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Faculty news
Alkalimat hosts forum at Archives 2013
Professor
Abdul Alkalimat led a forum
at Archives 2013, the joint annual meeting
of the Society of American Archivists and the
Council of State Archivists, which took place
from August 11-17 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The topic was “Memory and Power: How Diversifying the Archives Can Help Us Welcome the Future.”
Efron presents at SIGIR 2013
Associate Professor
Miles Efron presented his paper, “Query Representation
for Cross-Temporal Information Retrieval,” at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
Conference in Dublin, Ireland on July 30.
Hotchkiss named University of Cincinnati distinguished alumna
Valerie Hotchkiss, GSLIS affiliated professor and director of the University of Illinois’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, was chosen by the University of Cincinnati (UC) McMicken
College of Arts and Sciences to receive one of two Distinguished Alumni Awards
awarded last spring. Hotchkiss received a bachelor’s degree in classics from UC in 1982.
La Barre speaks at ISKO conference
Associate Professor
Kathryn La Barre was invited to speak at
the International Society for Knowledge Organization
Conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from May 27-29. She presented her paper, “Facets, Views and Frames: Enhancing Connectedness in Knowledge Organization.”
Mak presents in London, Montreal
Assistant Professor
Bonnie Mak was invited to speak at London,
England’s Centre for Creative Collaboration
(C4CC), where she presented “Eight Minutes on Publication” on June 14. Mak also was invited to participate in a launch event of the
archivefutures research network in
Montreal, Quebec, on June 21, at which she co-presented a session on material transformations.
Staff and student news
Andracki, Martaus, and Smith present at ChLA Conference
Three GSLIS students gave presentations at the 40th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference held in Biloxi, Mississippi, on June 13-15. Doctoral student Alaine Martaus
presented “Playing with Time: Historicizing the Future in Contemporary Young Adult Science Fiction”; doctoral student
Mikki Smith presented “Learning
to Play, Playing to Learn: Oliver Optic’s Magazine, 1867–1875”; and master’s student
Tad Andracki
presented his paper, “Playing with Everything: Childhood, Biopower, and Animacy in
The Brave Little Toaster.”
Barton, Booker receive scholarships to attend NCAAL conference
Master’s student Karen Barton and recent GSLIS graduate Liza Booker (MS ’13) each received one of six $1,000 scholarships to attend the ALA Black Caucus’s 8th National
Conference of African American Libraries (NCAAL), which was held August 7-11 in the greater Cincinnati/northern Kentucky area. Booker presented her poster titled, “The Importance
of African-American Archives.”
Burch attends AASL/ISLMA Leadership Conference
GSLIS K-12 Program Coordinator
Georgeann Burch
attended the American Association of School Librarians/Illinois School Library Media Association (AASL/ISLMA) Leadership Conference in Bloomington, Illinois, on June 19.
Jett wins Balisage Student Award
Master’s student Jacob Jett is one of three winners of a 2013 Balisage Student Award. This annual award provides support for students to attend
Balisage, a conference devoted to markup languages,
technologies, theories, and practices. The 2013 conference was held August 6-9 in Montreal, Quebec.
Martin presents at Archives 2013
Master’s student Stephanie Martin presented her poster,
"Over a Century of Collaboration: Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the United States,” at
Archives 2013, the joint annual meeting of
the Society of American Archivists and the
Council of State Archivists.
Moore receives ARLIS travel award
Dan Moore received a student travel award to attend the
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) annual conference, which was held in Pasadena, California from April 25-29. Moore earned his master’s degree at the end of the summer semester.
Nhek wins APALA and CLA scholarships
Master's student
Christina Nhek was recently named the recipient of two scholarships, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association or
APALA Scholarship and the California Library Association or
CLA Scholarship for Minority Students in Memory of Edna Yelland.
Organisciak gives talks at Digital Humanities, JCDL
Doctoral student
Peter Organisciak gave presentations at two conferences this summer. He presented his paper, “Incidental Crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing in the Periphery,” at
Digital Humanities 2013 in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 17. At the
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), which was held July 22-26 in Indianapolis, Indiana, he presented “Addressing Diverse Corpora with Cluster-based Term Weighting.”
Serbanuta and Sweeney awarded Garfield Dissertation Fellowships
GSLIS doctoral candidates
Claudia Serbanuta and
Miriam E. Sweeney have been honored with 2013 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, which is a national competition among doctoral
students who are working on their dissertations. The amount awarded for each fellowship is $3,000.
Smith presents at SHARP conference
Doctoral student
Mikki Smith presented “Geographies of Amateur Newspapers: Late 19th-Century Youth Collaborations and Exchanges” at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Annual Conference,
“Geographies of the Book,” which was held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, from July 18-21.
Christy Glaze, MLS
Visiting Communications Coordinator
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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