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Nov. 11, 2012

To commemorate Veterans Day, Kevin McLaughlin (MS ’04) helped organize “Called to Serve: A History of Military Service at the University of Illinois,” a month-long exhibit at the University of Illinois Main Library. McLaughlin, a senior library specialist at the University Library and a veteran, wanted to create the exhibit to honor and support veterans on campus.

Aug. 23, 2012

Lynn Yarmey (MS '11) has been profiled in Library Journal's "Librarians Abroad" series, which highlights professionals who either work outside libraries and archives or who hold somewhat less traditional positions in libraries and archives. Yarmey, who completed the GSLIS Specialization in Data Curation, currently works for the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, as the senior data curator for the NSF-funded...

Jul. 2, 2012

The Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the recipients of its annual awards.

May. 26, 2012

Lizzie Johnson (MS ’10) was recently named the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship through the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Program.

May. 24, 2012

Several GSLIS alumni have recently been elected to leadership positions in the following professional associations:

Apr. 25, 2012

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) has awarded Carol Tenopir (PhD '84), professor and director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies at the University of Tennessee (UT), with one of its first Faculty Achievement Awards.

The new SEC award program was created to honor professors from the SEC with outstanding records in teaching and scholarship. A faculty member in UT’s College of Communication and Information, Tenopir is a Chancellor’s Professor in the School of Information Sciences and director of the college's Center for Information...

Apr. 23, 2012

James Blank (MS '97) is the recipient the of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Engineering Librarian of the Year Award. The Engineering Librarian of the Year, sponsored by IHS, highlights the accomplishments and contributions of SLA Engineering Division members to the engineering librarian profession.

Blank is a technical knowledge specialist in the engineering library at Caterpillar Inc. Since joining Caterpillar in 2000, his responsibilities have included many library functions, such as cataloging, acquisitions, collection development, and website administration. He currently has responsibility for performing in-depth research, administering access to industry standards,...