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GSLIS News: 2003

Press Releases

• December 17, 2003: Experts Meet to Begin Development of Tools for Making Digital Libraries More Useful to Scholars
• December 12, 2003: 2003 Downs Intellectual Freedom Award Acknowledges Librarian June Pinnell-Stephens and Advocacy Group Mainstream Montgomery County
• September 5, 2003: Terry Weech Receives Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to Lecture and Consult in Slovakia
• May 19, 2003: October 15, 2003 is the Deadline for the 2003 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award Nominations
• May 12, 2003: University of Illinois Library School Alumni Association Honors Four
• April 15, 2003: The Center for Children's Books Announces New Children's Literature Award
• March 13, 2003: Introducing John M. Unsworth as Dean; University of Virginia scholar named dean of GSLIS (links to UI News Bureau)

Other News

Center for Children's Books Director Janice Del Negro was a featured ghost story teller at The National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee, held October 3–5, 2003. The event is one of the largest storytelling festivals in the world, attended by more than 10,000 people annually. Del Negro's second book, Willa and the Wind, was published by Marshall Cavendish Publishers in Fall 2004.

Assistant Dean Dale Silver was asked to Chair the Public Library Association's Public Libraries Advisory Committee, which is responsible for making recommendations regarding its publication, Public Libraries, and for arranging the selection of the best two articles of the year written by a practicing librarian and published in Public Libraries. She was also invited to serve a two-year term on the Advisory Committee of the University Library's Mortenson Center for International Programs. The Advisory Committee is charged to advise the Center Director on policy and procedural issues.

GSLIS Invades Montréal! Seven members of GSLIS participated in Extreme Markup 2003. Papers presented were: Associate Professor Allen Renear, "First Thoughts on Modal Logic for Document Processing"; Senior Research Scientist Dave Dubin, "Object Mapping for Markup Semantics"; and Allen Renear, master's student Christopher Phillippe, Visiting Lecturer Pat Lawton, & Dave Dubin, "An XML Document Corresponds to Which FRBR Group 1 Entity?" Posters being presented are: recent graduate Kevin Reiss, "Literate Documentation for XML"; master's student Kevin Hawkins, "Theoretical Issues in Text Encoding—A Critical Review"; and doctoral student Jin Ha Lee, "XML Representation Schemes for Music."

New Award Established to Honor the Late Bryce Allen—Bryce Allen, GSLIS faculty member from 1989 through 1995, died unexpectedly on April 27, 2003. To honor his memory, the GSLIS faculty established the Bryce Allen Award for Reference Services. The award recognizes an outstanding GSLIS student showing excellence and interest in entering the area of reference services. Each year at the spring Convocation this award and a stipend will be given to a graduating student selected by faculty vote. If you would like to join us in building the Allen Award Fund, contact Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations Susan Barrick at (217) 244-9577 or sbarrick@uiuc.edu or send a check payable to the University of Illinois Foundation with GSLIS Allen Fund on the memo line to GSLIS Development Office, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820-6211. You can also give online at http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/development/funds.html.

John Unsworth was named the new dean of GSLIS. He began his new duties on August 16. Read A Conversation with Dr. Unsworth or the University News Bureau's press release and an article published in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette.

Paul Adams was one of only six recipients of the 2004 Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award. Adams was honored at an April 3, 2003 reception. The CAPE Award is designed to recognize demonstrated excellence by academic professional staff; nominees are judged on three criteria: work, personal, and professional contributions. As a recipient of this prestigious award, Adams received $2,000 in cash for personal use and a $1,000 permanent salary increase. In addition, $1,000 was added on a one-time basis his departmental budget to be used for the purchase of equipment, materials, or training that would benefit the winner's workplace in future years.

Terry Weech was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist appointment to lecture at the University of Sofia in Sofia, Bulgaria, for a two week period from November 12 to November 27th.

