University of Illinois

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