University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Alumni Newsletter 2005 –2006

All Your Base Are Belong To Us: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Amateur Online Videos University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contents

Letter from the Dean ...... 1 Cover Story ...... 2 Feature Stories ...... 8 School News ...... 14 Faculty News ...... 23 Student News ...... 26 LIS Library News ...... 28 Alumni/Development News ...... 29 LSAA News ...... 34 Class Notes ...... 36

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The GSLIS Alumni Newsletter is produced annually by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Office of Publica - tions and Communications for the Office of Development and Alumni Relations. For more information about the Alumni Newsletter or to make a submission, call (217) 333-2973 or e-mail [email protected]. More infor - mation about GSLIS in general can be found on our Web site: www.lis.uiuc.edu.

Editor: Marlo Welshons Managing Editor: Kim Schmidt

Contributors: Chantelle Hougland, Xiao Hu, Lori Kendall, Andrea Lynn, Candle Wester-Mittan, Kim Schmidt, Sue Searing, Marianne Steadley, Diana Stroud, Karin Suni, John Unsworth, Richard Urban, and Marlo Welshons. Design: Bonadies Creative Inc.

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LETTER FROM THE DEAN

Engagement IMLS funding, Assistant Dean for Library Administrator (CPLA) certifica - with communi - Student Affairs Rae-Anne Montague tion program, toward which we will ties is the theme (MS ’00, PhD ’06) will head up the offer six-week online courses: “Budget that emerges “Library Access Midwest Program and Finance” and “Organization and from this edition (LAMP)” project. LAMP, an alliance Personnel Management” are both of the GSLIS with the University of Wisconsin at taught by Robert Burger (CAS ’78, PhD annual newslet - Madison School of Library and ’88), Associate University Librarian for ter, whether Information Science and other Services at Illinois; “Politics and we’re talking regional LIS programs and academic Networking” and “Planning and about online research libraries, will attract promis - Management of Buildings” will be communities of the sort represented ing college students to careers in taught by John Moorman (PhD ’02), in Lori Kendall’s cover story, or vibrant librarianship, with a special emphasis Director of the Williamsburg Regional neighborhood communities like Paseo on recruiting students from statisti - Library. GSLIS and the Library are also Boricua, where GSLIS now has an cally and historically underrepre - collaborating to offer a certificate in urban partner in its community infor - sented populations. IMLS also pro - special collections and book arts, a matics corps, or in East St. Louis, vided Associate Professor Bryan program directed by the new Head of where for many years now GSLIS fac - Heidorn’s “Centuries of Knowledge” The Rare Book and Manuscript ulty, staff, and students have worked project a grant of $852,503 to work Library, Valerie Hotchkiss. to set up computer labs for commu - with the scientific community in devel - Last but not least, our alumni and nity use, or right here in Champaign, oping a new concentration in GSLIS friends are putting their skills to work where Ann Bishop and her students that will support 24 fellowships to pre - in the service of the GSLIS commu - work with Latino school children in an pare library and information science nity, under the expert leadership of after-school program to help at-risk professionals to curate scientific data. campaign committee chair Lionelle students improve their academic per - As GSLIS expands its engagement Elsesser (MS ’67). I’m pleased to formance. This engagement also with communities throughout the report that we are almost halfway to extends to specialist communities, for state, around the world, and across our $9M goal, and I look forward to example in bioinformatics and in spe - the disciplines, it also continues to working with Lionelle and with you in cial collections, and international com - serve the community of LIS profes - reaching that goal. In three years as munities, such as the Chinese aca - sionals (and aspiring members of that dean, I have become increasingly demic librarians we host in a recurring community) through its top-ranked aware of what a privilege and a pleas - summer program. master’s program, overseen by Linda ure it is to be part of the GSLIS com - Community is defined by shared Smith (MS ’72), and through its munity: I know of no group more values, common purpose, and collec - Continuing Professional Development committed or more caring, and cer - tive activities. In our immediate com - program (CPD), run by Marianne tainly none more hard working or munity—the community of I- Steadley (MS ’01). Through the mas - more able, than the faculty, staff, stu - Schools—we are working on collective ter’s program, we graduate about 200 dents, and alumni of the Graduate activities such as the WISE students a year, who pursue success - School of Library and Information Consortium (www.wiseeducation.org), ful careers in all kinds of libraries and Science at the University of Illinois, in which we partner with a dozen in many other information profes - Urbana-Champaign. other schools to increase the course sions. Through CPD, GSLIS offers offerings in library and information community credit enrollment in regu - All the best, science programs through on-line lar graduate courses that include, in course-sharing. That program has just the fall of 2006, classes in government been awarded a three-year $936,338 information, online searching, busi - grant for its second phase, from the ness information, electronic publish - Institute of Museum and Library ing, theological librarianship, and a Services (IMLS). Working with other number of other topics. Also, GSLIS John Unsworth peers, but also with nearly $1M of was recently approved as a course Dean, Graduate School of Library provider for the Certified Public and Information Science

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COVER STORY

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BCBross-EECultuLLral OEOncouNNnters GiGn Amateur Online Videos By Lori Kendall, Associate Professor

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Editor’s Note: The following article was adapted from a presentation Associate Professor Lori Kendall recently gave in Estonia for the Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2006 Meeting. Kendall’s research interests include online community and identity; the social aspects of computing; and gender and technology—all topics that fall under Social Informatics, one of several major research areas in which our faculty and doctoral students work.

