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Intersections

Fall 2015

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Fall 2015 Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Published by the GSLIS Communications Oﬃce. For more information or to submit story ideas, please contact kimsch@illinois.edu. Dean: Allen H. Renear Editor: Cindy Ashwill Managing Editor: Kim Schmidt Contributing Writers: Deb Aronson, Cindy Ashwill, Christy Glaze, Kim Schmidt, Laura Spradlin Design: Pat Mayer

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Features $1 million Mellon grant to help humanities scholars explore digital publishing options

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Summer tech camps promote innovation, digital literacy

Students take on business clients in redesigned, collaborative Information Consulting course

The future of LIS education

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Efron uses humanist approach to solving problems in search

Hoiem explores implications of historically narrow view of children’s literature

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Bashir researches human aspects of digital technology, privacy

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The future of LIS

education

Re-visioning LIS education To examine these questions, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs Linda C. Smith partnered with Eileen G. Abels, dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, and Lynne C. Howarth, of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, for the grant, “Educate to Innovate: Re-visioning Library and Information Science Education.” Led by Abels and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the national forum planning grant was motivated by questions of the new and changing roles of LIS professionals and how those roles will be “re-visioned” in the LIS curriculum. “We are committed to keeping LIS education viable,” Smith said. “LIS professionals must not only be aware of diverse information needs, but ensure those needs are met. As educators, we need to equip our students with the necessary skills to build supportive and broad information services.” A longtime educator, Smith has witnessed and been at the forefront of many developments in LIS education. She was elected presi-

visual scribe, and group and individual activities to encourage focused discussion and creative thinking. “It was an interactive process with the goal of having activities that would give everyone a voice,” Smith said. “We looked at what opportunities were emerging and what that means for recruiting, educating, and equipping people to take advantage of these opportunities. Everyone was impressed with how engaged and passionate all the participants were about the work they were doing or could do, whether it was talking about the potential for digital humanities to preserve cultural heritage or creating brand new things.” Activities during the forum ranged from creating a timeline of information services extending to the year 2045 to discussing artifacts that participants brought as representations of the information future. GSLIS Assistant Professor Nicole Cooke, one of the participants at the forum, brought a decal made at the Urbana Free Library’s makerspace to symbolize how libraries are changing. “It’s about seeing libraries as more than just the materials—it’s about services, building things, and making things,” Cooke said. “It’s about the library accommodating what the community wants.” Linda C. Smith

n a society where makerspaces, Google, and smartphones proliferate, people don’t interact with information, technology, or libraries the way they used to. The digital world influences how we live, work, learn, and play, which in turn alters our information needs and expectations. For decades, library and information science (LIS) professionals have been leading the way in understanding the use of information. The roles of LIS professionals are evolving along with the information landscape, but how will educating these professionals evolve? What is ahead for the future of LIS education? dent of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in 2009, and in 2012, was honored with the organization’s Service Award for her involvement with ALISE and support of LIS education. Smith also played a key role in the implementation of Leep, GSLIS’s online learning option—a significant innovation in education delivery. To identify how the curriculum must evolve, the grant partners and steering committee planning the forum knew they must first ask the question, “What is emerging as the environment for which we need to educate?” To answer that question, they sought the perspectives of multiple invested and expert stakeholders. In January, fifty-three invited librarians, educators, futurists, designers, archivists, knowledge management consultants, computer scientists, artists, architects, digital humanities experts, and more convened for a forum to discuss a vision for the information future. The multi-day forum, “Re-visioning Our Information Future and How to Educate for It,” was guided by Tomorrow Makers, an innovative facilitation group that uses hands-on modules, a

Rejecting the status quo Along with evaluating the future of the information landscape, re-visioning LIS education also relies on critically examining what is currently being taught. “People are being confronted with very diverse communities with very diverse needs, and the status quo of how libraries have oper-

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talks, poster presentations, elevator pitches, and getting out into the community. Another way to demonstrate the range of LIS skills is to provide more possibilities for field experience and collaboration across sectors, which emerged as significant themes during the “Re-visioning Our Information Future” forum. “It was rewarding to see people making connections across sectors, and that was part of what we were hoping,” Smith said. “If LIS education is going to have a healthy future, then we need to make more eﬀort to make connections with a range of stakeholders. These points of connection will enrich our programs and broaden the opportunities for our students.” Smith noted that after the forum, artist and educator Jer Thorpe expressed the need for an artist-in-residence program at libraries and archives. Other initiatives that emerged as a result of the forum include virtual field placements for students to connect classroom experiences to practice, a podcast to highlight diverse career opportunities, and exploration of innovative pedagogies such as studio teaching. Cooke sees the potential mutual benefit of another suggestion coming out of the forum: embedding LIS faculty in the field for short periods of time. Not only would faculty keep better abreast of trends in the field, but professionals in other sectors would better understand what LIS oﬀers. “I don’t think we’ve reached our full potential with outside collaborators in the community because they don’t know all that we do,” she said. “Librarians have to know what everyone else is doing—in tech fields and elsewhere. I’m really an advocate for reciprocity and seeing how traditional LIS can Nicole A. Cooke

ated is not going to be suﬃcient anymore,” Cooke said. “We have to make sure students are adaptable. LIS professionals have moved away from having a solitary, singular role. Just like diversity is everyone’s job, teaching is everyone’s job, outreach is everyone’s job, and promoting the library is everyone’s job. We have to continue learning and growing.” Cooke was the recipient of the University YWCA’s 2015 Leadership Award in Education, recognizing her work in social justice and her eﬀorts to diversify the curriculum. One of her research projects, “Diversity in the LIS Curriculum,” examines how diversity and social justice are integrated in LIS education. The first part of the project involves a national survey asking participants to comment on and analyze the social justice or diversity courses they took in graduate school. The second part is a diversity audit of GSLIS courses to gauge in what ways cultural competencies could be better folded into the curriculum. As part of the audit, students in Cooke’s courses will help create a public repository of recommended readings and resources from diverse perspectives that instructors can use. The repository is specifically aimed toward GSLIS courses, but the project could serve as a model for other LIS schools. “[The audit] could be something any LIS school could or should do because it’s really looking at the curriculum as a whole,” Cooke said. “In wider conversations across LIS, we need to look at curricula and say ‘these are some things we do well, these are some things we do better, and these are some holes in our curriculum.’” When considering the future of LIS education, Cooke emphasizes the importance of

building a workforce that is as diverse as the communities being served. Multiple perspectives representing diﬀerent demographics, viewpoints, and experiences will help ensure that various user needs are met and that people see themselves reflected in their libraries and information centers. The IMLS grant writers identified diversity as one of eight selected trends shaping LIS education. Cooke envisions and is working toward a curriculum in which diversity is no longer a trend but a core part of LIS education. She hopes that current conversations around diversity will result in more action, more voices, more participation, and a more diverse workforce.

Reclaiming perceptions It is clear that communities and information needs have evolved, but have perceptions of the field of library and information science changed over the years? Smith and Cooke agree that communicating the value of LIS and the range of interesting opportunities within the field is essential. In her courses, Cooke encourages students to practice talking about their work through lightning

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benefit other workplaces, workforces, and products.” Advancements in technology are helping to shape our information future, but the foundational values upon which the field has been built—such as ensuring access to information, protecting intellectual freedom, preserving our cultural heritage, and valuing our diversity—remain important when educating future LIS professionals. “As we embrace changing needs and identify how we can meet those needs, it all comes back to the values that have always characterized LIS education,” Smith said. “Future LIS professionals need to be open to using technology in new and creative ways, but at the same time, be motivated by the values that we have traditionally focused on.” “We’re preparing LIS professionals to serve their given communities compassionately and eﬀectively, whatever that community may be,” Cooke said. Both Cooke and Smith are excited about keeping this conversation going. Cooke will continue her research, and, as part of another project, is looking at a historic group of GSLIS alumni known as the Carnegie Scholars to think about how to better prepare and retain underrepresented students in the future. Smith and her grant partners will continue to bring LIS educators into the conversation, plan to produce a white paper as a result of the forum, and will present on this topic at several upcoming conferences. News, resources, and updates will continue to be added to the project website at infofuture.simmons.edu. The best LIS programs design their curricula to anticipate change. As Smith commented, “We never knew we needed to do so much searching until we had Google.” When planning the future of LIS education, it remains vital that courses and field experiences evolve so that graduates are well prepared to lead the way in meeting emerging needs—even those we never knew we needed.

GSLIS adds new master’s degree in information management

n order to meet the demand for well-prepared information professionals in an ever-changing environment, GSLIS plans to expand our academic oﬀerings by adding a master’s degree in information management. This new degree will provide a specialized program for students interested in information-intensive professional roles in a broad range of sectors. The new degree will complement our current master’s degree in library and information science, a program which has been ranked number one by U.S. News & World Report for nearly two decades. Our commitment to librarianship remains strong, and we are working to increase enrollment in our current program while launching the new master’s degree. The new degree will be oﬀered on campus and online, with the latter drawing on the experience and infrastructure of our successful Leep online learning option. Students in the program will complete 40 credit hours, including three required courses: • LIS 542: Data, Statistical Models and Information; • LIS 543: Sociotechnical Information Systems; and • LIS 561: Information Modeling. Students will be able to choose electives in a range of areas, including privacy, trust, security, and ethics; data science and analytics; information architecture and design; and knowledge management and information consulting. “This is an exciting time for our School and University, as we work together across disciplines to create solutions to the grand challenges of the twenty-first century. I am confident that our new degree will open new doors for our graduates—and advance our School’s interdisciplinary, humancentered approach to information systems and services,” said Dean Allen Renear.

GSLIS introduces Leep Welcome Weekend

SLIS is pleased to announce the establishment of Leep Welcome Weekend, a three-day event for students enrolled in our Leep online learning option that will serve as an orientation to the School and to our learning community of online classmates, on-campus students, faculty, and staff. Beginning in Fall 2016, admitted Leep students will attend Leep Welcome Weekend during their first semester, held on or about the fourth weekend of the fall or spring semester. With this new model, students will have the chance to connect with core faculty, attend workshops together with on-campus students, and socialize with their fellow classmates. The weekend will also include orientation and a brief introduction to the required course, LIS 502: Libraries, Information, and Society, with the instructor and classmates. That ten-week course will begin the week after the Leep Welcome Weekend concludes. “Since 1996, short residencies on campus have been an integral part of the experience of students pursuing their degrees online from GSLIS. The design of the new Leep Welcome Weekend will ensure that our online students have strong connections with faculty, staff, and on-campus students, as well as with others in their cohort,” said Linda C. Smith, associate dean for academic programs. Leep Welcome Weekend replaces the initial seven-day residency for Leep students, affectionately known as Boot Camp. Students are now able to complete all degree requirements online, including LIS 502, which had previously been completed during the seven-day residency. Beginning with Cohort 21 in fall 2016, attendance at the Leep Welcome Weekend is now the only residency requirement for students enrolled in our online Leep option.

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$1 million Mellon grant to help humanities scholars explore digital publishing options

four-year, $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help University of Illinois humanities scholars identify digital publishing options and produce new publications that will best disseminate their research. The collaborative project involves the University Library, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), and the Department of African American Studies. It aims to help scholars understand the digital publishing options available to them and identify those that will best meet their publication goals, whether it’s gaining tenure, providing the broadest possible access to their research, or using multimedia formats to present their work. “This is a time of enormous change in all aspects of scholarship and scholarly publishing. Things are happening very rapidly,” said Allen Renear, GSLIS dean. “Researchers at GSLIS will be talking with scholars about their publishing needs, looking at the digital options available, and assessing their pros and cons,” said Megan Senseney, a project coordinator at the GSLIS Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). One focus will be on projects funded through Humanities Without Walls (HWW), a Mellon-funded consortium managed by IPRH that links research centers at fifteen universities, including the University of Illinois. “There are some natural fits between some of the (HWW) projects and this sort of publishing,” said Antoinette Burton, interim director of the IPRH. “For example, one of the projects that has received grant funding will look at the experience of Hmong immigrants in Laos, Paris, and the Midwest, and will include a film.” GSLIS researchers also will work with scholars in the Department of African Ameri-

can Studies and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance who are involved in projects looking at access to information technology and how to address the “digital divide.” “The digital divide also applies to higher education,” said Ronald Bailey, head of the Department of African American Studies. “We want to bring the benefits of these new approaches to a wider audience in higher education and in community-based educational institutions. Part of this is helping people understand how you can do more in terms of making scholarship come alive using these digital formats.” The Mellon project will provide support for related research by scholars at historically black colleges and universities, as well as research centers, libraries, museums, and professional organizations focused on black studies. Bailey said the projects in African American studies can serve as a model for what scholars in other ethnic studies areas can do with the new technology. In addition to producing a series of publications from HWW and African American Studies, the project will develop a digital edition on the topic of scholarly publishing, which will be published using recommended tools. Researchers will work with the University Library’s Scholarly Commons, which provides research and technology support services to faculty members, and which will serve as the central location for the digital publishing initiative. “The library is perfectly situated to play a leadership role as an institution in pioneering new technologies,” Renear said. “In addition to being a hub that supports scholarly communication activities, the library also provides digital preservation services,” said University Librarian John Wilkin. “We have a tremendous digital preservation repository supporting many types of media. It can sup-

port vast amounts of the type of content that makes digital publishing dynamic.” “The Library will be involved in exploring various digital platforms and how to adapt research to all the various media an author would like to use, as well as how best to make digitally published research available,” said library professor Aaron McCollough. One of the goals of the project is to develop a model for other universities for assessing the needs of scholars and providing support for various publication options. McCollough said that will include best practices for using the various digital publishing tools, and for moving a project from initial creation to publication to the audience. Wilkin noted that the Mellon Foundation supports the digital publishing tools Scalar (for including multiple forms of media and various representations of an argument within an author’s work) and Omeka (for displaying exhibits and images), and the Illinois initiative will help bring together a number of Mellon-funded projects, including those publishing platforms and HWW. Senseney emphasized that formal print publication through university presses will still be important to scholars, and the digital publishing initiative will consider how to adapt early digital forms of publication to print and how users might move back and forth between print and digital publication of research. “It’s a grand experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration and its relationship to digital humanities and dissemination. That is really exciting,” Burton said.

