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Department of Information and Library Science 2019-2020 Newsletter
RPS LIBRARIES
students gain professional management experience on campus
Katie Novak
Contents
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Letter from the Chair ..................................................3 RPS Libraries ................................................................4 ILS Specializations....................................................6 PhD Candidates........................................................9 Grace Hopper Conference..................................9 Inside Look at Internships...............................10 ILS & RKCSI Colloquiums...............................11 Student Accomplishments.........................12 Professionals in Practice......... ..............14 Doctoral Research Forum.....................14 Recent Grads...........................................15 Librarianship & Mathematics............16 Faculty Accomplishments...............18 Alumni Class Notes........................20 Dream Job: Holschuh....................21 Staff Spotlight............................22 Distinguished Alumni...............23 Lelah Fletcher In Memoriam: Nancy Lair.......25 Montoya Leaving...................27 Katharine Teykl
ronald e. day department chair pnina fichman mls program director noriko hara mis program director howard rosenbaum graduate programs director
Michelle Dunbar-Sims
robert d. montoya doctoral program director carol e. b. choksy undergraduate programs director
staff (pictured) michelle dunbar-sims student support specialist & assistant graduate recruiter lelah fletcher receptionist & chair’s assistant katie novak assistant director of ils operations & luddy external scholarships
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Cover photos (left to right): Duc Tran at the Luddy Fall ‘19 Graduation Ceremony; students at Fall orientation; Abe Nemon, Adrienne Rife, and Alyssa Merkta at Winter Solstice Celebration; Una Thacker and Chase McCoy at Fall Reception; Boryana Borisova and Carole Medal; Sara Duke at Internship Presentation; Margaret McLaughlin, Velencia Posso, Rachel Condon, and Anya Zach meeting with Ellie Valentine; Claire Drone-Silvers at the Luddy Fall ‘19 Graduation Celebration.
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Letter from the Chair
Dear ILS Alumni, Students, Staff, Faculty and Other Colleagues and Friends, First of all, I send you our greetings and good wishes after some time of not writing. As we all say now more than ever, I hope that you are well. The Fall 2019 semester was rather quiet in the Department of Information and Library Science post-ALA re-accreditation, as the school was reorganizing graduate admissions and records, and our staff was working with the school on this reorganization. Other than that, our faculty continued with their high-quality research, and our students continued in their studies and working with the professionals at IU’s world class libraries, archives, and museums on campus. We continued to have national and international visitors, such as Ellie Valentine, an IUB MLS alum, who spoke in October about her wide international experience in Ukraine, Armenia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. And then Spring 2020 came, and we all know what has happened. As I write this, the Luddy School administration and staff has been working on the fall schedule and continuing our support of the students in an online environment. While things may change, we anticipate a fall semester that is heavily online while also continuing some residential classes. ILS is a residential program, and the University has implemented CDC approved safety measures in regard to the pandemic, but events have also demanded that ILS take full account of its faculty, staff, and student preferences in light of COVID-19. The important point is that ILS will continue maintaining the same personalized and excellent instruction and student services that we had in the spring of 2020 and have had for many decades. We anticipate that by the spring we will
return to a more fully or completely residential instruction. Our students will continue to graduate from an excellent program with outstanding full time faculty and outstanding adjunct professionals from IU and surrounding libraries. We all look forward to a return to residential instruction, but we are in an extremely dangerous pandemic right now. We recognize that to some degree that we must defer our pleasure in being together live in the fall for the happiness of being both alive and together after the fall. In the history of IU, there have been wars and other pandemics when such sacrifices and much more have been necessary, and we are grateful that we now have information technologies, safety protocols being implemented by the University, and our dedicated instructors, staff, and students through which we can continue to fulfill our mission during this moment.
Ron Day
With that said, I wish you and your family a safe passage through the pandemic and stand in solidarity through the political, social, and cultural upheavals that rightfully seek truth, fairness, and justice against ignorance, violence, and oppression. Rest assured that ILS will continue its mission during this time of educating information professionals toward a more just and knowledgeable world. Take care, Ron Day, Professor and Departmental Chair, ILS
Luddy School Updates School Name Change The School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering had its name changed in 2019 to the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Fred Luddy is an Indiana native and founder of ServiceNow, a cloudbased computing company operating out of Santa Clara, California. The change comes on the heels of Fred Luddy’s $60 million dollar gift to advance artificial intelligence research at Indiana University.
offers assistance to students from the time they apply to the time they graduate. The Graduate Studies Office now handles admissions for all departments, including Information and Library Science. They also address transcript issues and graduation applications. ILS is happy to be working with Patty Reyes-Cooksey, Cindy Wedemeyer, Renee Kiser, Tracy Hollon, Shawn Linn Davenport, Cheryl Engel, Shalini Choubey, Hannah Burcham, Amy Marshek and Lucas Gillenwater. Šelma Sabanović,Associate Professor of Informatics, is Luddy’s new Associate Dean for Graduate Education.
New Graduate Studies Office The Luddy School has a new Graduate Studies Office that New Interim Dean
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Dennis Groth is the Interim Dean of the Luddy School. Groth leads a multi-campus school of nearly 175 faculty members and 4,000 students at the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses. He also is a Professor of Informatics, with a research focus on the development of new database access and data mining techniques in support of data visualization activities, as well as understanding models of exploration in digital environments. Former Dean Raj Acharya, who led the school since 2016, is transitioning to a new role with Indiana University leadership as Associate Vice President for Research and AI Innovation in the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Book display at the Teter Residence Hall library
“The gre at value of working in the RPS Libraries is that I had the opportunity to truly run a library for a full year in the context of a fully supportive mentor and institution. I was responsible for every aspect of the fully functioning library, from hiring a staff, developing a collection, and planning programing each month. No other university has a residential library program that is as respected and embedded, so knowing that the system is designed to help librarians succeed and grow was empowering.” – Mallory Nygard (MLS ’19) Study space at Teter Residence Hall library
RPS Libraries and Alumna Mentor ILS Students in Management
By Katie Novak Outside of the classroom, in addition to time spent completing internships, projects, and other coursework, the majority of master’s students in the Department of Information and Library Science (ILS) at IU Bloomington work anywhere from about 10 to 29 hours per week in many of the extensive libraries, museums, programs, and collections on campus. These campus partners and the range of positions they offer to students are essential in supplementing student learning and assisting in further exploration of career possibilities. While these jobs vary greatly in duties, skills required and level of responsibility, as a Center Supervisor with the Residential Programs & Services (RPS) Libraries, students have the singular experience of managing a library in its entirety. Current Master of Library Science (MLS) students Emily Ollis (’21) and Shannon Grimme (’21) met with RPS Libraries Manager and IU alumna Alex Lawless (MLS ’18) in early February, just as she kicked off the search for her next year’s supervisors, to find out more about the Libraries, Lawless, and this unique opportunity for ILS students. According to Lawless, the RPS Libraries system, which now consists of fourteen libraries in fourteen different housing units on campus, was started in the 1940’s by Herman B. Wells. Originally operating within IUB Libraries, it transitioned to RPS management around the beginning of this century. As the largest of its Sorting and cataloging area for RPS Libraries
kind and one of only two in the nation, the RPS Libraries serve the student population with programming and materials similar to a public library. Each location is distinct, often based on the population of the housing unit, although non-resident students can also utilize the resources and spaces. The Campus View library, for example, is the only one with a children’s collection, the Collins Library specializes more in graphic novels, and the Foster Library has a poetry focus. While meeting with Lawless, Grimme and Ollis toured the Teter Residence Hall Library, which also happens to house Lawless’ office and the administrative center for all of the RPS Libraries. On display within Teter were special exhibits created by Velencia Posso, dual Master of Information Science and Master of Public Affairs student (’22), the 2019-20 Center Supervisor for Teter. “I love the proximity to the library that the students have for when they need a change of scenery to study, to find materials for leisure and study, or to meet with a friend,” says Posso. “I enjoy speaking with the students living in the residence hall, and they always express excitement concerning the library programs and materials. They like having that place to go that is close to where their rooms are located.” Even the hours are set to be convenient for students, open 7 days a week during the late afternoon and evening. Lawless herself worked on campus in the Optometry Library, the Neal-Marshall Black Cultural Center Library, and the Maurer School Jerome Hall Law Library while pursuing her degrees at IU; she was employed full-time in the Law Library as an MLS student. In her role as Manager for the RPS Libraries, she finds the most enjoyment in working
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with and mentoring the Center Supervisors that she hires, in providing them with professional opportunities, and in helping them build management experience and confidence. Running the 14 library system does bring its own set of challenges, however, including constant residence hall renovations that close down certain locations and working with somewhat limited resources in a department that is not familiar with library operations, which usually means that Lawless has and continues to learn as she goes along, forging her own path and vision for the system. Beyond the extensive summer staff training and day-to-day operations throughout the school year that fill her time, Lawless has no shortage of plans for the future of her position and the system as a whole. She would like to see all the library spaces renovated, all collections weeded and updated, greater team cohesion (particularly a strong communications process), manuals created for full-time positions, and proper documentation across the board. Long term, she hopes for better integration both between her unit and IU Libraries to build in more opportunities for professional peer-topeer collaboration, and between her unit and the ILS department.
goals after graduation. “My dream job is to be a director at Alex Lawless a public library one day, and I feel strongly that my position at RPS Libraries is preparing me for that role,” she said. “I get to have hands-on experience working with marketing, outreach, pro-
gramming, collection development, and management. It has been a fantastic learning experience for me, especially coming from a library system where those duties were split into separate departments. It has helped me realize different facets of librarianship in a more direct way, which I appreciate because I do believe that having experience in multiple departments can prove to be useful in a management perspective when making decisions.” Lawless thinks that MLS students benefit both from the mentoring relationship she has with them and for how the position seems to have catapulted several alumni into library directors immediately after graduation, an accomplishment that would normally require post-graduation expeLawless attended the ILS new student rience. orientation last Fall to advertise the Center Supervisor positions and has For former Center Supervisor and rebeen in working with ILS to publicize cent alumna, Mallory Nygard (MLS ’19), this opportunity for students. She does this was most definitely the case. Right prefer to hire MLS students for the po- after graduation, she landed her current sition, and details other qualifications job as the Director of Library and Inforin the position description such as pri- mation Services for St. John Neumann or library experience, ability to exercise Catholic School in Knoxville, TN. “The initiative and independent judgment, great value of working in the RPS Librarability to organize job duties and work ies is that I had the opportunity to truly independently, ability to motivate, es- run a library for a full year in the context tablish, and maintain effective working of a fully supportive mentor and institurelationships, and creativity to develop tion. I was responsible for every aspect and implement library programs and of the fully functioning library, from hirservices. Tasks for Center Supervisors ing a staff, developing a collection, and include preparing budgets, managing planning programing each month. No collection development, interviewing, other university has a residential library hiring, supervising and evaluating stu- program that is as respected and emdent staff, marketing and outreach, and bedded, so knowing that the system is coordinating monthly programming, to designed to help librarians succeed and name a few. grow was empowering. Not only was
classes, but I was able to do so knowing that I was fully supported by Alex Lawless, Tina Walsh, and the RPS Libraries team. I knew I could be bold in my choices because Alex was there to talk me through the options and help me see why programs or approaches weren’t successful. There was a freedom to fail and learn from that failure which is so important, especially for an early-career librarian.”