s the Internet expands, and as more and more people world - wide go online, the Internet holds out increasing possibili - ties for encountering people from other cultures. Indeed, mAany online participants enthuse that their Internet participation has enabled them to meet people they otherwise never would have encountered. These accounts may exaggerate the degree of diversity in most people’s online contacts. But more importantly, laudatory claims of online diversity imply that encounters with cultural “others” lead to greater understanding and tolerance (much like the assertion that travel is “broadening”). This glosses over the ways in which cross-cultural interactions can as easily reinforce as decrease perceived boundaries. In addition, analysts of humor have noted that intracultural and cross-cultural con - flicts, particularly those produced by power differences between groups, often give rise to jokes. Jokes are also used to maintain social structures and hierarchical relationships of power. Animated videos are an increasingly popular online genre that demonstrates many of these facets of online culture. These videos, often created using Macromedia’s Flash programs, are produced by amateurs who intend them primarily for the amuse - ment of a small group of friends or for members of an online sub - cultural group—yet many become immensely popular online and enter the cultural vernacular. One of the first such videos to become widely known TTOO UUSS both online and off is a video called “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” (AYBABTU). In 1989, Toaplan, a small Japanese game company, released an English version of a video game called Zero Wing. Like many video games, Zero Wing sets up the premise of the game by providing a short series of images and text at the begin - ning of the game. The story reported on several game- related online forums is that Toaplan’s modest budget did not allow for hiring a professional translator, and that the Japanese game developers themselves provided the Japanese to English translation for the opening Kendall with video backstory. The opening sequence of the game shows a belea - guered Captain of a starship encountering the head of the enemy

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with mainstream media references occurring later the same month the video was released. References appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle , Salon.com , Wired , Time , and many other places. Ref - erences also appeared in several comic strips, includ - ing the online comics “Sluggy Freelance” and “User Friendly” (both favorites in geek culture), and the widely distributed print comic “Foxtrot” (in which the geeky son Jason repeats the phrase “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” over and over, to the puz - zlement of his family). The phrase made it into daily life as well as the media. During the years following the release of AYBABTU, its signature phrase appeared as graffiti on college campuses across the U.S. One example used laser light to display the phrase on a college dorm. group CATS, who tells him “all your base are belong to us” The AYBABTU video owes its creation in part to the nostalgia (meaning we have captured all of your bases) and “you have no of gamers for a video game they played when they were younger. chance to survive.” The game player, as the last hope of the good But beyond nostalgia, group discussion of these early games also guys, must then shoot the enemy ships out of the sky. marks long-term membership in the gaming subculture. Gamers Years later, an animated version of this opening sequence from gain status through proving their years of experience by showing Zero Wing circulated online, and several discussions familiarity with earlier about it emerged on game-related message boards. games. Use of the phrase During one such discussion, on the online forum “All Your Base Are Belong Something Awful (www.somethingawful.com), par - to Us” or some variant ticipants began posting photographic images, manip - thereof, positions one as “in ulated (or “photoshopped”) to include the phrase “All the know” concerning Inter - Your Base Are Belong to Us.” Audio files of various net culture. renditions of the text were also passed around online, and one participant, JRR (the online handle for Jef - ENGRISH fery Ray Roberts), created “Invasion of the Gabber The insider knowledge Robots,” a remix of music from the original game demonstrated through use accompanied by a robotic voice reciting some of the of the “All Your Base” text. In early 2001, another Something Awful partici - phrase explains much of the pant, Bad_CRC, put the JRR song together with sev - AYBABTU video’s appeal eral of the photoshopped images and created a Flash video. In the to members of the gaming and computer subcultures. It also video, the flat robotic voice of “Invasion of the Gabber Robots” explains some of the interest within mainstream media, which continually repeats the phrase “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” depict such subcultures, and the Internet phenomena they pro - while numerous photoshopped images appear one by one in duce, as cutting edge, hip, and perhaps a bit mysterious. But what quick succession on the screen. sparked at least some of the creative output, and certainly much The AYBABTU video quickly became an online phenomenon of the continued interest in AYBABTU, was the humor generated and almost as quickly gained the attention of the offline media, by the poor translation of the opening lines of the game. As such,

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“Online humor that mistranslates other languages into English or makes fun of bad English translations thus reasserts the cultural dominance of native English speakers.”

