Graduate School of Library and Information Science - University of Illinois

Spring LEEP On-Campus Session

mclaugh — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:00:43 +0000

More information to follow.

Event Date:

Thu, 02/28/2013 - Mon, 03/04/2013

Rhinesmith selected as DML Summer Institute Fellow

cashwill — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:42:39 +0000

Doctoral student Colin Rhinesmith recently received a fellowship to the attend this year's Digital Media and Learning Research Associates Summer Institute to be held June 11-15 at Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The one-week institute, entitled "Thinking In and Out of the Box: How Innovation and Policy Shape Networked Learning," will examine the convergence of public policy and innovation and its effects on digital media and learning (DML). Specific topics will include the recent debates around network neutrality, digital inequality and DML, and the implications of digital citizenship and online safety as DML develops further. Participants will be mentored by senior scholars working in the emerging field and will be encouraged to build relationships with key researchers at institutions across the country and globally. Institute activities will include visits to the MIT Media Lab, Harvard’s Project Zero, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

"It is a tremendous honor for me to be selected as one of this year's twelve DML Summer Institute Fellows," said Rhinesmith. "The experience will help me to refine my dissertation proposal and research agenda focused on the intersection of civic media, digital inequality, and public policy. I look forward to joining the extraordinary group of students and mentors at this year's program."

As a summer 2012 fellow, Rhinesmith plans to focus his research on investigating digital media and learning initiatives that have received funding though the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP). His goal is to develop a theoretical and methodological framework that researchers, practitioners, and policymakers can use to consider how youth and adults, particularly in low-income communities, are leveraging digital media and learning to promote social and economic development.

Rhinesmith also recently presented a paper on broadband adoption and public policy at a workshop in Washington, D.C. The daylong workshop, "Defining and Measuring Meaningful Broadband Adoption," was convened by the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and included over 30 researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working toward the development of more effective broadband policy frameworks.

CAS Project Defense: Nadene Eisner

mclaugh — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:17:11 +0000

Nadede Eisner will defend her CAS project on Monday, May 14, at 3:30pm in LIS Room 109. Everyone is welcome to attend. A copy of Nadene's paper is available at the GSLIS Main Office desk or can be accessed by clicking on the title below.

Title:
Engaging Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in the School Library: A Handbook for Teacher-Librarians

Abstract:
Over seventy percent of students who are deaf or hard of hearing will attend a public school and enroll in a classroom with their hearing peers or in a self-contained classroom with other deaf and hard of hearing students. Teacher-librarians who work in these schools can improve their instruction by understanding not only what it means to be deaf or hard of hearing but also how deaf and hard of hearing students learn to read and what challenges they may encounter in the school library classroom. This paper offers practical suggestions and recommendations to help teacher librarians teach within the concept of Universial Design for Learning to make learning accessible for all students, but specifically for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Committee:
Georgeann Burch (director), Carol Tilley, and Kathy Bennett

Location:

109 LIS Building

Event Date:

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 3:30pm

CAS Project Defense: Jessica Lapinsky

mclaugh — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:39:19 +0000

You are invited to attend Jessica Lapinksy's CAS project final defense, "Keep Calm and Carry On: A Training Model for Integrated Disaster Response for Cultural Collections."

Abstract:
Disaster planning in cultural institutions is an important area of collections management that is often overlooked, but vital to the continued operations of an institution when an emergency strikes. Current planning literature emphasizes the need for establishing cooperative networks between cultural institutions and emergency personnel, and standardized response structures for dealing with large scale disasters, such as tornados, floods, and hurricanes. Large institutions, such as the Smithsonian Institution (SI) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), are evaluating their current collection response plans and training methods to develop a comprehensively integrated response strategy. This strategy will ensure the long-term preservation of their library, archives, and museum collections in the event of a large scale disaster. A significant first step for the development of integrated disaster response strategies is training all stakeholders in the use of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Incident Command System (ICS). The Incident Command System a flexible, all hazards response structure that is utilized by first responders, government agencies, and private organizations like the Salvation Army and Red Cross. As part of the efforts to develop integrated disaster response at the University of Urbana-Champaign, I created and implemented three workshops for local public library employees, university students studying library, museum, and archives courses, and the general public. The workshops included an introduction to the Incident Command System, salvage techniques for collections, and vital records protection. These workshops explore the different strategic ways collections repositories should respond to large-scale disaster. They can serve as a training model for other large and small institutions seeking to create new disaster response strategies.

A copy of Jessica's report is available in 112 LIS Building.