Story courtesy University of Illinois News Bureau Above left: John Wilkin, Allen Renear, Ronald Bailey. Above right: Antoinette Burton. Photos courtesy L. Brian Stauﬀer, UI News Bureau

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Summer tech camps promote innovation,digital literacy

he Chevy Suburban towing a U-Haul trailer pulled up to the decommissioned middle school in Metropolis, Illinois, population 6,000. A special kind of 4-H camp was about to begin. The four leaders—Gabriel Ewing, Jessica Nelson, Colten Jackson, and Virginia McCreary —unloaded the equipment: almost thirty laptops with Intel i5 processors; a thirty-watt mini laser engraver; six 3-D printers; six digital embroidery sewing machines; six electronic vinyl cutters; six soldering stations; and enough small-board electronics for up to a dozen participants to make mini robots out of puﬀ balls. This camp is part of an exciting pilot project, Digital Innovation Leadership Program (DILP), undertaken by three groups with interlocking missions: GSLIS’s Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI), the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab, and the University of Illinois Extension, the

“As the world changes and becomes more reliant on technology, we need to develop and enhance opportunities to make our communities more digitally inclusive.” Jon Gant latter of which has provided GSLIS with $300,000 to run the project. CDI provided financial support for the four camp leaders to receive fab lab training at MIT. CDI’s mission focuses on improving the democratic, social, and economic vitality of

Students at Cobden Elementary School in southern Illinois show oﬀ their rapid prototyping creations.

communities through the use of information technologies. Extension, which runs 4-H camps across the state, is looking for ways to bring its programming to under-served communities like Metropolis. And the Fab Lab is part of a nationwide maker movement that provides spaces with innovative, technical tools and encourages people to experiment and make things. “As the world changes and becomes more reliant on technology, we need to develop and enhance opportunities to make our communities more digitally inclusive,” said Jon Gant, GSLIS research associate professor and CDI director who is the principal investigator on the grant. “It was great to partner with Extension and the Fab Lab and put our research into practice. Digital inclusion is not just about access; it’s also about the adoption and use of tools.”

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Students at Meridian Elementary School in Mounds, Illinois learn to read data oﬀ of a sensor controller as part of a small electronics unit in their 4-H Fab Lab camp. Once the equipment was set up, the day campers began to wander in. Ewing asked the assembled children, ranging in age from eight to twelve, “What have you made recently? Did you make breakfast this morning? Did you make your bed? Did you make a mess?” This kind of patter got the group giggling but also thinking. Ewing told the children what to expect from this day camp: they would use technology to create and invent whatever they could dream of. Every day of the camp, each participant made something he or she could take home, whether it was a notebook with a laser etching, a sticker, or an Arduino robot made of fabric and puﬀ balls. This type of rapid prototyping allowed the campers to make things quickly, which, in turn, allowed them to also test and improve their creations immediately. In addition to learning by doing, it also was about experimentation and failure, experiences that tie into critical thinking skills. “The idea is to demystify technology,” said Ewing. “Everybody can be an innovator. An innovator is not necessarily a white dude in a lab coat.”

Last summer, multiple camps took place in southern Illinois, Peoria, and the Champaign/ Danville area. At the end of every camp, the organizers made sure to hold an open-house style celebration to which they invited the campers, their families, and decision makers and opinion leaders within the community. “The focus is not exclusively on the technology itself so much as opportunities for people to harness technologies in ways that allow them to amplify their interests in building a more resilient, just, and inclusive community— and how we help people exercise choice to achieve those goals,” said Martin Wolske, CDI senior research scientist, who specializes in bringing together technology and community. Prior to the camp sessions, several teens came to the Illinois campus to get trained in the use of the Fab Lab tools. Thereafter, they participated in the camps with Ewing, Nelson, Jackson, and McCreary, providing support and knowledge, and even helping to instruct. The training allows them to continue to instruct and support their communities when the program is over.

Kirstin Phelps, GSLIS doctoral student and DILP project manager, was impressed with the energy of these teen teachers. “I was struck by their very good rapport with their peers and with the younger participants,” said Phelps. “They could connect with them in a way college students couldn’t.” Phelps also is interested in the leadership around how diﬀerent stakeholders work together to organize projects like DILP in their communities. Beyond bringing the camps to town, the researchers also identify specific needs for and obstacles to establishing permanent Fab Labtype centers for these rural communities. They ask questions such as: “Do individuals interested in these kinds of projects know who to go to for knowledge, money, or physical space within their community?” “How can we create a forum for people interested in the maker movement and digital literacy?” “The project is really about how to think about a challenge and how to solve it,” said Phelps. “It’s as much about social practices and mindsets as it is about technology. We want to get people to think about their own agency and how they can use technology to help.”

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Students take on business clients in redesigned, collaborative Information Consulting course

In Sweden, from left to right: Stephanie Pierson (MS ’15), Kristin Petersheim (MS ’15), Jessica Rippel (MS ’15), and Jan Emery (MS ’15)

n LIS 590IC: Information Consulting, students learn the art and science of working in the business information world by providing consulting services to real clients. The capstone course prepares students to work in a range of business settings. Information Consulting (IC) is taught by Yoo-Seong Song, a GSLIS adjunct associate professor with impressive experience in the business world: he previously worked as senior associate at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Knowledge, senior analyst for Knowledge Management at Accenture, and market intelligence analyst at Tellabs. He currently is an associate professor with the University of Illinois Library and serves as the economics, labor, and employment relations librarian. Song’s experience has taught him that business clients today have high expectations for information professionals. “I quickly found out that just finding information was not enough. We needed to know what to do with it, and this was really what our users expected from us. . . . It’s not just about how to provide information, but how to help our clients gain

relevant insight given the complex business environment,” said Song. Song reconceptualized IC several years ago as a capstone course for students who anticipate working in the business world. Within the course, Song created the Business Information Group (BIG), a research group that simulates an information consultancy. Students work as research analysts and coordinators for actual companies and organizations who seek out assistance with real-world information problems. Through BIG, students experience the full consulting process, from defining problems and negotiating project timelines to analyzing data, preparing reports, and presenting findings to clients. Last spring marked the first semester of collaboration between BIG and two other student-led consultancy groups on campus: Illinois Business Consulting and the Innovation Immersion Program. Illinois Business Consulting (IBC) is housed within the College of Business at Illinois and is the largest organization of its kind in the

United States, with more than two hundred and fifty student consultants. Throughout the semester, each BIG student worked with up to four IBC teams, providing research services for clients from a variety of industries within the financial sector, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing. “At IBC, we pride ourselves on trying to be as close to the real world as possible. . . . Large consulting firms are structured in this way, where consultants in the field receive guidance or direction from internal consultants who are doing research on the inside,” said IBC Director Andrew Allen. “[The partnership with GSLIS] gave our teams a leg up on their research and helped them get more robust research behind some of the recommendations that they make. At the end of the day, our credibility is based on our data and our research, and so that’s one reason it was really valuable for us.” A handful of GSLIS students also served clients via the Innovation Immersion Program (IIP), a global consultancy founded at Illinois that supports international technology companies. IIP draws on expertise of business

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students from the University of Illinois as well as from universities in Sweden, Israel, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. IIP was impressed with the work of their GSLIS team members and invited the students to join them in Stockholm, Sweden, to present analysis and recommendations to a client. Among the travelers were Jan Emery (MS ’15) and Stephanie Pierson (MS ’15). Pierson found the IC course to be educational even though she already had some professional business research experience under her belt. In particular, exposure to new research topics such as marketing and engineering provided her with valuable skills. Pierson has worked as an intellectual property researcher at John Deere since November 2014. “I learned a lot about bargaining with the different groups, like being able to explain what I could do and to meet their requests in the time that they wanted,” she said. “It was also neat knowing that the research I was doing would be shown to real people and be used in real situations. . . . You’re working for a purpose.” Students like Pierson and Emery leave the

“It’s not just about how to provide information, but how to help our clients gain relevant insight given the complex business environment.” Yoo-Seong Song

class prepared to apply what they’ve learned to work in a professional realm that intersects many industries. “Businesses move at a fast pace, and they need to have the most recent information,” said Meg Edwards, GSLIS advising coordinator. “Students who take [IC] gain the experience of what it’s like to work in a real consulting firm doing competitive intelligence, research, and analysis, and formulating this work in a way that is deliverable.” Song plans to offer IC again in Spring 2016 and is working to make contact with new clients. He intends to maintain the collaborative, real-world interactions that proved successful in 2015. “The Information Consulting course, including working with IBC and IIP, was experiential learning at its finest. Professor Song crafted assignments that allowed students to explore resources broadly and dig deeply within their expanding tool set. I learned through doing—even better, doing in a real-world situation. And I had a great time, too,” said Emery.

GSLIS Corporate Roundtable Bringing together the best in business and scholarship Actual case studies. Valuable partnerships.

The GSLIS Corporate Roundtable (CRT) brings together leaders in business with our innovative faculty and students to find solutions to today’s most pressing information management challenges. CRT attendees come from a broad range of industries, including finance, insurance, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, healthcare, government, private consulting, and agriculture. Speakers and topics are drawn from GSLIS faculty and alumni as well as CRT members and address the latest in information science research and practice. To learn more about future sessions or the benefits of becoming a CRT sponsor, contact Sharon Johnson, CRT coordinator, at sdjohnso@illinois.edu.

Recent topics include: • Cybersecurity: Current R&D, Solutions, and Challenges • How Your Company Can Profit from Social Media • Tips for Leading Communities • Enterprise Search Upcoming topics include: • Enterprise IT • Market Research/Competitive Intelligence • User Experience www.lis.illinois.edu/about-gslis/corp/crt

Upcoming meetings in 2016: March 4, June 3, September 16, and November 11

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Efron uses humanist approach

to solving problems in search

very month, Google alone fields billions of search requests. The staggering demand for information, coupled with the exponentially growing amount of information available, means that reliable search results are key to maneuvering a flooded information landscape. Associate Professor Miles Efron is among the leading scholars investigating ways to improve search. With funded research projects supported by the National Science Foundation as well as by industry partners such as Google, he looks at the issue from a variety of angles, including questions of query representation and how temporal factors aﬀect the relationship between queries and relevant information. Though his research is thick with writing code and creating algorithms, Efron approaches his work through the lens of a humanist, incorporating his academic background in classics and medieval studies. “My goal is to translate familiar humanist concerns and see how they resonate in the kinds of domains that are of immediate practical concern to information professionals, like building search engines or translation systems,” he said. “I try to show my students that even if we’re using statistics and probability to model what a document means, ultimately we’re still making assertions and commitments about how pieces of text achieve meaning and how they communicate meaning.” “What I love about LIS is it lets you bring together these diﬀerent approaches. Informa-

tion is this weird nexus of things like language and probability, and it is easy to think, what could these things possibly have to do with one another? Turns out they interact in many ways. We live in this very wonderful and strange period of time when people who have interests in both big data and humanistic questions can satisfy both of those interests simultaneously,” he said. Efron’s current work looks at the natural evolution of content building on the web and innovates ways to use that content to improve existing functions. “There is so much knowledge in Wikipedia, for example, and I want to get as much out of this huge, wonderful resource as we can,” he said. “There is a lot of linked information in Wikipedia that will help information retrieval by improving query understanding, document representation, and many other language technologies.” Recently, Efron received a Google Faculty Research Award, which allows him to work closely with senior engineers and researchers at Google on the project, Query Modeling Using Intra-Entity Knowledge Base Structure. He hopes to improve the eﬀectiveness of search by using structured data found in knowledge bases like Wikipedia to improve information retrieval over unstructured documents. By analyzing the top documents returned on searches, Efron hopes to isolate what makes the top documents especially useful or unique, and use that information to expand upon and improve the user’s original query, thereby improving the quality of the re-

sults. “This project mines those top documents and tries to find the hallmarks of relevance in them. Then we can try to extract those bits of data and add them to the query. What we end up with is an augmented (hopefully improved) query that gets resubmitted to the search engine, and the results from that refined query are the ones the user finally sees,” he said. “Over the past few years, Google has released open-source data to support academic research in this space, and this project will capitalize on that data,” said Efron. “The field is emerging, but I think there is a lot to be gained by bringing structured and unstructured data together.” Making connections with industry has not only benefited Efron’s research, but has also had an impact on the careers of graduate students who work on Efron’s projects. A number of them have gone on to find positions at Google or Microsoft Research. “There is a big need in industry for people with expertise in information retrieval research and development,” said Efron. “Getting students involved in that kind of work is good for everybody. The students hone skills and form connections that make finding a satisfying career much easier. Folks in industry get to hire the best of the best. And researchers like me keep our knowledge of the state-of-theart fresh by working with the services, data, and people that drive peoples’ everyday information interactions.”

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Hoiem explores implications of historically narrow view of

children’s literature

ssistant Professor Elizabeth Hoiem’s current research is built around questions of how we define children’s literature. She studies childhood literacy during the Industrial Revolution and the ways in which our understanding of literature, readers, and change agents of this time period is impacted by how we choose to define childhood literature in the first place. Critical to understanding her work is the recognition that many young readers of the time were children only in strictest demographic terms. In reality, many children—some as young as five years old—were full-time wage earners in industries like textiles, coal mining, and agriculture. Only wealthier children had time and resources available to them to pursue reading and learning. Because of this circumstance, “children’s” literature in reality catered to only a portion of society’s young people. The formats and content of children’s literature and educational materials of the time period were very diﬀerent from what we recognize as children’s literature today, due to the narrow audience and pedagogical theories popular during the era. For example, it was believed that children learn best by encountering physical things in their environment. In literature, this idea translated to an emphasis on object lessons, such as collectible flash cards or glossaries that directed readers to seek out examples of objects at home. This led to a belief that poorer children were not able to learn as much because they had fewer belongings at home through

which to experience the world around them. In an attempt to correct this perceived situation, schools for the poor gave children bits of wood or raw materials to handle and trained them to describe their environment as preparation for learning to read. Historically, studies of children’s literature have skewed toward those materials developed for and used by wealthier children. Hoiem argues that expanding the scope of children’s literature studies could impact how we define the genre today and how we think about the role of literature in early learning and development. Expanded studies might include object lessons used at lower-class schools or printed materials consumed by working children, such as flyers about working conditions, in addition to the more traditionally recognized forms of literature that were consumed by wealthy children.

Recognizing faults in how we define the genre can raise ethical questions about larger systemic issues within this research area. For example, Hoiem sees discrepancies between actions taken to support learning opportunities for lowerclass children during the industrial revolution and where credit is given for implementing beneficial change. “In this case, I think the histories of children’s literature that exclude these other factors tend to imply that all of the credit for respecting the rights of children, developing materials for them, and improving their education . . . should be given to the charity organizers, the wealthier people, and the lawmakers who advocated for these policies,” Hoiem explained. “We have a problem going on with class [in which] credit is given exclusively to these wealthy saviors of children who supposedly argued that children should go to school instead of work, but the only reason they ever argued is because the poor demanded it. You have to look at this history on the ground as well.” Hoiem is an assistant professor at GSLIS. She teaches in the areas of children’s literature, history of children’s literature, and fantasy literature. In her research and teaching she explores the history of technological innovations in children’s literature—from early children’s books and toys to contemporary applications of digital pedagogy—and looks at modern technology through a historical lens. Her research interests also include community engagement—specifically, the importance of literature to contemporary youth.

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Torvik develops dataset, tools for study of innovation and aging

s society ages and human knowledge progresses, we expect innovations from scientists that will improve quality of life for older adults and help society adapt to the realities of a changing population. Yet the scientific workforce itself is aging, potentially aﬀecting its own capacity for innovation. The relationship between innovation in the scientific workforce and the increasing demand for innovation is complex, with far-reaching implications influencing everything from healthcare to the economy. With the aim of shedding light on the specific impacts of this relationship, the National Bureau of Economic Research has embarked on a project, Innovation in an Aging Society (IAS). IAS involves experts in economics, information science, and neuroscience, including GSLIS Assistant Professor Vetle Torvik. The IAS team is taking a close look at the relationship between aging and innovation, in terms of how the capacity for innovation changes throughout the human lifecycle, how society will be aﬀected by the aging of the biomedical research workforce, and how the aging of society may increase demand on the biomedical research industry. The project began in 2013 and has received $4.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health. Torvik is a subcontract principal investigator focusing on one piece of this puzzle. He and his team—including Neil Smalheiser, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, GSLIS doctoral student Shubhanshu Mishra, and informatics doctoral candidate Brent Fegley—are tackling the technical hurdles that will allow discovery of patterns hidden in myriad metadata regarding the biomedical scientific workforce.