This past semester ended for RPS and students on campus unlike any other due to COVID-19, with students predominantly remaining off-campus and all instruction moved online after spring break. According to IU President McRobbie’s announcement on May 27, 2020, the current plan is for students to return to residence halls this fall, albeit with restrictions on occupancy and measures for public safety. At the time of publication, Lawless and RPS Libraries were still trying to iron out plans for the fall semester and which services might operate during an ongoing pandemic. While their near future might be uncertain, for the sake of current and future ILS students and the student population at-large, ILS hopes that the RPS Libraries will continue as Lawless says they have in the past, “surviving I able to immediately implement the [throughout] downsizing and dislocaFor Posso, the position has taken her ideas and approaches I learned in my tion - resilient.” one step closer to achieving her career
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ILS Specializations: an in-depth look The ILS Newsletter is highlighting MIS and MLS specializations in a series of Spotlights on Specializations that will run through several editions of the newsletter. Keep an eye on future publications for more details on each specialization! Laura Guebert, Kate Duneman, George Barnhouse, and Samantha Hyde are ILS students and alumni interested in working in Children’s and Young Adult Services. They provided their insights into the specialzation to ILS. Andrew Wang spoke on behalf of the Art Librarianship specialization, sharing his experience in the program.
Children’s and Young Adult Services Specialization
Samuel Ott
Samuel Ott has been the co-advisor for the Children’s & Young Adult Services specialization and a new adjunct lecturer with ILS since the beginning of The future for Youth Services as a pro- the 2019-20 academic year. fession is bright as more and more libraries are realizing the importance of He graduated in December 2017 from how robust Children and Teen Services the IU ILS program and holds a Master Departments contribute to the commu- in Library Science with a Specializanity and create lifelong tion in Children’s and “The Children’s and library users. GraduatYoung Adult Services, Young Adult Services ing with a Children’s and as well as a Master in Young Adult Services specialization classInformation Science. specialization means He has worked for es have been some of that an individual has the last three years my favorite thus far in acquired an excellent in Bloomington at the my MLS! This specialfoundation to be a ChilMonroe County Public ization has grown my dren’s, Tween, or Teen Library as a Teen Comconfidence — in both Librarian and work with munity Engagement my knowledge of librarpopulations 0 - 19 years Librarian for ages 12 ianship as well as my old. Any job requiring a - 19, and their caregivunderstanding of my Children’s, Youth Serers and educators, prorole in librarianship. vices, Tween, or Teen viding programming, - Samantha Hyde librarian would be open reader’s advisory, and to a student graduating reference services. He with this specialization. Specialization specializes in nerd culture programgraduates will understand the ages and ming, finding ways to enhance library stages of youth development, know how service to under-served audiences, and to create outcome driven programs and supporting the reading life of teens and services, attain basic fluency in litera- their families. Prior to his current positure for youth, and have a foundational tion, he served for two years as a Senior knowledge of the profession’s history. Information Assistant specializing in In addition to the required coursework, Children’s Services and before that he internships are a vitally important part held a variety of positions in two other of learning where skills can be put into public libraries over a five year period. practice and students can essentially have a test run of their chosen career and specialization. Ginny Hosler Ginny Hosler is a new adjunct lecturer Those interested in public librarianship and co-advisor for the Children & Young should also consider this specializa- Adult Services specialization at IU ILS. tion. Public libraries serve all ages, and She has a long history with libraries, knowing best practice standards for learning first-hand how libraries and youth services will allow any librarian their workers can positively impact to better engage with their community lives when she was just 5 years old and and have a more holistic understanding going to the Monroe County Public Liof librarianship. brary for help with a visual tracking dis-
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order. The thoughtful and empathetic librarians she experienced, along with seeing libraries morph into community centers, places that encourage social justice activism and maker-centric spaces, encouraged her to pursue a career in the field. First earning her bachelor’s in Creative Writing and Folklore, she turned her attention to an MLS with a specialty in Youth Services from IU-Bloomington in 2014. Through her coursework, she worked closely with Christina Jones, former IU
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Youth Services Specialist, who inspired ories of critical librarianship. Museum Rhode Island School of Art and Design, her to challenge herself and to keep librarians are also evolving to manage and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. archival activities, comlooking to the next problem she could “I feel like I have gained munity outreach, and Art librarianship is a fascinating cadigital art stewardship. reer path, full of diverse possibilities solve. Since then, she substantive experience has worked in many from the Youth Services The emphasis of the for those who are interested in staying specialization is placed involved in cultural heritage work and different departments and Materials for in the Seminar in Art supporting creative practitioners. For and libraries but found Youth courses that will Librarianship, which is any current or prospective students, her calling as a Comprepare me for being based upon the Art Li- Sarah Carter, the advisor for the spemunity Engagement a children’s librarian, braries Society of North cialization, recommends getting as Children’s Librarian specifically in thinking America’s (ARLIS/NA) much experience - internships, volunat her childhood liabout programming Core Competencies for teering, practicums, part-time jobs - as brary here in Monroe and age-appropriate Art Information Profes- possible before and during their masCounty, where she materials, as well as sionals. Students learn ter’s degree training. Employers are works with children about what it is like to looking for students who have proven ages 0-12 years, their how to stay current work in a variety of insti- track records of completing projects, families, and childand innovative in this hood educators. She role. Being able to learn tutional contexts, how so it’s great to get involved in any kind to serve users and their of team-based projects. It is also really regularly presents from practicing public at conferences and librarians is invaluable!” unique research needs, helpful to get leadership experience in engage in outreach and a volunteer context. The Art Libraries classes both in the li-Kate Duneman instruction activities, as Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) brary world and the well as the print and dig- provides a Learning Portal full of free education world. She’s a fan of all things Kid’s Lit, fandom cul- ital facets of collection development for online lectures for those interested in sampling a variety of professional deture, dogs, tattoos, and poetry. She’s diverse subjects. velopment topics. currently teaching Materials for Youth and Youth Services with Sam Ott and is A few other universities have historexcited to share the world of children’s ically offered coursework in art li- Sarah Carter literature, programming, and public li- brarianship. Other notable programs Sarah Carter became the art librarianship specialization braries with students hoping to build a beyond IU’s include University of North Caradviser in 2017, when career in that area. “These classes were olina at Chapel Hill and she began her new taught by current the Pratt Institute. IU’s position at Indiana professionals in the program is part of a University as the Art, field, which really gave strong tradition of arts Architecture, and Dethe classes a down to earth, applicable Librarian Emerita BJ Irvine perceived an and humanities on the sign Librarian at Herfeeling. Everything opportunity for IU to become a leader Bloomington campus. man B Wells Library. we covered was real, in the field of art librarianship. In 1985, It’s students often have She’s been working as understandable, and she created the specialization and be- an interest in the peran art librarian since easily connected to came its director, a role in which she forming arts, including 2007 at different colthe work we would served until her retirement in 2007. Art theater, opera, and muleges and universities, all be doing as future librarianship began to form as a recog- sic, as well as the visual and brings her expeprofessionals.” nized subfield of librarianship in the late arts. Students who have riences doing special-Laura Guebert nineteen-sixties and seventies. The fu- graduated from the speized collection develture of the field is evolving alongside the cialization have gone on opment for artists’ growing work that libraries are doing in to varied positions withing the field, books, monographs, serials, and digital their communities. Many academic working at major museums around resources, as well as years designing inart librarians are expanding their skill North America, including Stanford Li- formation literacy instruction for studio sets to liaise with faculty and students braries, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, art and art history students. on topics such as open access, digital the Menil Collection in Houston, Emory humanities, and engagement with the- University, the Art Institute of Chicago, “I’ve always loved art, and double-ma-
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jored in art history at Smith College, my professor for two of my graduate along with Italian Language and Liter- courses. My first supervisor at Ringature. I was privileged ling College of Art and to attend the UniverDesign, Kathleen List, “In the dual degree sity of Florence and Director of Kimbrough MLS/MA Art History spend my junior year Library (who is coinciprogram, I was affordabroad in Florence, Itdentally, an IU alumed the opportunity to aly. I then returned to na), became a trusted develop my subject Indiana to complete mentor as well. Both of specialization alongside my dual master’s dethese mentors serve as my library training. My grees in Library Scirole models today when experience with the ence and Art History I think about the kind dual degree program and had positions at of leadership I want to eventually made me a the Fine Arts Library practice and how I want standout candidate for as the Circulation Suto teach and learn withpervisor and in Wells positions I’ve held since in the IU community.” Library as an Instrucgraduating, I think my tional Assistant.” “I am currently involved time at IU was invaluin a project to examine able because I had so “My first professional the recent scholarship much firsthand experiposition at the Ringon artists’ information ence working from the ling College of Art and needs, specifically exground up, so to speak, Design was a very rich amining how research in a large research opportunity for career methodologies and institution. The guidgrowth as an Instructheories have shifted ance I received from my tion and Research Serwithin the past fifteen mentors and from my vices Librarian. I loved years. I hope that by peers had an invaluable reexamining how we immersing myself in impact on my career.” the studio art contalk about artists’ reAndrew Wang text, and being around search, librarians can so many creative, better deliver informahard-working stution literacy to college dents and faculty. After seven years, I students, as well as serve practicing moved on to the University of Louisville artists within their communities. I to serve as the Director of the Bridwell Art Library. The recent transition of the fine arts collections from the former Fine Arts Library into the Herman B Wells Library provided a unique opportunity to return to IU and re-envision services to the Art History Department as well as the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, and Design. I enjoy being back in a rigorous academic environment and being a part of the growing arts and humanities conversation on IU’s campus. My first professional mentor, BJ Irvine, was the Head of the Fine Arts Library, as well as
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teach ILS Z651 Seminar in Art Librarianship. This course, required for both the Dual MLS-History of Art degree program and the Art Librarianship specialization was redesigned by Emilee Mathews, a visionary art librarian (and IU alumna of the art librarianship dual degree program), and is based upon feminist pedagogical practice. As part of the course, we take trips to regional libraries to tour library facilities and speak with other professionals. We are fortunate that the course taps into knowledge of more than a dozen professionals via video interviews, and the course is flexible to meet the interests of students who enroll each semester.”
