Committees & Service Responsibilities
Academic Year 2012-2013
Admissions (M.S./C.A.S.)
Jon Gant, Chair
Alistair Black
Nicole Cooke
Miles Efron
Vetle Torvik
Rae-Anne Montague, ex officio
Allen Renear, ex officio
Penny Ames, staff
TBD, library representative
Affirmative Action Officer/Conflict of Interest Officer
Terry Weech
Beta Phi Mu Liaisons
Kathryn Luther Henderson
William T Henderson
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Bioinformatics Coordinator
Cathy Blake
CCFD Section Leader
Allen Renear (with support from Diana Stroud)
Cluster/Program Chairs
History/Economics/Policy (HEP) – Alistair Black (Fall 2012) and Dan Schiller (Spring 2013)
Information Organization and Knowledge Representation/Information Systems (IOKR/IS) – Kathryn LaBarre
Information Resources Uses and Users (IRUU) – Linda Smith
Management and Evaluation (ME) – Terry Weech
Social Community and Organization Informatics (SCOI) – Les Gasser
Youth Literature and Services (YLS) – Carol Tilley
Undergraduate Minor (UG) – Linda Smith
Curriculum
Kathryn LaBarre, Chair
Dave Dubin
Emily Knox
Carol Tilley
Kate Williams
Meg Edwards, ex officio
Rae-Anne Montague, ex officio
Allen Renear, ex officio
Linda Smith, ex officio
Penny Ames, staff
Ph.D. student representative – Alaine Martaus
C.A.S student representative – Joe Coyle
M.S. student representative – Jessica Williams
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Doctoral Studies
Cathy Blake, Chair
Jana Diesner
Christine Jenkins
Kate McDowell
Carole Palmer (Fall 2012)
Dan Schiller (Spring 2013)
Stephen Downie, ex officio
Rae-Anne Montague, ex officio
Allen Renear, ex officio
Ph.D. student representative – Nicholas Weber
International Ph.D. student representative – Aiko Takazawa
Editor, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Deborah Stevenson
Co-Editors, Library Trends
Alistair Black
Boyd Rayward
Editor, Occasional Papers
Don Krummel
Executive Committee
Allen Renear, Chair
Les Gasser
Bonnie Mak (second year)
Jerry McDonough
Mike Twidale
Stephen Downie, ex officio
Linda Smith, ex officio
Faculty Senate
Jerome McDonough (second term, ends August 2013)
Terry Weech (first term, ends August 2014)
Inclusive Illinois
Liasion: Amani Ayad
GSLIS student representative: Melissa Funfsinn
Library School Alumni Association Liaison
Diana Stroud
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LIS Library Liaison
Kathryn La Barre
Student Group Advisors
ALA – Terry Weech
ASIS&T – Stephen Downie
SAA – Ellen Swain
SLA – Linda Smith
Chinese Group – Lian Ruan
Student Representatives To Faculty Meetings
M.S.: Sasha Kinney
C.A.S.: Anthonia Ahonsi
Ph.D.: Brittany Smith