AYBABTU is part of a long-standing tradition of laughing at “poor” English skills. In America, where controversies abound poor translations. Many of these used to be distributed by photo - over immigration and English use in schools and the government, copy, appearing in workplaces across the U.S. Later, the same humor at the expense of others’ English skills emphasizes cul - lists appeared in email passed from person to person. Some well- tural differences and hints at the cultural superiority of skilled known examples follow: speakers over those who speak English as Bad English Translations on International Signs their second lan - Dry cleaners in Bangkok: Drop your trousers here guage. for best results. The percentage of In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed Web sites and other for the next day. During that time we regret that online communica - you will be unbearable. tion in English is In a Yugoslavian hotel: The flattening of underwear beginning to decrease. However, because of the initial develop - with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid. ment of the Internet in the United States, as well as the growing use of English as the lingua franca of international business, Eng - In a Japanese hotel: You are invited to take advan - tage of the chambermaid. lish still dominates the Internet. This privileges those for whom English is the primary language. Online humor that mistranslates This list of signs positions English speakers as knowing and other languages into English or makes fun of bad English trans - sophisticated, and the sign creators as provincial and perhaps a lations thus reasserts the cultural dominance of native English bit bumbling. (In most cases of course, the sign creators probably speakers. know much more English than the English-speaking sign readers The wide distribution of the poor translation of the video game know of the language of the country in which these signs were text that appears in AYBABTU thus constitutes a form of bor - supposedly found.) Japanese use of English holds a special place derwork. It emphasizes differences between U.S. and Japanese in this humor tradition, especially amongst sophisticated com - culture, and portrays the latter in a negative light. The humor that puter users and self-identified geeks. However, American com - kept files related to the Zero Wing game circulating for so long puter users generally do not understand the function of English in online may also stem in part from anxieties related to cross-cul - Japanese society. tural encounters. As global computer industries grow, and U.S. The use of English in Japanese advertisements and commerce companies increasingly outsource computer work, such anxieties is not always misuse or mistranslation, but rather a creative re- may be particularly acute for U.S. computer professionals. This purposing or a change of meaning owing to a different cultural makes the issue especially relevant to members of the geek sub - context. The different meanings given to some English terms in culture who form the core fan base for “All Your Base.” Japan are thus similar to differences in English word usage between the U.S. and the U.K. However, many Americans find ALL YOUR IRAQ ARE BELONG TO U.S. Japanese use of English perplexing and amusing. This under - The vagueness of the suggestion of conquest in the phrase “All standing is reflected in the term “Engrish,” which describes Your Base Are Belong to Us,” given its mangled grammar and the humorous Japanese “misuse” or “poor translation” of English. sketchy story suggestion of the original game context, allows the The Web site engrish.com provides numerous photos of Japanese phrase to mutate to suit any situation of power and conflict. For products, business names, and other instances of—to American instance, players of multi-player online games reportedly direct ears—humorously mangled English text. the phrase against members of opposing teams during in-game Much of the humor of all of these texts, from the photocopied chat. Additionally, almost any term can be substituted for “Base,” lists of hotel signs, to candy wrapper photos at engrish.com, as in the “User Friendly” cartoon mentioned earlier, wherein one relies on double entendre (as in photos of “Dew Dew” candy or character starts to say “all your grades are belong to us.” “Pecker” pretzel snacks). However, the humor also highlights

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“The positioning of people from another culture as the butt of the joke is now more explicit and ‘All Your Base Are Belong to Us’ becomes a battle cry.”

The AYBABTU craze reached its peak just prior to the events the original, and the opening words “in 2001, war was begin - of September 11, 2001. At that point, the phrase translated sur - ning.” Yet next it is Osama, as Captain, who is told “someone set prisingly easily to a much more serious context. In late Septem - up us the bomb.” Osama’s own bomb is thus identified as some - ber, following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the thing launched against him. Pentagon, Chris Ridsdill Furthering this confusion, (under the name Oak Dot Oak several images, some likely Productions) produced a par - taken from online archives of ody video of AYBABTU. It photoshopped images, show included transmogrifications Bush in a less than positive of some of the original images, light. One pokes fun at his but also inserted images of the intellect by showing him using World Trade Center towers on a crayon to draw a stick figure fire, President George W. of “Bad Bad Saddam” sur - Bush, and Osama Bin Laden. rounded by dropping bombs. “Osama All Your Base” Another image references the retains many of the popular incident in which Michael culture references and humor - Jackson dangled his infant son ous images from the original. outside a hotel window. Here, For instance, it retains the gleefully adolescent humor of one soc - the video again places President Bush in a somewhat ambiguous cer player kicking another in the crotch, now with Bush as the role, replacing Jackson’s face with Bush and the infant with Sad - kicker and Osama as the kickee. New popular cultural references dam Hussein. generally make Osama the butt of the joke, as in an image of a Placing Bush in the role of the villain ultimately reflects the wrestling match between the famous WWE wrestler “The Rock” format of the original AYBABTU video. Since the gameplay of and Osama. The video ends on a more serious note with the nota - Zero Wing has been replaced with images containing the villain’s tions “In memory of all those phrase “All Your Base Are who died in the WTC and Pen - Belong to Us,” there is no tagon attacks at 9/11/01” and opportunity for the viewer to “good luck to all the coalition fight back against the villain, troops restoring Iraq for great as was the entire point of fur - justice!” ther gameplay in the Zero In “Osama All Your Base” Wing video game. In the period the face of President Bush of time immediately after Sep - replaces that of the CATS vil - tember 11, putting phrases lain, while Osama Bin Laden such as “you have no chance to takes the Captain’s role. While survive” in Osama Bin Laden’s this nominally puts Bush in the mouth would have been too role of the villain, more impor - uncomfortable. Bush therefore tantly it makes Bush the con - had to play the role of the querer, and Bin Laden the one in danger of having “no chance to CATS villain. survive.” The switch, and some of the attempted references to It is also possible that the villain has always been a bit more September 11, does end up muddying the question of who is “cool” than the Captain. We have more of a sense of his sarcas - aggressing whom. For instance, the opening image shows the tic personality. He also closely resembles a member of the borg World Trade Center on fire with the sound of an explosion, as in from Star Trek, with cyborg implants covering part of his face.