The IAS team is taking a close look at the relationship between aging and innovation, in terms of how the capacity for innovation changes throughout the human lifecycle, how society will be affected by the aging of the biomedical research workforce, and how the aging of society may increase demand on the biomedical research industry. “Vetle’s contribution is to provide one of the most critical building blocks for this work,” said IAS Principal Investigator Bruce Weinberg, professor of economics at Ohio State University. “Innovations are produced by people, and so it is essential to know who is who, where they are located, and information about them like gender, race, and ethnicity. His work has also generated important understandings of networks and the novelty of research.” Torvik’s team is developing a large-scale, disambiguated set of data drawn from databases of publications, patents, and grants and building tools for navigating the data. Using these tools, other IAS researchers will be able to analyze the information, revealing trends

that may provide insight into innovation across scientists’ careers, such as the points in their personal and professional lives at which scientists are most prolific. “The main problem we’re trying to solve is ambiguity in author names . . . and we’re trying to do this on a large scale,” explained Torvik. “The other [problem] is doing this across bibliographic databases so that we can link people and get a better picture of some of the many different things that scientists do. It is not surprising that you will get the wrong picture if you assume the name J. A. Smith corresponds to one person. What is surprising is that scholars often make that assumption. We recently had a paper in PLOS ONE that characterized the degree to which coauthorship networks are distorted if one fails to disambiguate.” By improving disambiguation of author names and connecting individual scientists to publishing metadata, institutional affiliation data, and demographics—and scaling the process to encompass thousands of scientists—the IAS team can begin to identify correlations between the human lifecycle and innovation in biomedical research. “We can get eighty percent accuracy pretty easily, but we’re aiming at ninety-eight percent. We use sophisticated statistical models and harvest a lot of supplemental information to accomplish this. And then we apply these algorithms across large-scale bibliographic datasets. The resulting publications, data, and online tools are where we see a lot of impact,” he said. Subsequent to disambiguation, a suite of tools is used to elucidate characteristics of scientists and their output. Torvik’s geocoding tool, MapAffil, infers geographic location and type of institution worldwide, and links to

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demographic data from the US census; Genni predicts author gender and works well even for names rarely seen in the US; Ethnea imputes ethnicity; and Patci is a probabilistic citation matcher that includes links from patents to papers. The disambiguated linked data and tools are all available online at http://abel.lis.illinois.edu. “We’ll have a person-centered, longitudinal dataset that uses papers, patents, grants, and dissertations to map out individuals’ careers by what they work on, where they are located, who they work with, and when. And we are studying a variety of complex social phenomena including collaboration, diversity, mobility, scientific reliability, impact, productivity, and how these have changed over the years and were influenced by ‘external shocks’ like changes in government policy on science funding,” said Torvik. Torvik’s foundational work will facilitate the larger project’s eﬀorts to predict eﬀects of the aging of the scientific workforce and make policy-related recommendations. The data and tools developed by Torvik’s team will also be made freely available to the wider research community and maintained in perpetuity, enabling further research at the intersection of aging and innovation. Torvik is an assistant professor at GSLIS. His areas of expertise include mathematical optimization, computational statistics, text and data mining, literature-based discovery, and bioinformatics. He teaches courses on those topics, as well as informetrics, information processing, and literature-based discovery. Torvik earned a BA in mathematics from St. Olaf College, an MS in operations research from Oregon State University, and a PhD in engineering science from Louisiana State University.

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Access to big data is crucial for credibility of

Photo credit: George Dyson

computational research findings

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hink of a scientist at work, and you might picture someone at a lab bench, doing a physical experiment involving beakers or petri dishes and recording his or her findings, which will eventually form the basis for a scientific paper. That’s the old model of science, says GSLIS Associate Professor Victoria Stodden. Science is being transformed so that massive computation is central to scientific experiments, with scientists using computer code to analyze huge amounts of data. Computational science might be used to study climate change, to simulate the formation of galaxies, for biomolecular modeling, or for mining a vast set of data looking for patterns. But, Stodden says, this relatively new form of scientific inquiry has not yet developed standards for communicating the details of how the work was done or for validating results. The lack of such standards is causing a credibility crisis, Stodden says. Her research looks at the “reproducibility” of computational science—how findings can be verified and an experiment replicated or used as a basis for further research. In the traditional form of scientific experimentation, a scientist keeps records and provides information about the conditions in the lab and the materials and variable factors in the experiment. Another scientist can run the same experiment to verify the results, or alter it to answer a related research question of his or her own. Such inquiries are central to scientific principles of rooting out errors in process and mistakes in interpretation. In order to do those things in computational science, others must have access to the data and computer code used, Stodden said. But there are not standards in place for sharing data and code. “What if there is a mistake in the code? How do I find out if I can’t get to the code?”

Stodden asked. “What does it mean to verify a (computer) simulation?” She and a number of colleagues are advocating for open access to data and code. The problem is not a simple one, though. There are privacy issues involving human subject data, and proprietary issues where the research is the result of a partnership between a scientist and industry. Then there are the technical issues of where to put software and data, who gets access to it, and whether they would yield the same results as hardware and software systems are upgraded.

A 2003 report by the National Academy of Sciences called for scientists to include data, algorithms, and other information necessary to support the claims they make in reporting their findings, and for scientific journals to require sharing of software, algorithms, and complex datasets. In numerous articles they’ve published in the last several years, Stodden and her colleagues have oﬀered suggestions to scientists, journal editors, and funding agencies for establishing standards to document the software and datasets used in published research results. Their suggestions for incentives to improve scientific integrity generally appeared online at sciencemag.org in late June. Stodden was part of a group convened by the National Academy of Sciences last fall

to look at how the research community can address instances where published research results (whether obtained through computational or more traditional methods of experimentation) cannot be reproduced. They wrote that the pressure to publish and the lengthening time it takes for postdoctoral fellows to obtain a faculty position and their first independent research grants are counterproductive to maintaining high standards of research integrity. They suggested incentives should be changed so researchers are rewarded for the quality and importance of their work, rather than the number of publications they produce. Stodden said some scientific journals and funding agencies are already adopting open data and code policies for computational research. The journals Nature and Science both require authors to make the data underlying their published results available upon request, and Science also requires access to computer codes involved in the creation or analysis of data. In 2011, the National Science Foundation began requiring grant applicants to include a data management plan, describing the availability and archiving of data produced by their research, as part of grant applications. And a 2003 report by the National Academy of Sciences called for scientists to include data, algorithms, and other information necessary to support the claims they make in reporting their findings, and for scientific journals to require sharing of software, algorithms, and complex datasets. “This will become standard, to share code and data,” Stodden predicted. Story courtesy University of Illinois News Bureau

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Bashir researches

human aspects of digital technology, privacy

rivacy, security, and trust have long been watchwords in the computer science and computer engineering fields. Generally, however, these groups don’t prioritize how those issues impact users of the technology they create. GSLIS Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir wants to change that. With a background in math, computer science, and psychology, she has long been interested in the human aspects of digital technology. “Once information is digitized, the security of that information, not to mention its privacy and the trust in that information, becomes very important,” she said. “How do users think and feel about these issues? These are timely topics for an information school.” Bashir is especially pleased to be aﬃliated with GSLIS. “Librarians have historically been at the forefront of protecting patron privacy, and guarding intellectual freedom,” she said. “That philosophy is very big in my outlook and my research, and I’m very pleased to be part of that great tradition.” GSLIS Dean Allen Renear agrees. “The opportunity to hire Masooda was terrific for us,” he said. “We knew right away she was a great fit.” Renear was equally excited about Bashir’s decade of work experience in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. “We value workplace experience, and Masooda’s background is enormously valuable,” said Renear, noting that she worked in precisely the kinds of companies many GSLIS graduates are likely to work in. Among her projects, Bashir’s research explores some concepts that appear simple, but are not. Take information privacy, for example. Many technology developers have long recognized the “privacy paradox”: in research studies, users say information privacy is very important to them, but researchers then observe that those same users reveal a lot of per-

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sonal information online through social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram. As a result, research has often concluded that users don’t care about privacy, even when they say they do. Bashir disagrees with this commonly held view. She believes we must gain a more nuanced understanding of what privacy means to people in an online world. Much of her recent work involves understanding, “What does privacy mean to people? How do you define or conceptualize privacy in this digital era?” It turns out there is no one easy definition of privacy; when she teaches her GSLIS course, Privacy in the Internet Age, every student has a diﬀerent definition. Even within the scholarly community there is no one consistent definition, says Bashir. Bashir has observed increased interest in privacy issues in the last few years. “There have been social changes and technological enhancements that make digital information privacy even more challenging for us,” said Bashir. ”Technology has become very sophisticated, so that inferences about users’ behaviors, personality, and political views can now be made based on other things they are doing online.” People have come to appreciate that privacy is important, and not just a concern of those who have something to hide, she says. In part, that is because corporations and governments have collected enormous amounts of user information that has not always been completely secure. When this information is

hacked, this is a concern for everyone. By doing research in this area and elucidating users’ feelings about privacy, Bashir hopes to help industry develop alternatives for people who are concerned about privacy. “One thing I have learned from my research is that there is no one answer or design solution,” she said. “People are diﬀerent, whether in their culture, age, gender, or race.” It also depends on the context, Bashir notes. Users may feel comfortable, for example, sharing medical information with their doctor but not with their employer. “I’m not saying don’t collect information,” she said. “You do need information to function as a society, but it’s the context in which it belongs. The lack of guidelines, principles, or ethics of sharing information is problematic.” Bashir hopes that her research will help more precisely design systems for specific audiences. “I’m very interested in keeping the human user in the loop,” she said. Although privacy has taken a central role in Bashir’s research, she also investigates the issue of trust and how it relates to automated systems. How do we develop trust in those devices that purport to guide us in a strange environment, for example? Do you believe your GPS will take you the best route, or do you think you know a better one? “It can be very simple or complex,” said Bashir, “but understanding how humans build trust, maintain it, and what factors influence that trust are going to be really important.”

Bashir is also involved in two NSF-funded projects, both addressing cybersecurity. As PI of the “Enhancing the Cybersecurity Workforce: The Human Angle” project, she is investigating what attracts people to cybersecurity careers. There is a huge unmet demand for workers in this sector. Bashir’s research may ultimately provide ways to increase the workforce. The second project, “Digital Forensics,” brings faculty from law, computer science, genetics, educational assessment, business, and sociology to develop a curriculum for undergraduate education. The curriculum, which will be made widely available, addresses a nationwide shortage of qualified cybersecurity experts.

he Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at GSLIS recently welcomed Timothy Cole (MS '89) to the Center staﬀ as coordinator for library applications. In this newly-created role, Cole will coordinate projects focusing on academic library applications of informatics research. Cole’s projects will emphasize metadata schema design and application, linked data-based services, scholarly collection definition and description, and applicability to digital humanities scholarship. Currently, Cole is serving as principal investigator on a new project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, “Exploring the Benefits for Users of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections.” This collaborative project between CIRSS and the University Library seeks to transform the metadata of three digitized special collections into linked open data. Through this process they will re-envision user-facing services and enhance usefulness of digital special collections by integrating them with general collections and other web-accessible sources. In addition to his new position at CIRSS, Cole is the mathematics librarian and a professor at the University Library, and has been a GSLIS-aﬃliated faculty member since 2009. His research interests include metadata, annotation of digital content, digital collections and content interoperability, and digital library system design and implementation. Cole holds a master’s degree from GSLIS and a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Illinois.

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GSLIS welcomes three

SLIS is pleased to announce the addition of three new faculty members. Peter Darch and Rachel Magee joined the faculty this fall, and Jodi Schneider will begin her appointment in August 2016. “We’re very pleased to be welcoming three accomplished faculty members to GSLIS. The range of their expertise complements the breadth of our teaching and research, and we’re thrilled they are joining us,” said Allen Renear, GSLIS dean and professor.

Peter Darch After receiving his doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Oxford, Darch was most recently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, working on the Knowledge Infrastructures project. Darch conducted longitudinal case studies of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center studying interactions between microbial life and geochemical processes in the seafloor, and of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a large telescope project currently in development. “Understanding how scientists work and how scientific data is collected, managed, and shared is critical to improving the systems and services that support scientific research and the applications of scientific results to the problems facing society. Peter brings extraordinary experiences and accomplishments with him to GSLIS, and we are delighted that he is joining us to continue our long tradition of work in this area,” said Renear. At Illinois, Darch is looking forward to collaborating with GSLIS faculty as well as colleagues across campus, including researchers at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. “There are many

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world-leading researchers on the faculty who study scientists, scientific workflows, and issues around the circulation of scientific data and knowledge with whom I am very eager to collaborate, in particular in the context of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS),” said Darch. “I seek to challenge existing assumptions about the nature of contemporary scientific collaboration that are embedded in studies of scientific data practices in order to develop new models of

“There are many world-leading researchers on the faculty who study scientists, scientific workflows, and issues around the circulation of scientific data and knowledge with whom I am very eager to collaborate, in particular in the context of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS).” Peter Darch scientific collaboration. Working with other faculty members at GSLIS and across campus, I will examine how these new models contribute to deeper and new understandings of the challenges of data curation, and the formulation and implementation of strategies and infrastructures to address these challenges.” Darch is also eager to bring his expertise to the classroom. “I was also attracted by the reputation of GSLIS’s degree programs, and opportunities to contribute to these. I was

especially impressed with the caliber of the students that I met and am looking forward to collaborating with them on future research projects,” said Darch. His work has been published across a range of venues, including the International Journal on Digital Libraries and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, and he has served as a reviewer for the journal ComputerSupported Cooperative Work and the Web Science conference. Darch also holds degrees in the history and philosophy of science and medicine from Durham University and in mathematics from the University of Oxford.

Rachel Magee Magee’s research focuses on how young people engage with technology, and considers their social relationships and values as important factors in their technology use. She is also interested in developing technologies, strategies, and techniques to better support teens’ information access and use. “Rachel is a wonderful addition to our topranked faculty in youth services. She is bringing new approaches to understanding youth’s experiences with digital spaces and media, and in particular, how they transition between different modes of online communication. We are delighted that she is joining us,” said Renear. Before embarking on her doctoral studies, Magee served as a teen and reference services librarian at the County of Los Angeles Public Library for three years. Magee is now looking forward to bringing that experience to the classroom. “I’m very excited to teach people who will be going out into the field and working directly with youth, drawing from my own experiences as a teen services librarian and my research,” she said. “I was attracted to GSLIS for a number of reasons, first and foremost being the dynamic

“I’m very excited to teach people who will be going out into the field and working directly with youth, drawing from my own experiences as a teen services librarian and my research.” Rachel Magee people,” she continued. “The faculty and students here are working on important problems. The School is at the forefront of innovative research and education, and has long recognized the importance of supporting and advocating for youth. I think this is a great environment to think big, and I'm so excited for the opportunity to join this community.” Magee holds degrees in English and in radio, television, and film from the University of Texas at Austin, a master’s degree in information resources and library science from the University of Arizona, and recently completed her PhD in information studies at Drexel University.

