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In Reverse Chronological Order:

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002
 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997


2009 Archives


19th Annual Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
"Isolation and Information Famine Stifling Africa’s Growth"

Ellen Tise, Senior Director of Library and Information Services, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
streaming audio | mp3 recorded 10/22/09

"International Comparative Studies: Has Library Science Missed the Boat"
Peter Lor, immediate past Secretary General of International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA); Visiting Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
audio 10/19/09 | handout | Powerpoint

"The Structure of ''Churn'': How Web Site Traffic Changes Over Time, and Why It Matters"
Matthew Hindman, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Arizona State University
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio 10/12/09

"Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology"
Allan Collins is Professor Emeritus of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio stream recorded 10/5/09 | mp3 | handout

Introduction to Topic Maps
Patrick Durusau Convener, Topic Maps Working Group, ISO slides | audio | mp3 Recorded 9/30/09

2009 Digital Divide Lecture Series:
What is it? What can be done about it? Visit the Second Annual Fall Lecture Series on the Digital Divide page for titles, speaker details as well as links to video, audio, slide web resources.

"Modeling and Design of Scientific Workflows with Data Assembly Lines, Provenance, and Semantic Types"
Bertram Ludaescher, Professor, Department of Computer Science, member of the faculty at the UC Davis Genome Center, University of California, Davis.
CIRSS Lectures
audio stream recorded 09/21/09

"A New Model for Spanish Service Learning "
Ann Abbott, Director of Advanced Spanish Language and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
audio stream | mp3 recorded 09/16/09 | slides

"Exploring Information History: The Past through the Eyes of the Information Age"
Dr. Toni Weller, Senior Lecturer in history at De Montfort University, Leicester and Honorary Fellow of the Department of Information Science, City University, London
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio stream recorded 08/31/09 | mp3

"eBlack Studies: Rediscovering our origins as we look to the future...Sankofa...Reboot"
Abdul Alkalimat
African-American Studies Librarians section, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
audio stream recorded 07/12/09 | mp3 | slides

"Computer Security Workshop"
University of Illinois Campus Security
Sponsored by the GSLIS Help Desk
audio recorded 06/26/09

"Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Information Age"
Paul Marty, Professor, College of Information, Florida State University
audio recorded 06/22/09

How Do Lawyers Behave When Using Electronic Legal Resources?
Stephann Makri, Research Fellow in Information Science at University College London
audio stream recorded 06/09/09 | slides | video demo

LIS Library Retirement Celebration Remarks
Sue Searing, Sandy Wolf, Lori Miller, Paula Kaufman, Linda Smith, Julia Derden
audio stream recorded 05/15/09 | mp3

"GIS in the Upper Sangamon Watershed"
Miriam A. Cope , Sara McLafferty, Bruce M. Rhoads
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
audio recorded 04/29/09 | slides

"Working Knowledge: Why Labor Matters for Information Studies"
Vincent Mosco, Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society and Professor of Sociology, Queen's University, Canada
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio 04/27/09

"Empowering Latino Communities to Address Health Disparities"
Ben Mueller, assistant director, Community Development, National Center for Rural Health Professions
audio recorded 04/24/09 | slides | Nuevos Horizontes slides | Nuevos Horizontes sound file

"Professional Development at the Speed of Change"
Lori Goetsch, President-elect of ACRL and Dean of the libraries at Kansas State University
UIUC University Library Colloquium
audio recorded 04/23/09

"The Biological Computing Lab: A Radical Piece of CU History"
Kevin Hamilton, Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL)
audio recorded 04/22/09 | slides

"From Ulaan Baatar to iPhone: A Digital Library for the World's Children"
Benjamin B. Bederson, Associate Professor of Computer Science and the previous director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and iSchool at the University of Maryland.
audio recorded 04/20/09 | slides

GSLIS Storytelling Festival recorded 04/18/09

  • Introduction, Christine Jenkins, Kate McDowell audio
  • Free Kittens told by Anna Harmann audio
  • How the Cat Came Indoors told by Megan Hayes audio
  • George Washington Rabbit told by Sara Snider audio
  • Elsa & the Wizard (A Swedish Tale) told by Tina Ladika audio
  • The Day it Snowed Tortillas told by Katie Bruce audio
  • The King Who Knew Best told by Lizz Zitron audio
  • The One told by Ying Yi Fong audio
  • The Hermit's Son told by Sara Quinn Thompson audio
  • The Three Fairies told by Erica Voell audio
  • The Donkey Bride told by Kate Quealy audio
  • The Tiger & the Little Frog told by Minjie Chen audio
  • The Bremen Town Musicians told by Sue Searing audio
  • Gifts of Gold told by Amani Ayad audio
  • The Shadow on the Wall told by Mary Lu Bretsch audio

GSLIS Research Showcase April 6, 2009

  • Opening Remarks, John Unsworth
    audio
  • Introduction, Les Gasser
    audio
  • "Buildings, Books and Social Engineering: Early Public Library Buildings in Britain from Past to Present," Alistair Black
    audio | slides
  • "Space and Cyberspace in Chicago's Ethnic, Diasporan Communities," Kate Williams
    audio | slides
  • "One View of Information Analysis, Two Visions of Systematizing Knowledge Organization (KO): A Comparison of the Indexing Theories of Paul Otlet and Julius Otto Kaiser," Thomas Dousa
    audio | slides
  • “Music and Audio Information Retrieval Research at GSLIS,” Stephen Downie
    audio | slides
  • "Biotech and the Knowledge Commons," Wilhelm Peekhaus
    audio | slides
  • “How to Read In a Digital Library," Bonnie Mak
    audio | slides
  • “The Origin of Chinese American Children's Literature: An Historical Study," Minjie Chen
    audio | slides
  • “Automated Discovery of Social Networks in Text-Based Online Communities,” Anatoliy Gruzd
    audio | slides