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This gives him a connection to high-tech dreams for the future CONCLUSION and connects him to other objects of science fiction fandom. The earliest participants on the Internet—white, middle-class, Despite a willingness to make fun of President Bush, American technically savvy young American men—have given way to a video producers would likely hold Bush in higher esteem than much broader level of participation. As the demographics of the Bin Laden, and would therefore give him the better role of the Internet change, the meanings of Internet participation shift and villain rather than the Captain. Furthermore, as disseminators of the boundaries of Internet culture are renegotiated. Issues of the phrase “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” throughout various power and representation of different groups are at stake in these public and semi-public contexts, renegotiations, and online cul - the fans of AYBABTU have put tural productions reflect these themselves into the CATS villain issues. Online amateur videos, role, rather than in that of the and the reactions to them, illumi - Captain. It is the image of this nate issues of power and hierar - villain that remains onscreen chy within Western cultures and during the credits at the end of between Western and non-West - the original video. ern cultures. The AYBABTU A later parody, produced in craze represents a retrenchment early 2003 by ZealousDemon, by the group that once dominated similarly replaces the villain’s the Internet: young white men. image with President Bush, but Not all amateur online videos this time replaces the Captain achieve levels of notoriety com - with Saddam Hussein. Unlike parable to AYBABTU. Those “Osama All Your Base,” “All Your Iraq Are Belong To U.S.” that do must appeal not just to the subcultures within which they retains only the music from the original AYBABTU video. It were created, but must also contain elements that take their drops the Zero Wing images, and includes no popular culture ref - appeal beyond the limits of those subcultures. Thus an examina - erences. Instead, it includes only a much more serious series of tion of humorous themes contained in All Your Base and related images taken from news coverage of the Iraq war. In most of videos, like analysis of humor more generally, can illuminate these images of soldiers in the field, one of the American soldiers tensions in the surrounding culture. The phrase “All Your Base utters the famous phrase (represented in text across the photo). Are Belong to Us” functions as an identity statement, with With none of the original humor of AYBABTU (and surprisingly implications of both inclusion and exclusion. It highlights a retained in the September 2001 “Osama All Your Base”), the boundary in a way that can easily slide from humorous in-joking phrase “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” becomes a jingoistic to outright aggression. I support of U.S. military aggression. These war-related videos illustrate the most serious side of ONLINE LOCATIONS FOR VIDEOS REFERENCED cross-cultural borderwork, and the issues of power lurking (in order of appearance in the paper) beneath the humor. The ease with which the phrase “All Your All Your Base Base Are Belong to Us” transfers to situations of war and real Click on any of the links: aggression exposes the logic of violence contained in its earlier (“Local Copy,” “mirror 2,” “mirror 3,” or “mirror 4”) at http://allyourbase.planettribes.gamespy.com/video1.shtml versions. In “Osama All Your Base” and “All Your Iraq Are Belong to U.S.,” the positioning of people from another culture Osama All Your Base as the butt of the joke is now more explicit and “All Your Base www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/33283 Are Belong to Us” becomes a battle cry. All Your Iraq Are Belong To U.S. www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=92904

Alumni Newsletter 2005 – 2006 8 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PASEO A L IVING LABORATORY FOR COMMUNITY INFORMATICS

Photo: © Kalev Leetaru

Above: A sculpture of the Puerto Rican Flag flies in Paseo Boricua.

Right: Associate Professor Ann Bishop and Alejandro Luis Molina

Photo: © Kalev Leetaru

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BBy Kim Schmidt, AOssociate Director for CRommunications ICUA BFor almost thirOty years, the ChicRago neighborhoIod of PasCeo Boricua has Uorganized the PuAerto Rican People’s Parade. The red, white, and blue of the Puerto Rican flag waves alongside handwritten signs in Spanish and English, held by residents who express their community pride by speaking out on issues important to the neighborhood. In 2002, Associate Professor Ann Bishop visited the People’s Parade at the urging of GSLIS Ph.D. student Sarai Lastra. Bishop sat on Lastra’s dissertation committee and was intrigued by Lastra’s description of the Paseo Boricua neighborhood, a neighborhood Lastra studied as part of her dissertation on community informatics. That visit inspired Bishop, and was the genesis of a relationship that has developed into one of the most dynamic projects in which GSLIS faculty, staff, and students are involved. THE HEART OF A COMMUNITY Bishop describes community informatics as the way in which Paseo Boricua sits on the edge of Chicago’s Humboldt Park and a community pulls together to shape and share knowledge of all is considered the heart of Chicago’s Puerto Rican community. kinds. She found that the work being done in Paseo Boricua fit The Puerto Rican Cultural Center there has a long history of this definition perfectly. “All their projects tend to include these social activism and is internationally recognized for its commu - aspects of community informatics—the seamless interweaving of nity programming. Among the variety of programs the PRCC cultural expression, human rights and sometimes digital technol - supports are Vida/SIDA, an AIDS/HIV education and prevention ogy or media. Those are always woven together in some particu - outreach facility; the Family Learning Center where adults can lar way,” Bishop said. earn their high school diplomas while their children are cared for; the Division Street Business Development Association; the GSLIS AND PRCC C OME TOGETHER National Boricua Human Rights Network; and Café Teatro Batey The first collaboration between GSLIS faculty and students and Urbano, an organization that provides a creative outlet for neigh - the residents of Paseo Boricua was to organize and provide borhood youth while encouraging and cultivating social activism. access to the collection at the Andrés Figueroa Cordero Library Alejandro Luis Molina is on the Board of Directors of the and Community Information and Technology Center. The PRCC. Molina has been with the PRCC for thirty years and says Library was founded in 1979 and includes a wide variety of col - the PRCC is “one of the most respected community organiza - lections relevant to Puerto Rican history and experience. Accord - tions. Not everyone agrees politically with our grassroots ing to the mission statement, the Library was envisioned as a activism, but everyone does respect that we do things: from vol - “place where people can learn about, and share with a broader untary street cleaning to programming for the community.” community of people, the depth of Puerto Rican and Latina/o At the People’s Parade, Bishop was able to meet with commu - history, experiences, and struggles. We also visualize the library nity members and become familiar with some of the community as a catalyst space, that is, a point of initiation that will con - organizations represented. “I immediately felt it would be a really tribute to and support an informed practice of community good living laboratory for community informatics. They see activism.” The Library provides access to computers and the community informatics as the lifeblood of society and their com - Internet, and offers to their patrons Community Inquiry Labs munity. They have a very sophisticated and powerful vision for (iLabs)—a web-based tool developed at GSLIS that patrons can the role of libraries and the role of community informatics in use to create free websites. society,” said Bishop. As trust between the two groups grew, plans for other collabo - rative projects began to emerge. These included hosting reading

