture, the annual Gryphon Lecture is free and open to students and the public. Delivering this year’s lecture, "Research on Children, Youth and Media: Applications for LIS Education and Practice,” is Rebekah Willett, an assistant…

Song named 2014 WISE Instructor of the Year

GSLIS Adjunct Associate Professor Yoo-Seong Song has been named a 2014 Instructor of the Year by the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium. Song was nominated by a student for his excellent instruction last fall in the course Applied Business Research: Competitive Intelligence & Knowledge Management (LIS 590AC).

Yoo-Seong Song

Ostman, Sullivan receive ACRL Student Scholarships

GSLIS master's students Ray Ostman and Madison Sullivan have been selected as two of fifteen recipients nationwide to receive a 2015 ACRL Library School Student Scholarship. The purpose of the scholarship is to provide opportunities for students to participate in an Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) professional development experience and learn more about current issues in…

Coloradio puts new spin on mood music

In the ongoing challenge to develop new technological innovations, great minds don’t think alike. It was the diverse intellectual backgrounds and strengths of each teammate that allowed a group of four Illinois graduate students to tackle a design challenge that required a multidisciplinary approach. GSLIS master’s student Chris Nixon called on his friends Berenice Vargas, a fellow GSLIS…