Visiting faculty member Umesh Thakkar participated in two presentations that were accepted by the Educating with Virtual Experience 2003 Workshop at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth (November 5–7). One is titled "Bugscope: An Application of Remote Scientific Instrumentation in Education." Co-authors for this include Benjamin A. Grosser, Daniel E. Weber, Scott J. Robinson, and Glenn A. Fried, all from Beckman Institute's Imaging Technology Group. Another is titled "Becoming VR-savvy: An Approach to Developing Fluency with Information Technology for Middle School Girls." Co-authors for this include D. Michelle Hinn (from Educational Psychology and a PhD student of Professor Chip Bruce) and Pam Van Walleghen, Kevin Erlinger, and Renee Cooper, all from Urbana Middle School. Benjamin A. Grosser and Pam Van Walleghen joined Thakkar at the workshop in Ireland.

In recognition for his leadership and initiative developing, integrating and evaluating the integration of technology into education, visiting faculty member Umesh Thakkar was selected as a recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. Thakkar was recognized at a reception held September 30, 2003. A full story about the awards is available in an Inside Illinois article.

Professor Chip Bruce was selected, through a competitive proposal process, as a senior participant for a workshop on Creation of an American-German Research Network in the Field of Technology-Supported Education. The workshop was held Nov 12–16, 2003 at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Bruce was also recently an invited participant in the Evaluating Educational Impact Workshop (for the National Science Digital Library), Oct 1–3, 2003.

Terry L. Weech was elected Chair of IFLA's Section on Education and Training at the World Library and Information Congress: the 69th IFLA General Conference and Council held in Berlin, Germany, in August, 2003. He had served as Secretary of the Section from 2001 to 2003. He presided as Chair of the Section at the 70th IFLA General Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August of 2004. Weech was also re-elected to a second two year term as Chair of the IFLA Division of Education and Research. IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users and is the global voice of the library and information profession. The organization has 1,622 Members in 143 countries around the world and is headquartered in The Royal Library, the national library of the Netherlands, in The Hague. As Chair of Division VII - Education and Research, Weech coordinates the activities of seven units: Library Theory and Research, Education and Training, Continuing Professional Education, Library History, Reading, Library and Information Science Journals, and Information Literacy.

Professor Linda C. Smith and Lian Ruan (MS '90) were awarded The Special Libraries Association (SLA) 2003 Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial Research Grant for their proposal, "A Survey to Support 'Evidence-Based Practice' in Special Libraries Servicing Fire Service Personnel and Researchers in Public Safety and Homeland Security Areas." The SLA Research Committee recommended the proposal, which was approved by SLA's Board of Directors at its June 2003 Annual Business Meeting in New York City. Additional details about this award are available from SLA's press release.

Professor P. Bryan Heidorn spoke at a number of events in September and October 2003: On September 20, Heidorn presented "The Citizen's Flora and Fauna" at the Central Illinois Prairie Conference. On September 26 he presented a poster on community based publishing of flora and fauna and citizen-based biodiversity surveys at the Linking Teachers to Research Experiences (RET) Workshop for Mathematics & Science Teachers, Community College Faculty, and NSF - Funded Principal Investigators. On October 3 he presented "The Citizen's Flora and Fauna" at Staerkel Planetarium's "World of Science" lecture series. From October 13–14 Heidorn was an international speaker at "Toward an Integrated Biodiversity Information Network," a workshop being held in Academia Sinica, Taipei. From October 21–26 he'll was at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, first working with the Taxonomic Databases Working Group Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD) (subgroup working meeting) and then as a speaker at "Challenges and Solutions in Biodiversity Informatics Taxonomic Names and Beyond," the Taxonomic Databases Working Group Annual Meeting.

Visiting lecturer Luke Wroblewski 's article "Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design" was published on September 8, 2003 in Boxes and Arrows, the online peer-written journal for "architecture and design [for] the digital landscape." Wroblewski taught two interface design courses this fall semester, LIS220: The Design of Usable Information Interfaces and LIS450II: Interfaces to Information Systems.

Associate Professor Allen H. Renear was named the 2003–2004 GSLIS Centennial Scholar in recognition and support of his accomplishments and promising scholarship in the field of library and information science. Renear's research focuses on improving our understanding of how digital documents function as knowledge representation systems. He is developing models of how documents organize and structure knowledge and then exploring how these models can be used to improve the performance and functionality of digital library technologies, collaboration systems, publishing systems, educational technology, and humanities textbase practices. The specific focus of his current research involves developing a logic-based system for defining the "formal semantics" of XML markup vocabularies. The preliminary results have been published and presented to academic, industry, and government conferences. Renear heads the GSLIS Electronic Publishing Research Group and is Chair of the Open eBook Forum's Publication Structure Working Group, which developed the electronic book format now widely used in the publishing industry.