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What is Social Informatics? Social informatics is an area of research that seeks to understand the way information and communica - tion systems and technologies shape and are shaped by the social context of their creation and groups and research study groups for the Dr. Pedro Albizu Cam - use. GSLIS has a number of faculty working in this pos Puerto Rican High School, a school that was founded to rem - area—their current research topics include: commu - nity informatics; distributed collective practice; col - edy the poor education neighborhood youth had been receiving; laboration systems for online work, learning, and an award-winning Saturday street academy in community librar - knowledge distribution; e-learning in school, univer - ianship for high school students; and partnering with community sity, corporate, and lifelong learning settings; infor - members to apply for grants to provide resources for more in- mation technology applied to societal problems; depth research, especially in the social impacts of technologies; equitable access and realm of innovative technology social justice; new literacies; evaluation of emerging use in schools and youth-led technologies; studies of appropriation and diffusion community librarianship. of technologies. Associate Professor Ann Bishop and Professor THE COMMUNITY IS Chip Bruce are heading up the Community Informat - THE CURRICULUM ics Initiative, which works with people to develop “Lots of places are doing great information and communication technologies to service learning and commu - achieve their goals. Bruce’s work focuses on nity-based research projects, but changes in the nature of knowledge, community, and literacy, as discussed in his recent books, I’m not aware of this kind of Libr@ries: Changing Information Space and Practice building up of a relationship

u between a university and a com - and Literacy in the Information Age: Inquiries into r a t e e Meaning Making with New Technologies . Bishop’s L munity. I think that’s pretty rare,” v e l a work keeps her active in the Paseo Boricua neigh - K said Bishop. © : o t o

borhood in Chicago and she is currently the Associ - h Indeed, honoring and nurturing P ate Editor of The Journal of Community Informatics , Alejandro Luis Molina at the Puerto Rican the relationship between GSLIS Cultural Center. a new periodical for which she serves on the edito - and Paseo Boricua is as impor - rial board along with Associate Professor Caroline tant to Bishop and Molina as the individual projects they collabo - Haythornthwaite . Haythornthwaite is also well rate on. “The wonderful thing about working with GSLIS and with known for her work on e-learning, which is the focus Dr. Bishop is it gives us a chance to partner with a world-class uni - of her recent book Learning, Culture, and Commu - versity to talk about developing areas of research that have histor - nity in Online Education: Research and Practice , which was co-edited by Michelle M. Kazmer (PhD ically had little attraction. It allows us to roll up our sleeves and go ’02) and includes contributions by many GSLIS fac - to it! It is gratifying in a major way because you don’t see this ulty and staff. from universities very often these days,” said Molina. As her article in this newsletter shows, Associate This give-and-take relationship steers clear of what Bishop Professor Lori Kendall ’s research focuses on online calls “drive-by research.” It diverges from the traditional stereo - communities, particularly the social aspects of com - type of the privileged professor or the curious grad student slip - puting, and gender and technology. Associate Pro - ping into a community to study it and then leaving once the paper fessor Les Gasser is looking into open source has been accepted. Implicit in the work is an understanding that software and electronic games, recently teaching a the residents of Paseo Boricua have as much information and course in Games, Information & Learning. Associate experience to offer as the academics who come to work with the Professor Carole Palmer ‘s research investigates community. Just as the PRCC’s work takes into consideration the information use in scientific and scholarly work, with whole experience of the community—including health, work, particular interests in technologies to support inter - disciplinary research, scientific discovery, and and family issues—the collaboration between GSLIS and the inquiry in the humanities. PRCC takes into consideration the myriad ways the community and the university can work together.

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lessons in community building for neighbor - hoods across the nation. The symposium included presentations by researchers who have conducted major studies in Paseo Boricua, original films documenting . p o h