"Open Source Biology: Delivering Redistributive Justice for a Creative Biological Commons"
Dr. Bronwyn Parry
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio 04/07/09

Windsor Lecture Series
"The Perfect Storm"
Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University.
audio recorded 03/11/2009 | mp3 | slides
Videos shown during talk: video 1 | video 2

Gryphon Lecture Series
"What's So Funny About Children's Literature?"
Dr. Karen Coats, Illinois State University
Sponsored by the Youth Literature Interest Group (YLIG)
audio recorded 03/06/2009

"After the windfall: Sustainable broadband infrastructure in the long view"
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
Christian Sandvig, Associate Professor, Communication & Research Associate Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC
Matt Crain, Doctoral Student, Institute of Communications Research, UIUC
Emily Shaw, C.A.S. Student, Library and Information Science, UIUC
audio recorded 2/25/2009 | slides

"Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation"
Karen Mossberger, Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Information in Society Speaker Series
powerpoint 02/23/09

"The "All-White World of Children's Books" in the Post-war Era: Call Me Charley and the Integration of American Children's Literature. "
Fern Kory, Professor of English, Eastern Illinois University
audio recorded 02/13/09

"Mysteries of Scholarly Publishing"
Willis Regier, Director of the University of Illinois Press
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio recorded 02/02/09

"Community Informatics in Business Education"
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
John W. Kindt, Professor of Business and Legal Policy in the Department of Business Administration, UIUC
audio recorded 01/28/2009

2008 Archives


"Towards Evidence-Based Discovery"
Catherine Blake, Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
audio recorded 12/11/2008

"Claiming Space! Black Girls Creating and Critiquing Community"
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
Ruth Nicole Brown, Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Educational Policy, UIUC
audio recorded 12/10/2008 | slides

"Telecommunications and Imperialism: Double-Edged Sword"
Daniel Headrick, Professor Emeritus at Roosevelt University
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio recorded 12/08/08

"Community Gardens"
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
Michelle Wander, Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, UIUC & 2008-2009 CII Fellow
audio recorded 11/12/08 | MP3 | slides

"Global Internet Standards and Developing Nations"
Laura DeNardis, Associate Research Scholar in Law and Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio recorded 11/10/08 | MP3

Windsor Lecture Series
Digital History:  Revolution or Revelation?

Dr. Ian Wilson
audio recorded 10/31/08 | MP3

"Libraries and Librarians Abroad"
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
Victor Ochieng, Kenya slides
Andres Felipe Tamayo Arias, Colombia slides
audio recorded 10/29/08

Crosswalk Project (OCLC Research and Crosswalk Registries)
Jean Godby & Devon Smith from OCLC Research
Metadata Round Table
audio recorded 10/15/08

"Using GIS to Increase Citizen Participation"
Jon Gant, GSLIS Associate Professor
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
slides | audio recorded 10/15/08

"Blacked Out: Government Secrecy and Freedom of Information: An International Perspective"
Alasdair Roberts, Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School 
"Information in Society" speaker series
audio recorded 10/6/08

"Civic Intelligence and Liberating Voices, A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution: Informal Reports and Requests for Participation"
Douglas Schuler, Visiting Scholar
slides | audio recorded 9/30/08

"The Doctoral Thesis in the Digital Age"
Richard Andrews, University of London; Visiting Research Fellow
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
audio recorded 9/24/08

"Rural Librarians as Community Leaders"
Anne Heinze Silvis extension specialist in Program Development for University of Illinois Extension
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
slides | audio recorded 9/17/08

Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
"Libraries Advocating for Access to Knowledge: Our Role in the Global A2K Movement."

Teresa Hackett, manager, eIFL-IP (Electronic Information for Libraries - Intellectual Property)
slides | audio recorded 9/17/08

"How Demand-Side Computing Shaped the History of Digitization"
Dr. James Cortada, author and member of the IBM Institute for Business Value
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio recorded 9/8/08

"Libraries, Librarians, and Information in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa"
Barbara Ford, Director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at UIUC
Susan Schnuer, Associate Director of the Mortenson Center
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
slides | audio recorded 04/30/2008

"Civic Engagement and Interdisciplinary Data in the New Philadelphia Project"
Professor Chris Fennell, Department of Anthropology at UIUC
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
audio recorded 04/23/2008

GSLIS Storytelling Festival recorded 04/12/08
Listen to the entire festival here: audio | Program

  • Those Three Wishes told by Molly Dolan audio
  • Tom Whitewashes the Fence told by Sara Schepis audio
  • The Legend of Knockmany told by Anna Dombrowski audio
  • Tadpole's Promise told by Katrina Bromann & Elizabeth Voss audio
  • Brynhild and Siegfried told by Ata Bird audio
  • The Three Little Pigs told by Becca Krznarich audio
  • Why the Sea is Salt told by Ying Yi Fong audio
  • It Could Always be Worse told by Rachel Schulman audio
  • Vinegar Bottle (Life is Not Fair) told by Kate McDowell audio
  • The Letter told by Dan Keding audio
  • Annie-O told by Dan Keding audio

Andruid Kerne
Texas A&M University
audio recorded 04/08/2008

Research Showcase 4/4/08

  • Welcome Dan Schiller audio
  • MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge) John Unsworth audio | slides
  • Preserving Virtual Worlds Jerome McDonough audio | slides
  • Just Me in a Closet with a Computer: Student Perceptions of Undergraduate Information Technology Programs Heekyung Choi audio | slides
  • Haddocks' Eyes: Where are we going with preservation? David Dubin audio | slides
  • A History of Children as Readers, 1881-1926 Kate McDowell audio
  • Overview of Research Centers and Poster Session Ken Spelke audio

