Sue Searing, LIS Librarian

With over 11 million printed volumes, the University of Illinois Library is the largest public university research library in the United States. A wide array of departmental libraries – some physical, some virtual -- meet the information needs of scholars in every discipline.

GSLIS is served expertly by a group of dedicated LIS librarians, who provide a variety of on-site services and a robust virtual library. Led by Sue Searing, LIS librarian and member of the GSLIS faculty, the library prides itself on providing comprehensive resources to its users. Visit the LIS Library to learn about recent news, browse new LIS titles, or IM a librarian with your questions.

LIS Librarians Lori Miller, Sue Searing, and Sandy Wolf recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the GSLIS Library School Alumni Association (LSAA). The annual award recognized their exceptional service to the LSAA and GSLIS through efforts to ensure the quality of the LIS Library’s collection. The group developed strategies to serve remote users, implemented e-mail reference, piloted electronic reserves, enhanced the website, increased instructional offerings, and initiated a new service model for the LIS Library.

What do library users appreciate about the LIS Virtual Library?

Responding to shifts in scholarly communication and the expansion of distance education, the University Library's LIS collections today emphasize web-accessible e-journals, e-books, and online databases . . . but books remain important. The central book stacks of the Main Library house many volumes relevant to LIS and related fields, as do the Grainger Engineering Library, Education & Social Science Library, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Communications Library, Business & Economics Library, and GSLIS's very own Center for Children's Books, among others.