GSLIS to Host NSF Workshop on Open-Source Design—New "Free/Open-Source" (F/OSS) development models for complex systems are changing how designers approach many kinds of problems, from the design of information structures and systems to the design of organizations and even buildings. F/OSS appears to be a fundamentally new type of design process, effectively linking many interacting, continuous, open, collective processes (which could easily become chaotic) to produce surprisingly efficient, stable, and useful artifacts. GSLIS Professor Les Gasser and U.C. Irvine Professor Walt Scacchi, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), organized an invitational workshop on open-source design and information management processes. The workshop was held at the University of Illinois in early October 2003. The 40 attendees helped to develop NSF's research agenda for open-source by identifying the most critical open research issues and means of addressing them. This workshop was part of a multi-year GSLIS-headed study of open-source projects, in collaboration with U.C. Irvine's Institute for Software Research, and the LIMSI Laboratory at the University of Paris/Orsay. The project is supported by over $1M of funding from a variety of sources. For more information, contact Les Gasser.

Professor Leigh Estabrook and Lian Ruan (MS '90) were invited by the Department of Library Management, Peking University, China, from Sept. 16 to Sept. 24 to deliver a talk entitled "Mr. Wang Chungmin's Contributions to the Library Education in China: When East Meets West, a Comparative Study." Ruan also delivered a talk entitled "Strategic Planning in American Special Libraries: A Case Study" and Estabrook delivered a talk entitled "Demonstrating the Value of Services—How Libraries Make a Difference." The Peking University Department also granted Estabrook an honorary professorship.

Chip Bruce's paper entitled "The Role, Value, and Limits of Scientific and Technical (S&T) Data and Information in the Public Domain for Education" was made available by National Academies Press as part of a set of proceedings in honor of the anniversary of the National Academies Public Domain Symposium.

Terry Weech received a sixteen day assignment under the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program to lecture and consult with librarians and library and information science educators in the Slovak Republic from June 20 to July 5, 2003. Read the press release for further details.

Terry Weech presented a series of lectures in June and July 2003 to visiting South African Mortenson Associates. The lectures were on Evaluation and Assessment of Library Services, Library Cooperation, Human Resource Management, and Financial Management. The South African Mortenson Associates were in residence in the Mortenson Center during June and July of 2003. For more information on the South African Leadership Program, see: http://door.library.uiuc.edu/mortenson/sallp.html.

In recognition for his NCSA/UIUC activities with schools in Urbana-Champaign and nationwide, GSLIS visiting faculty and NCSA research scientist Umesh Thakkar was selected by peers as a recipient of the Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. Umesh was recognized at a reception September 30, 2003, at the Beckman Institute.

Terry Weech presented a paper on "Globalization and Social Policy from the Perspective of the Library" at Globalization and Entrepreneurship: Fears, Challenges, and Opportunities, an international conference held in Pula, Croatia, April 24–26, 2003. The Conference was sponsored by University of Rijeka Faculty of Economics and Tourism and the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference was attended by scholars and researchers from approximately 20 countries. Photos from the Conference may be seen at: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/seworkspace/weech/Croatia/Photos/conf.htm.

Professor Betsy Hearne was elected chair of the 2005 Caldecott Committee. The prestigious Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. Hearne and the rest of the Caldecott Committee reviewed books published in 2004, and the award was presented at the ALA Annual Convention in January 2005.

A paper connecting the Inquiry Page and the Biology Student Workbench was presented on April 21 at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The title of the paper was democratizing bioinformatics research in a high school biology classroom. Professor Bertram C. Bruce was the lead author. Co-authors included Eric G. Jakobsson from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Umesh Thakkar from GSLIS and NCSA, Jo E. Williamson from the State of Georgia Department of Education, and Paul R. Lock from Urbana High School.

Associate Professor Les Gasser was appointed as a member of the campus-wide Strategic Planning Committee of the University of Paris VI (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) in Paris, France. Professor Gasser has had a long association with Paris VI, where he has held a Visiting Faculty position and has served on many lab review boards and joint research projects with information science and computing faculty there.