"Gender and Computing in the Push-Button Library, 1965-1985"
Dr. Greg Downey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Information in Society Speaker Series
audio recorded 04/03/2008

Salary Negotiation Workshop
Leigh Estabrook, Dean Emerita
audio recorded 04/01/2008

"Forming International Research Collaborations"
Dr. Marcela Raffaelli, Professor of Human and Community Development at UIUC
Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
slides | audio recorded 03/26/2008

"Strategic Behavior and Combinatorial Betting in Prediction Markets"
Dr. Yiling Chen
slides | audio recorded 03/26/2008

"Computational Social Science with an HCI Accent."
Dan Cosley audio unavailable slides

Lecture on CI curriculum
The Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series presents "Shaping a Curriculum in Community Informatics: Contributions in Archive Preservation and Youth Media."
with Anke Voss.
audio recorded 3/12/2008

Windsor Lecture Series
"Library Research and Its Infrastructure in the Twentieth Century"

Dr. Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago
PDF format | audio recorded 3/12/2008

The Aleph in the Archive: Appraisal & Preservation of a Natural Electronic Archive
Maria Esteva
slides | audio recorded 03/06/2008

Interview Essentials
Melissa Wong
handout | audio recorded 03/02/2008

Gryphon Lecture Series
"Cause really they only have a few books I like": Young adults and (non)use of public libraries
Dr. Lynne McKechnie
sponsored by the Youth Literature Interest Group
slides | audio recorded 03/01/2008

Visiting Scholar Taku Sugimoto: Interpersonal Communication in Japan
GSLIS Visiting Scholar Taku Sugimoto, associate professor, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
Spring 2008 Community Informatics Initiative (CII) Speaker Series
slides | audio recorded 02/20/2008

North-South Conflicts Over Intellectual Property Rights: Underlying Issues and Contemporary Flash-Points
Dr. Susan Sell gave the inaugural lecture in the new "Information in Society" speaker series.
audio recorded 02/08/2008

Town Hall Meeting on New Library Service Models
University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Paula Kaufman discusses the new service model proposal and review process.
More information about the many new service models under consideration can be found here.
audio recorded 02/08/2008

Alistair Black
Alistair Black gave a public lecture entitled, "Socially Controlled Space or Public-Sphere Third Place? The Design of Adult and Children's Reading Rooms in British Public Libraries Before World War II."
Alistair Black is a professor of library & information history at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
audio recorded 02/05/2008



2007 Archives


GSLIS Research Forum:
Professor Thomas Haigh "The Secret History of Open Source Software Practices: Their Corporate and Scientific Origins, 1954-1980"
audio recorded 11/28/07

Birger Hjørland: Arguments for the ''bibliographical paradigm''
audio recorded 10/09/2007

Windsor Lecture Series
"Using the Future to Create the Present."
Betty Sue Flowers, Director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library

audio recorded 9/26/07

Professional Development Series

  • Job hunting and beginning a career in academic libraries - Merinda Hensley, GSLIS alum and Visiting Librarian for Instructional Services at the UIUC Library
    slides | audio recorded 5/24/07
  • Networking and Job Hunting - Rebecca Bryant, Assistant Dean, UIUC Graduate College
    resources are available from the Career Services website | audio recorded 5/21/07 (abbreviated due to tech problems)
  • Job Hunting and Career Development in Public Libraries - Nanette Donohue, Technical Services Manager, Champaign Public Library
    resources | audio recorded 5/22/07

Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan
A Culture- and Community-Focused Methodology for Digital Libraries and Museums audio recorded 5/2/07

GSLIS Storytelling Festival recorded 4/21/07
Listen to the entire festival here: audio

Curtain Rods told by Kathe Brinkmann audio
Three Strong Women told by Sue Searing audio
The Scotsman told by Jennifer D. Miller audio
Angelique and the Wolf-Man told by Joella Peterson audio
My Goalie Coach told by Erin Miller audio
A Fairy Tale told by Sarah Park audio
First Drive told by Bryan A. Clark audio
The Bird, the Mouse, and the Sausage told by Kimberly Ulrich audio
The Effectual, Fervent Prayer...of Jedediah Combs told by Angela Supernaw audio
The Golden Ball told by Sara Schepis audio
The Strawberries of the Little Men told by Vanessa Nelson audio
The Ram in the Chili Patch told by Kate McDowell audio
The Nose told by Betsy Hearne audio
The Serving Man told by Dan Keding audio

University of Illinois and Sao Tome & Principe Partnership
Paul Adams, Prairienet; Brett Bridgeland, Architecture; Vicki Eddings, ESLARP; Beth Larkee and Jake Odland, GSLIS students
slides | audio recorded 4/13/07

Open Data and Open Access Publishing in the Chemical Sciences
Dr. Peter Murray-Rust, faculty member at the University of Cambridge.  Sponsored by the Scientific Communication Initiative.
slides* | audio recorded 3/23/07
*xhtml and svg formats (svg viewer or capable browser required) 

Gryphon Lecture Series
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Roger Sutton, editor-in-chief of The Horn Book
sponsored by the Youth Literature Interest Group
audio recorded 3/2/07

Windsor Lecture: The Network Rewrites the Library
Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President and Chief Strategist for OCLC Online Computer Library Center
slides | audio recorded 2/23/07

Libraries, Community and Change in Post-Soviet Russia: The Case of the Bryansk Region Public LIbrary System
Ellen Knutson, GSLIS PhD student
slides | audio recorded 2/21/07

Topic Maps Presentation
Patrick Durusau was a guest speaker for LIS590RO
slides | topic map resources | audio recorded 2/21/07

2006 Archives


Family, Youth, and Literature Conference
Keynote Speech
Hazel Rochman
audio recorded 10/20/06

Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
Can International Organizations Deliver the Information Society?
Alex Byrne, President, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
audio recorded 10/16/06