Jodi Schneider This year Schneider is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, supported by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She will join the GSLIS faculty in August 2016. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at INRIA, the national French Computer Science Research Institute, which was funded by a highly competitive

Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). Schneider’s research interests include computer-supported cooperative work; linked data including ontologies, metadata, and the semantic web; and scholarly communication. At GSLIS, she is looking forward to continuing her research into evidence curation as well as collaborating with other GSLIS faculty on complementary projects. “My passion and area of research is about understanding evidence. Currently my colleagues and I are working on understanding and improving how clinicians (doctors, pharmacists, etc.) use evidence about whether it's safe to combine two or more medications— an issue that is faced more often as patients age and accumulate health conditions. It takes experts a long time and a lot of work to make sense of the current knowledge on a topic. Supporting people in evidence curation can help reduce the gap between what we know scientifically and what we do in a clinic,” said Schneider. “Our current work can be used to improve medication safety, but in the long run this work can impact many fields, including medicine, law, education, and management.” Schneider’s research has been published in journals such as Semantic Web and Journal of Biomedical Semantics and in proceedings from top computing conferences such as the ACM's Computer-Supported Collaborative Work. Her dissertation used Semantic Web technology to organize Wikipedia information quality discussions. “It may be commonplace to say that the new communication and information technologies that we now take for granted are revolutionizing how we communicate and collaborate, but it is true. Some of these changes are obvious and some are not. Jodi’s

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exciting and wide-ranging innovative explorations are advancing our understanding of these changes and suggesting new strategies and tools for using digital technologies for more eﬀective communication and collaboration. What could be more important? We are very eager to have her join us,” said Renear. Schneider previously worked as science library specialist at Amherst College and as web librarian at Appalachian State University. Her contributions to library technology include

“Our current work can be used to improve medication safety, but in the long run this work can impact many fields, including medicine, law, education, and management.” Jodi Schneider founding the Code4Lib Journal and coauthoring the "W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report,” which has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. Schneider earned her PhD in informatics at the National University of Ireland Galway in 2014. She also holds a master’s degree from GSLIS (2008) and an MA in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College in Annapolis.

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Associate Professor Christine Jenkins retires

ssociate Professor Christine Jenkins, who has been a member of the GSLIS faculty since 1994, retired on May 31. At GSLIS, Jenkins taught courses on literature and resources for young adults; youth services librarianship; literacy, reading, and readers; the history of children’s literature; and gendered perspectives in LIS. In addition to her GSLIS appointment, Jenkins was also a faculty member in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. Her research interests include the history of children’s literature; history of youth services librarianship as women’s history; historical and contemporary censorship and intellectual freedom; representations of LGBTQ and other minority-status groups in children’s and young adult literature; reading engagement; readerresponse research; and reader-text interaction.

She has published four books and numerous articles in publications including Library Trends, Libraries and Culture, Library Quarterly, VOYA, New Advocate, Horn Book Magazine, School Library Journal, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science. Jenkins is an active member of the American Library Association. She has served on the Newbery, Caldecott, and Sibert Award committees and as a trustee of the Freedom to Read Foundation. As a member of the GSLIS faculty, Jenkins played a leadership role in the establishment of the K-12 library media specialist program and pioneered the first youth services course taught via the Leep online education program. In 2003, she received the Campus Award for Excellence in Oﬀ-Campus Teaching from Illinois and in 2008 she received the Award for Teaching Excellence from the Association for Library

and Information Science Education (ALISE). Jenkins was named the 2006-2007 GSLIS Centennial Scholar in recognition of her accomplishments and scholarship in the field of library and information science. She served as director of The Center for Children’s Books from 2007 to 2010. She currently serves on the editorial board of Children’s Literature in Education and is a regular participant at The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books reviewer meetings. “We will all deeply miss Christine’s presence and her wise counsel on so many things: libraries, children, diversity, our School, our field, and more. It is very hard to imagine the School without her. Personally, I think I will suffer her absence as much as anyone,” said Dean Allen Renear. “Christine was one of the first people I met when I was being interviewed for a faculty position here in the spring of 2000, and when I arrived as a new faculty member, her very warm friendship and thoughtful advice was enormously important to me. Of course, I knew I could never compete with her classroom charisma—but I am certainly a better teacher for trying to! I know Christine will have a continuing relationship with GSLIS as she pursues her many projects, but it is impossible to greet any diminution of Christine’s presence in the building, and in our lives, without a little bit of sadness. We wish her well!” As an undergraduate, Jenkins studied English and art at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She went on to earn a master’s and PhD in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a master’s in English/children’s literature from Eastern Michigan University. Before joining the faculty at GSLIS, she worked as a media specialist for Ann Arbor Public Schools and as the intellectual freedom information coordinator at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Knox receives ILA Intellectual Freedom Award

ssistant Professor Emily Knox (MS ’03) is the 2015 recipient of the Illinois Library Association (ILA) Intellectual Freedom Award. The award, presented by the ILA Intellectual Freedom Committee, recognizes an individual or group for outstanding contributions in defending intellectual freedom or the advancement of these principles. The award is sponsored by Quality Books Inc. (QBI). With research interests in intellectual freedom and censorship, print culture and reading practices, and information ethics and policy, Knox is a prolific author of articles and book chapters. She recently published her second book, Book Banning in 21st Century America, the first monograph in the Beta Phi Mu Scholars Series. She is also a popular speaker, presenting at conferences both in the United States and abroad. This fall, Knox entered her fourth year at GSLIS teaching courses such as Information Organization and Access and Intellectual Freedom and Censorship. Intellectual Freedom and Censorship allows students to examine these issues throughout the US and worldwide and to develop the skills needed to navigate censorship controversies in the workplace. Additionally, through a partnership with the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF), FTRF staff and volunteers will lend their expertise as guest speakers, and FTRF and ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom archival materials will be made available to students. Knox received her PhD from Rutgers University School of Communication and Information. She received her MS in library and information science from GSLIS. She also holds a BA in religious studies from Smith College and an AM in the same field from The University of Chicago Divinity School.

Mak named senior fellow at Center for Humanities and Information

ssociate Professor Bonnie Mak has been named visiting senior fellow at the Center for Humanities and Information (CHI), a newly-formed collaboration at Pennsylvania State University between the university’s College of the Liberal Arts and the University Libraries. Mak joins faculty and graduate students from Penn State as well as two postdoctoral fellows to form CHI’s inaugural class of scholars for the academic year 2015-2016. While in residence, she will work on her own research projects and contribute to the intellectual community of the Center. “I am thrilled to join the Center for Humanities and Information and help showcase how it is through humanistic inquiry that we may come to grips with the most pressing questions regarding data, information, and the future of a civil society,” said Mak. “Penn State is oﬀering a tremendous opportunity to change the way that we think and talk about information, and I look forward to sharing my research with national, international, and cross-disciplinary audiences.” At CHI, Mak will continue her work employing the techniques of the humanities—medieval studies in particular—to explore questions of knowledge-production, information transfer, and their technologies. Expanding upon her earlier work on the archaeology of digitizations, she will develop a second book-length project, Confessions of a 21st-Century Memsahib, which examines the social processes and dynamics that underpin the manufacture of data. Mak will also pursue her collaboration with graphic designers and librarians in Designing an Argument: A Collaboration in Scholarly Publication, which tests the boundaries of scholarly publication by articulating a complex humanistic argument in the language of scientific diagrams. Mak holds a joint appointment in GSLIS and the Program in Medieval Studies. Her research

interests include manuscript, print, and digital cultures; the cultural production and circulation of knowledge; manuscript studies; book history; medieval and early modern collecting; and the history of archives and libraries. Her first book, How the Page Matters, was published in 2011. Mak currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) and the organizing committee of the International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA) and is coeditor of the online project for book history, Architectures of the Book.

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ummer is a great time for students to gain real-world experience through internships, practica, and study abroad classes. Here’s a look at what a few of our master’s students did during their summer break.

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Thomas Mukonde spent the summer in Zambia, where he led programs for Lubuto Library Partners, an organization that provides Zambian youth with accessible library services, enabling them to connect with their culture and participate fully in their communities.

Lisa Vallen spent part of her summer in Paris, France, as a member of the study abroad class, Art History 460: Museum Management. Classes were conducted at the École du Louvre and some of France’s greatest museums, including the Musée du Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Musée du Quai Branly, and others.

Clara Volker worked as an intern at the Seattle investment advising firm, KMS Financial Services Inc. She established guidelines and metadata requirements for document storage and implemented a records management program.

@mukondetk, July 26: At Fountain of Hope @LubutoLibrary exploring comics with youth. #gslisui #gslislife

@lovallen, June 29: Home sweet home for the next three weeks!!! #gslislife #paris #gradlife #neverleaving

@HiHeelsHighHope, July 28: Been here two months and only had Starbucks once. Went to the original this morning #gslislife

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Hailley Fargo helped to plan and lead a week-long digital literacy camp for youth in Peoria Heights, Illinois, as part of the Digital Innovation Leadership Program and wrote about her experiences for the Young Adult Library Services Association blog.

Nushrat Khan and Jennifer Westrick both participated in the six-week Oxford-Illinois Digital Libraries Placement Programme and the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS).

Kimberly Stelter completed her practicum as an intern at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. She processed part of a collection of personal papers by Ralph Rinzler, folklorist and cofounder of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Her work included title normalization and physical arrangement of the papers, contributing to a larger project that will result in creation of a finding aid.

@hailthefargoats, July 24: Met so many great kids this week who did incredible things. This is why I love what I do. #diglit

William LaChance completed his practicum experience at the Champaign County Juvenile Detention Center, where he provided library services to incarcerated youth. In addition to participating in reader’s advisory and collection development activities, he collaborated with the Urbana Free Library to make its summer reading program available to the center’s residents and helped to establish a writing program.

Khan spent her time at the University of Oxford eResearch Center. She worked on a project that is studying roles and relationships in the early publishing industry using metadata from the Early English Books Online database. At DHOxSS, she presented a poster on her work exploring the use of DSpace to publish and share large-scale research data. Westrick was placed at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services unit. She worked to identify, analyze, and make recommendations for treatment of legacy digital collections. She collected usage statistics and basic content information on these older digital collections, which retain viable URLs and identities.

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Get to know... Paul Bracke (MS ’97), associate dean and professor Where do you work and what is your role? I work at the Purdue University Libraries, where I’m associate dean for research and assessment as well as an associate professor. I’m responsible for providing leadership for research within the Purdue Libraries and integration with research activities on campus. For example, I work with the campus research office to help the Libraries secure grant funding and develop campus-level support for data curation initiatives. Our Research Data and Information Technology units report to me, and I also have overall responsibility for assessment activities in the Libraries. Before coming to Purdue, I spent six years at the University of Arizona, in both the Main Library and the Health Sciences Library. What do you like best about your job? I feel very fortunate to be at Purdue. I am surrounded by creative and talented coworkers at a university where we’re encouraged to be innovators and leaders, on campus and beyond. I’ve had great opportunities to work closely with people from all over campus to develop partnerships for the Libraries, and also to develop partnerships with colleagues around the world in developing research data services. Overall, it’s a privilege to be able to work at an institution that is so open to what librarians can bring to the table. This gives us exciting opportunities to be at the forefront of developing new models for academic librarianship. How did GSLIS help you get to where you are today? GSLIS opened doors for me in many ways. I was exposed to lots of ideas that were new to me and that continue to shape my thinking, and my graduate assistantships in the University Library provided me with experience and

mentors that helped start and grow my career. I also probably would never have pursued a PhD while at Arizona had it not been for my experience as a research assistant with [former GSLIS assistant professor] Karen Ruhleder. What advice would you like to share with GSLIS students? GSLIS has a lot to offer that will help you throughout your career. Take advantage of the many assistantship and practicum opportunities to get the practical experience needed to distinguish yourself in the job market. At the same time, be adventurous in the classes you take and tap into the expertise of the faculty. As our work changes in libraries, it’s important to be able to apply our knowledge in new ways. The broader your base of knowledge, the more you’ll be able to grow throughout your career. Perhaps most importantly, take advantage of the networking opportunities available to you. Many of the people I met while at GSLIS are still colleagues and friends. What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? I enjoy traveling, spending time with Marianne Stowell Bracke (MS ’97) and our dogs, listening to live music, and following the St. Louis Cardinals and Arsenal Football Club. What’s next for you? I’m excited about continuing to find new ways for academic libraries to be partners in teaching, learning, and research.

Taylor Kirch (MS ’14), Pandora music librarian Where do you work and what is your role? I work at Pandora as a music librarian on the Curation team. At Pandora, we enable people to discover music they love. Behind the scenes at Curation, that means finding music and making it available to our listeners. I work closely with our curators to ingest and validate new music as they acquire it. My primary role is collection management, including overall library and metadata maintenance. I also work on projects devoted to improving our metadata framework by creating information architecture, and taxonomies, and detailing content management features for our internal systems. What do you like best about your job? The culture, the people, and the vision. It’s inspiring to walk into a building where you are encouraged to grow as an individual and be yourself, while working toward a rewarding goal: bringing music to the world. Based in Oakland, Pandora is conscious of its role in the technology industry and gives back to the community it has been a part of since the start. I also get to work with some of the most interesting and talented people I’ve ever met. I work with people from a variety of backgrounds, from DJs and classical musicians to fellow librarians and data scientists. It’s been a growing experience thus far, and I’m really honored to be a part of it. How did GSLIS help you get to where you are today? Knowledge. Experience. Growth. I have a background in literature and philosophy, but came into GSLIS as a budding technologist. My initial interest in information science was philosophical, becoming interested after taking a variety of philosophy of language and programming courses. I’m interested in how we

perceive and translate information through various mediums and how that affects our understanding of the world. GSLIS provided me with the practical skills to pursue librarianship and information science as a career. What advice would you like to share with GSLIS students? Have an open mind. Be accepting of other people’s ideas, mindsets, and backgrounds. A library and information science degree can open up your world to some valuable opportunities in seemingly disparate careers or industries. At GSLIS, you’ll meet people who are interested in conservation and preservation, fan fiction, data mining, community librarianship, semantic technologies, UX design, you name it. Be open to that diversity and see it as an opportunity to learn from your peers. What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? I’m into the local art and music scene here in Oakland, and I spend most of my time trying to contribute to that movement, either by supporting local art and music events or by creating art myself. I also am, for lack of a better term, an entrepreneur. My husband and I have a technology and design company together, and are focused on UX design, web and mobile applications, and content management. We work closely with archives, publishers, digital content providers, and media companies. Our internal projects are more based around new media, community art, and conscious technology. What’s next for you? Pandora. Music. Art. Embroidery. One day, I would love to open a brick and mortar set-up, be it an event space, maker space, art and music studio, or storefront. That’s been my dream for as long as I can remember, and I hope it comes true someday soon! In the meantime, you can find me hanging out in Oakland and rocking out at Pandora.