In March of 2003, Terry Weech delivered an invited lecture at the at the French National School of Library and Information Science (enssib) on the topic of "Trends in Academic Libraries in America." Weech was also invited to participate in a panel discussion at the Salon du livre (Book Fair) in Paris on multilingual services in U.S. Libraries. This was his fourth visit to enssib, but his first visit to the Salon du livre, one of the larger book fairs in Europe. The panel discussion at the book fair was moderated by the director of enssib, Francois Dupuigrenet Desroussilles. For photos of the trip, see: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/seworkspace/weech/france03/enssib/enssib03.htm.

Seventeen members of GSLIS were named in the University's "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students" for their teaching during the Fall 2003 semester: Adjunct Assistant Professor Linda Bial, Associate Professor Ann Bishop, Professor Chip Bruce, Professor Emerita Pauline Cochrane, Visiting Lecturer John Dunkelberger, Assistant Professor Fernando Elichirigoity, Professor Betsy Hearne, Professor Kathryn Luther Henderson, Associate Professor Emeritus William T Henderson, Teaching Assistant Tim Hogan, Teaching Assistant Melanie Kimball, Visiting Lecturer Pat Lawton, Instructor Cece Merkel, Adjunct Associate Professor Marilyn Moody, Professor Linda Smith, Assistant Professor Deborah Stevenson, and Instructor Martin Wolske.

On March 5th and 6th Bryan Heidorn was an invited speaker at the International Symposium on Plant Diversity in Eastern Asia and Workshop on Botanical Gardens, at the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung, Taiwan. The talk was titled: "Beyond Paper on the Web: Highly Functional Flora," and he served on the steering committee of the Digital Flora of Taiwan. Heidorn also attended a workshop on Electronic Flora at the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica, sponsored by the Organization for Tropical Studies, from March 24–26, where he discussed the OpenKey system and other aspects of electronic publishing. Heidorn was an invited speaker at Metadiversity III: Global Access for Biodiversity Through Integrated Systems March 31–April 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Metadiversity III was being held under Cooperative Agreement between the National Biology Information Infrastructure, U.S. Geological Survey & The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS). The title of this talk is " Distributed Taxonomic Description and Identification."

Chip Bruce's book, Literacy in the Information Age: Inquiries Into Meaning Making With New Technologies, was published by the International Reading Association (IRA). The title has also been selected as the "March book," which means it will be sent to the 4,000 members of IRA's book subscription service.

Christine Jenkins was honored on April 28, 2003 with the 2003 Campus Award for Excellence in Off-Campus Teaching. This award recognized her many accomplishments as a faculty member teaching in LEEP.

Visiting faculty Umesh Thakkar gave a presentation on new technologies for teaching and learning at the University of Texas at Austin on Fri., Feb. 14. The talk was hosted by the Math and Science Teachers of Tomorrow Student Organization of the UTeach Program. Also, Umesh was appointed by Mayor Tod Satterthwaite of the City of Urbana to serve on the Community Development Commission. The appointment was unanimously confirmed by the Urbana City Council on Feb. 17.

Leigh Estabrook received the 2003 ALISE Award for Professional Contribution to Library and Information Science Education at this year's ALISE conference in Philadelphia. The award recognized Estabrook's long service to library and information science education, having spent more than thirty years at three different schools—Simmons 1971–77; Syracuse 1978–85; and Illinois since 1986.

Professor Bruce Schatz was awarded a JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan. JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) is the Japanese analogue of NSF (National Science Foundation) in the United States, the federal government agency that funds basic science research. This fellowship is intended for senior faculty from foreign countries who will be performing collaborative research with senior faculty from Japanese universities. The Fellow will participate in discussions, attend seminars, and give lectures. Schatz spent his sabbatical last year in the laboratory of Professor Toru Ishida from the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University, funded by a long-term JSPS Fellowship. Schatz returned to Kyoto for joint research into digital cultural heritage and universal knowledge representation. The Fellowship covers a summer of expenses for living and travel in Japan, and is worth about US$12,000. Incidentally, Ishida visited GSLIS this past fall and gave a lecture in our ISRL series on his Digital City Kyoto projects.