s local history, a performance created by i B n n

A renowned Nuyorican poet Tato Laviera, and the f o y s e t Puerto Rican People’s Parade. r u o c o t o h P A S TRONG FOUNDATION The first class of the Community Informatics Corps meets at the PRCC. What began as one student’s dissertation has Molina explains, “The Cultural Center has a grassroots vision turned into four years of collaboration between these two vibrant of a community of wellness. We recognize the contributions of groups. It has enriched the community resources that the PRCC the entire community, from the academics to the activists to the offers as well as the education GSLIS students receive. Above all, grassroots organizer as central to the progress of the community.” it has laid a strong foundation for future endeavors, for a sus - tained relationship between what Molina calls “the academy and EVOLUTION OF A PROGRAM the community.” Bishop expects this partnership to continue to In June 2006, GSLIS launched the Community Informatics flourish as more students, at GSLIS and in Paseo Boricua, are Corps. The CIC is a specialization within the existing master’s inspired to become involved. I program that was conceived to attract Latina/o, African-Ameri - can, and other students interested in the experiences of under - served groups in society. Bishop calls the CIC “the natural next step” in a relationship that has grown in scope. “I see it as a nat - HOW YOU CAN HELP ural outgrowth of the years of building trust and engaging in Over the years, one thing hasn’t changed about GSLIS: our stimulating projects that have linked the PRCC with GSLIS,” commitment to innovative programs. Our alumni are proud supporters of the GSLIS mission and often want to know how Bishop said. they can help. Originally proposed by José López, Executive Director of the PRCC, the CIC provides a meaningful education and career path There are a number of ways to support GSLIS programs such for young activists who want to give something back to the com - as the ones featured in these pages. munity. Students who enroll in the CIC will have the opportunity • Donate your computer to Prairienet (www.prairienet.org). for a uniquely blended educational experience: they will take Sat - • Send specialized software, such as Microsoft Office, for use urday and summer courses at the PRCC, online courses, and in donated labs. summer courses at GSLIS in Champaign. This structure is meant • If you live in the St. Louis area, you can volunteer your time to incorporate students into the on-campus program, offer expe - to provide technical support to the dozens of computer labs rience with online coursework, and provide concrete experience now running in East St. Louis. working with Chicago neighborhoods that historically have been • Volunteer your time at the Paseo Boricua Community Center in Chicago. underserved. • Donate scholarship money for students to attend the Commu - In addition to the launch of the CIC program, GSLIS and the nity Informatics Corps program. PRCC also held the second annual Community as Intellectual • Make a gift to the GSLIS Annual Fund. Space (CIS) conference in June. The CIS brings together com - munity members, scholars, and activists to investigate Paseo For more information about these or other ways to help, contact Diana Stroud, [email protected] or call (217) 244-9577. Boricua as a model of community involvement and development, exploring the history of the neighborhood and offering practical

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CONNECTING A COMMUNITY By Kim Schmidt, Associate Director for Communications

There are two ways to describe East St. ally beneficial relationship with the com - the schools, they were largely antiquated Louis, Illinois. munity. and unavailable to the general public. The first is as a community that has “The people of East St. Louis have an Taking what they learned in the focus suffered a major economic decline over intimate knowledge about what their group, Wolske changed the curriculum the last half of the twentieth century. Over needs are. We have formed a real partner - for his networking class, which had been ship: they bring their experience largely lecture-oriented, and revised it to and we bring ours,” said Martin encompass a hands-on component. In Wolske, User Services Coordi - fall 2000 the first offering of the revised nator and GSLIS instructor. LIS 451: Introduction to Network Sys - Among the neighborhood tems was offered. While Wolske provided plans around which ESLARP instruction to the GSLIS students, Adams and community members have and Prairienet provided the computers for collaborated include the Emer - refurbishing and placement in the labs. from left: GSLIS student Kate Hollis; GSLIS student Jennifer Jackson; Donna Samuels; unidentified church member; GSLIS student Colleen Galvin; and GSLIS son Park Metrolink rail station, Prairienet also works with each site to student Nikki Wright at the New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. which has allowed residents provide “train the trainer” education so the past five decades, more than half the wider access to job opportunities in sur - that each location has someone on site city’s population has left town. A great rounding communities; the Illinois who is equipped to teach basic computer majority of those who remain live in Avenue Playground, which neighborhood skills to the residents. Trainers who attend poverty in a city that is often ranked as children helped design; the planning and these sessions are assumed to have basic having one of the highest crime rates in construction of a farmer’s market to bring computer skills going into the class. The the United States. residents access to fresh produce and focus of these classes is to teach the train - The second way to describe East St. stimulate the local economy; and Parsons ers how to teach, not how to use a com - Louis is as a community of people who Place, the first new hous - puter. refuse to give up on their town—as neigh - ing subdivision built since Over the years, bors who, in the face of obstacles, have 1965, which includes over LIS 451 students banded together to find ways to articulate 400 homes. have installed net - their needs and work toward positive works at a variety change. CONQUERING of community Part of that work has resulted in a part - THE DIGITAL gathering places nership between East St. Louis and the DIVIDE including day-care University of Illinois. For six years, In 1999, the people of centers, libraries, GSLIS has participated in a campus-wide East St. Louis decided the Urban League, GSLIS student Michelle Ralston works with a Teen Tech. initiative, the East St. Louis Action that the next big issue and veterans Research Project (ESLARP). Started in they wanted to tackle was the digital affairs housing 1987, ESLARP has worked together with divide. That is when Paul Adams, director and offices. A large number of sites have community members and organizations of Prairienet (part of the Community been churches because, as Wolske in East St. Louis to find ways to revitalize Informatics Initiative at GSLIS) and then explains, “Churches are the main place the city and restore community pride. GSLIS Ph.D. student Cece Merkel trav - where social change is taking place in the GSLIS joins other departments on cam - eled to East St. Louis to conduct a focus community.” pus—Architecture, Landscape Architec - group. “I asked, ‘Where in East St. Louis Many of the sites will contact Adams ture, Urban & Regional Planning, Law, can you go and access a public computer directly to express their interest in partic - and Leisure Studies among them—in and log on to the Internet for free?’” said ipating. Adams conducts an on-site inter - efforts to cultivate a long-lasting, mutu - Adams. “The answer was nowhere.” view to assess the physical space Although there were some computers in requirements and to discuss the site’s spe -

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“I ASKED , ‘W HERE IN EAST ST. L OUIS CAN YOU GO AND ACCESS A PUBLIC COMPUTER AND LOG ON TO THE INTERNET FOR FREE ?’” SAID ADAMS . “T HE ANSWER WAS NOWHERE .”