Robert Sarwark MS student Why did you decide to pursue an LIS degree? I have another master’s degree—in Portuguese—and I knew that with the MS in LIS, I would be able to really make myself more marketable when applying for jobs at colleges and universities in the LIS field and beyond. In addition to that, the science of organizing information and what that really means are issues that resonate with and challenge me in a constructive way. I’m particularly interested in the art of communicating—linguistically, cross-culturally, institutionally, artistically, or otherwise—and how this intersects with the ways we go about accessing and utilizing the information that actually comprises or influences those communications. Why did you choose GSLIS? I have a dear old friend who graduated from GSLIS in 2013. Since he was in a similar position as myself before he went for the MS (he had an MA as well), I wanted to know how he had leveraged the two degrees together to find a great job as an instructional librarian immediately after graduating. His story convinced me that the solution to my situation at the time was to combine the two. What’s more, since GSLIS is so highly regarded and ranked in the field, and I’m an Illinois native, the choice was clear! What particular LIS topics interest you most? Special collections is one. I’m really interested in how and why certain “special” artifacts or materials are cataloged as well as the larger issues of value and notability. This, in part, led me to complete a summer practicum at Chicago’s Button Museum of the Busy Beaver Button Co., which had me cataloging and describing dozens of pinback buttons, some going back as far as Abraham Lincoln’s second presidential campaign.

I work as a graduate assistant at the International and Area Studies Library and have really enjoyed working on projects that aim to facilitate students’ study and research of foreign languages, history, culture, and more. I also get to put my Portuguese and Spanish skills to use while simultaneously learning how to read other scripts (Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, etc.) and understand methods of librarianship from countries outside of the United States. What career plans or goals do you have? In all honesty, I’d like to have both a 9-to-5 job in the LIS field—probably at either an academic or municipal library—as well as enough free time to pursue my own creative interests. The great thing about LIS, though, is how it is already very much related to my creative interests. So there is no conflict of interest there. Maybe one day I’ll be able to work for myself in some capacity, but in the meantime a real sense of tranquility comes over me thinking that I could be doing the kinds of things that I already do on a daily basis with my assistantship. Barring that, I wouldn’t be opposed to applying for a full-time position as a Peace Corps recruiter. I’m currently doing that part time here at Illinois, and I can say with certainty that many LIS core competencies like access, research, and data mining come in very handy with multiple aspects of this job.

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News Briefs

Alumni encourage matching gifts to complete first endowed chair at GSLIS

hanks to a generous pledge from Lionelle Elsesser (AB ’66, MS ’67) and husband James Elsesser (BS ’66, MS ’67), GSLIS is one step closer to realizing its first faculty chair, the Endowed Chair in the History of Libraries and the Information Professions. Gifts of any size will be matched on a one-to-one basis up to a total contribution of $225,000 by the Elsessers, and the resulting $450,000 will complete the amount needed to fund the chair. New gifts from alumni, matched by the Elsessers’s pledge, will join the thoughtful contributions of those individuals who helped establish the endowment fund, including Don Davis (PhD ’72) and Avis Davis, Mark Tucker (PhD ’83) and Barbara Tucker, and Laurel Grotzinger (MS ’58, PhD ’64). “We’re delighted to work with

other donors to wrap up what the PhD graduates envisioned and began,” said Lionelle. Endowed positions attract distinguished faculty whose teaching and research in turn attract exceptional students. The endowed chair will strengthen GSLIS’s strong tradition of academic excellence in the history of libraries and the information professions—the understanding of which is crucial to advancing the field of library and information science. When fully funded, the endowment will support part of the salary of the faculty member who holds the chair, a graduate student fellowship, and relevant library collections and services. The Elsessers are longtime advocates for GSLIS, giving generously of their time and

Your gift makes a difference to the next generation of LIS professionals When you support GSLIS students, you can change the course of someone’s life. Every gift, large or small, matters.

resources to further the School’s mission of teaching, research, and public engagement. Together they have funded several fellowships—the GSLIS Alumni Challenge Fellowship, the Katharine Sharp First-Time Donor Fellowship, and the Lionelle H. Elsesser Fellowship. Lionelle is a retired GSLIS adjunct assistant professor with a background in medical librarianship and instructional technology who previously served as executive director of the Health Sciences Communications Association. James is a former chairman and CEO of I.B.C. and former CFO of Ralston Purina. They enjoy traveling and spending time with their two children and six grandchildren.

Student support comes in the form of scholarships and general support. Here are just a few ways your gift can make an impact.

Annual Fund Gifts to the Annual Fund support a wide range of activities that supplement academic studies and promote the professional development of our students.

Student funds David S. Ginn and Richard A. Stevens Scholarship Supports students who are interested in health sciences librarianship. Curt McKay Student Need Fund Provides emergency support for students.

for more giving opportunities, or to make a gift: www.lis.illinois.edu/giving

G. Edward Evans Minority Student Scholarship Supports students from underrepresented groups.

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Cuban librarian Marta Terry González visits campus

his October, GSLIS welcomed to campus Cuban librarian and educator Marta Terry González, a George A. Miller Visiting Professor. Her visit was organized by GSLIS Associate Professor Kate Williams, who coauthored Terry’s biography with GSLIS Professor Emeritus Abdul Alkalimat. “Cuba and the United States are working out a new state-to-state relationship, and all kinds of new collaborations are possible. GSLIS is leading the way in this arena by bringing a Cuban librarian to campus to talk with students, scholars, professionals, and the public,” said Williams. Marta Terry has been called a legendary librarian. In the 1950s, she was instrumental in the development of Cuba’s school libraries. Much later, she brought the World Library and Information Congress to Latin America for the first time, to Havana, with her IFLA colleague

and GSLIS alumnus Robert Wedgeworth (MS ’61). “Throughout her career she directed important libraries, educated several generations of librarians, and fought countless battles that made libraries stronger. Of course, Marta did all this with finesse and panache. She told her story to us, her two biographers, and now nine campus units have helped bring her to Illinois to revise and extend those remarks,” said Williams. Terry’s biography, Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of Afro Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González, was published by Library Juice Press in February 2015. “Bringing her [to campus] gives Marta, our School, and others a way to write the book of the future, talking about and imagining together what might unfold in our and Cuba’s libraries,” said Alkalimat.

Terry’s visit included several speaking engagements, including: • MillerComm Lecture Series: “Libraries and Literary Culture: An Inside View of Cuba’s Information Revolution” • GSLIS History Salon: “A Few Stories from Cuban Library History, Told by a Protagonist” • Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture Series: “Dialogue with a Veteran Cuban Librarian: The Long View on Literacy, Literary Culture, Digitization and Revolution” • Discussion moderated by Clara M. Chu, Mortenson Center director and Mortenson distinguished professor • Open discussion hosted by GSLIS and the Department of Latina/Latino Studies

This former library director is beside himself Robot of Sam Morrison on display at Fort Lauderdale branch s patrons enter the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they are greeted by a robot modeled after former Broward County (FL) Library Director and GSLIS alum Samuel F. Morrison (MS ’73). The sensoractivated replica—displayed in a five thousandsquare-foot art gallery—gives visitors insights into the library and local community. Morrison became director of the Broward County library system in 1990 and retired in 2003. As director, he began campaigning to build AARLCC, and in 2002, the sixty thousandsquare-foot facility opened as a branch of Broward County Library. Its collection of books, artwork, photos, and other documents highlight black culture and history. The animatronic—unveiled in May—relates to the library’s history as well as information about Morrison. Some of its key phrases, which were prepared by the library staff and edited by Morrison, include “I’m Sam Morrison, and it was

Steve Vinik/Broward County Library

Former Broward County (FL) Library Director Samuel F. Morrison (MS ’73) stands next to a replica of himself at the entrance to the AARLCC in Fort Lauderdale. AARLCC Executive Director Elaina Norlin (MS ’96) (left) and Friends of AARLCC President Janice B. Henry are also pictured. my dream to see this library built” and “I see the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center as a bridge and a beacon. It is a symbol of hope—a span across cultures and a shining light for a world in which knowledge is the true power.”

Morrison says he’s grateful that his vision and efforts to build AARLCC resulted in what is a personal tribute to his legacy. For the full text of this article, written by Alison Marcotte, visit American Libraries online.

News Briefs

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Laurel Grotzinger retires Alumna Laurel A. Grotzinger (MS '58, PhD '64) retired recently following a distinguished career lasting more than fifty years at Western Michigan University. During her time there she served as both a professor and administrator. In 1979, she became the first woman to be appointed to a dean-level position at WMU. She retired as professor emerita on June 30, 2015. In 1994, the GSLIS Library School Alumni Association honored Grotzinger with the Distinguished Alumnus Award for her extensive contributions to the field. She was honored for her professional accomplishments at WMU, her active involvement in a number of professional organizations, and her numerous publications, including a major pioneering monograph, The Power and The Dignity: Librarianship and Katharine Sharp, and articles on library history and women in her discipline.

Change management lecture series to honor Taylor Willingham

s a teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend, Taylor Willingham (1957-2011) had a positive influence on the people around her. She spent a decade as an adjunct lecturer for GSLIS, inspiring students and faculty alike through her innovative teaching and civic commitment. Her memory will live in the hearts of those whose lives she touched, and now through a generous gift, will be honored through a new lecture series at GSLIS. As a tribute to Willingham, Susan Kumar (MS ’05) and husband Parameswaran Kumar have made a gift of $25,000 to establish the Taylor Willingham Lecture in Change Management. Susan met Willingham in 2003, and the two became close friends. The gift from the Kumars will be used to match gifts in support of the lecture series, which will focus primarily on developing and managing change to benefit organizations and communities. “Taylor Willingham was a force to be reckoned with. It is Taylor who can be thanked for the intense zest for life that informs many

social entrepreneurs in libraries today. Our hope is that with this lecture series, Taylor can continue to encourage the catalysts of change,” said Susan.

Willingham began teaching for GSLIS in 2001 and regularly taught online courses on change management, community engagement, and civic entrepreneurship and public institutions—topics that were very important in her professional life. She worked closely with the National Issues Forum and served as director of the National Issues Forums Institute. Willingham led Texas Forums, an initiative of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library with the goal of engaging Texas residents in discussion about current issues. In 2007-2008 she was named a faculty fellow in the University of Illinois Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership. The Kumars invite GSLIS alumni and friends who knew Willingham, or those who are moved to support academic work in this area, to join them in honoring her legacy by making a gift to this new lecture series. Gifts can be made online at www.lis.illinois.edu/giving/funds or by contacting the Office of Advancement at (217) 244-9577.

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Class Notes

Decade: 2010s Barbara Alvarez (MS ’12) was awarded the Morningstar Public Librarian Support Award by the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of RUSA. The award recognizes a public librarian who provides business reference services with $1,250 in travel funds to attend the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. Alvarez, a business liaison librarian at Barrington Area (IL) Library, was selected for her extensive range of activities in support of the local business community. Katie (Dunham) Bishop (MS ’13) became the director of the Research Services Unit at the University of Nebraska Omaha’s Criss Library. In March 2015, Sierra Campbell (MS ’13) accepted a part-time solo librarian position at Fox College in Bedford Park, Illinois. She manages all administrative tasks as well as textbook ordering for the campus, along with reference and instruction duties.

Jesse Garrison (MS ’12) and Olivia Petersen (MS ‘13) were married in Davenport, Iowa on May 23, 2015. Samantha Helmick (MS ’13) was appointed to ALA’s Stonewall Book Awards Committee and Public Awareness Committee. Her book, Mobile Social Marketing for Libraries, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in August 2015. Alyssa (Briggs) Hislop (MS ’11) is a project sound recording cataloger for the Player Piano Project in the Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University. Casae Hobbs (MS ’12) is a general reference librarian at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a role held since November 2014, and is also in charge of the University’s Records Management Program.

Club. She is also a new member of XFR Collective, an all-volunteer organization that offers low-cost, preservation-standard video transfer services to artists and community-based organizations. Casey McCoy (MS ’14) is a librarian at San Jose Public Library. She serves on ALA’s Stonewall Book Awards Committee and YALSA’s Division and Membership Promotion Committee for the 2015-2017 term. Lucas McKeever (MS ’13) was named by the Windy City Times one of Chicago’s “30 under 30,” a list that recognizes the brightest young adults of Chicago’s LGBTQ community. Sarah Palmer (MS ’14) is a reference librarian at the Jefferson County Library in High Ridge, Missouri.

Taylor Kirch (MS ’14) is a librarian for Pandora Internet Radio in the Music Genome and Curation department.

Angeline Prichard (MS ’14) completed her first academic year as a research and instructional librarian at Salisbury University.

Zachariah Claybaugh (MS ’15) accepted a full-time position as the digital learning initiatives librarian at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Lindsay Kusmierczak (MS ’13) is a librarian for the Atlanta-Fulton County (GA) Public Library System, specializing in adult and teen services.

Caitlin E. Crane (MS ’15) is a project archivist in the Archives and Rare Books section of Washington University School of Medicine’s Bernard Becker Medical Library.

Louisa Kwasigroch (MS ’13) became the director of development and outreach for the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Denise Rayman (MS ’13) started a new position in April with the Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives at Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis. Previously, she worked for the ALA Archives at Illinois.

Sarah Crissinger (MS ’15) started work as information literacy librarian at Davidson College in June. Carla Dinnocenzo (MS ’15) accepted a promotion to branch librarian at Lake County Public Library in Merrillville, Indiana. She will be responsible for providing teen programming and staffing the reference desk. David Forero (MS ’15) began work in August at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. As director of technology, he oversees the library’s technical staff, provides strategic planning within the library, and collaborates across the university and with community and regional partners.

Konya Lafferty (MS ’10) was elected to the board of directors of the Chicago Association of Law Libraries. She has served as the Chicago branch librarian for the Supreme Court of Illinois since 2011. Grace (Yan) Liu (MS ’14) is a business librarian at the University of Maine, where she has worked since July 2014. She received the RUSA BRASS Academic Business Librarianship Travel Award to attend the 2015 ALA Annual Conference. Brenda Lozano (MS ’13) is a metadata librarian at the Getty Research Institute. Rachel Mattson (MS ’14) has completed her first year as manager of special projects at the archives of the La MaMa Experimental Theatre

Meredith Riddle (MS ’12) completed the K-12 LIS Licensure Program in Spring 2015. She started work as library media specialist at Champaign’s Booker T. Washington STEM Academy in August. Joseph Roberts (MS ’11) and his wife, Laura, welcomed their son, Charles Declan, in September 2014. Charlie joins older sisters Margaret Rose, age 4, and Colleen Grace, age 1. Joseph is an information services librarian at Ball State University. Anna Ruppert (MS ’13) is a youth services supervisor at the Middletown branch of the Louisville (KY) Free Public Library. Tina Sandoval (MS ’14) is the youth services librarian at Reddick Library in Ottawa. She is a part of the management staff, does outreach and collection development, and does programming for both children and teens.