Master's student Aby Rao was invited for an October 31st guest lecture on "Virtual Reality and Large Displays" at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India. On November 7th, Rao deliver another invited guest lecture at St. Aloysius Institute of Computer Science, Mangalore, India on "Human Computer Interaction."

Ph.D. candidate Bharat Mehra presented a paper entitled "Internet as a Glocal Network: Fulfilling Diasporic Needs of International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) in the United States" (Bharat Mehra, Dean Papajohn) at the 4th conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, held 16–19 October, 2003 in Toronto, Canada. Mehra's presentation explored the 'diasporic' needs of International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to maintain cross-cultural "local" and "global" experiences and examine the "global" impact of Internet use on the lives of "displaced" international students, dislocated from their home countries, and spending time in the United States for academic reasons. The presentation also described the mixed qualitative and quantitative methods that were used to document holistic dimensions of Internet use by ITAs and identify future strategies towards social and technological improvements in existing facilities, use of resources, and situations experienced by ITAs in academic settings.

Ph.D. candidate Chris Hagar presented a paper entitled "Community in Crisis: The UK 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak" at the International Conference on Communities & Technologies, Amsterdam 18–21 September 2003, Workshop on ICTs in rural communities - is the net working?

Congratulations to the following students who were selected to receive 2003/2004 Illinois State Library Training Grants: Stephanie Ellen Edwards; Tamela Nicole James; Sarah Marie McHone-Chase; Jeanne Marie Meyer; Brian Shepard; Alexander Sonsteby; and Meghan Stillwell. Each year, Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White awards up to 15 training grants of $7,500 each to students who are enrolling in Master's degree programs in an accredited graduate library school. Recipients must be residents of Illinois, and are required to work for two years in an eligible Illinois library following graduation. Grant funding is provided to the state of Illinois from federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds.

Master's student Carol Perryman won the Libri Best Student Paper Award competition. Perryman received $500 and her paper, entitled, "Information Behaviors in an Online Smoking Cessation Forum" was published in September in Libri issue number 3.

Ph.D. candidate Sharon L. Comstock received acceptance for a full paper presentation at the Digital Resources in the Humanities (DRH) 2003 Conference, August 31–September 2, 2003 held at the University of Gloucestshire, United Kingdom. The paper, "HypertexTALE-ity: Digital Cinderella, Hypertext, and Orality" was presented in the E-text strand. The paper explores the relationship between hypertext and orality in folklore presentation and scholarship; examining, by way of example, digitized versions of the 510A tale type of Cinderella as it is represented in "The Cinderella Project" at the University of Mississippi, based on the de Grummond Collection of rare books. She suggests that not only are we allowed greater access to these classic tales from the 18th and 19th centuries, but our understanding and relationships are altered, allowing—once again—for the oral-based nature of the tale to become transparent and new meanings made. This has particular significance for educators in library and information studies, childhood studies, English, education, and other departments that teach children's literature, fairy, and folk tales.

LEEP student Kate Fultz Hollis, won an Alumni Service Citation from the University of Chicago. Created in 1988, the Alumni Service Citations are awarded for outstanding volunteer work on behalf of the University of Chicago through service in alumni programs, on advisory committees, and through efforts made to ensure the welfare of the institution.

Ph.D. student Sharon L. Comstock had two papers accepted. The first, entitled "Making the Case for Story," was accepted for an individual paper presentation at the Midwest Qualitative Research Conference, June 18–21, 2003, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MN. The second, co-authored with Professor Chip Bruce, is entitled "Poetry as Play: Expression as Inquiry" and appeared in Illinois Reading Council Journal, Vol. 31, no. 2, April 2003.

Doctoral candidate Bharat Mehra was invited to present a paper at the the mini-symposium entitled "Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current Terrains, Future Direction" at the University of Washington in Seattle from May 8–11, 2003. The mini-symposium is supported by the Ford Foundation. Mehra's paper is titled "An Action Research (AR) Manifesto for Cyberculture Power to 'Marginalized' Cultures of Difference" and explores an AR approach in cyberculture studies in order to make it more inclusive for disenfranchised users and achieve social equity for "marginalized" populations. Mehra presents characteristics of AR in the context of a few group projects where he worked with different disenfranchised populations in East Central Illinois. The group projects include work with local African American women (The Afya project), sexual minorities at UIUC, low–income and disadvantaged populations in Champaign, and the Puerto Rican community in Chicago's Paseo Boricua neighborhood.