Former IU Fine Arts Library (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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Katherine Morrison
Haining Wang
New Ph.D Candidates
is the platonic ideal of an advisor and mentor--he’s generous with opportunities and feedback, patient, and enormously curious. Ron Day has fundamentally changed how I understand the world. He’s the most wildly Katherine Morrison brilliant--and kind--scholar I’ve had the for“I’ve known IU’s reputation for library sci- tune to study with. I model my teaching and ence since I was a teenager. I connected dedication on Rob’s. I model my modes of with some Purdue folks who ended up at thought and ethics on Ron’s. IU for library science, and talking to them helped convince me to come here. I didn’t And I would be absolutely remiss not to know coming in that I would (or could!) mention how central my supervisors and pursue a PhD in Information Science, but co-workers in the archives have been. Mary I quickly found my work so engaging that Mellon, Carrie Schwier, Dina Kellams, and I wasn’t ready to leave it after two years. Andy Uhrich have all shaped the work I do I wanted to “dig in” and I’m so happy I’ve and the level of engagement I bring to it. been able to do that here. And my two “spiritual mentors” are Lou Alexander Watkins, the Art & Architecture librarian at University of Colorado, was generous enough to take me under his wing while I was there. I helped train other art history TA’s to implement library instruction in their own classrooms and co-authored an article about this work with him. When we co-presented at ARLIS, I knew all those folks were “my people.” I also can’t speak abundantly enough about other mentors. Rob Montoya
Haining Wang “I’m Haining Wang from mainland China. I received my Master’s in Archival Science from Wuhan University and bachelor’s degrees in Information Management & Systems, English, and Military from Shanxi University and Army Academy of Artillery and Air Defense.
Upon leaving my previous job, a strong belief in realizing my deferred dream in academics brought me here. After being here for a few months, ILS has proved itself to be the right place for me to pursue serious and exciting studies, mostly because of the extraordinary faculty and cordial staff who have my back, and partly due to BloomingReed and Eugene V. Debs. All of this, though, ton being such an enjoyable place to live. doesn’t come close to touching the inspiration I take from my family members, espe- I used to focus on aspects of collections in cially my mom and the memory of my dad. academic libraries. However, now my typical objectives shift to texts, which demands I serve on the Board of Directors for the more methodologies from computational Eugene V. Debs Foundation in Terre Haute. linguistics. Mostly, I apply authorship attriWe maintain the Debs family home muse- bution and verification frameworks to auum (Eugene lived there from 1890 until his thorship myths and disputes in the settings death) and promote the Debs’ legacy for la- of classical Chinese works and collaborative bor, education, social justice, and pacifism.” writings.”
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing In October 2019, ILS graduate student Nina Updike, along with other Luddy students led by the Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Lamara Warren, attended the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Orlando. The Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists, offering participants the opportunity to learn about Nina Updike (front, left) at the GHC
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innovative technologies and network with women in technology from around the world through sessions, career fairs, and keynote speakers. Workshops offered varied from returning to graduate school to navigating workplace dynamics and discrimination to imaging future approaches to technology and computing issues. This year, over 25,000 people attended the GHC.
Inside Look at ILS Interships
Timmia King (MLS ‘20), Black Film Center/Archive
In the Spring 2020 semester, Timmia King, dual Masters of Library Science and African American and African Diaspora Studies student, completed an internship at the IU Bloomington Black Film Center/Archive.As a Multimedia Cataloging intern at the Black Film Center/Archives, Timmia worked to catalog some of the resources in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Inc. and make them available to users in IU’s Media Collections Online. With almost no experience cataloging in either coursework or in a professional setting, as well as little exposure to different types of multimedia beyond VHS, audiocassette tapes or DVDs, the learning curve for her was steep. The first objective she had for the internship was to put on the student hat and learn. Thankfully, she had an excellent teacher in her internship supervisor, Ronda Sewald. Throughout the internship, she learned how to recognize the different types of media that lived in the center and then learned how to catalog the items one field at a time.After going through the process of learning how to catalog with a batch of 25 items, she was able to select any other new item in the collections documenting the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (BFHFI), which is made up of items from the Mary Perry Smith BFHFI Archives Collection and the Belva Davis and William Moore BFHFI Archives Collection. During her internship, she cataloged over 60 items in the collection. She decided to focus on cataloging the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame’s 1993 Sidney Poitier Fellowship student competition videos and succeeded. She researched the resources and their creators to provide the most accurate metadata. Timmia learned how to catalog multimedia resources, specifically videotapes and audiotapes. She also learned how to work with the collection management system Avalon Media System. Drawing from course knowledge, Timmia was able to gain practical experience in creating metadata and using subject, geographic, and name authorities such as Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) and the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
ect also hopes to make materials available to groups who might not normally frequent the archives, and Claire worked to address those issues through research into how they could help minority and underrepresented groups feel more welcome and involved in university archives and collections.
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center. I learned so much about cataloging. I watched so many interesting videos and listened to awesome audio recordings, and met fantastic people who are really great at their jobs.But one of the greatest takeaways from this experience is that I was able to play a small part in making the collections of the Black Film Center/Archive more accessible to others. I only wish I was able to spend more time at the center so I would have been able to catalog more items.” Claire Drone-Silvers (MLS ‘19), Ruth Lilly Special Collections & Archives, IUPUI
This past Fall, ILS graduate student Claire Drone-Silvers worked at the Ruth Lilly Special Collections & Archives at IUPUI, where she helped develop an inventory of digital objects from their collections as part of their upcoming mass-digitization project. She worked with a variety of materials from 8” floppy disks to thumb drives, utilizing a comprehensive Excel spreadsheet to document the location and quantity of various collections materials. Claire also contributed to the intended mass digitization of their collection by researching and developing drafts for a section of their grant application, as the archives hope to receive grant-funding for this project so that they can transfer media in the collections that are “at medi“I had a great experience interning at the um-to-high risk of obsolescence.” The proj-
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In addition to her work on this massive project, Claire was also able to utilize her internship to develop other skills for professional librarianship, such as collection development and instructional observation. She had the opportunity to expand her collection development practices through a donation made to the archives. She used WorldCat and IUCAT to determine the rarity of items and whether or not IU had these items already, and the used this information to keep the item in Special Collections, send it to the Payton Philanthropy Library, or add the item to the collections. Claire also took advantage of the opportunity to follow her supervisor Denise Rayman, Philanthropy Librarian and Digital Archivist, as she provided instruction to graduate students in the Philanthropy graduate program at IUPUI. “I was so impressed with how quickly she was able to read the room and determine what level of library and research literacy the students had and how she was able to adjust her presentation accordingly,” Claire notes. She noted how instructive it was to see the planning and improvisation that went into this sort of instruction as an observer and not just a student. Claire had such a positive experience that she continued working there after her internship for a few hours each week during the Spring 2020 semester, helping to process manuscript collections. “Overall, my internship experience was an overwhelmingly positive one. I would highly recommend an internship at the Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives at IUPUI.” Internships for Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 have been adapted to ensure the safety of ILS students during the pandemic. Students can opt to take one of two classes that will count toward their internship requirement. ILS interns keep blogs detailing their experiences at: https://ilsinternlife. luddy.indiana.edu/
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ILS & RKCSI Colloquium 8.30.19 Howard Besser The first ILS Colloquium of the year featured Dr. Howard Besser, founding Director of NYU’s Moving Image Archiving & Preservation MA program. He presented his research on “The Challenges of Archiving Personal, Community, and Event-Based Born-Digital Material” on August 30, 2019. In his presentation, he discussed how the transition from analog to digital creation and communication has forced archives and special collections to handle the vastly larger corpus of born-digital records that have already begun to enter archives. Besser described his work with archivists, individuals, and community groups in addressing some of the challenges of this digital deluge, particularly looking at the problems posed by personal, community and event-based born-digital material—the type of material that documents the lives of ordinary people and the social and community organizations that they form. 9.13.19 Christian Bachmann Dr. Christian A. Bachmann, postdoctoral research fellow in the Journal Literature research unit based in Bochum, Germany, presented at the ILS Colloquium on September 13, 2019. His presentation, “Why Does Superman See in Circles,” examined the history and development of telescopic and microscopic imagery in the context of cartoons and comics. Bachmann’s previous research has dealt with the materiality and mediality of comic and graphic novels, artist’s books, and German and American Literature from the 19th to the 21st century. 9.13.19 William Dutton Co-sponsored by the RKCSI and the ILS Colloquium, William H. Dutton, an Oxford Martin Fellow supporting the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford, presented his work on “Embedding the Internet and the Fifth Estate: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Reality of Society on the Line.” In his presentation, Dutton explored how utopian narratives about the societal role of the
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internet have been overwhelmed by a dystopiantech-lash across Antonio Europe and North AmerBadia ica that shifts focus from benefits to harms associated with the internet and social media. He explored how evidence from the 2019 Oxford Internet Survey of Britain suggests that the internet and social media are becoming more embedded in everyday life –displacing tradi- on how deep fakes and Snapchat filters tional media and reinforcing the role that have commonalities in their technologidigital media will play in all aspects of cal means of filtering and modifying how our lives, including the democratization a person presents in digitally-mediated of information and social accountability environments. She presented the results of a study that demonstrate the Proteus through the role of the Fifth Estate. Effect in Animoji clips regarding identity performances through voice quality and 9.27.19 Xiaomi An The ILS Colloquium hosted Dr. Xiaomi vocalization and described two studies An on September 27, 2019. Dr. An is a in progress of how Animoji are used with, distinguished professor at the School of and perceived by, different interlocutors Information Resources Management at in private and non-humorous contexts. Renmin University of China (RUC). Her Susan Herring is Professor of Informapresentation, “Meta-Synthetic Method- tion Science and Linguistics and Director ology in Big Data,” revealed how man- of the Center for Computer-Mediated aging information resources in the de- Communication at Indiana University, velopment of e-government and smart Bloomington. cities around the world faces grand challenges of collaboration, communication, 2.28.20 Antonio Badia and connectivity across levels, domains, On February 28, 2020, Antonio Badia sectors, regions, systems, businesses, presented at the ILS Colloquium his talk, and services. In the presentation, Dr. An “The Information Manifold: Algorithm introduced meta-synthetic methodology bias, fairness and the Second Wave of as a research strategy based on a review Discontent,” during which he defined of basic concepts and evolutionary pro- several information levels and their relation to each other. He argued that there is cess and development patterns. a gap between processing syntactic information, as computers do, and processing 1.24.20 Susan Herring The first RKCSI colloquium of 2020 semantic/pragmatic information, as peofeatured Dr. Susan Herring, Professor ple do. Badia claimed that programmers of Information Science and Linguistics close the gap by creating syntactic counand Director of the Center for Comput- terparts of semantic concepts. Antonio er-Mediated Communication at Indiana Badia obtained his doctorate at IU. He is University, Bloomington, presenting currently an Associate Professor at the “The Pleasures and Perils of the Dig- Computer Science and Engineering deitally Filtered Self.” Herring lectured partment in the University of Louisville.
