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2005 News StoriesSchool News| Faculty News | Student News | Alumni News School News2005 Downs Intellectual Freedom Award will be Presented to John Doe (John Doe v. Gonzales)December 26, 2005: When the glasses are lifted to honor the 2005 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award recipient, the stage will be empty. Read More...Stroud Joins GSLIS StaffDecember 8, 2005: Diana Stroud has joined GSLIS as Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations. Read More...GSLIS Offers New Certificate of Advanced Study in Language and Speech ProcessingDecember 8, 2005: GSLIS is offering a new Certificate of Advanced Study in Language and Speech Processing, a multidisciplinary program for doctoral students with an interest in speech and language processing technology. Read More...November 4, 2005 is the Deadline for the 2005 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award NominationsOctober 18, 2005: The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois seeks nominations for the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award. Read More...Alumni Affected by Katrina Asked to Contact GSLISSeptember 19, 2005: If you've been affected by Katrina, please contact us: we are currently offering assistance to displaced alums. Read More...GSLIS Faculty Show Support for AlumnaSeptember 2, 2005: At their recent retreat, GSLIS faculty members took a break to have photos taken of everyone wearing LiveStrong bracelets, as a show of support for alumna Cece Merkel (PhD '02), whose husband Tony Moscatello was diagnosed with leukemia on June 14, 2005. Read More...Chinese Student Group Seeking Alumni MembersSeptember 2, 2005: The GSLIS Chinese Group, formed in December 2004, is seeking new members. GSLIS Alumni who are either Chinese, or who have an interest in Chinese culture and national exchange, are encouraged to join for the purposes of advising and networking with Chinese students at GSLIS. Read More...GSLIS Launches New WebsiteAugust 18, 2005: After several months of development, GSLIS has launched its redesigned website. The URL remains http://www.lis.uiuc.edu. Improvements to the site include new content, improved navigation, and XHTML and 508 standards compliance. Read More...University of Illinois Library School Alumni Association Honors FourJune 3, 2005: Four alumni will be honored by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) at the June 26, 2005 GSLIS and LSAA Alumni Reception during the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Awards are given in the following categories: Distinguished Alumnus Award, Distinguished Service Award, Leadership Award, and Student Award. Read More...Two More Faculty to Join University of Illinois LIS ProgramJune 3, 2005: In addition to the two new faculty hires announced earlier this spring, two more faculty members—one with a background in digital libraries and the other in computer-mediated communication--have been hired by GSLIS. Jerome McDonough and Lori Kendall will join Kathryn LaBarre and Kate McDowell as new GSLIS faculty in the 2005-2006 academic year. Read More...Fletcher's Website Named "Best of Web"June 1, 2005: Prairienet's Karen Fletcher has had her website, "The Garden Gate," chosen as one of six Forbes Magazines' Best of Web gardening picks for 2005 (the site won the same award in 2002). "The Garden Gate" was first developed in 1994, and is how Fletcher first got involved with Prairienet. Read More...Two New LIS Professionals to Join University of Illinois FacultyApril 13, 2005: Two new faculty members—one with a background in information organization/cataloging & classification and the other in children's literature/youth services—will join the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois this next academic year. Read More...'Little Rat Rides' wins 2005 Gryphon Award for Children's LiteratureFebruary 4, 2005: The winner of the 2005 Gryphon Award for Children's Literature is Monika Bang-Campbell, for her easy-to-read book, "Little Rat Rides" (Harcourt, 2004). Molly Bang illustrated the book. Read More...GSLIS Receives Continued AccreditationJanuary 20, 2005: GSLIS has received notice that the Committee on Accreditation (COA) of the American Library Association has voted to approve continued accreditation of our program leading to the degree of Master of Science through 2011. This decision was made at COA's meeting on January 17, 2005 and was based on our Program Presentation, the External Review Panel report, Annual Statistical and Biennial Narrative Reports since our last comprehensive review, and the January 16, 2005 meeting with Dean Unsworth, Associate Dean Linda Smith, and June Lester, Chair of the External Review Panel. Read More...University of Illinois Offers Advanced Degree and Fellowships in Digital LibrarianshipJanuary 7, 2005: Beginning in the 2005–2006 school year, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will offer a structured Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) in Digital Libraries. Five one-year, non-renewable fellowships will also be available to CAS and MS degree students wishing to focus on digital libraries. The program aims to give students a thorough and technically focused background in digital libraries that will enable them to serve as designers, decision-makers, and creators of digital collections. Read More...Faculty NewsStudents Make Hit at Gaming SymposiumDecember 8, 2005: Students from LIS490 GCG: Game Culture and Technology presented posters on their work at the MLS Symposium on Gaming, Learning, and Libraries, where GSLIS Professor Les Gasser also gave the keynote. Read More...GSLIS Research Project Tops List of "Ten Digital Preservation