LEEP student Kay Shelton had two publications out on maps of Burma in the Bulletin of the Burma Studies Group, Number 71, March 2003. The articles are: "Maps of Burma by European Cartographers in NIU Special Collections" and "Bibliography of Maps of Burma."

Ph.D. student Terry von Thaden was awarded the prestigious Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award from the Zonta International Foundation. These awards were established in 1938 in honor of Amelia Earhart, famed pilot and member of Zonta International. They are granted annually to women pursuing graduate degrees in aerospace-related sciences and aerospace-related engineering. Past awardees have included Michele Brekke, the first woman flight director for NASA and Sheila Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force 1993–1997. The award supports Ms. von Thaden's research on modeling human information behavior in the airline cockpit.

LIS 450CIL student Dipesh Navsaria received an AMA Foundation Leadership Award. Navsaria, a University of Illinois medical student, was only one of 25 students nationally to receive this prestigious award, which is part of the AMA's "Excellence in Medicine" program.

Master's student Aby Rao's article entitled "Deploying Microsoft Share Point Team Services for Committee Management in the Library" was accepted for publication in Information Technology and Libraries.

Julia Glynn and Jessica Jones Moyer presented at the Bobcatsss Conference in Torun, Poland, in early February of 2003. Bobcatsss is an annual symposium organized by students in library and information science in Europe. Julia and Jessica were supported by GSLIS funds made possible by the annual fund drive. Julia Glynn did a presentation on "Information Policy Concerning Minorities" with GSLIS Faculty member, Terry Weech. Jessica Moyer's presentation, with Lynne Rudasill of the UIUC Library Faculty, was on "The Globalization of Threat: Cybersecurity in a Shared Environment." For photos of the conference, see: http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/seworkspace/weech/bobcats3/Photos/bob.htm.

Master's student Aby Rao's student poster entitled "Desktop Aksi: Virtual Workspace Concept Integrating Personal Social Communication and Task Management" was accepted to the CHI 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which took place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 5–10, 2003. The annual CHI conference is the leading international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about computer-human interaction (CHI), also known as human-computer interaction (HCI).

Sara R. Tompson (MS '87), Library Director, Packer Engineering; Lian Ruan (MS '90), Director/Head Librarian, Illinois Fire Service Institute; and Laura Claggett (MS), Library Director, UOP, did a Guerilla Marketing panel discussion organized by SLA Illinois Chapter and North Suburban Special Librarians on November 19, 2003.

Terren Ilana Wein (MS '01), Assistant Director (Library & Information Services), Career and Placement Services, University of Chicago, had her article entitled "From Management Class to Management" published in the Nov. 2003 issue of Info Career Trends, an online magazine for LIS professional development. She also had a piece in the Sept. 2003 issue. She recently reviewed resumes of several GSLIS students as part of SLA's Student Outreach efforts and invited other GSLIS students to send her their resumes for review.

Catherine Ritchie (CAS '00), Dallas (TX) Public Library, had her article entitled "One Nation Under Many Gods," focusing on resources in the subject of U.S. religions, published in the October 1, 2003 issue of Library Journal. It appeared as an entry in the periodical's "Collection Development" series.

Sarah Houghton (MS '02) was elected Vice-President/President Elect of the California Library Association's Information Technology section. Currently the e-Services Librarian for the Marin County (CA) Free Library system, Houghton also serves as a consultant instructor for the InfoPeople project, an organization that provides broad-based technology-related training for those working in California libraries.

Yin Zhang (PhD '99) was named one of two 2003 ASIST Chapter Member of the Year award winners. The Chapter Member of the Year award recognizes the service of an individual to a particular chapter. It is given for significant contributions to the membership of the chapter through participation in and support of its meetings and publications; fundraising; recruitment; or other significant activities. The award citation reads:

Yin Zhang, Northern Ohio Chapter
Although she is the most recent addition to the Northern Ohio Chapter's
leadership group, Dr. Yin Zhang has quickly become a key member. She
contributes her creativity in planning programs and finding ways for chapter
members to share their expertise.