Windsor Lecture Series

The Google Library: 10 Questions
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor of Culture and Communications, New York University
slides | audio recorded 10/12/06

To Monitor or To Mentor: That Is the Question  (libraries and copyright, DMCA, TEACH Act)
Dr. Thomas Lipinski, Associate Professor & Co-director Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
video (low quality)

FAST Transitions in OPACs: From Subject Heading Lists to Faceted Strings
Pauline Atherton Cochrane, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Syracuse University
handout 1 (PDF) | handout 2 (PDF) | audio recorded 5/12/06

Building a Collaborative KnowledgeSpace for Humanist Scholars
Dr. Ian Johnson, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
smil | slides | video recorded 4/27/06

GSLIS Storytelling Festival recorded on 4/24/06
Old One Eye told by Kristin Hungerford audio
Zanzibar told by Katrina Bromman audio
Abiyoyo told by Richard Urban audio
My Song For Papa told by Claudia Quintero audio
Mr. Snitzel's Cookie told by Barb Bolser audio
Old Dry Frye told by Nina Shimmin audio
The Lass That Couldn't Be Frighted told by Joella Peterson audio
The Happy Shirt told by Sarah Dutelle audio
How Bobtail Beat the Devil told by Betsy Hearne audio
Princess' Promise told by Kate McDowell audio

The What, Why, and How of Podcasting
Professor Burks Oakley
an ASIS&T sponsored event
slides | audio | mp3

Taming the Emergency Department Chief Complaint: Transforming Unstructured Data Elements for Secondary Uses
Stephanie Haas, Professor, SLIS UNC Chapel Hill
slides | audio recorded 4/17/06

Refactoring Digital Natural History Texts
These talks supported by NSF/BDI #0113918 Grant: TeleNature
audio recorded 4/17/06
  • Digitizing Plant Taxonomy Literature (1753-1923) and your Home PC - Chris Freeland, Web Group Project Leader and Doug Holland, Library Director Missouri Botanical Garden | slides
  • Bridging Biomedical and Biodiversity Knowledge Through Literature - Indra Neil Sarkar, Bioinformatics Associate in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History | slides
  • taXMLit and INOTAXA: Creation of a web space for taxonomy with access to contents of taxonomic literature - Anna L. Weitzman, Informatics Branch Chief, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institute | slides
  • Open Access to Legacy Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage - Martin R. Kalfatovic, Head, New Media Office and Preservation Services Department Smithsonian Institution Libraries | slides
SLA Grant Workshop
Susan Harum, director of the Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
audio recorded 4/13/06

Spring 2006 Career Workshops
  • The Job Search Process with Dale Silver handout | audio recorded 4/7/06
  • Cover Letter and Resume Writing with Curt McKay audio recorded 4/14/06
  • Interviewing Skills with Curt McKay audio recorded 4/21/06
  • Salary Negotiation with Leigh Estabrook audio recorded 4/28/06
ALA Presidential Candidate Interview
The ALA student group sponsored an interview with candidates Bill Crowe and Loriene Roy
audio recorded 4/4/06

GSLIS Research Showcase
The third annual Research Showcase on 3/10/06 gave an overview of the cutting-edge multi-disciplinary research of GSLIS faculty and doctoral students. Audio

The Genius of Library Cataloging and its Possible Future
Dr. Francis Miksa
an ALA sponsored event
audio recorded 3/6/06

Gryphon Lecture Series
Stony the Road We Trod: African American Children's Literature, Stories of a People's Journey
Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop
sponsored by the Youth Literature Interest Group
audio recorded 2/23/06

Cataloging a Campus: Information management lessons from the UIPhotos project, a collection of more that 60,000 images of the UIUC campus.
Kalev Leetaru, GSLIS Doctoral Student
slides (PDF) | audio recorded 1/26/06

2005 Archives



Salary Negotiation Workshop
Leigh Estabrook
an ALA sponsored event
audio recorded 12/5/05

Designing Game-Based Learning Environments
Kurt Squire, University of Wisconsin-Madison
audio recorded 11/15/05

Bridging the Innovation Divide: Advancing the Diffusion of Technology Innovations in Underserved Communities
Randal Pinkett
slides | audio recorded 11/15/05

Discussion With Alice Cisna, Arthur Public Library
An SLA-sponsored discussion concerning the challenges and opportunities involved when serving a town of 2200 and the approximately 3500 members of the surrounding Amish community.
audio recorded 11/1/05

Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
Democracy and Libraries in Columbia: From Oral Culture to the World of the Book
Dr. Jorge Orlando Melo Gonzalez, Director of the Department of Libraries and Fine Art at the Banco de la Republica and of the Luis Angel Arango Library
audio recorded 10/26/05

Windsor Lecture Series
The Academic Library in a Googlezon World
Roy Tennant, User Services Architect, California Digital Library
video | audio and discussion audio recorded 10/21/05

GSLIS Chinese Group Alumni Talk
GSLIS Alumnae Fang Huang Gao (MS '02), Serials Cataloger, UIUC Library
audio recorded 10/21/05

Digital Tools for Digital Librarians
David Nichols, Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand
slides | audio recorded 10/20/05

ASIS&T XML Workshop
Tom Habing, Research Programmer at Grainger Library and Tim Cole, Math Librarian and Associate GSLIS Professor
slides | audio recorded 10/16/05

Beyond the Website: Managing Complexity with Reliable Systems
Jonathan Kozolchyk graduated from UIUC in 2001 with a major in CS and the GSLIS IT Minor. His talk provides insight into the challenges faced by Amazon.com in managing complexity in a reliable manner.
audio recorded 10/14/05

Charting Our Future: Advocacy to Advance Academic Libraries
Camila Alire, President, ACRL
an ACRL student chapter sponsored event
audio recorded 10/10/05