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Joshua Shelly (MS ’13) has been awarded a Fulbright grant for the 2015-16 academic year. He will travel to Germany for an English teaching assistantship. Shelly is currently a master’s student in the Department of Religion at Illinois. Yasmeen Shorish (MS ’11) was awarded a 2015 DLF Fellowship by the Digital Library Federation. The fellowship provided funding for her to attend the 2015 DLF Forum in Vancouver, British Columbia, in October 2015. Heather (Tanner) Snapp (MS ’10) is the firstyear experience and outreach librarian at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. She provides reference services in the library and residence halls, teaches information literacy skills, and creates and implements programming of all kinds to reach first-year students. Nicholas Stark (MS ’11) is a librarian at the Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel, in Washington DC. Graham Stephenson (MS ’14) accepted a full-time position as electronic resources and systems librarian at the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago. Madison Sullivan (MS ’15) accepted an NCSU Libraries’ Fellow position at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a librarian for Research and Information Services, while also contributing to the strategic initiative “Expanding the Libraries? Social Media Profile” within the External Relations department. Lydia Tang (MS ’15) is a temporary archivist in the Music Division of the Library of Congress where she is processing the Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection. In the fall, she will be a special collections librarian at Michigan State University. Amy Walsh (MS ’15) accepted a position as a librarian at Joliet West High School in Joliet, Illinois. Amy Williams (MS ’15) started work in August as K-12 district librarian for Cerro Gordo (IL) School District 100.

Jamie Wittenberg (MS ’15) began work on July 1 at the University of California, Berkeley. As a research data management service design analyst, she works for two departments, the UC Berkeley Library and Research IT. This collaborative appointment is the first of its kind at that university. Decade: 2000s Jim Bone (MS ’08) is a distance learning coordinator at St. Louis University’s School for Professional Development. Nicole A. Casner (MS ’05) joined the University of California, Los Angeles Library as the head of Print Acquisitions and Shared Print Services. Katharine C. Chandler (MS ’06) is the recipient of the 2015 ACRL WESS SEES De Gruyter Award for her project “Whimsical Penwork: The Carthusian Graduals of the Chartreuse de Champmol.” Chandler’s project will investigate fifteenth-century manuscripts in Paris and Dijon, France, in order to contribute to knowledge of monastic scribal activity in Europe and a better understanding of monastic choir functions in the later Middle Ages. This research will result in a paper. Chandler is reference librarian and keeper of manuscripts in the Rare Book Department at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Christina M. Desai (MS ’00) published an article titled, “Reviewing Political Controversy: Book Reviewers Assess Children’s Literature Set in Israel-Palestine,” in International Research in Children’s Literature, 8(1). Eric Edwards (MS ’06) began working at the Illinois State Library as interlibrary loan librarian in April 2015. In November 2014 he received the Starfish Thrower Award at the Health Science Librarians of Illinois annual conference. The award is given to an individual who has contributed outstanding service to the organization. Myung-Ja (MJ) Han (MS ’06) is the recipient of the 2015 Esther J. Piercy Award, given by

the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services in recognition of contributions to those areas of librarianship included in library collections and technical services by a librarian with no more than ten years of professional experience who has shown outstanding promise for continuing contribution and leadership. Han is a metadata librarian and associate professor of library administration at Illinois. Kirk Hess (MS ’06) accepted a position as digital projects coordinator with the Network Development and MARC Standards Office (NDMSO) at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Samantha Schmehl Hines (MS ’03) received the Outstanding Young Alumna/us award from her undergraduate institution, Linfield College, in the fall of 2014 in recognition of achievements in her chosen profession (librarianship). Karen Kohn (MS ’02) recently published a book with Rowman & Littlefield titled, Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians. The book is designed to help librarians make decisions about collection development and budgeting, communicate with administrators, and strengthen their culture of assessment. It provides step-by-step instructions on four methods of assessment: benchmarking, comparison to core lists, usage statistics, and citation analysis. Discussion of how to interpret data is also included. Jin Ha Lee (MS ’02, PhD ’08) was named MLIS program chair at the University of Washington iSchool. Joseph Lenkart (MS ’08) was named to the editorial board of the ALA Slavic & East European Section’s annual newsletter. Laura Lowe (MS ’07) moved to Indianapolis in January 2015 and is the district media specialist coordinator for Indianapolis Public Schools. Her role is to provide support and professional development for the media specialists and assistants at more than sixty schools. She is very

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appreciative to GSLIS, her professors, and former coworkers at Champaign Public Schools for teaching her how to train others and how to make the school library a place students and staff want to visit. Lauren Ochs (MS ’07) is the librarian/media specialist at Mahomet-Seymour High School in Mahomet, Illinois. Lisa Schimmer (MS ’06) was named the 2015 Cathie Linz Librarian of the Year by the Romance Writers of America for showing outstanding support of the romance genre through her work as a senior cataloger at the reader’s advisory database, NoveList. In January 2015, Sarah Shreeves (MS ’02) became the associate dean for digital strategies at the University of Miami (after twelve years at Illinois). Alec Sonsteby (MS ’05) completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Metropolitan State University (MN). The university’s College of Management selected him as an Outstanding Graduate Student Finalist. In March, Louise T. Svehla (MS ’02) accepted a new position as consulting and continuing education specialist with the Reaching Across Illinois Library System. “I am excited about this opportunity to provide training and consulting to Illinois library staff,” she said. Janet Vogel (MS ’08) was chosen to participate in the highly competitive 2015 ALA Leadership Institute. She is a youth services coordinator for Frederick County (MD) Public Libraries. Julia Warga (MS ’03) was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Freedom to Read Foundation, a nonprofit legal and educational organization affiliated with ALA that protects and defends the First Amendment to the Constitution and supports the right of libraries to collect—and individuals to access—information. Alissa Williams (MS ’07) was appointed director of the Morton (IL) Public Library District in

May 2015, after spending seven years as assistant director of the Pekin Public Library. Decade: 1990s Kregg Argenta (MS ’91) accepted a position as library specialist at the Illinois State Library in 2014 following previous employment at the Lincoln Library and Illinois Supreme Court Library. Argenta’s first book, The Marshall Miracle: From Aviation Disaster to Gridiron Glory, was published in 2008. Judith Currano (MS ’99) was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, a small chemical nonprofit based in Cambridge, UK, that works to archive and make accessible crystal structures of small organic and organometallic substances. As librarian of the college, Bryn Geffert (MS ’93) has led Amherst College’s Robert Frost Library to excellence. The library was recognized by the Association of College & Research Libraries with the 2015 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in the college category. Michael Gershbein (MS ’94) is the founder of Very Smart People, a Chicago-based technology training company. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (MS ’94) received the 2015 Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award, given by the Association of College & Research Libraries Instruction Section. The award recognizes a librarian who has made a significant contribution to the advancement of instruction in a college or research library environment. Allen Lanham (MS ’91) has been elected ALA councilor of the Illinois Library Association. Jennifer Maguire-Wright (MS ’98) accepted a promotion to chief of the Materials Management Division at the Free Library of Philadelphia, leading the Acquisitions, Collection Development, Serials, Electronic Resources, Cataloging, and Processing units. Colleen C. Manning (MS ’95) is the new director of The Fred Parks Law Library and assistant professor at South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas.

Patricia Hruby Powell’s (MS ’94) middlegrade picture book, Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Chronicle Books 2014), won a Boston Globe Horn Book Nonfiction Honor (2014), International Bologna/Ragazzi Nonfiction Honor (2014), Parents’ Choice Gold Award for Poetry (2014), Coretta Scott King Illustration Honor (2015), and Robert F. Sibert Honor Book (2015), among other awards (see www.talesforallages.com). Loving vs Virginia (Chronicle Books), a documentary novel for young adults, will be released in March 2016. Susan Schnuer (MS ’92) was awarded a Scroll of Appreciation by the International Federation of Library Associations at the 2015 World Library and Information Conference. The Scroll was given in recognition of Schnuer’s distinguished service to the international LIS community. Schnuer is associate director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at Illinois. Mark W. Sorensen (MS ’98), official Macon County historian, received the Illinois State Historical Society Lifetime Achievement Award on April 25, 2015, in a ceremony in the House of Representatives’ Chamber of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. A former Decatur history teacher, Sorensen retired from the Illinois State Archives after twenty years as assistant director. John Spears (MS ’98), executive director of the Salt Lake City Public Library, was awarded the 2015 Utah Librarian of the Year award from the Utah Library Association and has been elected president of the Library Leadership and Management Association. Casey Westerman (MS ’99) was selected as a participant in the 2015 Archives Leadership Institute, a week-long intensive seminar funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. He is the university archivist of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and serves as a board member of the Michigan Archival Association.

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Decade: 1980s Sidney E. Berger (MS ’87) has been selected by ALA as winner of the 2015 ABC-CLIO Award for the Best Book in Library Literature for Rare Books and Special Collections, published by Neal-Schuman Publishers. This award recognizes books that assist library professionals or information specialists in areas of management, technique, and education. Gene Danilenko (MS ’89), associate director of talent development at UnitedHealth Group, leads a group of experts who design and implement processes, systems, and technology solutions to reinforce or improve performance, engagement, and other behaviors and values that align with organizational mission and goals. Beth McNeil (MS ’89) joined Iowa State University as dean of the library on July 15, 2015. Ruth A. Riley (MS ’85) was elected presidentelect of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) in November 2014. AAHSL comprises the libraries serving the accredited U.S. and Canadian medical schools belonging to or affiliated with the Association of American Medical Colleges. Mike Rogalla (MS ’89), children’s librarian at the Champaign (IL) Public Library, was appointed to serve as chair of the ALA-Children’s Book Council Joint Committee for 2015-2016 and was elected to the 2017 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Committee.

Diane Zabel (MS ’82) is the recipient of Penn State University’s 2015 President’s Award for Engagement with Students. Zabel is the Louis and Virginia Benzak Business Librarian and head librarian.

Olga Wise (MS ’72) is retiring as chair of the Austin (TX) Public Library Commission. This fall she will teach an eight-week class on the history of books and libraries as part of a program that provides continuing education to seniors.

Decade: 1970s For the past fourteen years, Hilda (Hodel) Alajajian (MS ’79) has put her LIS skills to work in the Sponsored Project Administration office at the University of Vermont, helping faculty, staff, and students identify sponsors for their research and scholarly projects. Lynn Cline (MS ’75), professor and head of Collection Development & Acquisitions at the Missouri State University Libraries, has completed forty years of service to that institution and is looking forward to his forty-first. David R. Dowell (MS ’72) taught a course on genetic genealogy based on his book, NextGen Genealogy: The DNA Connection (2015) at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt University. Louis J. Reith (MS ’76) retired in January 2013 after more than twenty-seven years as rare book cataloger at the Georgetown University Library, Washington, D.C. He now lives in Seward, Nebraska, near Lincoln, while caring for his ninety-nine-year-old mother and cataloging the rare book collection of Concordia University in Seward as a volunteer. He also is completing a sixth course in the Czech language at University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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ou have heard me say this before, and I’m sure I’ll be saying it again: successfully responding to this century’s great challenges will require the leadership of well-prepared information professionals. The solutions to the problems facing our society will be rooted in how we access, manage, analyze, and preserve information. Our profession’s interdisciplinary, human-centered approach to information services and systems has certainly never been needed more than it is now. However, the solutions require not only innovation and expertise but also a firm grounding in the values of librarianship, including our ethic of service, respect for diversity and the cultural heritage of all peoples, the protection of privacy and intellectual freedom rights, and more. This is why service to society is such a profound and serious obligation for our School. Our university is a public university and a land-grant university. We are committed to exploring new ways to meet our responsibility for bringing our skills, knowledge, and values to bear on improving the well-being of society. In this issue of Intersections, you’ve read about the myriad ways our faculty, staﬀ, and students put into practice that ethic of service. From advancing digital literacy in rural communities to protecting the integrity of scientific research to exploring issues of online privacy, these stories demonstrate the social relevance of our scholarly work. It is this relevance—combined with our service ethic—that continually informs the evolution of our School to meet the needs of a changing world. Our highly anticipated master’s degree in information management has been approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. This degree will provide a specialized program for students interested in information-intensive careers that advance the wellbeing of society. It will complement our top-ranked master’s degree in library and information science, for which we have recently hired new faculty and been actively recruiting new students. It will allow our School to stay competitive and provide additional rev-

GSLIS Dean Allen H. Renear

We are committed to exploring new ways to meet our responsibility for bringing our skills, knowledge, and values to bear on improving the well-being of society. enue that will contribute to our financial health and sustainability. We also are discussing the possibility of adding an undergraduate major and are helping the University manage the Illinois Informatics Institute (I3), which oﬀers a campus-wide undergraduate Informatics minor, a Bioinformatics MS, and an Informatics PhD. By expanding our academic scope, we are bringing the culture and values of LIS and librarianship to more information professions and settings.

To better communicate our growth in scale and scope, a majority of our faculty voted this fall in favor of submitting a formal proposal to change our name to School of Information Sciences. If approved, the new name also will increase our School’s visibility on campus and clarify our identity as an independent college-level unit. This autonomy is extremely valuable and is the very reason we are able to respond adeptly to current needs and challenges. This is an exciting time for our School. Our current expansion of programmatic oﬀerings will strengthen our academic excellence, sustain our achievements, contribute to our financial security, and, most importantly, deepen and broaden our societal impact. Our mission and school structure, however, will remain exactly the same, and our ethic of service will continue to be at the heart of our programs and activities.