Projects to Watch"October 28, 2005: RLG DigiNews, an online newsletter for digital imaging and preservation, has named the ECHO DEPository Project as the first of ten promising digital preservation initiatives. Read More...Bruce Travels to Sweden as Fulbright Senior SpecialistOctober 28, 2005: Professor Chip Bruce has been selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialists award to spend the second half of October travelling in Sweden. Read More...Library Research Center to Cooperate with Pew Internet & American Life Project on National StudyOctober 18, 2005: The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced a cooperative agreement with the Library Research Center (LRC) to investigate, in partnership with the Pew Internet & American Life Project, how effectively public libraries and community technology centers provide government information to people with limited access to the Internet. Read More...GSLIS Faculty and Students Make Strong Showing at Internet Research ConferenceOctober 18, 2005: GSLIS faculty and students made a strong showing at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, held in Chicago October 5–9, 2005. Read More...GSLIS Faculty and Students Blitz London ConferenceSeptember 19, 2005: GSLIS faculty and students made a strong showing at the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005), held in London September 11–15, 2005. Read More...Bruce Delivers KeynoteSeptember 19, 2005: Bertram (Chip) Bruce delivered the keynote address on "Inquiry Based Learning" for the Information Resources Retreat at the University of Calgary, Alberta. The event brought together professionals from campus libraries, the university press, archives, information technology, and multimedia with faculty across multiple disciplines. Read More...Web site provides forum for discussion of Katrina aftemath, how to helpSeptember 9, 2005: Acting out of a sense of both personal trauma and political distress at the scope of the Katrina Hurricane catastrophe and what he calls the "failure of the response," a professor who taught at Tulane University in New Orleans has set up a public online forum to address the disaster. Read More...Bruce Schatz to Head Department of Medical Information SciencesSeptember 2, 2005: Effective August 16, 2005, Professor Bruce Schatz has accepted a full-time position as Acting Head of the Department of Medical Information Sciences in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Read More...Cheng Zhai Receives PECASE Award at White HouseJuly 5, 2005: Assistant Professor ChengXiang ("Cheng") Zhai was one of fifty-eight junior researchers to receive the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), which was presented at a White House PECASE Ceremony on June 13, 2005. The Presidential award, which recognizes the most promising researchers in the nation within their fields, is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Zhai was recognized for his work on user-centered adaptive intelligent information access, based on an innovative combination and extension of information retrieval techniques, comparative text mining and natural language processing. This research has far-reaching impact for information technology users, as it improves the search engine performance, supports information organization by finding underlying patterns and relationships, and enables understanding of large volumes of information via extracting themes and providing summarizations. Read More...Downie, Hu, and Ehmann Poster Wins at JCDLJune 1, 2005: A poster created by Associate Professor Stephen Downie, GSLIS doctoral student Xiao Hu, and Engineering doctoral student Andreas Ehmann entitled "Music-to-Knowledge (M2K): A prototyping and evaluation environment for music digital library research" received the best poster award in a field of more than 50 posters at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, held June 7–11, 2005 in Denver, Colorado. Read More...Unsworth Receives 2005 Lyman AwardApril 7, 2005: GSLIS Dean John M. Unsworth is the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Richard W. Lyman Award, presented by the National Humanities Center to recognize scholars who have advanced humanistic scholarship and teaching through the innovative use of information technology. Details are available from the National Humanities Center press release. Read More...Heidorn Speaks at International ConferenceMarch 1, 2005: Bryan Heidorn was an invited speaker at "Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature" in association with an International Conference on the Barcode of Life, Natural History Museum, London, 5–6 February 2005. Bryan spoke on the interplay of electronic scientific data collection, publishing, information extraction and information seeking. Dr. Heidorn's trip was supported by a NSF grant to the Smithsonian Institution. Read More...GSLIS Faculty Rated ExcellentJanuary 1, 2005: 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 2004 semester: Visiting Lecturer Linda Bial; Instructor Hong Cui; Visiting Lecturer John Dunkelberger; Associate Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite; Professor Betsy Hearne; Professor Emerita Kathryn Luther Henderson; Associate Professor Emeritus William T Henderson; Instructor Eric Howes; Associate Professor Christine Jenkins; Instructor Kathryn La Barre; Instructor Anna Nielsen; Instructor Jeanne Holba Puacz; Teaching Assistant Claudia Rebaza; Visiting Lecturer Mary Wilkes Towner; Associate Professor Michael Twidale; Instructor Andrew Wadsworth; Instructor Martin Wolske. Read More...Student NewsStudents Make Hit at Gaming SymposiumDecember 8, 2005: Students from LIS490 GCG: Game Culture and Technology presented posters on their