Youth Literature Research Showcase
Three faculty from the Youth Literature Interest Group presented their research from the different disciplinary perspectives of Library and Information Science (Betsy Hearne, UIUC), Education (Karla Moller, UIUC), and English (Roberta Trites, ISU)
audio recorded 10/6/05

Job Trends Discussion with Joel Berger, President of C. Berger Group
an SLA sponsored event
audio recorded 10/6/05

Introduction to Office of Technology Management / Entrepreneurial Center
John McEntire,  Office of Technology Management
audio recorded 9/15/05

Online Community vs. Networked Individualism
Lori Kendall
slides | audio recorded 5/5/05

Michael Gorman Lecture
The President-elect of ALA talked about his ideas for the future of ALA and librarianship in general.
audio recorded 4/21/05

The History of the Future of Librarianship
A panel discussion with Michael Gorman, Dean John Unsworth and University Librarian Paula Kaufman.
audio recorded 4/21/05

Workshop on Serving International Students
An ALA event with Dana Wright, Carol Inskeep and Lynne Rudasil
audio recorded 4/18/05

GSLIS Storytelling Festival recorded on 4/9/05
How the Stories Came to Earth told by Hope Morrison audio
The Two Pickpockets told by Annette Lesak audio
Women's Wiles told by Molly Dolan audio
Chickens told by Jennifer Greene audio
Screwdriver Malloy told by Barb Bolser audio
Boiling Water told by Kristin Hungerford audio
The Underwater Palace told by Dave Dubin audio
The Dough Prince told by Betsy Hearne audio
The Mouse Bride told by Minjie Chen audio
The Story of Colors/ Las Historia de los Colores told by Claudia Quintero-Ulloa audio
Soap, Soap, Soap told by Sarah Dutelle audio

SPAM Control for Your Email
Leslie Rankin, Security Support Specialist, CITES
slides | audio recorded 4/15/05

How To Be A Good Corporate Librarian
John Laskowski (a GSLIS grad) of Humans Kinetics Publishing
slides | audio recorded 4/15/05

Internationalizing GSLIS
John Unsworth, Dean of GSLIS
audio recorded 4/5/05

LIS Job Market, Alternative LIS Careers and Interviewing Techniques
Joel Berger, President, C. Berger Group
audio recorded 3/31/05

ALA Job Lecture
Lorelle Swader, Director, Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment
audio recorded 3/28/05

Fellowship Opportunities for GSLIS Students
Deborah Richie, Assistant Dean, Graduate College and GSLIS Staff: Linda Smith, Susan Barrick, Rae-Anne Montague, Chantelle Hougland
slides | audio recorded 3/16/05

Meet our CLIR Fellows & discuss CLIR Fellowships
Learn more about CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources), the CLIR Fellows at UIUC and Fellowships for Postdoctorial Study in Scholarly Information Resources
audio recorded 3/15/05.

GSLIS Research Showcase
The second annual Research Showcase on 3/14/05 gave an overview of the cutting-edge multi-disciplinary research of GSLIS faculty and doctoral students.  See the Research Showcase Archive Page for more information.

SLA Leadership Presentation
Ethel Salonen, President of the Special Libraries Association
slides | audio recorded 3/14/05

Introduction to the Bibliomining Process Workshop
Scott Nicholson, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
slides | complete audio | audio part I | audio part II | audio part III recorded 3/4/05

Gryphon Lecture Series
Becoming What You Eat: Identifying with Food in Children's Picture Books

Perry Nodelman, Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg
audio recorded 3/3/05

Sound Bytes: Digitizing Audio Materials
Richard Urban, Collaborative Digitization Program
see also: http://lib.colostate.edu/gfr/
http://www.naropa.edu/audioarchive/
audio recorded 3/2/05

Conference Attendance 101
A panel of LIS professionals covered topics such as how to approach vendors, how to choose your sessions and conducting a job search.
Sponsored by the ALA Student Chapter
audio recorded 2/28/05

Windsor Lecture Series
What Children Can Teach Us: Lessons Learned from the Trenches of Digital Libraries
Professor Allison Druin, College of Information Studies and Human-Computer Interaction Lab
see also: http://www.icdlbooks.org
audio recorded 2/25/05

Informationalizing El Salvador: Participatory design of a national information and ICT strategy
Christina Courtright, Doctoral Student at Indiana University
audio recorded 2/24/05

ALA Social Responsibilites Round Table
Al Kagan
an ALA sponsored event
audio recorded 2/18/05

Community Informatics Research Speaker Series
Storytelling skills in preschoolers from low income families
Adele Proctor, Professor in Speech and Hearing Sciences
audio recorded 2/17/05.

Museum Informatics
Paul Marty, Professor, Florida State University, and former Director of the Spurlock Museum at UIUC
audio recorded 2/11/05

2004 Archives



Illinois Library Association Lecture
Allen Lanham, President of the Illinois Library Association, and Kendi Kelley, Illinois Library Association Public Policy Chair
audio recorded 12/7/04

Grant Writing and Youth Services
Brenda Pacey, Visiting Program Director for University Outreach and Public Services
audio recorded 12/7/04

Designing and Building Sociable Mediated Spaces
Karrie Karahalios, assistant professor, UIUC Department of Computer Science
audio recorded 11/17/04

Exploring IT Support
Martin Wolkse, Terry Wilson and CITES Staff
audio recorded 11/12/04

Fighting Spam: A Different Call to Arms
Christopher Lueg, Computer Sciences Corp., Professor of eBusiness at Charles Darwin University
audio recorded 11/12/04

LIS Career Paths and the Professionals Who Walk Them
details | audio recorded 11/01/04

SLA Speaker: Non-traditional/Corporate Careers
SLA's monthly meeting, featuring a talk by Karen MacKenzie
audio recorded 10/29/2004