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Shannon Bowman-Sarkisian Bowman-Sarkisian won the Indiana Library Federation Outstanding Library Staff award. She has also been giving presentations on the Creating Access for Violence Survivors project as well to the Friends of the Library Board for Monroe County Public Library, the MCPL Board of Trustees, and the Monroe County Domestic Violence Coalition. With the help and full support of her supervisor, Leanne Zdravecky, Bowman-Sarkisian prepared an application for a Library Pioneer Grant to craft the Creating Access for Violence Survivors (CAVS) program. The Friends of the Library granted funds for CAVS in February and many of the program’s goals have already been met. MCPL service staff have received training from Middle Way House on domestic violence and related issues; iPads and LeapPad tablets have been purchased to enable residents of Middle Way House to access eLibrary and digital learning tools; library leadership is in the process of approving policy changes on fee forgiveness; and library outreach is underway for residents of the transitional housing and emergency shelter programs. She also received a continuing education scholarship from IU Credit Union in the amount of $2,150. (Photo credit: MCPL)
posal defense titled “Immersed in Data: Rethinking Interactions with Data in the Context of the Data Visualization Literacy Framework” on March 11th. The committee consisted of Katy Borner (ILS & ISE), Patrick Shih (INFO), John Walsh (ILS), and Rob Montoya (ILS). Rachel Condon Condon recently published her paper from Andrea Morrison and Jennifer Bryan Morgan’s Spring 2019 Government Information course (Z525) in the ALA Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) official publication. The winter issue publishes selected graduate student research nominated by library school professors. Her paper is entitled, “Paying for America’s Elections: The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 and Information Access.” Zheng Gao Gao had three presentations during the Spring semester: Zheng Gao, Hongsong Li, Zhuoren Jiang, Xiaozhong Liu. Detecting User Community in Sparse Domain via Cross-Graph Pairwise Learning. ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2020.
Zheng Gao, Lujun Zhao, Heng Huang, Hongsong Li, Changlong Sun, Luo Si, Xiaozhong Liu. Behavior based Dynamic Summarization on Product AsAndreas Bueckle Bueckle had a successful ILS PhD pro- pects via Reinforcement Neighbour Department of Information & Library Science
Selection. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2020. Zhuoren Jiang, Zheng Gao, Jinjiong Lan, Hongxia Yang, Yao Lu and Xiaozhong Liu. Task-Oriented Genetic Activation for Large-Scale Complex Heterogeneous Graph Embedding. The Web Conference (WWW), 2020. Samantha Hyde In the Summer 2019 semester, Hyde, who is the African American Dance Company Road Manager for the African American Arts Institute and a dual MLS/MA student in African Studies, traveled to Lusaka, Zambia to complete a brief internship with Lubuto Library Partners. This internship opportunity was funded by the OVPIA International Enhancement grant for graduates and the Larry Singell Internship scholarship from the Walter Center for Career Achievement. During her time in Zambia, she worked closely with Lubuto’s model library staff to research the needs of their early learners. She began creating a STE(A)M based early literacy curriculum that she completed over the 2019-2020 academic year as an independent research course through the ILS department. Katherine Maleckar Maleckar is one of the winners of the 2019 Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries Graduate Library School Schol2019-2020 Newsletter
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arship. She was also a recipient of the Friends of the Oberlin College Libraries’ Student Research Awards for her project, “Written in the Margins,” in which she researched Latin marginalia in a manuscript of Martial’s Epigrams and an early printed edition of the Works of Vergil. These Student Research Awards are given for outstanding papers or projects in any subject that demonstrate excellent research using library resources. Her project and scholarship were both featured in the Oberlin Friends of the College Libraries Newsletter Library Perspectives.
to explore the use of sports cards as historical documents chronicling team lineups, players’ careers, and manufacturers no longer in business. The article details what types of metadata can be extracted from the backs of cards and applies principles derived from Dewey Decimal to create catalog numbers for individual cards.
Katie Morrison Morrison received the 1st place award at the ILS Doctoral Research Forum for her presentation, “Exemplars of Vision at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation.” She intends present on the topic at the 16th International ISKO ConAlyssa Merkta Merkta was selected to represent Indi- ference in 2020. ana University as a Student to Staff intern at the summer’s ALA Conference in Brian Watson Chicago. She was also selected to pres- Watson won the Archives Unleashed ent her paper, “’The Invisible Library’: & Columbia University Libraries DataDigital Restoration and the Future of thon Award, was awarded the 2019-20 Manuscript Research,” at IU’s Medieval Kinsey Institute Graduate Fellowship Studies Institute’s 32nd Annual Spring and the 2019-20 IU Margaret Griffin Symposium, “Past Forward: New Ways Coffin Fellowship. Watson was appointed to the board of Homosaurus, the of Looking at Old Things.” International Linked Data Vocabulary. They gave the following presentations: Matthew Meyer Meyer’s paper, entitled “Batter Up: Clas- Subjects in Chains: Linked Data Vocabsifying Pre-World War II Baseball Cards ularies and Sexual Liberation, presented Using Dewey Decimal” was published in at the Digital Humanities Forum at the October in Cataloging & Classification University of Kansas; Queer as Data: Quarterly. It was initially written as a fi- Linked Data and Minoritized Digital Arnal paper and then expanded in a writing chives, presented at Indiana Universiworkshop. In the article, he combines ty Library’s Digital Brown Bag Series. his love of baseball with library science For the Society of American Archivists 13
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(SAA) and the American Library Association 2020 Conference, they presented at the Women and Gender Studies Section. They also presented at the American Historical Association and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Watson has the following reviews published: “Homosaurus and The Digital Transgender Archive.” American Archivist Reviews; “Bias and Inclusivity in Metadata.” (A Report on Julie Hardesty’s Presentation to Indiana University Bloomington). Archival Outlook, no. July/August (2019); Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control, edited by Jane Sandberg. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly; The Edinburgh History of Readers: Subversive Readers (chapter 4), Representing Kink (chapter 4, With Bobby Derie), Rogue Archives, Bodies of Information, Published in The Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy, The New Censorship: Anti-sexuality Groups and Library Freedom. Watson also has articles under review at Porn Studies Journal and Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. Watson was awarded the prestigious Carnegie Whitney Grant award from the American Library Association, as well as a fellowship at the Digital Pedagogy Lab. They have also accepted a Ph.D. offer at University of British Columbia’s School of Information.
Professionals in Practice The Professionals in Practice series is designed to bring ILS alumni to campus to talk with students about their experiences post-graduation and share what they do now. They offer advice for current ILS students as they prepare to complete their degrees and enter the field.
Paula Brehm-Heeger, October 29th Paula Brehm-Heeger, MLS ’95, shared with students about her work at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. The plan to renew and reinvigorate their facilities has been designed around the community needs and community feedback. “We’ve utilized engagement to build trust, openness and innovation for our plan, ‘Building the Next Generation Library, which will be primarily supported with levy funds and is the foundation of a new era of collaboration with and transparency to our community.”
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Ellie Valentine, October 16th Ellie Valentine, IUB MLS ’89, came on October 16th to give a talk, entitled, “What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been: A Librarian’s Reflection of a Non-Traditional Career in Government Development.” Throughout her career, she has developed and conducted training in legislative development, gender empowerment and analysis, civic engagement, and information policy and management. For nearly 20 years, she led USAID parliamentary strengthening projects in Ukraine, Armenia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. She assisted with shortterm consultations for the parliamentary support projects in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam on library and research services, legislative documentation systems, standing order and committee reforms, and staffing structures. In addition, she provided executive management for civic engagement and government accountability projects in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Morocco, Niger, and Yemen. Ellie has also organized and assisted on US Congressional study tours for members and staff of the parliaments of Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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Ph.D. Students Present at Annual Doctoral Research Forum Last Fall, ILS doctoral students presented their current projects at the ILS Doctoral Research Forum, which is an interdisciplinary forum that encourages submissions from all areas related to library and information science. The forum provides an arena for doctoral students to present their ongoing research and discuss their ideas with peers and faculty members. Top presenters win a prize. This forum brought together research from a diverse set of interests and methodological perspectives – from historical-critical analysis to applications in machine learning. They also had the opportunity to hear about exciting work from outside of the
department from the guest speaker, Dr. Damir Carvar, Professor of Computational Linguistics. Thanks to all presenters: Clara Ruth Boothby, Pei-Ying Chen, Ashley Dainas, Katie Morrison Gabin, Holly Lopez Long, Justin Peters, Ying Tang, and Nicholas Wyant Congratulations to the award winners! Best Presentation: Katie Morrison Gabin 1st Runner-up: Justin Peters 2nd Runner-up: Pei-Ying Chen & Clara Ruth Boothby
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Best Wishes to Our Fall ‘19 Graduates Boryana Borisova - Master of Information Science Boryana will be an IT Analyst at Caterpillar Inc., in the three year rotational Digital and IT Development Program with her first rotation in the Surface Mining &Technology Department. “A pivotal moment was being exposed to the incredible research and development of the SPICE research group headed by Luddy Professor Jean Camp. The knowledge and innovation of the students and professors involved inspired me to enter the realm of IT and even led me to an internship as an IT Support Technician for the Indiana National Guard. Through IU, I was also eligible to win scholarships funded by the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense to study abroad in Kyrgyzstan (Critical Language Scholarship) and Kazakhstan (Boren Fellowship).” Madison Carroll - Master of Library Science, Specialization in Music Librarianship Madison is currently the Classical Music Librarian at Northbrook Public Library. She curates their sheet and CD music collections, manages and schedules their concert series, performs on select concerts, and teaches music appreciation to the public. Outside of the library, she has been continuing her clarinet career as a chamber musician. Nathan Gallagher - Master of Information Science Nathan accepted a position as Research Analyst for the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at Indiana University Kokomo.” “During the MIS program, I worked as the data analysis graduate assistant for the Study Abroad Office at IUPUI. I was able to regularly apply many of the skills and concepts I was learning in class to help the Study Abroad Office improve their processes and make data-informed decisions.” Duc Tran - Master of Information Science Duc will continue to work at the School of Education. Start-
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ing in 2020, he is planning to study data analytics/data science. “ILS is a great program with many great professors like Dr. Rosenbaum, Dr. Robbin (Emeritus Associate Professor), Dr. Hara, Dr. Choksy, Dr. Soe, and Dr. Donaldson, who gave me the knowledge that one hardly finds in the other programs. The ILS staff are very supportive and super friendly. The curriculum of MIS is great.” Tennant Argyres - Master of Library Science Benjamin Dailey - Master of Information Science Claire Drone-Silvers - Master of Library Science Jack Kovaleski - Master of Library Science, Specialization in Archives and Records Management Bo Li - Master of Information Science Joseph McManis - Master of Library Science, Specialization in Rare Books and Manuscripts Madelaine Mitchell - Master of Library Science Laura Schneider - Master of Library Science/ Master of Information Science Dual Degree Spring 2020 graduates continued on pg. 17
Have you gotten a job since graduating? Let us know by filling out the Luddy Career Services alumni survey at: https://luddy.indiana.edu/careerservices/alumni-surveys.html
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Librarianship and Mathematics: Kaiser’s Unique Capstone offers Collaboration with Mathematicians
By Jerome Williams This Spring, Master of Library Science student, Justina Kaiser, presented her Digital Curation Capstone entitled “Math Data Curation: A Study On Data Management and Reuse.” Her research in the capstone studied the data management needs of three different mathematical fields: Data Science, Computer Science, and Statistics. She wanted to compare how each of these fields approached data management on individual bases, explore how each of these fields engaged in data reuse, and analyze ways that librarians can assist math researchers with data stewardship. A motivating factor for Justina to pursue this capstone stemmed from her undergraduate background in mathematics. “There’s not a whole lot of conversations happening about how we, as librarians, can help mathematicians and math students,” says Kaiser. “And because of that, math people don’t reach out to us. I wanted to contest this and start making these discussions happen. I chose math data curation because I’ve read a lot of literature on scientific data curation, and yet I’ve struggled to find similar articles for math fields.” To conduct her research, Justina engaged in semi-structured interviews with several researchers from large institutions across the areas of Computer Science, Statistics, and Data Science. She asked them questions regarding their perceptions of their data quality, management, reuse, and data history. Unfortunately, her ability to conduct interviews was greatly hampered by the disruptive impact of the Covid-19 outbreak. “The most difficult part was trying to do this in a pandemic. It’s hard to get researchers to respond in the best of times, and that’s fine; they’re busy people,” says Kaiser, “But then the pandemic hit. I suspect many of the people I reached out to had to respond drastically to a virtual world, just as we all have. Fitting in a vir-
tual interview, even a small one, is a major commitment.” Despite the difficulties presented by the viral outbreak, Justina persisted in her research and was able to complete her capstone. Kaiser wanted to discover if the three fields were similar enough that a standard of data management could be implemented between them. According to Kaiser, “It really depends upon the field.” She found several similarities between the three fields including the importance of data to these fields, the types of data used, and a lack of consistent, well-defined means of storing the data. Unfortunately, she also found several key differences between these three fields. For example, data has varying degrees of importance across the three different fields. Also, despite sharing similar types of data, there were also instances where the data types and data fields differed across disciplines. “Assuming that we can find a catchall for every field is a dangerous assumption,” explained Kaiser. “These fields are different disciplines, which means that assuming a catchall for all of them and telling everyone ‘this is the one right way’ is problematic. We need to listen to the researchers who know their data the best and understand how their data differs from others.” Despite not having an easy answer for standardizing mathematical data across different disciplines, Justina is hopeful for future collaboration between librarians and mathematical researchers. She was able to identify other problems that could be addressed by librarians, such as enabling researchers’ access to more sophisticated data management resources, improving methods of metadata management, and the development of information backups. “We do a lot of work for the science field in data management, but we don’t really reach out to mathematicians enough, so that means that we can find a place for our services to be useful to mathematicians and other fields as we move forward.”