work at the MLS Symposium on Gaming, Learning, and Libraries, where GSLIS Professor Les Gasser also gave the keynote. Read More...Students Receive Scholarships for Rare Book SchoolNovember 18, 2005: Congratulations to master's students Christopher Cook and Sean Quimby, who have been awarded tuition scholarships to attend the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. Read More...Sarah Park Receives Korean Honor ScholarshipOctober 28, 2005: Doctoral student Sarah Park has received a 2005 Korean Honor Scholarship, given annually by the Embassy of Korea in the United States. Park was presented with the $1,000 award in September. Read More...GSLIS Faculty and Students Make Strong Showing at Internet Research ConferenceOctober 18, 2005: GSLIS faculty and students made a strong showing at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, held in Chicago October 5–9, 2005. Read More...Spectrum Scholars NamedSeptember 19, 2005: Two GSLIS students, Nancy Suzanne Gistover and Corinne Ruth Hatcher, have been named 2005-2006 Spectrum Scholars by the American Library Association. Read More...GSLIS Faculty and Students Blitz London ConferenceSeptember 19, 2005: GSLIS faculty and students made a strong showing at the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005), held in London September 11–15, 2005. Read More...ALA Student Chapter RecognizedJune 15, 2005: Congratulations to the GSLIS ALA Student Chapter, who was runner-up for the 2005 ALA Student Chapter of the Year Award award. The GSLIS group won this award three years ago, and this year is again honored for its breadth and variety of committees, programming opportunities for chapter members, and chapter involvement on the State and National level. Read More...Mitts-Smith Awarded Research GrantJune 1, 2005: Doctoral Student Debra Mitts-Smith has been awarded a Princeton University Library research grant, which will enable her to work in the Cotsen Children's Library on her project "A Knock on the Door, a Gleam in the Eye: Imaging the Wolf in Western European Fables and Tales." Read More...Jun Wang Awarded Cognitive Science / Artificial Intelligence FellowshipJune 1, 2005: Doctoral student Jun Wang has been awarded one of this year's cross-disciplinary UIUC Cognitive Science / Artificial Intelligence Fellowships for his project on "Evolving Coupled Encoding/Decoding Agents," which is theoretical work on foundations of language evolution and adaptive information systems. The fellowship, which is given to a very limited number of students, carries a $2,000 award. Wang's work will be supervised by Professor Jim Houk of Northwestern University Medical School and GSLIS Associate Professor Les Gasser. Read More...Hagar Consulting with UK-based INASPJune 1, 2005: Doctoral student Chris Hagar is working on a part-time consultancy basis with INASP, a non-profit organization based in Oxford, UK. INASP was established in 1992 by the International Council for Science. It's mission is to enable worldwide access to information and knowledge with particular emphasis on the needs of developing and transitional countries. They work with partners and networks around the world to encourage the creation and production of information, to promote sustainable and equitable access to information, to foster collaboration and networking, and to strengthen local capacities to manage and use information and knowledge. Read More...Downie, Hu, and Ehmann Poster Wins at JCDLJune 1, 2005: A poster created by Associate Professor Stephen Downie, GSLIS doctoral student Xiao Hu, and Engineering doctoral student Andreas Ehmann entitled "Music-to-Knowledge (M2K): A prototyping and evaluation environment for music digital library research" received the best poster award in a field of more than 50 posters at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, held June 7–11, 2005 in Denver, Colorado. Read More...Students Win Scholarships to Attend ACRLMarch 1, 2005: Congratulations to the GSLIS students who have won scholarships to attend the ACRL National Conference in Minneapolis in April 2005: Library school student scholarshipsMarch 1, 2005: Marc Gartler March 1, 2005: Ann Paprocki Dr. E.J. Josey spectrum scholar travel grantMarch 1, 2005: Amber Prentiss Read More...Benevento Awarded NASIG GrantMarch 1, 2005: Congratulations to master's student Jenny Benevento, who is one of six North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Conference Student Grant Award winners! Read More...Bessman Presents at ALISEFebruary 1, 2005: Doctoral student Joan Bessman presented a research poster at ALISE in Boston (January 12, 2005) entitled, "Suggesting Reading: Where Readers' Advisors and Book Recommender Systems Meet" and a paper entitled, "Oprah's Book Club: Institutionalizing Communal Capital in the Cultural Field" at the Social Context of Literary Production and Consumption Workshop on Literary Communities at SOAS in London in May 2004. Bessman will also be presenting: a paper entitled, "Reading as Creation: Science Fiction Book Group Members Create the Ideal Work" in San Diego in March 2005 at the joint national meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture Associations; a paper entitled, "The Reading Practices of Book Groups: Reception as Creation" at the Duke Graduate Program in Literature's conference "Rethinking Reception" in April 2005; and a paper entitled, "'And I Come After, Gleaning Here and There': An Examination of the Contexts and Practices of Early 20th Century Women's Reading Clubs in Niles, Michigan" at the SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) Conference, "Navigating Texts & Contexts" in Halifax in July 2005. Read More...Alumni News
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