What's the Midwinter Meeting? Why Go?
ALA Midwinter Panel Discussion
audio recorded 10/28/2004

From Sleaze to Classics: Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker
Ann Bannon, a pioneer in lesbian pulp fiction
audio recorded 10/28/04

XML Workshop
Thomas Habing and Timothy Cole
ASIS&T sponsored event
slides | audio recorded 10/28/04

Preserving Family History
Janice Harrington and Betsy Hearne spoke on AM 580's "Focus 580" program.
audio recorded 10/26/04

Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
Managing an African University

P J M Ssebuwufu, former Vice Chancellor of Makerere University in Uganda
audio recorded 10/26/04

Carol Brey-Casiano Lecture
The President of ALA gave a talk on Library Advocacy.
audio recorded 10/25/04

Windsor Lecture Series
"Cataloging for the Future"
Dr. Barbara Tillett, Chief, Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress
PDF format | audio recorded 10/13/04

AACR and the Future
Dr. Barbara Tillett, Chief, Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress
audio recorded 10/13/04

Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, and Youth Services
Christine Jenkins
audio part I recorded 10/12/04
audio part II recorded 11/9/04

Fall 2004 Career Series
Sponsored by the ALA Student Chapter
The Job Search Process with Curt McKay audio recorded 10/4/04
Writing Cover Letters and Resumes with Curt McKay audio recorded 10/11/04
Interviewing Skills with Curt McKay audio recorded 10/18/04

Fulbright Scholar Experience in GSLIS/UIUC in Developing a Digital Library
Dr. Madaiah Krishnamurthy
audio recorded 6/23/04

Dynamic Digital Library Talk
Dr. David Bainbridge talked about Greenstone 3 -- a digital library architecture and implementation that is configurable, extensible and dynamic in the way it presents content and in the services it provides.
a Proseminar and ASIS&T Student Chapter event.
see also: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/%7Edavidb/
http://www.greenstone.org/cgi-bin/library
slides | audio recorded 4/26/04

Impressions of the State of Academic Libraries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joyce Latham, GSLIS Doctoral Student
audio recorded 4/23/04

CCB Storytelling Festival recorded on 4/17/04
Grandpa and the Frogs told by Betsy Hearne audio
My Little Alien told by Eleannor Maajid audio
The Cat and the Rat told by Debra Mitts Smith audio
The Dream and the Old Apple Tree told by Kate McDowell audio
The Story of Colors told by Sujin Huggins audio
Those Three Wishes told by Molly Dolan audio
Onions and Garlic told by Sarah Dutelle audio
Princess Leanna told by Kate McDowell audio
The Lion's Whiskers told by Barb Bolser audio
Moose Tracks told by Krista Hutley audio
By the Window told by Hope Morrison audio
Driving Lessons told by Amy Crump audio
The Harvesting of Dermond told by Janice Del Negro audio

Spring 04 SLA Lecture Series
Jenny Levine ("The Shifted Librarian") audio recorded 4/21/04
David Pearlstein, Content Architecture and Planning Program Manager, Microsoft (Seattle) audio recorded 4/2/04

Spring 04 ALA Lecture Series
Allen Lanham, Dean of Eastern Illinois University Library and president-elect of the ILA audio recorded 4/26/04
Library Consortia Panel: Kristine Hammerstrand, Director of Illinois Library Computer Systems Office (ILCSO) and Jan Ison, Executive Director of Lincoln Trail Libraries System audio recorded 4/20/04
Carla Hayden, President of ALA audio recorded 4/14/04
Nancy Gilfillan, Illinois Library Association President audio recorded 4/6/04
Mary Dempsey, Commissioner of the Chicago Public Library audio recorded 3/31/04

Hobbies as Sites for Information Research
Jenna Hartel, Doctoral Student, Department of Information Studies, UCLA.
audio recorded 3/15/04

Public Library Management
Fred Schlipf, Director of the Urbana Free Library
ALA Professional Development Workshop Series
audio recorded 2/20/04

GSLIS/UIUC Experience As A Guiding Spirit In Building An Indian Aerospace Digital Library (IADL)
Poornima Narayana
audio | slides recorded 2/2/04

2003 Archives



Leonardo's Laptop
Ben Shneiderman, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park
see also: http://mitpress.mit.edu/leonardoslaptop
audio recorded 12/10/03

San Diego: What to Expect? The Conference and the Placement Center
Christine Jenkins (GSLIS), Kathleen Kern (Reference, Main Library) and Sue Searing (LIS Library)
audio recorded 12/9/03

Preparing to Present: Tips and Strategies for the Interview Presentation
Lisa Hinchliffe
audio recorded 12/8/03

Future of Reference Discussion
Frank Menchaca, reference publisher for Scribner's/Macmillan
audio recorded 12/5/03

Salary Negotiation Talk
Leigh Estabrook gave a presentation on salary negotiation as part of an ALA event
audio recorded 11/19/03

The Picshuas of H.G.Wells drawn from the archives: A work in progress
Gene Rinkel, Curator of Special Collections, Rare Book and Special Collections Library
audio recorded 11/17/03

The Information System Challenges of Tropical Botany
Dr. John Janovec
see also: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/staf/janovec.html
audio recorded 11/14/03

The History and Future of Internet Libraries
Jim Zimmerman, President, http://www.thelibrarychannel.com/
an ALA sponsored event
audio recorded 11/13/03

What's Behind your OPAC? Delivering a Catalog with Scripting Languages and Databases
Chad Fennel
ASIS&T Tech Talk Series
audio recorded 11/06/03

Barbara Ford of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs
an SLA event audio
audio recorded 10/29/03