Location:

109 LIS Building

Event Date:

Fri, 05/11/2012 - 9:00am - 11:00am

Dissertation Proposal Defense: ShinJoung Yeo

mclaugh — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:11:45 +0000

ShinJoung Yeo will defend her dissertation proposal, "Behind the Search Box: the Political Economy of the Global Search Engine Industry," at 12:00pm CST on Monday, May 21, in GSLIS Room 242.

Committee Members:

Dan Schiller, Chair and Research Director (UIUC)
Linda Smith (UIUC)
Christian Sandvig (UIUC)
Fred Turner (Stanford University)

A copy of ShinJoung's dissertation proposal is available in the GSLIS office, LIS 112. All those who are interested are welcome to attend.

Location:

242 LIS Building

Event Date:

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 12:00pm

GSLIS instructor honored with Nancy B. Olson Award

kimsch — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:34:10 +0000

press release courtesy of UW Milwaukee School of Information Studies

Robert L. Bothmann, an adjunct instructor at GSLIS, has been awarded the 2012 Nancy B. Olson Award. The annual award, sponsored by the Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) network, recognizes a librarian who has made significant contributions to the advancement and understanding of audiovisual cataloging and electronic resources. Bothmann was recognized for his multiple leadership roles in OLAC and other national organizations, for educating colleagues and teaching future generations of librarians cataloging rules, as well his intellectual contributions to the field.

Bothmann teaches Cataloging and Classification I and II via LEEP for GSLIS. He is also an adjunct instructor at the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In addition to teaching, Bothmann works as the metadata and emerging technologies librarian at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

He is the coauthor of Cataloging of Audiovisual Materials and Other Special Materials (5th ed.) and other various publications. He received his MLIS from SOIS, and also has a Master of Science in Cross-disciplinary Studies: Geography & English Technical Communication from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The annual award is named after Nancy B. Olson, the founder and first chair of OLAC, and an acknowledged expert of non-book cataloging. To learn more about this award, and see a list of past recipients visit their website.

Mak delivers recent talks on the future of the book, e-reading

kimsch — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:38:29 +0000

Bonnie Mak, GSLIS assistant professor, is speaking at the conference "Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book" held at MIT on May 3-4, 2012.

This symposium explores the future potential of the book by engaging practitioners and performers of this versatile technology to ask some key questions: is the book an artifact on its deathbed or a mutable medium transitioning into future forms? What shape will books of the future take? Grounded in this technology’s history, we will reflect critically on possible futures, promises, and challenges of the book, showcasing practices by writers and artists, putting them in conversation with scholars and thinkers from across the disciplines who are framing discourse and questions about book-related technotexts. This symposium hopes to foster a lively discussion where audience members participate and invoke their multiple perspectives of the book.

Mak also gave the keynote address at the March 31 symposium, "E-Reading: an Interdisciplinary Symposium." The title of her talk was "Reading the 'E' in E-Reading." This event was co-sponsored by the University of Toronto, the Toronto Centre for the Book, and the Toronto Review of Books.

CAS Project Defense: Debra Dejonker-Berry

mclaugh — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:23:12 +0000

Debra Dejonker-Berry will defend her CAS thesis, "Digital Libraries in Small Communities: Developing a Sustainable Model for Masschusetts", May 3 from 10:00am - 12:00pm in room 109 at GSLIS. All are invited. Debra's committee members are Jon Gant, Martin Wolske and Jerome McDonough. Her thesis is available in the front office.

Abstract:

Economic Sustainability is the ability to marshal sufficient resources, on an ongoing basis, to meet [particular] objectives (Lavoie and Dempsey). This paper examines small digital libraries in Massachusetts through interviews delving into the areas of Project Planning; Funding & Budget; Legal Issues; Standards; Digital Infrastructure; Sustainability, Governance & Evaluation and Human Resources; and reviews literature applying the models presented in the literature to these libraries. Finally a small digital library in Halifax, Massachusetts is built using the lessons learned from the interviews and literature through parterships with the library and Halifax community in the hopes of developing a sustainable digital library for Halifax and a sustainable model.

Location:

109 LIS Building

Event Date:

Thu, 05/03/2012 - 10:00am - 12:00pm

Dissertation Proposal Defense: Mikki Smith

mclaugh — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:47:09 +0000

Mikki Smith will defend her dissertation proposal, "Print Networks and Youth Information Culture: Young People, Amateur Publishing, and Juvenile Periodicals, 1867-1890," at 10:00am on Wednesday, May 16, in LIS Room 131.