cific needs with the site computers are then is a place she knows and loves well. coordinator. The site then is distributed free of “Actually, my grandfather is the pastor at considered for the next charge to the commu - Galilee, and my mom and aunts sing in semester. Site selection is nity. Oftentimes, the the choir. My younger brother and based on need and the level GSLIS students have cousins are involved in praise dance. My of interest by the site. just learned this skill mom is a little tickled about her daughter During the spring 2006 too, so they work being involved with the lab setup, and semester an impressive mile - together with the teen overall, she’s enjoying it,” she explained. stone was reached: GSLIS GSLIS students Shawn Nevers (left) and to solve any problems Fulton, along with her group members students installed the 50th Tyson Fogel (right) at the Teen Tech session. that arise. GSLIS stu - Jie Zhang, Jing Zhang, and Donna Miner, computer lab. dents then return to campus and spend the worked together to upgrade an existing next few weeks preparing the computers computer lab—one that LIS 451 students THE FIRST DATE for installation at the end of the semester. had set up four years ago. Mid-semester, after preparing through Wolske believes that being a good IT Fulton and her team worked through lectures and readings, students in support person is one-third technical the semester to refurbish ten Pentium III Wolske’s LIS 451 make an initial visit to skill, and two-thirds social skill. Because computers that had been donated to their assigned site. “I call it a first date,” a GSLIS education goes beyond the pro - Prairienet. In addition to the newer com - Wolske explains. “A blind one at that.” gramming or hardware skills learned in a puters, they were able to deliver all new Wolske believes the class, and IT work in computer science degree and focuses on keyboards, mice, and speakers. The com - general, is about relationship building. the end use of information, he believes puters that were removed from the site On that first visit, he wants the students GSLIS graduates bring a critical contri - were then offered to know that the site coordinators are bution to information support teams. free of charge to often as nervous as the students are. “The GSLIS program emphasizes the church members Often, after the visit, students will joke, information and the social use of infor - and their fami - “How do you think the date went? Do mation. Computers, in isolation of their lies, a practice you think they’ll go out with us again?” use, are paperweights. It is the social that many sites Wolske said. aspect that makes them of value. Students have adopted. On this first visit, the students are also come to GSLIS because they find that The effects of Joylisa Woodard, cousin of GSLIS stu - required to do a service project. In past besides being interested in their field they moving these dent Camilla Fulton, started practicing years the GSLIS students have joined Illi - are interested in this very piece.” her typing as soon as the computers computers into were up and running at Galilee Central nois students from other departments to Missionary Baptist Church. do a variety of jobs from painting to dry - NETWORKING IN ACTION the home are walling to cleaning up parks. For the past Galilee Central Missionary Baptist immediate and can change the course of a three semesters, GSLIS students have Church is much more than a place to wor - family’s life. been working with Teen Techs, a partner - ship. It is a place where children can The bulletin board at the New Bethel ship between Prairienet, the Greater St. come to get help with their homework; a Missionary Baptist Church, another LIS Mark Church of God in Christ, and Com - place where community members can 451 site this year, is home to the usual puter Village, a local non-profit that participate in computer training programs notices of meetings and services, but one offers computer training. This program is and receive help with their taxes. Galilee posting illustrates the powerful and designed to train area teens in computer serves a church membership of 200–300 inspiring effect these computers have on hardware repair. LIS 451 students work people, but extends its services to the families. with the Teen Techs to salvage donated community as a whole. According to church member Donna computers. On average, they recycle just LIS 451 student Camilla Fulton was Samuels, site coordinator at New Bethel, under 50 computers per semester. These especially glad to be assigned Galilee. It one mother used the bulletin board to

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continued from page 13 eagerly share her family’s success. All After-School Library Program Supports three of her children were flunking their classes until a recycled computer from Elementary School Children the New Bethel lab was donated to their Responding to an expressed need by local “In our most recent collaboration, Ann family. “Now, since they have the com - parents, GSLIS joined with the Latino Part - worked to develop a warm, safe literacy envi - puters, they have made the honor roll— nership, an area agency that seeks to improve ronment for students, especially Spanish- all three of them. She brought her the services offered to the Latino population speakers, to work on homework. As a result, children’s report cards to the church to in Champaign County, to launch an after- student grades improved because they got the show them what a difference the com - school library program at Booker T. Wash - face time with caring adults who could assist puter had made in their lives. She posted ington Elementary School in Champaign this them in reteaching, relearning and reviewing them on the bulletin board so everyone past February. concepts in math, science could see how good they were doing with GSLIS Associate Pro - and social studies in addi - fessor Ann Bishop vol - the computers,” Samuels said. tion to listening to excellent unteers at Shadow Wood literature and working on lit - LESSONS LEARNED mobile home community eracy skills. Ann did a fine in North Champaign and “The activities conducted in East St. job in selecting capable, was approached by par - Louis by Prairienet and GSLIS are a responsible tutors who ents there who were con - attended consistently and prime example of the transfer of knowl - cerned that their children developed positive relation - edge from the university using practical were falling behind in ships with the students. Par - applications. It enhances the learning school. Nearly 60% of ents were excited to know experience of our students and results in Shadow Wood residents that, although they were tangible benefits for the community,” said (from left) GSLIS student Karen Hewitt, Mrs. are Spanish-speaking Borgeson, and Rosa Allencaster. busy at work, their children Adams. with limited English would get homework assis - There are many lessons learned in a skills and many of the children attend Wash - tance in Spanish or English as needed so class like LIS 451. Not only do students ington Elementary. The Community Infor - when parents got home they could devote acquire the skills they need to set up com - matics Initiative (CII), a research center at their attention to other matters like cooking, puter networks, but they also learn impor - GSLIS, and the Latino Partnership have both eating, and talking together as a family and tant lessons about the way in which these worked extensively with the members of the could avoid the stress of forcing children to networks are ultimately used by people. Shadow Wood community on past projects. do homework, especially if the parents were Six years after the first GSLIS trip to Bishop took the idea of an after-school unable to assist in English,” said Alimi. East St. Louis, over 50 community outlets program to Principal Sherry Alimi, who was The program will continue for the now offer free computer use to their con - very supportive. Teachers and administration 2006–2007 school year. Bishop and Visiting stituents. More than 600 computers have at Washington Elementary then identified Lecturer Kate McDowell have received a been donated and countless numbers of twelve to fifteen at-risk students to partici - grant to add a research component to their lives have changed. pate in the program. These students received work at Washington Elementary. They will “I’m actually amazed at how much homework and reading support three days a look at family and community sources of GSLIS organizations such as Prairienet week from a variety of volunteers, coordi - knowledge and how they can best integrate and the Community Informatics Initiative nated by Bishop and her team. the hidden knowledge of the families into the do. They have such an inspiring strong - The pool of volunteers drew from GSLIS curriculum. students, undergraduates, fraternity members, hold in community building. I’ll defi - “This work will tap into community and community volunteers who had a long nitely walk away from this class with a knowledge and help to enrich the curriculum. history of working with the Shadow Wood We hope to provide a model for the teachers deeper knowledge of everything that hap - community. of another way to think about parent partici - pens behind the scenes,” said Fulton. I pation,” Bishop said. I