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For students interested in participating in their own capstone, Justina encourages them to engage in meaningful discussions with others on their chosen topic. “Be actively engaged in discussions about this topic, even if it’s not used in your official research. When I began, I reached out to people from multiple universities to get opinions on the validity of my topic, and they were a bountiful resource that helped me to uncover what I really wanted to learn about.” Justina was a part of the 2020 class of graduating MLS students. Starting in June, she began her new career as a Digital Discovery Librarian at Miami Univer-
Ph.D Travel Awardees Each year, ILS provides funds to Ph.D. students to cover travel expenses for presentations at conferences and other forums. Congratulations to the awardees for the 2019-2020 award cycle! Fall 2019: Huixin Tian Pei-Ying Chen Shengnan Yang Spring 2020: Shengnan Yang Zheng Gao
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Spring ‘20 Graduates Sara Duke – Master of Library Science & Master of Information Science Dual Degree, Specialization in Digital Humanities “I genuinely think my favorite part of the ILS program was being challenged in my seminars and through my own research project. My advisor, John Walsh, really let me make my project my own, giving me the freedom to research what I was interested in and teach myself new digital methods I had no previous experience with. It was in both my Intellectual Freedom seminar with Howard Rosenbaum and my Critical/Comparative Librarianship seminar with Rob Montoya, where I felt genuinely challenged. I learned more through those seminars than I ever would have expected. They were amazing, and I am so thankful for classes that made me feel challenged.”
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George Barnhouse - Master of Library Science George is continuing to apply for Youth Services and Outreach positions within public libraries. “The best part of my degree was working with the youth services librarians around Bloomington and being able to do my internship with the teen center at the Monroe County Public Library. Working with them and continuing to keep in touch with them inspires me every day to be a better public service provider!” Jenny Hoops – Master of Library Science Jenny plans to continue her current position as Open Access Publishing Manager for Indiana University Libraries, with the goal to apply for a faculty librarian role in Scholarly Communication in the future. “While my work and class experience with IU was incredible, I am happiest to have made amazing friends that serve as both great peers in the library world and wonderful people who helped shape my ethics and philosophy as a modern librarian.” Kaitlyn Owens – Master of Information Science Kaitlyn joined IBM as a Technical Solution Specialist out of their Dallas, TX office in July 2020. She’s excited (and nervous!) for this career change into technology, and in the future, she hopes to continue on to a Ph.D. “I thoroughly enjoyed my time working the reference desk at Wells with my fellow ILS students, but my absolute favorite moments were when Anya Zach would bring me baked goods in class.” Allison Nolan – Master of Library Science Allison is looking forward to writing up the inclusive metadata research that she did with Julie Hardesty for an article this summer, hopefully for publication in the fall. “I really enjoyed being involved with the student chapter of ALA, especially as part of the executive board. The group of students was great to work with, as were the other ILS student groups.”
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Zheng Gao – Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science Zheng will be an Applied Scientist at Amazon. He recommends the doctoral research forum held each year. “It offers a chance to meet with the whole department and share research in front of them.” Brian Watson – Master of Library Science Brian has accepted an offer with UBC’s School of Library, Archival, and Information Science at the doctoral level. Brian’s best experience “was probably a tie between taking representation and organization with Rob Montoya or continued on pg. 18
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Aysha Aktar (MLS) Benjamin Briles (MLS/MIS) Stephanie Brown (MLS) Andreas Bueckle (Ph.D) Bronwen Carlisle (MLS) Shelby Carroll (MLS) WeiChu Chen (Ph.D) Rachel Condon (MLS/MIS) Kimberly Cook (MLS) Malachai Darling (MLS) Patrick Fox (MLS) Austin Frink (MIS) Madeleine Gaiser (MLS) Graham Gerni (MLS) Emily Grover (MLS) Laura Guebert (MLS) Nicholas Haley (MIS) Anna Hinkley (MLS) Chloe Hovind (MLS) Justina Kaiser (MLS) Madeline Keyser (MLS) Timmia King (MLS) Delaine Laws (MIS) Tova Lesko (MIS) Katie Lichtle (MLS) Jacob Mauldwin (MLS) Chase McCoy (Ph.D) Bri McLaughlin (MLS) Matt Meyer (MLS) Hannah Mills (MIS) Abe Nemon (MLS) Benjamin Ollen (MIS) Ethan Shepherd (MLS) Neha Singh (MIS) Jack Sutton (MLS) Camilla Tan (MIS) Sarah Ward (MLS) Yue Xiao (MIS) Anya Zach (MIS) Chenwei Zhang (Ph.D)
Katy Börner
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Katy Börner Jeschke, Jonathan M., Katy Börner, Victoria Stodden, and Klement Tockner. 2019. “Open Access journals need to become first choice, in invasion ecology and beyond.” NeoBiota (52): 1-8. doi: 10.3897/neobiota.52.39542.
vices: A US national survey.” Library Hi Tech, 37(4), 811-828.
Snyder, Michael P., Shin Lin, Amanda Posgai, Mark Atkinson, Aviv Regev, Jennifer Rood, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Leslie Gaffney, Anna Hupalowska, Rahul Satija, Nils Gehlenborg, Jay Shendure, Julia Laskin, Pehr Harbury, Nicholas A. Nystrom, Jonathan C. Silverstein, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Kun Zhang, Katy Börner, Yiing Lin, Richard Conroy, Dena Procaccini, Ananda L. Roy, Ajay Pillai, Marishka Brown, and Zorina S. Galis. 2019. “The human body at cellular resolution: the NIH Human Biomolecular Atlas Program.” Nature 574: 187-192.
Donaldson, D. R. (2019, September). “Scientists, Institutional Repositories and Data Management Practices. Poster,” presented at Association for Library and Information Science Education Conference (ALISE’19), Knoxville, TN.
Börner, Katy, Andreas Bueckle, and Michael Ginda. 2019. “Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessments.” PNAS 116 (6): 1857-1864. Devan Donaldson Donaldson, D. R. (2019). “The Trust in Archives-Trust in Digital Archival Content Framework.” Archivaria 88 (Fall 2019), 50-83. https://archivaria. ca /index.php/archivaria /ar ticle/ view/13697 Yoon, A., & Donaldson, D. R. (2019). “Library capacity for data curation ser-
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Donaldson, D. R., & Bell, L. (2019). “Security, Archivists, and Digital Collections.” Journal of Archival Organization, 15(1-2), 1-19.
Donaldson, D. R. (2019, October).”Reusing Data Management Plans to Support LIS Education.” Joint Meeting –Active Data Management Plans IG, Exposing Data Management Plans WG, DMP Common Standards WG: Towards FAIR Data Management Plans – From Principles to Practice, Research Data Alliance Fourteenth Plenary (RDA’P14), Helsinki, Finland. Donaldson, D.R. (2019, November). “Perceptions of Data Quality in Electronic Health Record Reuse.” Bioinformatics Core Facility Seminar, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. Donaldson, D.R. (2019, December). “Digital Archives: Issues of Trust and Security.” Data/Digital Archives Week Talk, iSchool, School of Computer, Data
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and Information Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Pnina Fichman Sun. H. & Fichman, P. (2019). “The collective trolling lifecycle.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Fichman P. (2020). “Trolling Trump.” Proceedings of the 2020 iConference. Boras, Sweden, March, 2020. Fichman, P. (2020). “Global trolling: The case of ‘America First.’” Paper presented at the 53rd Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-50) Maui, Hawaii, January 7-11, 2020. Fichman, P. (2019). “Deception in online trolling.” Paper presented on a panel “A Social Informatics Perspective on Misinformation, Disinformation, Deception, and Conflict,” with Hara, N., Meyer, E.T., Chen, Y., and Rieh, S., at the 82nd Annual Conference of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, October 19-23. 2019. Fichman, P., & Dainas, A. R. (2019). “Graphicons and Tactics in Satirical Trolling on Tumblr.com.” International Journal of Communication, 13, 42614286. Fichman, P., & Peters, E. (2019). “Anonymity, geolocation, and territorial
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community norms and composition impact on online trolling.” International Journal of Communication, 13, 10161035. Hara, N., Fichman, P., Meyer, E.T., Chen, Y., & Rieh, S. (2019). “A Social Informatics Perspective on Misinformation, Disinformation, Deception, and Conflict.” Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Conference of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, October 19-23. 2019. Rosenbaum, H. & Fichman, P. (2019). “Algorithmic accountability and digital justice: A critical assessment of technical and sociotechnical approaches.” Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Conference of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, October 19-23. 2019.
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Noriko Hara Panel: Hara, N., Fichman, P., Meyer, E. T., Chen, Y., & Riech, So Y. (2019, October) A Social Informatics Perspective on Misinformation, Disinformation, Deception and Conflict. Association for Information Science & Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Hara, N., & Frieh, E. (2019). “How knowledge contributors are legitimizing their posts on a controversial scientific topic: A case of MMR vaccination.” FirstMonday, 24(11). Hara, N., & McKay, C. (September 2019). “Investigating mediated public engagement with science on the “Science” subreddit: From the participants’ perspective.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, LA.