Committee Members:

Dr. Kate McDowell, Chair
Dr. Alistair Black, Director of Research
Dr. Christine Jenkins
Dr. Karen Sanchez-Eppler (Amherst College, MA)

A copy of her proposal is available in the GSLIS front office. All who are interested are welcome to attend!

Location:

131 LIS Building

Event Date:

Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:00am

Searing appointed interim associate university librarian for user services

cashwill — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:24:34 +0000

Sue Searing, LIS librarian and GSLIS affiliated faculty member, has been appointed interim associate university librarian for user services at the University of Illinois Library. She will serve in this position for three years, providing coordination and leadership for a variety of library-wide programs and initiatives, including information literacy and instruction, staff training and development, and library assessment.

“These are such exciting times for academic research libraries,” Searing said. “Changes in the higher education and publishing environments have inspired us to rethink our service models. I’m enthusiastic about my expanded role in readying this library for the opportunities that the near-term future will bring.”

Since she arrived on campus 1997, Searing has served as the subject specialist in library and information science and as a valuable resource to GSLIS students and faculty. During her tenure, she has developed LIS print and electronic collections, answered reference questions, consulted on research projects, developed resource guides, and provided information literacy instruction to classes.

“Throughout her tenure as LIS librarian, Sue Searing has looked for ways to enhance services to GSLIS faculty and students, such as expanding resources available in electronic form and holding office hours on site in the LIS building. Given this experience, she is well positioned to lead library-wide development and implementation of new service models, and we look forward to working with her in her new role,” said Linda Smith, GSLIS associate dean for academic programs.

Searing holds a B.A. in Russian language and literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an M.A. in library science from the University of Michigan. Her experience includes positions in the libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yale University. At the University of Illinois Library, she has served at various times as head of research and planning (user services), interim women and gender resources librarian, and coordinator of the social sciences division. Searing has earned several awards, most recently the Distinguished Service Award from the Library Science Alumni Association at Illinois. In addition, she has authored numerous articles, books, and book chapters.

Krummel honored for lifetime achievement in American music

cashwill — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:00:58 +0000

GSLIS Professor Emeritus D. W. Krummel has received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music for his distinguished research and teaching in American-music printing, publishing, and resources.

Krummel earned degrees in music from the University of Michigan, where he briefly served on the music faculty. He completed his doctorate in library science in 1958, while working in the Music Division of the Library of Congress (1956-61). Later he was head of reference and associate librarian at the Newberry Library in Chicago (1962-69). He also served on the Rare Book School faculty (1990-2008) at Columbia University and in Virginia.

In 1970, Krummel joined the GSLIS faculty, which in 1994 honored him with a festschrift, Music Publishing & Collecting: Essays in Honor of Donald W. Krummel. In addition to his teaching and publications in library science, he has authored and edited several landmarks in music scholarship as well as in bibliography. His seminal Resources of American Music History (1981) provides comprehensive access to the primary materials of American music history. His Bibliographical Handbook of American Music (1987) was honored with the Irving Lowens Book Award. Krummel continues to teach occasional GSLIS courses in bibliography and library history and is currently preparing a study of bibliography in general, to be entitled The Anatomy of Bibliography.

Center for Writing Studies: Graduate Student Research Forum

mclaugh — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:56:09 +0000

"Madness and Methodism: Ways of Knowing in the Early American Republic" -- Heather Blain, Department of English

Is someone who falls into convulsions, cries out in ecstasy, claims to have visions, or speaks in tongues, insane? For anti-Methodists of the 18th and early 19th centuries, yes; for Methodists of the same era, no. I look at one case of an unexceptional American Methodist woman mystic: Catherine Livington Garrettson, wife of circuit-rider Freeborn Garrettson. Through her dream and spiritual journals, Garrettson practiced a mysticism common to women and men of the era, but ironically inaccessible to founder John Wesley himself. Using Locke's concept of the mind and new models of the body, Wesley and others walked a fine line between mysticism as madness and mysticism as a legitimate way to interpret the Will of God. Nonetheless, for Methodists such as Garrettson, the mind and body, coupled with a disciplined writing practice, was a way of knowing. I argue that this alternate way of knowing sheds light on Enlightenment rhetorical theory, allowing us to 1) see the interdependent relationship of mind and body and 2) conceive of the body as apparatus of knowledge for the mind.