In the Dark of Night: A Scary Storytelling Concert for Adults
A benefit for the Center for Children's Books with Janice Del Negro, Dan Keding and Dennis Frederick
audio recorded 10/25/03

GSLIS Spring '04 Course Showcase
GSLIS faculty talk about the courses they are teaching this Spring.
audio recorded 10/13/03

Making Digital Libraries a Reality
Ian Witten, New Zealand Digital Library Project, Computer Science Department, Waikato University, New Zealand
a Proseminar event
audio recorded 9/29/03

Mortenson Distinguished Lecture
Information Competencies: A Bridge to Narrow North-South Knowledge Gaps
Jesus Lau, Director, USBI Veracruz Library and UV Virtual Library Coordinator, Veracruz, Mexico
slides | audio recorded 9/23/03

Passions of the Internet and the Art of Living
Rafael Capurro
a Proseminar event
slides | audio recorded 9/22/03

Scientific discovery in complementary but disjoint literatures: the role of Medline title-searching and a study of B-list precision as a function of sublanguages and randomness; implications for hypothesis-generation
Don Swanson, Professor, Division of Humanities, University of Chicago
a Proseminar event
audio recorded 9/8/03
Readings:

LIS 360 Practicum Informational Meeting
Dale Silver
audio recorded 9/5/03

Social Justice Speaker Series
Christine Jenkins, GSLIS Associate Professor, and Curt McKay, Assistant Dean of GSLIS presented on LGBT issues for LIS.  audio recorded on 11/20/03.
Kamau Laraviere, Director of the UIUC Urban Exchange Center, read two poems followed by class discussion.  Introduction and reading of Black Poem audio, reading of Paradoxes of Oppression. audio recorded 10/6/03
Professor Julian Rappaport from the UIUC Department of Psychology. Audio not available for this session.
Professor Al Kagan, UIUC African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration. audio recorded 10/23/03
Dr. Kathleen de la Pena McCook, University of South Florida. audio recorded 10/16/03
Panel Discussion with Yanira Vegerano, Fernando Reyna, Paul King and Hugh Phillips. audio recorded 10/2/03
Jeffrey Huber from School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University. audio recorded 10/9/03
Alejandro Molina from the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. audio recorded 9/4/03
Imani Bazzell from Sisternet. audio recorded 9/11/03
Dr. Loriene Roy from the University of Texas. audio recorded 9/18/03
Shireen Mitchell from Digital Sisters. audio recorded 9/25/03

Secrets from the Search Committee: Getting and Keeping that Academic Reference Job
Jennifer E. Knievel
audio recorded 5/30/03

The Role of Cultural Institutions in the Twenty-first Century
Bob Martin, Director of IMLS
audio recorded 5/5/03

FRBR - Getting Ready
Dr. Barbara Tillett, Chief of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) at the Library of Congress
see also: http://groups.lis.uiuc.edu/guest_lectures/LEEPApril30.html
http://groups.lis.uiuc.edu/guest_lectures/FRBR_Bibco/img0.html
http://groups.lis.uiuc.edu/guest_lectures/VIAF_Rome/img0.html
audio recorded 4/30/03

Intro to HTML and Web Design
audio recorded 4/21/03

Initiatives in Indigenous Librarianship
Loriene Roy was on campus to interview for a newly created position of Director of Native American Studies and a joint appointment at GSLIS.
audio recorded 4/18/03

Barbara Ford of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs
an ALA sponsored event
audio recorded 4/17/03

Making Culture Visible: The Impact of Designer's Design Decisions on Students' Software Preferences
Nichole Pinkard, University of Chicago
a Proseminar event
audio recorded 4/14/03

Electronic Field Guide: An Object-Oriented WWW Database to Identify Species and Record Ecological Observations XML / Web Services and Electronic Field Guide
Robert Morris, University of Massachusetts
audio recorded 4/7/03

A Chat with a Knowledge Architect
Vivian Bliss (MS '97), Natural User Interface Platform, Microsoft.
audio recorded 3/14/03

What Tech Skills are in Demand for LIS Grads?
Panel of Academic, Public, School, and Special Librarians.
Sponsored by the Student Chapter of ASIS&T.
audio recorded 3/8/03

Rare Book Collections
Alvan Bregman, UIUC Rare Books Librarian.
audio recorded 2/25/03

Hope Olson - GSLIS faculty candidate lecture
Hope Olson, School of Library & Information Studies, University of Alberta
audio recorded 2/19/03

Cheap Date: Tales of Love and Romance
A Storytelling Valentine for Adults Benefit for The Center for Children's Books: Janice Del Negro, Betsy Hearne, Dan Keding, The Storyweavers, Megan Wells, and others will present an evening of traditional stories and modern tales, folk ballads and popular songs, reflecting various aspects of romantic love.
audio recorded 2/14/03

Meet Bonnie Bracey
Bonnie Bracey
audio recorded 2/12/03

Digitizing A Discipline: Possibilities and Problems for History and Historians
Roy Rosenzweig
audio recorded 2/10/03

Professional Development Workshops Series
The Job Search Process with Curt McKay audio recorded 2/5/03
Introduction to "GSLIS Career Central" with Dale Silver (see below)
Writing Cover Letters and Resumes with Curt McKay audio recorded 2/12/03
Interviewing Skills with Curt McKay audio recorded 2/19/03
Salary Negotiation with Leigh Estabrook audio recorded 2/27/03
Professional Development Q&A audio recorded 3/6/03

2002 Archives



John Unsworth - GSLIS Dean candidate lecture
John Unsworth
audio recorded 1/30/02

The Four Big Lies of the Corporate Media System in the U.S.
Robert McChesney
an ALA Event
audio recorded 12/03/02

IN THE DARK OF NIGHT: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Janice Del Negro, Janice Harrington, and Dan Keding
audio recorded 10/20/02

