Faculty and doctoral students at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois were honored at the 2012 iConference that was held from February 7-10, 2012, and was hosted by the Faculty of Information
at the University of Toronto.
A Best Paper Award was given to doctoral student Noah Lenstra and Professor Abdul Alkalimat for their paper, “Networked Cultural Heritage and Socio-Digital Inequalities: A Case Study in an African-American Community.” Also receiving honors
were doctoral student Karen Wickett and Professor and Interim Dean Designate Allen Renear who were named runners-up in the Best Poster category for their poster, “Towards a Logical Form for Descriptive Metadata.”
For a full list of papers delivered by faculty and students at Illinois, see http://www.lis.illinois.edu/articles/2012/02/gslis-faculty-students-honored-2012-iconference
Maeve Reilly
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Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois
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