"Rhetorical MashUP: Technology, Multivocality and Rhetorical Chorus" -- Julia Smith, Department of English

A historical speaker's rhetoric comes to us mediated through the interventions of other people who participate in the production, use and distribution of technology and through the technology -- papyrus, parchment, print, computer -- which preserves his or her speech. In this presentation, I will examine the historical example of Margery Kempe, a medieval mystic, whose authority as speaker in The Book of Margery Kempe remains a site of contention because of the interventions of other participants in the production and use of her manuscript. These other participants mediate between an original rhetorical event, the audience, and the technology, which is not a static container of a speaker's ideas, but the site of ongoing rhetorical events. This analysis uses the terminology of musical texture and chorus in order to discuss the vocal mechanics of the different voices and reveals how the occupation of other speakers' voices affect the construction of rhetorical meaning.

Location:

126 LIS Building

Event Date:

Thu, 05/03/2012 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm

eResearch Roundtable: Bill Mischo, Mary Schlembach and Joshua Bishoff

mclaugh — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:56:37 +0000

Please join us for this session of the eResearch Roundtable on Wednesday, May 2, at 12:30pm, featuring "Modeling User Searching Behaviors and Search Assistance Usage via Transaction Logs," presented by Bill Mischo, Mary Schlembach, and Joshua Bishoff from the Grainger Engineering Library.

Abstract:

In order to optimize search and discovery services, it is important to develop evidence-based models of user information-seeking behaviors within distributed retrieval environments. While a large number of user information-seeking studies have been performed, our knowledge of user searching patterns, particularly in online catalogs (OPACs), is incomplete and often contradictory. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has been collecting custom transaction log data from its main gateway interface and its underlying Easy Search (ES) federated search system since 2007. ES provides contextual and adaptive search assistance mechanisms that present the user with search modification and reformulation suggestions and perform additional target searches in the background. The Illinois team performed a detailed analysis of the project's custom transaction logs collected over the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters. This analysis looked at approximately 1.4 million user searches and over 1.5 million user target clickthroughs. This analysis has revealed rich information on user search characteristics, search assistance usage, and user clickthrough actions. This transaction log analysis provides several implications for web-scale discovery system design.

Among the findings: Users of the Illinois gateway enter an average of 4.33 terms per search query—much higher than previous studies; 48.05% of the search sessions contain more than one search term or a combination of search terms and search assistance actions—also higher than other studies; and while 66% of all searches originate as default keyword searches, the percentage of known-item or specific title/author searches exceeds 51% of the search queries. Known-item searches are performed in almost 55% of the search sessions. In addition, the ES search assistance suggestions and custom links are well-accepted by users: In 32.45% of all search sessions and 58% of the sessions with more than a single search query, users employed one or more search assistance operations. The logs also revealed that users are entering complete or partial journal titles and then clicking through at a high frequency into an A-to-Z-e-journal list link and that the exact phrase/title words added links shown in selected results displays are heavily used. Users click on the presented journal title link 21.41.% of the time that they are suggested and in over 6.86% of all search sessions. In addition, the journal title search option tab constitutes over 12% of the searches within the gateway. The use of publisher e-book matches is also high—with clickthroughs into all the e-book content targets totalling 9.31% of all result target clicks and taking place in 11.36% of all search sessions.

Location:

341 LIS Building

Event Date:

Wed, 05/02/2012 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm

CCB Galley Giveaway

mclaugh — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:48:11 +0000

Come pick up FREE copies of pre-publication children's, middle grade, and young adult books at the CCB while supplies last. For more information see the CCB website.

Contact the "Center for Children's Books"-ccb, at illinois.edu- with questions.

The Galley Giveaway is open to the public:

Monday, May 7: 10:00am - 5:00pm (or until galleys are gone)

Tuesday, May 8: 10:00am - 3:00pm (or until galleys are gone)

Location:

24 LIS Building, The Center for Children's Books

Event Date:

Tue, 05/08/2012 - 10:00am - 3:00pm

CCB Galley Giveaway

mclaugh — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:46:51 +0000

Come pick up FREE copies of pre-publication children's, middle grade, and young adult books at the CCB while supplies last. For more information see the CCB website.

Contact the "Center for Children's Books"-ccb, at illinois.edu- with questions.

The Galley Giveaway is open to the public:

Monday, May 7: 10:00am - 5:00pm (or until galleys are gone)

Tuesday, May 8: 10:00am - 3:00pm (or until galleys are gone)

Location:

24 LIS Building, The Center for Children's Books

Event Date:

Mon, 05/07/2012 - 10:00am - 5:00pm