Within the few years since she joined NorASIST in 1999, Yin organized a
program called "Web-Based Surveys"; she recruited a SLIS student and
supervised her to redesign and maintain the chapter website; and she
presented another program, "Digital Reference in Action: Perspectives from
Librarians and Educators."

Yin continues to be an active Program Planning Committee member and Web
Committee member; she has helped to organize the Chapter's Career Nights;
and she has enthusiastically participated at all Chapter pre-program social
events. Perhaps, most importantly, Yin has done an outstanding job in
recruiting student members and getting them to become involved in the
chapter's activities. ASIST is very happy to recognize Yin Zhang for her
many accomplishments and contributions to the Northern Ohio Chapter.

Kathryn M. Harris (MS '71), Director of the Illinois State Historical Library, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Illinois Humanities Council. A 32-member Board of Directors governs the Illinois Humanities Council. The Governor appoints six members, and all members volunteer their time. The Board determines IHC policies, serves as a connection with IHC constituencies, develops financial resources, and evaluates IHC programs.

William Hannaford (MS '75) was awarded two Fulbrights. He spent six weeks in the fall of 2003 as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Thesssaloniki, Greece, at the University of Macedonia, consulting and giving a seminar in management and leadership. In the spring, he spent six months at Moldova State University as a Fulbright Scholar, again focusing on management and leadership. Hannaford has been a library director at five different institutions, including the American Farm School in Thessaloniki and has lived in Greece for a total of three years. His publications include a number of articles and three books. Hannaford moved to New Mexico, where he is teaching philosophy after his Fulbright stints.

Linda C. Smith (MS '72), GSLIS Professor and Associate Dean, and Lian Ruan (MS '90), Director/Head Librarian of the Illinois Fire Service Institute Library, were awarded the Special Libraries Association (SLA) 2003 Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial Research Grant for their proposal, "A Survey to Support 'Evidence-Based Practice' in Special Libraries Servicing Fire Service Personnel and Researchers in Public Safety and Homeland Security Areas." The SLA Research Committee recommended the proposal, which was approved by SLA's Board of Directors at its June 2003 Annual Business Meeting in New York City. Additional details about this award are available from SLA's press release.

Deborah Robertson (MS '00), director of the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, received the 2003 Special Humanities Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH). Robertson was recognized by the board of the LEH for her impact on public awareness and appreciation of the humanities in Louisiana and nationwide. Additional details about this award are available from ALA's press release.

David Hunter (MS '84, PhD '89), Music Librarian in the Fine Arts Library at the University of Texas at Austin, was one of 40 scholars worldwide to be awarded a Visiting Fellowship by the British Academy in 2003. The program's goal is to provide up to a month of research time at British libraries, archives, museums, or other institutions, for scholars resident outside the United Kingdom. Hunter continued his examination of materials relevant to his study of George Frideric Handel and the audiences that heard his music during his lifetime. Dr. Christina Bashford of the Music Department at Oxford Brookes University sponsored the application, and Hunter delivered a lecture there as well as spent as many hours as possible in the archives of Oxford, Stafford, and Northampton. Previously, Hunter has received support for his research from the University of Texas at Austin, the Music & Letters Trust, and held a fellowship at the Huntington Library. To date, the results of his research have been published in ten articles.

Chris Desai (MS '00) had her article entitled "Site Search and Instant Messaging Reference: A Comparative Study" published in IRSQ: Internet Reference Services Quarterly 8 (1/2).

José Ruiz-Alvarez (MS '91) was elected President for 2004–05 of REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, which is an affiliate of ALA. Ruiz-Alvarez, who was also the recipient of the 2002 New York Times Librarian of the Year Award, is currently the Hispanic Services Librarian at The Ferguson Library in Stamford, CT.

Jodi Weisz-Fulgione (MS '02), founder and director of Holy Cross School Library and Media Center in The Bronx, New York, was awarded a Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries grant. Only one hundred and thirty-two schools among 6,000 that applied nationwide were selected. Grants from the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries, a fund of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, are designed to help school libraries across the nation create or enhance their book collections.

Cyril Oberlander (MS '00) co-presented LibStatCAT, as a panelist on Collection Assessment at the Timberline Acquisition Institute on May 21, 2003. LibStatCAT is a prototype collection assessment tool being developed by Oberlander and Dan Streeter at Portland State University. A powerpoint presentation is available at: http://www.lib.pdx.edu/services/ill/stats/LibStatCAT_files/frame.htm.