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Principal Investigator

Funder

NEW GRANTS [funding began between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015] Catherine Blake Ian Brooks Ian Brooks Ian Brooks Ian Brooks Jana Diesner Jana Diesner Jana Diesner Jana Diesner J. Stephen Downie J. Stephen Downie J. Stephen Downie J. Stephen Downie J. Stephen Downie J. Stephen Downie J. Stephen Downie Miles Efron Harriett Green Bertram Ludäscher Bertram Ludäscher Bertram Ludäscher

Department of Veteran's Aﬀairs Illinois Department of Public Health Carle Foundation U.S. Department of Education (subaward through Center for Global Studies) U.S. Department of Education (subaward through Illinois Department of African American Studies) Ford Foundation Intelligent Medical Objects Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) National Center for Supercomputing Applications HathiTrust Institute of Museum and Library Services (subaward through Tufts University) National Science Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (subaward through Columbia University) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (subaward through McGill University) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (subaward through McGill University) Google Humanities Without Walls National Science Foundation National Science Foundation (subaward through University of New Mexico) National Science Foundation

Carol Tilley, Kathryn La Barre

Indiana University New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Program/Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University (subaward through Indiana University)

Carol Tilley Michael Twidale Michael Twidale Michael Twidale Michael Twidale

University of Illinois Research Board National Science Foundation Australian Research Council (subaward through University of Tasmania) The Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement, and Education National Science Foundation

Martin Wolske

Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity

ACTIVE GRANTS [funding began prior to July 1, 2014] Masooda Bashir

National Science Foundation

Cathy Blake Jana Diesner Jana Diesner Jana Diesner Jana Diesner Jana Diesner J. Stephen Downie J. Stephen Downie J. Stephen Downie Miles Efron Jon Gant Rae Montague Carole Palmer Carole Palmer Megan Senseney Deborah Stevenson Vetle Torvik Vetle Torvik

Institute of Museum and Library Services Intelligent Medical Objects AB InBev Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) Ford Foundation Connected Action The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation National Science Foundation National Science Foundation University of Illinois Extension Institute of Museum and Library Services Institute of Museum and Library Services Institute of Museum and Library Services National Endowment for the Humanities (subaward through University of Maryland) Institute of Museum and Library Services National Science Foundation National Institutes of Health (subaward through National Bureau of Economic Research)

Grant Title

Award Amount

Information Forum Requirements to Promote Knowledge Capture, Knowledge Sharing, and Community Interaction on the VHA Data Portal Pilot IPLAN Analysis Projects Expansion of INDICATOR to East Central Illinois Healthcare Providers Center for Global Studies Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program 2014 2018 GLAS Center for African Studies National Resource Center 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2018 Computational Impact Assessment of Issue Focused Media and Information Products Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning & Network Analysis for Medical Information Classification & Impact Assessment Modeling of Nation-Scale Scientific Collaboration Networks and Impact of Entity Resolution NCSA Faculty Fellowship: Predictive Modeling for Impact Assessment HathiTrust Research Center: New Opportunities through Computational Analysis of HathiTrust Digital Library 2014-2018 Repository Services for Accessible Course Content Doctoral Consortium Support for JCDL 2015 Exploring the Billions & Billions of Words in the HathiTrust Corpus with Bookworm: HathiTrust + Bookworm Project Enriching the Collaborative Enterprise: Proposal to Form a Management Board for J-Disc (Jazz Discographic Database) Text Mining the Novel: Establishing the Foundations of a New Discipline Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis Query Modeling Using Intra-Entity Knowledge Base Structure Humanities Collaborations and Research Practices: Exploring Scholarship in the Global Midwest Collaborative Research: ABI Development: Kurator: A Provenance-enabled Workflow Platform and Toolkit to Curate Biodiversity Data DataONE (Observation Network for Earth) BCC: Collaboration Research: Designing SKOPE: Synthesized Knowledge of Past Environments

$67,186 $4,104 $60,000 $5,000 $5,000 $150,000 $299,998 $54,500 $24,323 $499,677 $7,173 $15,126 $324,841 $32,122 $48,000 $15,000 $22,130 $49,971 $748,829 $416,623 $133,877

The Comic Book Readership Archive (CoBRA)

$7,000

Children, Comics, and Print Culture Collaborative Research: ABI Innovation: Rapid Prototyping of Semantic Enhancements to Biodiversity Informatics Platforms Treating Criminals from Shore to Ship: Public Health, Humanitarianism, and Convict Transportation High and Low Technological Opportunities in Cultural Heritage Collaborative Research: ABI Innovation: Rapid Prototyping of Semantic Enhancements to Biodiversity Informatics Platforms

$19,036 $292,306 $5,000 $2,000 $292,306

Digital Literacy for ALL Learners

$108,000

Enhancing the Cyber Security Workforce - The Human Angle

$161,708

Developing a Model for Sociotechnical Data Analytics (SODA) Education Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning & Machine Learning Analysis for Medical Information Classification & Impact Assessment Socio-Technical Data Analytics for Improving Impact & Impact Assessment Authority Based Scientist Network Analysis Modeling Computational Impact Assessment of Social Justice Documentaries and Media Unrestricted contribution for the conduct of research The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX) Next Generation Project Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project Doctorial Consortium Support for JCDL 2013 SMALL: Improving Information Retrieval by Analysis of Temporal Evidence in a Unified Model Enhancing Economic Development in Illinois with Digital Tech Hub Creativity Studios Mix IT Up! Youth Advocacy Librarianship Data Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC) Site-Based Data Curation for Small Science: Building a Living Science Museum & Advancing the National Data Network Digital Humanities Data Curation Closing the App Gap: From Plan to Project I Collaborative Research: STEM Workforce Training: A Quasi-Experimental Approach Using the EďŹ&#x20AC;ects of Research Funding Innovation in an Aging Society

$498,777 $150,000 $125,000 $47,475 $150,000 $15,000 $390,000 $436,525 $19,587 $408,908 $300,000 $725,923 $988,543 $499,919 $145,010 $46,678 $175,918 $366,341

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Honor Roll of Donors Members of the Dean’s Council are noted with an asterisk. Initiated to acknowledge and communicate with the School’s top-level donors, Dean’s Council membership includes alumni and friends who support GSLIS annually with total giving at $1,000 or above, those who have made significant gifts in the past, and those who have made generous provisions to GSLIS in estate plans. For additional information, contact Diana Stroud at dstroud@illinois.edu or (217) 244-9577.

INDIVIDUAL R.B. Downs Circle (donors who made gifts of $5,000 or more)

1972

Maria Bonn

1972

John T. Jones*

Lynda Marchiori McKibben*

Bruce J. Carroll

Gwendolyn N. Weaver

Theodore R. Maynard

Linda C. Smith*

James D. Derden* Abigail E. Disney

Leroy K. Pickett 1977 Mary L. Cartwright

Laura M. Rao Diana R. Stroud*

1974

George H.T. Dudley*

1948

Lois E. Carroll*

Carol Iglauer*

1978

Ronnie R. Stroud*

Kathryn Luther Henderson*

Keith J. Stanger*

Claude F. McKibben*

Kenneth E. Bradshaw

Joan M. Volkmann*

Richard A. Stevens*

1988

Professor’s Circle

Arnold W. Thompson

Curt B. McKay

(donors who made gifts

Neal E. Miller* 1967

1975

Lionelle H. Elsesser*

Linda K. Miller

1969

1977

Marian H. Thompson

G. Edward Evans*

Gail E. Inman*

David P. Trauernicht*

1977

1980

Clifford H. Haka*

Sharon E. Clark*

2005

1983

Susan G. Kumar

David S. Ginn*

Friends of GSLIS

1985

James R. Elsesser Jr.*

Marcia S. Trauernicht*

Susan F. Haka* William T Henderson* Edward J. Koval

John P. Wilkin

(donors who made gifts of

Barbara Ballinger 1961

1988

Robert Wedgeworth*

Lorraine J. Haricombe* 1962 1989

Mildred Luther*

Beth McNeil*

Mary Sue D. Schusky 1963

Deborah J. Stevenson* 1997

Mary Joyce Pickett

Julie M. Miller* 1964

(donors who made gifts of $1,000 to $4,999)

$500 to $999) 1958

Param Kumar

P.L. Windsor Circle

Herbert Goldhor Circle

1998

Almeda G. Maynard

Sandra L. Stauffer* 1965

1951 Richard H. Schimmelpfeng*

2001 Susan Laura Lugo*

Chung-Kyun Wedgeworth*

1958 Laurel A. Grotzinger*

2006

1968

Julia M. Derden*

Paladugu V. Rao

Friends of GSLIS

1970

Brian D. Ames*

Donna L. Bessant

Penny J. Ames*

Robert Allen Daugherty

1964 Ellen Newberg* Margaret L. Thrasher* 1970 Barton M. Clark*

Amani F. Ayad*

of $1 to $499) 1993 Linda C. Ewbank

1937 Dorothy B. Gustafson

1997 Diane J. Fox

1943 Elisabeth J. Rees

1999 Wendy Schumacher

1947 Annabelle K. Crowther

2000 Marci A. Cohen

1950 Morton Coburn

2001 Mary Ann Pohl

1951 Le Moyne W. Anderson

2002

Dale M. Bentz

Michael P. Ragen*

Betty M. E. Croft

Dana C. Wright

Ann L. Slaight

2003

1952

Andrea L. Dinkelman

George T. Couston

2010

1954

Derek D. Riddle

Homer L. Fletcher

2012 Diane Cabrera Friends of GSLIS Dora Jane Bennett Thomas H. Cartwright

Mary A. Hall Janet P. Shea 1955 Donell J. Gaertner Nancy B. Kirchgraber

Michael E. Claffey

1956

Joseph B. Ewbank

Edwin S. Holmgren

Elizabeth G. Hearne

Edward Allen Howard Mary Ann R. Vawter

This report recognizes all contributions to GSLIS for the 2015 fiscal year: July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. Although every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, errors may occur. If we have omitted your name or listed your name incorrectly, please contact the Office of Advancement, gslis-advancement@illinois.edu or (217) 333-2973.

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1964

Paula L. Neale

Judith Wynn Halsted

Maureen M. Musson

Ruth Lois Karloski

Joseph F. Borowski Jr.

Patricia F. Roush

Ann C. Heaton

Sheryl Nichin-Keith

Patricia F. Stenstrom

Gladys J. Boyer

Grace E. Shope

Linda L. Houle

Bobby J. Player Sr.

Kenneth P. Wolford

Richard R. Brandolino

Don L. Tolliver

Gail P. Landy

Judith P. Roach

Robert. A. McCown

Julia Elaine F. Smith

Kerry Pathy

Janet Bradley Woodard

Roberta E. Peduzzi

Christie E. Wrenn

Jerome Richard Stegman

Gail A. Yokote

Donald Paul Chvatal 1958 Suzanne S. David Anne B. James

Helen J. Ehrensperger Laurie Klauser Kagann Louis B. Schultz

1968 Barbara W. Blinks* William O. Breedlove II Bonita Dickinson Dillard

Alma G. Peacock 1965

Marcia T. Dorfman

1971

1973

Ronald D. Blazek

Carolyn J. Eggers

Jo Anne Boorkman

Susan E. Anderson

Nolan R. Bremer

Sandra M. Ellison

Arlyn K. Booth

Laurie Bartolini

Johanne F. Grewell

Joan M. Fox

John Lewis Campbell

Erik R. Blomstedt

Joan L. Hewitt

Cecilia K. Gaines

Margaret Field Crane

Tschera H. Connell

Kay E. Hodson

Julia S. Goldstein

Michele M. Gendron

Kathryn J. Crouch

1960

Mary F. Kralicek

Mary C. Guy

Kathryn M. Harris

Carol L. Janoff

Gene L. Deweyd

Alfred C. Krober

Jean C. Hughes

Mary Krick

Royden R. Jones

Lenore Glanz

Devra M. Langsam

Sanok P. Kim

Susan M. Maltese

Charlene P. Kanter

W. L. Mitchell

Gloria A. Linder

Julie Kuenzel Kwan

Lois Minute Pausch

Sandra B. Mohammad

Barbara J. Lintner

Barbara M. Molitoris

Barbara H. Peresie

Helga B. Visscher

1959 Sherry D. Abrahams Marjorie C. Bengston Leo F. Hamilton Susan Bush Lindsey

Esther L. Puhek

Duane R. Paulsen

Erling R. Oelz

Norman V. Plair

1961

Julianne Z. Rohmaller

Marion T. Reid

Kathleen L. Shannon

Rosemarie Baratta

Mary F. Root

Patricia B. Turnbull

Julie A. Sigler

Judith B. Booth

Ann Maginnis Seidman

Ruth D. Crockett

Marianne W. Stowers

Elizabeth Hofsas

Flora Z. VanDyke

Mary Ann Sarver

1969

Cynthia A. Weiss

Bruce O. Barkley Shirley A. Brosch Nancy K. Clark James A. Flatness

Elaine M. Albright John B. Albright

1972

Nancy C. Lacook

Sara Ellen Anderson

Kathleen Mehaffey Balcom

Cornelius M. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea

John Ed Bell

Gail P. Bardhan

Nancy J. Balz*

Mary M. Rooney

Frederick J. Kent Charles S. Longley

Robert L. Wagner

1974

1966 Melvin A. Carlson Jr.

Jary A. Berry

Tekla K. Bekkedal

Anne L. Shimojima

1962

Phyllis Cole

Louise M. Crook

Ann L. Blair

Peter E. Sutter

Louise S. Hass

Katherine S. Day

Carol M. Kelley

Mary E. Brown

Michael N. Widener

Robert D. Thomas Sr.

Linda T. Chapman

1963 Margaret A. Bradow Mary L. Brickey

Georgene E. Fawcett

Donald G. Davis Jr.

Alinda J. Nelson Arlene G. Taylor

1970 Felicia R. Bagby

Cecilia H. Chin

1967

Susan E. Bekiares

Sandra O. Herzinger

Armi K. Barnett

Carolyn V. Brown

Thomas Kilpatrick

Mary Lou Gregor

Edith L. Bury

Mary Ellen Soper

Kay Griffy

Nora J. Cambier

Anna Marie Van Kommer

Nancy E. Hardin

Charlyn C. Canada

Marilyn R. Voegele

Ann Lynn Kalkhoff

Wyman P. Deck

Elizabeth H. Monette

Barbara J. Deffley

John A. Mraz

Mary Ellyn Gibbs

Kathryn DeGraff David R. Dowell Ida R. Dreyfus Gail E. Flatness Sheila K. Fritze Maureen Gilluly Gragg Yvonne M. Griffin Harold M. Leich William B. McCloy Samuel F. Morrison

1975 Betsy Bowers Aldridge Mary Lu B. Bretsch Lynn C. Cline Wanda V. Dole Andrea M. Hirtle George R. Jaramillo Beverly A. Jones Syed M. A. Khan Molly A. Klowden Cynthia Lesky

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George F. McGregor

Linda S. Greene

1983

Geoffrey P. Williams

1990

Susan L. McNeil-Marshall

Hector R. Hernandez

David E. Batista

Hong Xia

Robert A. Dunkelberger

L. Phelps Shepard

Christopher R. Jocius

Patricia A. Cardenas

Rita Hoyt Smith

Lori Osmus Kappmeyer

Kenneth J. Carlborg

Camille A. Wanat

David N. King

Sharon Stine Eckert*

Marvin D. Leavy

Catherine R. Friedman

1976 L. Kurt Adamson Martha C. Adamson Mary Rachel Alexander Mary I. Beveridge* Barbara A. Carroll Lynn K. Chmelir Cheryl Asper Elzy Claudia Dahldorf Fishler

Dianne E. McCutcheon

Mary Jane Garrett

Brenda J. Pacey

Carole M. Gates

Kathleen K. Piehl

Peter B. Ives

Janice L. Platt

Phyllis C. Post

David A. Tyckoson Paula K. Weiss Lizabeth A. Wilson

Terese L. Jennings

Sidney E. Berger* Jane T. Bradford Gerald M. Carlson Melvin G. DeSart

Elizabeth Hippely Mei Mah Michael D. Muchow Denise G. Rabogliatti Kristine G. Schauff