The 2019 Best Paper in Social Informatics (ASIST SIG SI) for the paper: Sanfilippo, M., Fichman, P., & Yang S., (2018). Multidimensionality of online trolling behaviors, The Information Society, 34 (1), 27-39.
Michelle Hahn Gave a set of grant-funded workshops on behalf of the City of Bloomington’s Council for Community Accessibility about using ride-hailing services like Uber to help members of the disabled community.
The following paper is one of the runner up for the Lee Dirk Award for Best paper https://ischools.org/ News/8563326 - it was held in March 2020: Fichman P. (2020). “Trolling Trump.” Proceedings of the 2020 iConference.
Gave a presentation titled “Meeting Transportation Challenges” to IU Health personnel at the IU Health 2019 Geriatric Conference, also on behalf of the City of Bloomington’s Council for Community Accessibility.
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Students at the Fall ‘19 Orientation and Ice Cream Social
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Anne (Fraser) Beversdorf (MLS ‘74) Anne Beversdorf has been a professional Vedic and Western astrologer since 1992 and was recently awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. She is a published author of a highly praised book, “Vedic Secrets to Happiness” which is a guide to non-astrologers for identifying and using appropriate Vedic remedies to improve one’s life. Anne has, since 2015, been the founding librarian of an online and international astrological library currently being constructed by the non-profit Alexandria iBase Project. She is a columnist in the International Astrology Magazine, and a regular contributor to journals in the US. Anne will spend one month of early 2020 as a requested conference speaker in India at an international astrology conference. Anne lives in Austin, Texas, where she is also a fiber artist and shares her life with friends and a beloved pup. Lisa Browar (MLS ‘77) Under her leadership, the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology in Kansas City, Missouri, was awarded a 3-year $1.5 million-dollar grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to implement the Library’s 3-year strategic plan. She has been president of the Linda Hall Library since 2008. Patricia Clark (MLS ‘77) At the October 2019 Southern Chapter Medical Library Association (SCMLA) Annual Meeting in Savannah, GA, Patricia (Pat) Clark was honored as the 2019 SCMLA Hospital Librarian of the Year. Pat has over 38 years of professional experience in health sciences librarianship which began with her role as the MEDLARS/MEDLINE Online Training Coordinator for the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, MD in 1981. In the fall of 1989, Pat moved south and has been providing leadership as the Director of the Medical Library and the Family Resource Center Library at the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg since then. Prior to her work at the NLM, Pat was the first Li-
brarian for the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, in Indianapolis, IN from 1977 to 1981. She began this employment after receiving her MLS from IU in May of 1977. Pamela Gibbs Ferber (MLS ‘78) Gibbs Ferber retired from the Porter County (Indiana) Public Library System in 2015 where she had been a branch manager for 16.5 years. Prior employers included Valparaiso University, 3 other Indiana public libraries, and the Berkeley County (SC) Library. Previous positions held included assistant director, extension librarian, coordinator of branches, reference librarian, and circulation manager. Pam is grateful that her career covered a wide range of duties and provided the opportunity to work full or part time in order to balance work and family life. Pam spends her retirement reading, traveling, and helping with the local Friends of the Library book sales. Jeff Gunderson (MLS ‘75) Gunderson recently published an essay “The Art Education of Ed Hardy,” for the recent retrospective exhibition, Ed Hardy: Deeper Than Skin: Art of the New Tattoo (N.Y./S.F.: Rizzoli, 2019). The exhibition was held at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Mary B. Lavagnino (MLS ‘73) Mary B. Lavagnino, who received her Bachelor’s in Bacteriology from Indiana University in 1953 and then went on to get her MLS from Indiana University Bloomington with a specialization in Chemical Information, passed away peacefully in December, 2018. She was a long-time supporter of the Department and also generously donated to the building of Luddy Hall. She worked for Eli Lilly as a Chemical Patent Searcher after receiving her MLS. Her branch of Eli Lilly became Dow Elanco, where she continued as a Chemical Patent Searcher until her retirement. Patty Lunsford (MLS ‘76) Lunsford is one of the Committee Chairs for the Midwest continued on pg. 22
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Courtney with Judy Rule at graduation Courtney at the Moving Image Archive
Courtney filming at MOMA
“This is My Dream Job”
Courtney Holschuh & Her Journey to the Museum of Modern Art
By Jerome Williams Since the beginning of her application process to IU, Courtney Holschuh (MLS ‘18) knew that she wanted to be a film archivist. By the time Courtney completed her undergraduate at Marshall University, she was a history buff with a knack for organizing things and making short films. However, at the beginning of her post-undergraduate career, she did what many recent graduates do: she jumped around exploring different jobs and industries.
She worked in an independent bookstore and even did a stint in a veterinarian’s office, but everything changed when she began working for the Cabell County Library in Huntington, West Virginia. It was at Cabell County that she met Judy Rule, a 1967 graduate from Indiana University’s Department of Library Science and Cabell County Library Director for over thirty years. During this time, Courtney was mentored by Judy, learning about materials, circulation, and cataloguing. As Courtney’s interest in librarianship grew, Judy encouraged Courtney to apply to her alma mater to pursue a degree in library science. Judy was not the only person from IU that Courtney connected with, however. “I had a friend that attended IU and worked in the then newly established Moving Image Archive. I didn’t really know what his job was, but I saw his photos of walls of film cans stored in the Auxiliary Library Facility, and it looked fascinating,” says Courtney. “I decided to reach out to the director, Rachael Stoeltje, to learn more about the archive, IU, and the world of film archiving.” When Courtney was finally accepted into the Library Science program, she was able to work as an archival assistant for the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA).
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There, she was able to accumulate numerous skills related to her goal. “I really enjoyed my time at the IULMIA; I worked with great people, and I worked on many projects and learned so much,” says Holschuh. She was also able to further supplement her experiences in the IULMIA by taking ILS courses in media archiving and by retooling otherwise unrelated class projects into that of a film archiving project. Toward the end of her program, with graduation looming in the distance, Courtney came across a posting for a film inspector role with the Museum of Modern Art. Finally, within sight of her dream job, Courtney applied for the position and got an interview. A couple of days before her graduation in May, 2018, the Museum extended Courtney an offer, and she excitedly accepted. In addition to her job offer to be a film archivist, Judy Rule decided to travel all the way from Huntington, VA to Bloomington to help Courtney celebrate her graduation from the program. “It was the first time she had been back in 50 years! We walked all over campus and I showed her where I worked, the Wells Library, and the brand new Luddy Hall,” said Holschuh. “She was amazed at how much the campus had grown and what the library school had become.”
for proper storage due to the fragile constitution and unique needs of each type of nitrate film. “The major components of my role are film loan requests, external access requests, accessioning new collections, and care and handling of nitrate film,” says Holschuh. “When a venue requests a film to be loaned out to them, it is approved by the collection manager, and then I inspect the film. This involves looking at every reel, measuring the footage, and noting any existing damage such as scratches or splices. I write a report of my findings in the database before the loan leaves the building,” says Holschuh. “When a studio or lab requests a film for which we have holdings. I facilitate this request and prepare the film for shipment and send it to the lab. Primarily, I prepare nitrate film to be scanned for preservation. I pull the film and look at a couple of reels and record any information that is not already in the database. I usually rehouse the film and create new labels and then pack it up for shipment.”
Ultimately, Courtney is pleased with her current career outcome stating, “I enjoy everything I do. This is my dream job, so nothing really ever feels like work. I am very proud of achieving my goal of becoming a film archivist. I have IULMIA and the library school to thank for much of that and Judy for always encouraging and supporting It has been two years since her graduation me.” from the ILS program, and now Courtney works as film archivist for the Celeste Bar- “That old adage, if you do something you tos Film Preservation Center in Hamlin, love, you never work a day in your life realPennsylvania. The center acts a reposito- ly applies in my case and I feel very lucky. I ry for over 30,000 films in the Museum of really love what I do, and it feels good knowModern Art’s permanent and study col- ing that I am doing my part in preserving lections. It was constructed to meet the our cinematic history.” rising need for more specialized facilities
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Chapter of the Medical Library Association, who will be hosting their 2020 Annual Conference in Bloomington, October 1-3, 2020, primarily at the Monroe County Convention Center. She continues to serve on the Luddy Dean’s Advisory Council. She is currently a Librarian at the Franciscan Health Lafayette-Crawfordsville-Rensselaer East Medical Library and the STE SON/Allied Health Sciences Library. Frank Owings (MLS ‘79) Owings co-curated the exhibition and accompanying catalogue for “John Steuart Curry: The Cowboy Within” for the Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, on view from September 24, 2019 to Match 21, 2020.
John Richardson (PhD ‘78) Richardson had two new books published: The English-Turkmen-Russian Dictionary of Library and Information Terminology (Los Angeles: ITA Press, 2019—ISBN: 978-09819196-4-5) and Die Weber Familie (Los Angeles: ITA Press, 2019—ISBN: 978-0-9819196-3-8).
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Linda Fariss (MLS ’80) Fariss wrote a history of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law with colleague and fellow MLS graduate (1980), Keith Buckley. The title of the book is Indiana University Maurer School of Law: The First 175 Years. It was published by IU Press as part of the Well House Series in November 2019. William Harroff (MLS ‘80) Harroff co-curates a comic art touring project with his wife, Charlotte Johnson, entitled, Who Knows What Evil Lurks
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in the Hearts of Men (and Women)? I Do! I Do!. The show has already been in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and at the beautiful University City Public Library (UCPL) Gallery in St. Louis. His unconventional artwork is inspired by banned 1950s comics, which were banned after Dr. Fredric Wertham, a leading New York psychologist in the fifties, proclaimed that comics were largely responsible for juvenile delinquency according to his misleading “findings.” Wertham encouraged comic book burnings, the development of a Comics Code and a Senate investigation that eventually led to the collapse of a substantial segment of the multimillion-dollar comic book industry. Hundreds of comic book artists, writers and publishers never worked in the industry again. Most comic book publishers ceased publishing. Half of Harroff’s show is composed of poster-sized panels in comic form that relate the history of the 1952 Senate investigation that gutted the burgeoning comic book industry, its aftermath, and how the investigation creatively shaped his own work. The display focuses on comic book censorship and the notorious book burnings held from 1948 - 1952 at the same time as the Red Scare. Harroff has spent the last few years developing an original body of satirical comic narratives composed of kaleidoscopic quilt-like patterns inspired by the banned 1950s horror and crime comics. At the 2019 Heroes Convention in Charlotte, NC, he got to meet and talk at length with Hy Fleishman, Joe Giella and Vic Carrabotta. All three horror comic creators were put out of work by the Wertham scare. These three gentlemen, all veterans and now in their 90s, told story after story about how they survived as artists under these difficult circumstances. Harroff’s show is dedicated to them; comics remain the most banned publications in America. https://www.wascallywewilly.com.