Making Microsoft Products Easy
Christopher Konrad, Office Usability Group at Microsoft
audio recorded 9/26/02

Meet the Auxiliary Units of GSLIS
Learn more about the different units within GSLIS by listening to this panel discussion.
audio recorded 9/18/02

LEEP Retreat Keynote
Better Practices
Nick Burbules
audio recorded 8/16/02

Panel on International Librarianship
The ALA International Committee and SLA Student Group held a panel discussion on similarities, differences and resources for International International Librarianship. The panel featured seven GSLIS Masters and PhD students.
photos | audio recorded 4/15/02

LIS Careers

Joel Berger, C. Berger, Inc.
an SLA sponsored event
audio recorded 2/28/02

Virtual Career Fair
Discussion led by Curt McKay
handout | audio recorded 2/11/02

2001 Archives



Meet the Auxiliary Units of GSLIS
Learn more about the different units within GSLIS by listening to this panel discussion.
audio recorded 12/5/01

25th Annual Liberal Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture
Storied Lives
Betsy Hearne
text | audio recorded

Information Retrieval Research
Dave Dubin
an ASIS&T sponsored event
audio recorded 4/13/01

2000 Archives



Sandy Berman Lecture
Sandy Berman spoke with Pat Lawton's 407LE class. Pat has decided to share the audio with the GSLIS community.
audio recorded 1/16/00

Gates Foundation Lecture
Carol Erickson of the Gates Foundation spoke with members of the GSLIS community about the Foundation's goals and philosophy. The first hour (audio) focused on the Foundation's international efforts. The second hour (audio)focused on efforts within public libraries in the U.S.
recorded 7/12/00

Focus 580: The Possibilities of Building Communities through Computer Networking
Martin Wolske of Prairienet and Ann Bishop of GSLIS spoke with host David Inge of WILL AM 580.  Archived audio (6/13/00) currently unavailable

Creating Career Paths
Dean Leigh Estabrook spoke with GSLIS alumni Roger Strouse.
resume | audio recorded 4/21/00

Integrated Library Systems: A View from the Trenches
Sara Randall, Director of Library Systems for UIUC
an ALA student chapter event
audio recorded 4/19/00

A Librarian at Microsoft
GSLIS Alum Vivian Bliss spoke about her experiences as a librarian at Microsoft and her experiences in working on the MSWeb project.
an ASIS&T student chapter event
audio recorded on 3/31/00

Does it have to be that way? Making the case for the Alternative Press in libraries.
Jim Danky spoke about including alternative publications in the library.
an ALA student chapter event
audio recorded 2/25/00

Art and Museum Librarianship
Jack Brown, Director, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries of the Art Institute of Chicago.
an SLA student chapter event
audio recorded 1/28/00

1999 Archives



International Librarianship
Robert Wedgeworth spoke to GSLIS students about IFLA and international issues in librarianship.
audio recorded 11/12/99

LIS Education for the 21st Century
Linda Smith discussed issues raised about the future of LIS education at an international conference she attended.
audio recorded 11/3/99

Special Libraries Association
Sara Thompson and Jan Sykes spoke to the student chapter of SLA about special librarianship and trends in the profession.
audio recorded 10/21/99

LIS 390 Poster Session: Mary Dempsey Interview
Mary Dempsey, Commissioner of the Chicago Public Library, spoke with LEEP student Liz Ledbury-Kickham as part of the LIS 390 poster session.  Archived with special permission from Ms. Dempsey.
audio recorded 7/29/99

Focus 580: Privatization of the Internet
Dan Schiller spoke on WILL's Focus 580.
audio recorded 5/28/99

Arthur Andersen and the ASK Network
Marsha Fulton of Arthur Andersen
audio recorded 5/11/99

The Solo Librarian
Judith Siess, author of The SOLO Librarians Sourcebook
audio recorded 5/3/99

Jane Gottlieb talk
Jane Gottlieb, head of the Julliard School Library
audio recorded 4/19/99

Urban Public Libraries
Joey Rodger, President of the Urban Libraries Council
audio recorded 4/13/99

Beyond the Valley of the Mega-Publishers: Collecting Alternative Library Materials
Chris Dodge, cataloger, Hennepin County Library.  Chris is also the co-editor of the MSRRT Newsletter and is the Street Librarian. When Chris holds up two examples of the popular press in this speech, he is holding (but does not identify) Time and Newsweek.
audio recorded 3/26/99

1998 Archives



Focus 580: Community Networks
Martin Wolske, director of Prairienet, spoke with host David Inge of WILL AM 580.
audio recorded 12/11/98

Karin Donahue talk
Karin Donahue, director of the Information Center with the Chicago law firm Gardner, Carton & Douglas.
audio recorded 11/19/98

Samantha Whitney-Ulane talk
Samantha Whitney-Ulane, Director of Research and Information Services, the Carlyle Group, and past President of the Illinois Chapter of the Special Libraries Association.
audio recorded 11/10/98

Special Libraries Association Panel Discussion: Medical and Science/Technology Librarians
Jerry DeWitt and Laura Barnes
audio recorded 10/24/98 (lower quality audio here)

Issues in Collection Development
Milton Wolf, Vice-President for Collection Programs at the Center for Research Libraries.
audio recorded 9/18/98

1997 Archives



Customer Service in Libraries
Christine Hagar
slides | audio recorded 12/8/97

Resume & Cover Letter Workshop
Curt McKay
audio recorded 11/17/97

Vision for the Library of the 21st Century
Ken Dowlin
audio recorded 5/6/97

Libraries: Local Touch, Global Reach
Barbara Ford
audio recorded 4/16/97

Seven Stages of Information Retrieval
Michael Lesk
audio recorded 4/17/97

Salary Negotiation Workshop
Leigh Estabrook
audio recorded 3/1/97



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