Gordon L. Fellows Kathleen J. Gonzalez

1991

Charles F. Huber

Kregg E. Argenta

1984

Beverly J. Obert

Rebecca S. Bare

Lois M. Bellamy

Karla J. Ritten

Sanda Lee Braber-Grove

MichĂ¨le V. Cloonan*

Kay M. Sodowsky

Johanna R. Bradley*

Frances L. Drone-Silvers

Randa H. Suidan

Paul K. Cauthen

Angela H. Graham

Gail E. Thornburg

H. Faye Christenberry

Linda L. Reichert Kathleen R. Thomson

Nura M. Funda 1987

Larry A. Kimble

1979

Janice L. Kragness

Sara R. Tompson

Lisa A. R. Dick

Jay H. Lambrecht

James E. Baker

Scott A. Lemmermann

Sarah A. Wachter

Scott C. Drone-Silvers

Melissa Mahood Lambrecht

Pamela R. Broadley

Mark C. McKnight

Susan M. Lederhouse

Eleonore E. Hansen

Kathryn I. Martens

Miriam L. Kennard

Ann E. Ogg

Martha M. Mitchell

Patricia T. Procter

Stephanie C. Sigala

Karin A. Reside

Elizabeth G. Shuler

Deborah E. Morrow

Carol J. Elsen 1988 Tracy Bicknell-Holmes Ann E. Churukian Katherine L. Cullinan

1985

Gayle W. Heimer

Debra L. Aper

Gail L. Hoef

April A. Bennington

Bonnie L. Maidak

1980

Peter O. Cookingham

James W. Mason

1977

Elroy A. Christy

Paul M. George

Lynn B. Schmit

David G. Anderson

Sandra L. Edwards

James H. Graves

Julia E. Schult

Emily J. Batista

Mary Benjamin Hester

Marihelen Hatcher

Mary Wilkes Towner

Virginia Mattson Carden

Anita D. Johnson

Brenda Murphy

Nancy J. Choice

Thomas R. Moorman

Linda Musser

Beth E. Christensen

Roxann F. Specht

Mary E. Nourie

John W. Sondheim Nina Wunderlich

Gerald R. Specht Wilbur A. Stolt

Mary Yonan

Anthony J. Stukel

Catherine M. Clancy Larayne J. Dallas Doria B. Grimes Patrica H. Urbanski Patricia F. Vander Meer 1978

1981 V. Christine Oyer

Cheryl L. Flinn Connell B. Gallagher

Leanne M. York

Martha D. Gerstenkorn Diana K. Kovacs Patricia J. Leach

Kim Y. Wittel

Lois R. Hanson-Glas

Louis D. Petterchak

Mary Elaine Woolsey

Jeannine E. Marshall

Mary Ellen Reiter

John B. Martin

Edwin C. Schroeder

Nancy Turner Myers

Betty L. Wagoner

Ruth A. Riley

Carolyn C. Wahlmark

Diane W. Zabel

Lana W. Wildman

Deanna M. Howard Robin L. Jones Allen K. Lanham Priscilla J. Matthews Michele C. McNabb Michael D. Shadix Leora Ornstein Siegel Susan L. Woitte

Samuel J. Pathy

George M. Woolsey

Marianna Hebert

Patricia K. Barr

1986

Betsy Ross Sandford

Gwendolyn Gray

Bette S. Sydelko

Larry L. Weyhrich

1982

Amy J. Glass

1989

Sandra L. Levy

Katharine J. Phenix

Robert H. Burger Laura S. Drasgow

Danny P. Wallace

John H. Forsyth

1992 Anne K. Barker Rebecca L. Broan Gerald T. DeWitt Diane M. Duesterhoeft Charlotte A. Dugan Jan E. Heckman Allen D. Merry Philip E. Orr Bilal D. Salahuddin Bradford L. Wilson

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1993

Greg Gao

Kathleen McDowell

2003

2007

Rebecca M. Alexander

Suzan L. Hahn

Yin Zhang

Laura N. Akerman

Katrina A. Bromann

Elizabeth M. Carpenter

James M. Lonergan

Rachael L. Bradley

Jason A. Gretencord

Mary Clare Brady

William M. Hansen

Debra L. Denslaw

Lynn Ann Jasper

Nanette Wargo Donohue

Karla K. Lucht

Natalie R. Hoyle

George A. Stachokas

Brooke W. Johnson

Julie Yen

Bryn I. Geffert

Karen A MacKenzie

Denise M. Hannibal

Jian Qin

George J. Harmon

Melissa A. Records

Terry L. Johnson Wendy J. Miller

Andrea L. Schwartz Natalie R. Ziarnik

Sara Colline Suelflow Heidi Armstrong Temple Cynthia J. Weber Roslyn D. Wylie

Cortney Diaz Schraut

Barbara Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Angelo

Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait

Lori A. DuBois Manual Gustavo Erviti Naomi R. Hochaus Kendi L. Kelley Thomas P. Kmetz

Maria D. Figiel-Krueger

Christine M. Martin William Beldon McLeod

Shang Liu

Loring A. Prest

Jane L. Loescher

Julia A. Rosenthal 1998 Stephanie Davis-Kahl

Mikael D. Kriz Christine A. Kujawa Meghann R. Matwichuk

2001

Linda Ann Scussel

Malisa J. Anderson-Strait

Ellen E. Shrader

Marilyn Sue K. Fuller

Linda Kay Smith

Jane L. Gillespie

Gem Stone-Logan

Kristine M. Kasianovitz

Catherine J. Yanikoski

Stacey L. Knight-Davis Rena D. Rosenthal Elizabeth K. Staley Donna C. Trenda Catherine J. Woodworth Wong

Linda M. Defendeifer 1995

Caroline Scott Herbert

Margaret L. Almon

Chad M. Kahl

Connie L. Amon

Emily J. Knox

Susan E. Morrisroe

Carol L. G. Berry

Elizabeth Ruhland

Sandra C. Bolek

Mark A. Spasser

2002 Emily J. Asch Alison K. Barner Matthew C. Beth Rachel E. Bindman Paula Mae Carns

Susan K. Douglas

2008 Sue Bergren Marcia Brandt Robert S. De Land Elizabeth M. Fox Lindsay King Karin A. Nelson Anna Orr Rose Peterson

2004

Robert C. Roarty

Stephanie D. Crawford

Roy Saldana

Margaret H. Edwards

Bradley K. Whetzel

Francine L. Tanori-Pote 2009

Chengzhi Wang

Mary Ann Monk Melissa Autumn Wong

Barbara A. Driesner Donna R. Schaal

Michael A. Cobb

Brian A. Quinn

Christina M. Desai

James R. Blank Jr.

Julie C. Bolding

Dianne Happ Hollister

Bryan J. Baldus

1997

Ann J. Faiks 1994

Caitlin Augusta

Heather Turnbull Jordan

Rebecca Smith Katrina L. L. Stierholz

2000

2005

Christopher C. Alhambra

Kelly A. Conroe

Jill L. Barr-Walker

Timothy G. Donohue

Kim Christiansen-Sigle

Marc S. Gartler

Melissa H. Cragin

Kristin Jo Hungerford

Ramsey B. Donnell

Vincci Kwong

Timnah C. Gretencord

Amanda D. McKay

Martha Kyrillidou

Chi Kit Alan Ng

Donna L. LaFollette

Tod A. Olson

Laura A. Mondt

Amy M. Silvers

Julia G. Reed

Jocelyn A. Simmons

Janice Wien

1999

Jane P. Kauzlaric

Terrence R. Bennett

Michelle M. Kazmer

Jon Mark Bolthouse

Karen C. Kohn

Stephanie DeLano Davis

Paul F. Marty

Connie E. Frankenfeld

John A. Moorman

2006

Konya L. Lafferty

Jill K. Gengler

Marsha J. Morman

Lori L. Drummons-

Kathleen Buescher Milligan

Qin He

Laura G. Olson

Janna M. Kappers Heinen

Mary Sue Pergander

Pamela S. Greenlee

Margaret A. Herrmann

Cynthia Reynolds

Melanie A. McDonald

1996

Jason F. Kuhl

Ying Yu

Annie Morse

Elizabeth G. Figa

Wen-Ying Lu

Helen Sheimo Flynn

Kara J. Malenfant

Bruce D. Fraser John M. Klasey Alexander B. McLane Leslie J. Reynolds Janet M. Robinson Marla B. Tofle Lucia R. Webb Don L. Widmer

Patricia S. Ziebart 2010

Cherniwchan

Maren H. Williams

Susan Lea Pasini Mary Therese Tabion 2011 Tarida Anantachai Lacy Spraggins McDonald

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Jenna R. Nurnberger

John P. Balz

Gary Thomas Eng

John T. Marshall

David M. Siegel

Gemma E. Petrie

L. Bruce Barnett

Bruce W. Fenton

Jeffrey C. McDonald

Andrew W. Sigle John T. Silver

Nancy G. Phillips

Leandro A. Bartolini

Thomas F. Flynn

Jerome P. McDonough

Kenneth A. Spelke

Wayne E. Bekiares

Daniel W. Fogt

Linda M. Meccoli

Harold J. Slaight

Bryan R. Whitledge

Carl R. Bennett

James R. Fritze

James A. Monteleone

Clarence E. Smith

Ronald A. Witherspoon Jr.

David A. Bereiter

Hongchun Fu

Tonia H. Moorman

Julia A. Smith

Dominique F. Bereiter

Richard D. Furr

Judith A. Mraz

Eileen H. Sutter

Mark H. Bergren

Lucille Gallegos-

Michael Murphy

Edwin R. Tait

Steven J. Muzos

Evelyn A. Thomas

Leslie G. Gasser

Sharon J. Ogg

Ida Tamara Tobe

Genevieve Blazek

Garret W. Gengler

Kathleen B. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea

Barbara D. Tolliver

John R. Boyer

Geert V. Glas

Stephen R. Pacey

Robert L. Towner

Alice M. Brandolino

Anthony R. Glass

John C. Peduzzi

Regis J. Trenda

Elizabeth S. Brooks

Emily R. Greenberg

Michael Phillips

Michael B. Twidale Michael J. Unruh

2012 Rebecca Gopinath Maria L. Hertel Maria B. Ricks Samuel D. Suber Janet B. Wigodner 2013

Sue A. Bergstrom Alistair M. Black

Jaramillo

Marika L. Jeffery

Roy E. Brooks

Dennis R. Gregory

Brian W. Platt

Sasha M. Kinney

Eileen Scully Brzozowski

Wayne E. Grove

Edward Eugene Poehlman

Koby Vanbeest

Jose Miguel Ruiz

Jason T. Brzozowski

Donald C. Guy

Sue Carol Poehlman

Sue Volkmann

Joanne C. Bunge

Adrienne S. Harmon

Dean A. Pollack

Curt Volkmann Donald H. H. Wachter

2014

Ann H. Burger

Mary Heckman

Charles E. Prescott

Leanne P. Brown

Matthew G. Campion

Gordon D. Henley

Denise A. Prest

Margaret A. Wainer-Barkley

Thomas M. Dousa

Jeffrey B. Carns

John J. Hilburger

Mark G. Rabogliatti

Monica M. Walk

Stephanie L. Martin

Arthur R. Champman II

Andrew C. Hochhaus

Dalal Hakim Rahme

Joshua P. Walkowicz John P. Webb

Laura A. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien

Robert H. Chappell Jr.

Ted F. Hoef

Kenneth Brooks Reid

Angela M. Stangl

Denise T P Cheung

Elizabeth F. Hoiem

Maeve J. Reilly

Baltasar R. Weiss

Wayne E. Christenson

Bruce Hopper

Allen H. Renear

Peggy A. Widener

James P. Clennon

Christine Marie Hopper

Glenn J. Reside

David F. Wigodner

Terry G. Colbert

Judith A Jablonski

Selma K. Richardson

Kevin Wayne Williams

Fred J. Connell

Norman S. Janoff

Thomas W. Root

W. Jon Williams

Daniel Conroe

Jorg R. Jemelka

Gordon J. Roush

Edward J. Wunderlich

Eugene J. Crook

Christine A. Jenkins

Ella Ruderman

Edward A. Yonan

John R. Crouch

Noel M. Johnson

Sonya Salahuddin

Craig R. Zabel Andrew R. Ziarnik

2015 Caitlin E. Crane Aleshia A. Huber Christina Huffaker Beth Mitchell Jerrod D. Moore Sophie W. Young

Gordon W. Day

Sharon D. Johnson

Thomas Richard Salrin

Friends of GSLIS

Harry K. Deffley

Dominique S. Jones

Gail H. Schechter

Jennifer W. Anderson

Timothy H. DeFries

Douglas W. Jones

James A. Schmidt

Sharon M. Anderson

Zhiqun Deng

Judith A. Kaulfuss

Kimberly R. Schmidt

Dale Aper

Donald G. Desmett

Ann Peterson Kemp

Kevin E. Schmidt

Wendell H. Arneson

Jeffrey R. Dick

Michael D. Klemens

Peter J. Schmit

Marc Asch

Douglas E. Dillard

Larry B. Klowden

Peter D. Schult

Norman C. Bach

Bruce R. Douglas

Robert J. Lentz

Peter Frank Schultz

D. Gordon Bagby

Sally A. Eakin

Bertram Ludaescher

Jean M. Scully

William T. Balcom

Charles W. Edwards

Yiqun Ma

Susan Ellis Searing

Daniel Balz*

George H. Elzy

Keith L. MacKenzie

Eric T. Secoy

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KATHARINE L. SHARP LEGACY SOCIETY

ESTATE GIFTS Elizabeth Reuter Usher Fund Helen T. and Mildred Stewart Trust Louise A. Taylor FOUNDATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS ABC-CLIO, Inc. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Alpha of Beta Phi Mu Altria Group, Inc. Aon Foundation Caterpillar Inc. Technical Information Center The Coca-Cola Foundation Connected Action, LLC

In 2004, GSLIS established the Katharine L. Sharp Legacy Society to recognize alumni and friends who have included a gift for GSLIS in their estate plans. These gifts take many forms, including simple bequests in your will, gift annuities, and charitable trusts. All are greatly appreciated and help to ensure our tradition of excellence in educating future generations of information professionals.

Corning Incorporated Foundation Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Eaton Corporation ExxonMobil Foundation Fetzer Institute First United Methodist Church Carpenter’s Class Follett Corporation The Ford Foundation Grove Street Fiduciary, Inc. The H. W. Wilson Foundation, Inc. IMS Health Intel Corporation Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc. John Deere Foundation John Deere Technology Innovation Center Kirkland and Ellis Foundation Monsanto Fund Northrop Grumman Foundation Ploughman Analytics, Inc. Shoot First, Inc.

Members of the Katharine L. Sharp Legacy Society include: Anonymous Sidney Berger Mary Beveridge Barbara W. Blinks Jana Bradley Larry Bradley Michèle V. Cloonan Avis Jane Davis* Donald G. Davis, Jr. Barbara D’Angelo Jeanette Drone Donna Dziedzic Sharon Eckert G. Edward Evans Barbara J. Ford David S. Ginn Margaret E. Goggin* Rebecca A. Graham Laurel A. Grotzinger Cliﬀord Haka Susan Haka Chris Hagar

Nadine C. Houston Eugene Jackson* Ruth Jackson* Edward J. Koval Geraldine K. Maurer* Walter H. Maurer* Franklin Parker Carl Perrin* Katherine Perrin* Mary Jane Petrowski Chandra G. Prabha Michael Ragen Linda C. Smith Richard A. Stevens Felicia G. Sworsky* Margaret Thrasher Barbara W. Tucker J. Mark Tucker Leslie Vuylsteke Matilda Wiley-Looney* Bradford Wilson *deceased

Staff of University of Wisconsin Stout University Library State Farm Companies Foundation Helen T. Stewart & Mildred Stewart Trust Synaptica, LLC Verizon Foundation

If you have included GSLIS in your estate plans or would like information on this opportunity, please contact Diana Stroud, GSLIS Oﬃce of Advancement at (217) 244-9577 or dstroud@illinois.edu.

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