Amy Bell Mulaudzi (MS '96) was pictured in Cape Librarian (vol. 47, no.1, Jan/Feb 2003) from South Africa. Mulaudzi is chief librarian at the American consulate in Cape Town, and she was one of those featured in an article that profiles the American embassy libraries in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Soweto, Durban and Cape Town.

Sibyl Moses (MS '72, PhD '95), reference specialist in African American History and Culture at the Library of Congress, had her book, entitled African American Women Writers in New Jersey, 1836–2000, published by Rutgers Press.

Denise Hamilton (MS '01), reference librarian at Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, New Hampshire, is author of a collection development article in the May 1, 2003 issue of Library Journal, entitled "A View of the Moon & the Stars."

Congratulations to GSLIS alumni who won in ALA's most recent election! Carol A. Brey-Casiano (MS '80) was elected ALA president for 2004–2005; Teri R. Switzer (MS '73) was elected to complete ALA treasurer term. For more details about the president and treasurer races, read ALA's press release. Alumni elected to three-year terms as Councilors-at-Large were Rosie L. Albritton (PhD '93), Rochelle Hartman (MS '98), and Loriene Roy (PhD '87). GSLIS alumni also received awards at the ALA conference: David A. Smith (MS '61) was awarded the Dewey Medal; Mary Hollerich (MS '88) was the 2003 Virginia Boucher/OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award recipient; and Barbara d'Angelo (MS '97) was awarded an EBSCO Sponsorship.

Dallas Long (MS '02) was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for the 2003/2004 academic year. He was a Visiting Instructor at the School of Library & Information Science at Berzsenyi Daniel College in Szombathely, Hungary. He taught master's students and hosted workshops on reference services for Eastern European librarians and library students.

Jan Heckman (MS '91) and the University of Connecticut at Avery Point hosted the 29th annual conference of the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC). Between 100 and 120 librarians from around the world were expected to attend.

GSLIS alums were well-represented in the March 15, 2003 issue of Library Journal. Mary Ellen Davis (MS '81), Executive Director of ACRL, is one of two people featured on the cover of the issue. Jeanne Holba Puacz (MS '92), Systems and Reference Librarian, Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, IN; Amelia J. Shelley (MS '97), Manager, Youth and Outreach Service Division, Laramie County Library Central Branch, Cheyenne, WY; and Jenny Levine (MS '92), Internet Development Specialist, Suburban Library System, Burr Ridge, IL are all featured in LJ 's "2003 Movers & Shakers" supplement.

Xiao (Jason) Yu (MS '01), Information Core Director and Associate Librarian for Population Research, California Center for Population Research at UCLA, won an ALA Carnegie-Whitney Award for his reference work on demographic research literature and information.

Bill Erbes (MS '80) of the Bensenville Library spearheaded a project to have libraries stay open 24 hours on September 11 in commemoration of September 11, 2001. See the project website for more information.

Chris Desai (MS '00) had two articles published: "Picture Book Soldiers: Men and Messages" appeared in Reading Horizons 42(2) and "Instant Messaging Reference: How Does it Compare?" in The Electronic Library 21(1).

Lian Ruan (MS '90), Director/Head Librarian, Illinois Fire Services Institute, Champaign, IL received the SLA Diversity Leadership Development Award, which recognizes individuals from multi-cultural backgrounds who display excellent leadership abilities in the profession and demonstrate a willingness to develop and strive for leadership opportunities within the Association.

Mary Pergander (MS '02) was featured in the lead article of the February ILA Reporter. Also listed in that issue is the ILA slate of candidates for 2003, of which four are GSLIS alumni: Allen Lanham (MS '91), Kathleen Conley (MS '91), Scott Drone-Silvers (MS '91), and Annie Ford (MS '94).

Terren Ilana Wein (MS '01), Library Manager, Career and Placement Services, University of Chicago, had her article entitled "Job Power: Career Management Resources for Libraries" published in the January 2003 issue of Information Outlook.

Marsha Grove (MS '81) was named director of the Champaign (IL) Public Library. Currently director of the Anderson (IN) Public Library, Grove started her new position on February 5, 2003.