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Luddy Staff Spotlight Rachel Mostes, Associate Director For Development and Alumni Relations
ship distributions, stewardship projects, and finding unique ways to engage the School’s alumni, particularly in this uncertain time. She is looking forward to building strong relationships between alumni and the School and finds it rewarding to connect donors to their scholarship recipients. Seeing the gratitude the students have for gifts that helped them follow their passion is inspiring. Equally as gratifying is the effect that generosity has on the donors; it really brings them happiness to give back.
Rachel Mostes started working in Luddy in the Fall 2019 semester; she previously worked with the IU Foundation for 5 years in donor relations. She helps facilitate ILS-specific alumni events and manages various scholarship duties. She recently helped with the very first Luddy School virtual commencement celebration. She appreciates seeing how the School created a fun, interactive event for the Fun fact: Her parents met at IU as stugraduates. She is also planning alumni dents and were later married on camevents and communications, scholar- pus. So she is a life-long Hoosier! Department of Information & Library Science
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Medal Named 2019 Distinguished Alumni Carole Medal (’79) was chosen to be the 2019 Information and Library Science Distinguished Alumni winner. She was presented with the award on Sept. 23, 2019, at Luddy Hall by ILS Chair Ron Day. After sharing some of her successes, she attended the ILS Fall Reception to further meet with faculty, staff, and students. While serving for the past sixteen years as the executive director of the Gail Borden Public Library District, she has helped her patrons and the greater community by providing programming celebrating diversity (https://go.iu.edu/31fi), creating inspiring exhibits to encourage participation and learning in the STEM fields (https:// go.iu.edu/31fj), and partnering with community organizations. Medal’s belief in the power of public libraries to affect positive change (https://go.iu. edu/31fk) has had a far reaching impact, as Boryana Borisova, who graduated with her Master of Information Science at ILS in December, could attest. “I had the pleasure of meeting Carole Medal at the Fall
Reception. When I learned of her background and her successful efforts in the Elgin community, I realized she was a central figure in my childhood upbringing that involved frequent visits to the Gail Borden Public Library. When I immigrated to the US from Bulgaria not long after the fall of communism, my family and I were naturally skeptical about the too-good-to-be-true offerings from a public library in the US. We couldn’t believe that Gail Borden Public Library offered services beyond borrowing items, such as events, masterclasses, even English conversation groups and tax filing information, and so much more...for free! The Gail Borden Public Library played a central part in entertaining my curiosity, providing me a study space while struggling to assimilate to the new American education system, and sparking an everlasting interest in the library sciences and informatics. I am certain I speak for the entire Elgin community, when I say that GBPL is a phenomenal place that invests in the wellbeing and betterment of its visitors.”
Class Notes Continued... Merri Beth Lavagnino (MLS ‘89) In August, 2019, Merri Beth Lavagnino (MLS ‘89) began a new position as Executive Director, Compliance & Privacy and HIPAA Privacy Officer for Indiana University Health Plans where she is leading a team of seven working to ensure the Medicare Advantage, Fully Insured, and Self Insured medical expense insurance plans are compliant with complicated federal and state regulations. For the last 18 years, she worked for the Indiana University system in roles including Chief Privacy Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and Chief Information Policy Officer. Merri Beth is also currently serving as Collegiate Outreach Director for Women & Hi Tech, which exists to change the landscape of women represented in STEM to be equally inclusive to all. Over $20,000 in scholarships will be awarded at the Women & Hi Tech Leading Light Awards in Indianapolis on October 1, 2020! Kip Roberson (MLS ’89) Roberson was appointed Director at Cook Memorial Library in La Grande, Oregon in October of 2019. Michael Romary (MLS ‘83) Published poems most recently in The Laurel Review 2019, “(now and wigner”) and Spillway, 2018 (“Ars Poetica”). Previously he has been acknowledged for research done for Charles Higham, Christopher Corbett, Thomas Blass and Steven Luxenburg of the Washington Post. He retired from
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Boryana Borisova (left) & Carole Medal (right) at the ILS Fall ‘19 Reception
Medal receives the Distinguished Alumni Award from ILS Chair, Ron Day (right)
the University of Maryland (UMBC) and currently lives in Ada, Ohio and Grand Marais, Michigan with his spouse, Catherine Albrecht, PhD 1984. Brian Schottlaender (MLS ’80) Schottlaeder’s accomplishments are as follows: Appointed Treasurer of the Dr. Seuss Foundation (La Jolla, CA) in May 2019, selected for membership in the Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.) in June 2019, published “The History and Development of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging.” [w/ Rebecca Culbertson] Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 58(2), 2020 in February of 2020, published “Developing Tomorrow’s Library Leaders.” portal: Libraries and the Academy, 20(2), 2020 in April of 2020. Lorelle Swader (MLS ‘86) Lorelle R. Swader was one of two recipients of the 2019 recipients of the ALA’s Equality Award. She received $1,000 and a framed citation of achievement donated by Rowman & Litcontinued on pg. 24
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tlefield Publishing Group. The award is given to an individual or group for outstanding contributions toward promoting equality in the library profession. Swader is the associate executive director of the ALA-APA and the ALA Offices and Member Relations (AOMR). Throughout her professional career, Swader has worked with numerous ALA/APA committees and task forces focusing on diversity and inclusion, including Spectrum Scholarship, Emerging Leadership and others. She has enthusiastically and diligently advocated for library workers’ salaries. The award was presented Sunday, June 23 in Washington D.C. during the American Library Association Annual Conference.
studies. The Board intends the award also to foreground the critical importance to the health and sustenance of our field of those folklorists who, in addition to their personal accomplishments, make it possible for other folklorists to do their best work.
Ellie Valentine (MLS ’89) Ellie Valentine began a two-year term as Information Coordinator for the Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
Mary Voors (MLS ’93) Mary Voors, the current Children’s Services manager at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was honored to serve on the 2020 John Newbery Award selection committee. After a full-year of intense reading, this ALA committee selects the “best” piece of children’s literature published in the preceding year. The stated purpose of the award is “To encourage original creative work in the field of books for children. To emphasize to the public that contributions to the literature for children deserve similar recognition to poetry, plays, or novels. To give those librarians, who make it their life work to serve children’s reading interests, an opportunity to encourage good writing in this field.” This was Ms. Voors’ third term of service in her career on the Newbery committee.”
Helene Williams (MLS ’89) Williams has been promoted to Principal Lecturer at the University of Washington Information School in the MLIS program.
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Jennifer Bartlett (MLS ‘94) With Spencer Acadia, co-edited a collection of essays on knowledge management in academic and special libraries: Libraries That Learn: Keys to Managing Organizational Knowledge (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2019). Heather Dieffenbach (MLS ‘96) Executive Director of the Lexington Public Library in Lexington, KY Jeffrey Kushkowski (MLS ’90) Kushkowski has an article coming out soon which will be published via open access ,so it will be freely available. Kushkowski, Jeffrey D., Shrader, Charles B., Anderson, Marc H., and Robert E. White, “Information flows and topic modeling in corporate governance,” Journal of Documentation, in press. Moira Marsh (MLS ‘94) Moira Marsh (librarian of Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, scholarly communications advocate, university leader, and humor scholar) was presented with The 2019 American Folklore Society Judith McCulloh Award for Lifetime Service to the Field was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society to Moira Marsh, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries librarian, scholarly communications advocate, university leader, and humor scholar. The AFS Executive Board bestows the McCulloh Award to recognize extraordinary contributions in service, over the course of a career, that advance the visibility and success of the American Folklore Society or the field of folklore
Rebecca Rose (MLS ‘95) Promoted to Assistant Dean of Libraries at the University of North Georgia. James Ruwaldt (MLS ‘97) Started a new position at the Library of Congress.
Marie Waltz (MLS ‘98) Marie Waltz has been promoted to the position of Head of Access Initiatives at the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago.
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Heather Cole (MLS ‘06) In January of 2020, Cole became the Head of Instruction for the John Hay Library at Brown University and remains the Curator for Literary and Popular Culture Collections. Heather’s book, Theodore Roosevelt: A Descriptive Bibliography, will be published by Oak Knoll early this summer. Jaleh Fazelian (MLS ‘04) Jaleh Fazelin became the Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of Missouri - St. Louis in September of 2019. Lupita Garza-Grande (MLS ‘04) Garza-Grande moved to Florida from Michigan and is now working as an Adult Services Librarian at Broward County Librariea. She is in charge of periodicals and newspapers collection at a regional library and teaches digital downloads classes (e-books), and smartphone photography. Recent library events she have organized: Outlander-related events, such as Outlander Kitchen Recipes, The Scottish in the America’s, Scottish Country Dancing, Bapiping and Traditional Scottish Clothing, and the Outlander Trivia Con-
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test. Other programs organized with co-workers include the library community Day of the Dead altar.
In Memoriam: Nancy Lair
Mihail Koulikov (MLS ’08) Koulikov published “A Field in Formation - A Citation Analysis of Japanese Popular Culture Studies” in portal: Libraries and the Academy 20(2), http://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2020.0014 Anne Lucke (MLS ‘06) Anne Lucke became Director of the National Indian Law Library at the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, CO in July 2019. Emily Mitchell (MLS ‘08) Emily Mitchell accepted a position as Assistant Library Director for Technology at the Public Library of Brookline in MA. Virginia Vought (MLS ‘08) Virginia Vought joined Purdue University to direct community relations in the ten-county area surrounding and including the main campus in West Lafayette, as Director of the Wabash Valley Regional Office of Engagement. She previously served the region as Director of Community Benefit Grantmaking for North Central Health Services. Vought’s library services work included the Indiana State Library, Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis, and the Johnson County public library system.
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John Henry Adams (MLS ‘19) Adams has accepted a position at the University of Missouri in Columbia as a Research and Instruction Librarian for Special Collections. He will coordinate with faculty to teach book history and primary source literacy as part of undergraduate courses. He additionally has a book chapter on the English poet Isabella Whitney and paratexts in press with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and a book review forthcoming in Information and Culture. Ryan Johnson (MLS ’19) Johnson received the position of Special Formats Description Librarian at Duke University this past fall. This position works within technical services in Duke’s Resource Description Department. Ryan’s work focuses on music and cartographical cataloging procedures. Elizabeth South (MLS/MIS ‘12) South was promoted to tenure track July of 2019, and moved from Coordinator of User Services/Archives to Assistant Librarian of Access & Technical Services/ Archivist at IU East. Danielle Winter (MLS ’12) Winter received the position of Children’s Librarian at Brooklyn Public Library. Between reference assistance and storytimes, her favorite part of the job is teaching school-aged kids how to weave headbands, belts, potholders, and keychains. 25
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ILS would like to express our condolences to the family and friends of Nancy Lair, ILS emerita faculty member, who passed away in December 2019. The following are submissions from those who knew her during her many years of service to ILS.
There are some people who make an impression on you from the very first moment you see them. Nancy Lair (Mrs. Lair) was one of these people. A person of great depth, ethics, fairness and humanity. But there was even something more, something intangible. I can’t put my finger on it, but it’s akin to how you are made to feel when you meet a great spirit or a person you just click with. I had taken graduate classes in Collection Management and Cataloging with Nancy in the late 1980s at IU, both potentially dry subjects and yet, I looked forward to each and every class. Even though it was not in her position description, Nancy just knew how to make you feel you belonged and were cared for by weaving her life experiences and her passions into our lives during lectures. She connected with and inspired so many students who came from so many countries. Like a librarian Obi-Wan Kenobi, her legacy is far reaching. Michelle Sitko Nancy Lair was my favorite professor at GLS. I took two of her classes--school libraries and literature of the humanities. Professor Lair was very personable and thorough. She had been a school librarian, so she brought experience to her classes. I remember that she asked to keep a copy of a pathfinder that I had made for one of her class assignments. Pamela Gibbs Ferber I was saddened to learn of Nancy Lair’s death. My life and career(s) might have been dramatically different without her. She was a true role model, training me as a librarian and artist. I was Nancy’s graduate assistant in 1979. I wouldn’t have spent so much time at the Lilly Library or the Kinsey Institute Library without her encouragement. She allowed me to catalog all of the sculptures on campus. That was a great experience for the future librarian at the Laumeier Sculpture Park. Most of all, she introduced me to the book arts: letterpress, book binding, calligraphy, fine printing, etc., just like her own graduate studies at the University of Kentucky. I had no idea at the time that I would spend my entire professional life creating books. Thanks, Nancy. I’m glad I got to share a few of my accomplishments with you. Bill Harroff continued on pg. 26
Nancy Lair Memoriam
Though I did not have any classes with her, she was a respected presence in SLIS in the late 1980s when I was studying for my MLS. I do recall her genuine interest in students and the advancement of the profession and the responsibilities we had to contribute in meaningful ways. She is definitely remembered and her contributions greatly valued. Ellie Valentine
I’m sorry to hear of Nancy’s passing and express heartfelt sympathy to her family. I had Nancy for cataloging class in my first semester in the MLS program in the summer of 1974. She understood that many of us were not going to be catalogers. So even though she was demanding, she was also supportive and encouraging. My favorite memory of her was that one day as I was walking back to my off-campus apartment, Nancy stopped to see if she could give me a ride. Of course, I immediately accepted. However, she misunderstood the name of the apartment complex and dropped me off at the wrong complex. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that she was in the wrong place! The resulting walk was a long one! Mary Scherger Bonhomme After I earned my MLS in 1984, I taught first grade at Rogers Elementary School. Mrs. Lair was an instructor and a friend to me. In fact, my first graders and I hatched a dozen green eggs that she donated, courtesy of her exotic breed of chickens! Bess Williams
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Very sorry to hear about Nancy’s passing. She was very patient and helpful to me in her Cataloging class and very generous with her time and advice when I got my first job as head of Cataloging at the City/County Library in Missoula, Montana. She’s a great loss to the profession, and I’ll miss her. Daniel Rubey
and John raised and she always had a soft spot for the dog or cat in need. Her adoption of Jazz, the cat that the animal shelter had despaired of placing, is just one example. We will miss Nancy’s gifts as a storyteller and liver of life. Her smile and enthusiasm have meant so much to so many. Ralf Shaw
I was so sorry to learn of the passing of Nancy Lair. I attended SLIS at IU in 1990 and took her humanities reference class. I found it one of the most practical and useful classes of my entire library school education. This was before anything beyond the catalog was computerized, so for our tests, we were taken to the graduate library reference room and given a handful of index cards with questions that were to be answered using the print resources in the room. She had a way of telling a story that was unmatched by most. I do remember one particular story that was positively hilarious at the time, although it sounds much less so coming from me. She had an unexpected dinner guest and ended up marinating some poultry in some booze. She then found out this person was a tea-totaler and would have nothing to do with alcohol. She didn’t have anything else to make on such short notice, so she went ahead and served her boozy fowl hoping the guest wouldn’t notice. The guest just loved the dinner and wanted to know what ingredients were in it. Nancy recited everything but the booze, but the guest said, “No, there’s something else in there that I can’t put my finger on, but it is absolutely delicious.” So finally, Nancy told the guest it was olive juice to satisfy their curiosity. John Boyd
I wanted to share a memory from when I took Nancy’s class back in 1978. We were assigned to give a presentation on something dealing with the humanities. Since I had a Master of Music degree, I prepared a lecture on the relationship between music and art using the Impressionist period as an example. I utilized IU’s art library for the art slides and the music library for recordings. Nancy thought my presentation was so good that she had me give it at the high school, too. And then when I started my first professional librarian job at Barrington Area Library (IL) after graduating from IU, I also presented the program there for the public. I remember my mom coming to that program (she passed on over 30 years ago). It’s a very sweet memory! So if it wasn’t for Nancy’s class and her assignment, I would not have done any of this! Carole Medal
She was one of my professors in the late 80s/early 90s in the library school. All I can say is she was one of the loveliest people I have known. Just super nice and understanding. Thanks for taking Nancy’s enthusiasm for life showed in me back to memories of long ago. everything she did. Her love of a good Barbara Silbersack story combined with her commitment to This is indeed sad news and my sympa- preparing future librarians, making her thies to the faculty and the family. It has one of the best-loved faculty members been a very long time since I graduat- in the School of Library and Information ed, and after moving back to Montreal, Science. One consequence of her valuI worked as the head of an information ing each student’s potential was that so center and consultant for a number of many of them asked her for letters of years before starting my family and go- reference; she was no doubt instrumening to law school at McGill. I have been tal in many librarians getting their first a lawyer since 1989, so my IU mem- professional positions. Nancy had the ories are somewhat foggy, although smallest office space on “faculty row” very fond. If I remember Prof. Lair cor- and her desk was always smothered in rectly, she kept goats, and while I lived small pieces of paper – evidence of her in Bloomington, I had a regular supply famous saying, “I’ll just make a note of of fresh goat milk from her goats. I had that.” Nancy’s appreciation for the gifts never had goat milk before or since, but that each of us brings was evident in that wonderful memory comes back to her support and understanding for animals, too. She regaled generations of me now and again. SLIS-ards with stories of the goats she Lonnie Brodkin-Schneider
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Nancy was both a colleague and a dear friend. Beloved by the students, she was a kind, caring person and once taught cataloging in Malawi. She was a fabulous story teller with a wonderful sense of humor. Nancy loved books, travel, cats, and had her own printing press. Thomas E Nisonger One of my favorite memories is when I showed up for the Halloween party like an older librarian with a black dress and black hose and shoes. I even found an old black hat and cat eye glasses. When I walked in, Nancy took a step back with a look on her face. She told me that I looked like her first boss and that memory was not a good one. Nancy learned to be a better librarian- not to be like her. I learned so much from her. I used that knowledge to really understand the Dewey Decimal system and come up with a new way to teach it to elementary and secondary students. I teach it as “10 Big Ideas,” which is copyrighted, but I share it for free. It is now used in schools all over the United States and many other countries. Nancy passed her love for it along to her students. Anna West LaPrise
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Farewell Professor Montoya nerships with the paleontology people on campus and many others across a range of disciplines. He also started The Comparative Library and Representation Lab. And after a year I appointed him to be the Director of the Ph.D. program—an unusual appointment for an untenured faculty member—because I knew that with his past administrative experience, his knowledge of the field, his always patient and personable demeanor, and his careful eye to detail he would do an excellent job as the doctoral director. And he did. Adding to all this, and to an unbelievable production of publications and grant applications each year (‘is this the work of one, two, or three faculty members?’ I asked myRobert D. self each spring review), was Rob’s work Montoya with the State Department and beyond Rob Montoya has accepted a position as in setting up a library science curriculum an Assistant Professor with the UCLA De- in Kosovo. Even in the midst of the beginpartment of Information Studies with a fo- nings of the COVID-19 infections outside cus in Library Studies. ILS wishes to thank of China in spring 2020, Rob wanted to go Dr. Montoya for his dedication to the de- to Kosovo to do more work on this, and partment and the students he mentored. only IU’s ban on travel prevented him. (I am very glad that he didn’t go.) Dr. Montoya’s last day was July 1, 2020. It was with great sadness that I learned from Rob Montoya that he would be leaving us. When he told me that he was applying for a job at his old department at UCLA my response was “well, they have a right to be as proud of you as we are. But you know that I’ll cry when you leave.” (I knew before he even interviewed that he would be hired. Simply, they couldn’t hire a better person for the job.) There’s no doubt in my mind that Rob will one day be one of the great figures of Library and Information Science, continuing but extending the traditions of Patrick Wilson and Michael Buckland in investigating the importance of libraries in knowledge and society with further and more contemporary extensions into issues of social justice and natural science.
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As a recently graduated Ph.D., Rob helped me a lot in terms of the graduation checklist. He kindly helped me to go through all the course requirements as well as graduation procedures to ensure I get everything done correctly and in time. He is a very responsible and reliable director for all Ph.D students in our department. Best wishes for his next adventure! Zheng Gao
I am so very sad about Rob’s leaving the department; although, I wish the very best to him and Steve as they return to their native waters in CA. From the moment he started as an ILS Faculty member, he consistently demonstrated competence, kindness, and warmth towards staff as well as students. He will definitely be remembered and missed for his positive, energetic efforts for the well-being of the department. Rob, thank you from the botI wish Rob and Steve all the best in their tom of my heart for making ILS better by return to their friends and families in LA your presence and many contributions! and Rob to his alma mater department at Katie Novak UCLA. Ron Day It’s no secret that I will miss Rob’s presence in the department very much and I will miss his wise counsel. I will miss both him and his husband, Steve Barnthouse’s, presence in Bloomington. And, of course, I will miss seeing them on another episode of HGTV’s show, House Hunters (if they give up their day jobs, I’m sure they have a good future in television). Two nicer and well-balanced people can’t be found.
Rob, Thank you for all the support and goodwill you have shown to me. You’ve been so dependable, supportive, and enWhen Rob came here to interview for the couraging. It will be difficult to fill the void job, our former School Dean, Raj Acharya, created by your absence. I am really going after interviewing him told me, “if you find to miss you. Thank you for your help and another Rob Montoya, I will hire him right kindness. I wish you the best of luck and away.” Rob must have had quite an inter- continued success. Michelle Dunbar-Sims view with him. When Rob came, he quickly reached out to many people on campus, forming part-
than I ever expected to about information systems, librarianship, and equitable access to information from your courses. You believed in my vision to expand the Creating Access for Violence Survivors program. Having a professor understand the importance of using the challenges of my past to create information access for domestic violence survivors was a turning point in my education and an opportunity for me to let go of the shame I had carried as a survivor myself. I wish you all the best as you begin this new phase of your career! Shannon Bowman-Sarkisian
Dear Rob, I will absolutely be a better librarian because of you! I learned more
2019-2020 Newsletter Department of Information & Library Science
notice something missing? This year’s External Scholarship Awardees will be featured in a separate publication, which is forthcoming. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all those who have contributed funds in support of our students!
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