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GSLIS Approved to Provide Courses for CPLA Program As an addition to our expanding continuing The courses are designed to offer training of Buildings” will be taught by John Moorman professional development programs, which in essential management issues and are valu - (PhD ’02), Director of the Williamsburg are open to all library and information sci - able to librarians seeking to reach a higher Regional Library. These noncredit courses will ence professionals, GSLIS is pleased to level of practical professional experience or be held online via a combination of live, syn - announce two new, non-credit, short courses improve career opportunities. The courses chronous sessions and asynchronous discus - on management topics in library and informa - are approved by ALA-APA and will meet the sion boards. The cost of each course including tion science. needs of library professionals pursuing the registration and materials is $300. GSLIS is the first library school to offer CPLA certification. While these courses are endorsed by ALA- courses in support of the American Library GSLIS will be offering six-week online APA for CPLA certification, they are open to Association - Allied Professional Association courses in four core areas: “Budget and anyone interested in these topic areas. For (ALA-APA) Certified Public Library Adminis - Finance” and “Organization and Personnel additional information and to register, visit trator (CPLA) program. The CPLA program is Management” are both taught by Robert www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/CPLA/ or a voluntary post-MLS certification program Burger (CAS ’78, PhD ’88), Associate University contact Marianne Steadley by e-mailing for public librarians with three years or more Librarian for Services at Illinois; “Politics and [email protected] or calling 217-244-2751. of supervisory experience. Networking” and “Planning and Management

Chinese Librarians Come to GSLIS to Study “Library Futures” by Andrea Lynn, News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign There still are many realms where communications between the United as a wealth of challenges in the areas of library and information sci - States and China are strained or non-existent, but the realm that ence.” includes libraries, librarians, and librarianship is not among them. In China also is important closer to home—to GSLIS. “Nearly half of fact, the ties are only strengthening between GSLIS and several Chi - our students go to work in academic research libraries, and about 15 nese academic libraries. percent of our students are international, with the For the second year in a row, a contingent of largest group of those students being Chinese,” academic librarians from libraries across China Unsworth said. “We need to build an alumni net - attended summer school at GSLIS. The program is work in China that will help us to recruit highly a partnership between Chinese institutions and qualified new students from China and to place our several units on the Illinois campus, including the graduates.” Library and the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI). After the Chinese librarians left the United In their home libraries, the Chinese librarians States, Unsworth traveled to China where he met serve as directors and assistant directors, research specialists and with some of last year’s summer school participants, with library heads of acquisitions and of technology departments. They hail from administrators, and with foundation and embassy representatives. He several cities in China, including Beijing, Jinan, and Xiamen. also gave lectures at several universities. GSLIS and Library faculty worked together to team-teach courses in The program was coordinated for GSLIS by Marianne Steadley (MS e-publishing, team management, community informatics, regional library ’01), continuing professional development program director. Lian Jin systems, and research library leadership. In addition to lectures and Ruan (MS ’90), head librarian of the Illinois Fire Service Institute and a classroom discussions, the librarians were able to tour cultural and doctoral student in GSLIS, coordinated the program for the IFSI. Ruan library sites in the Champaign-Urbana area, in Chicago, and in Spring - also traveled to China at the end of the course to work with Illinois’ field before capping off their coursework with a graduation ceremony. China partners to promote the program. Dean John Unsworth sees China as “important to the future of infor - “GSLIS, as the top-ranked library school, and UIUC as a top-ranked mation science. Along with India, China is one of the world’s great public university, also help attract potential applicants,” Ruan said. I economies, with an incredible breadth and depth of expertise, as well

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Downs Intellectual Freedom Award Given to “John Doe”

The second time is a charm. After a long legal battle, the four librarians After filing suit, John Doe and the ACLU were supported by such who were named “John Doe” in “John Doe v. Gonzales” were finally groups as the ALA, the Freedom to Read Foundation, the Association of able to accept the 2005 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award at American Publishers, and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free the 2006 ALA convention in New Orleans. Expression, all of whom filed amicus briefs and spoke out on John Doe’s The first time the Downs Award was announced, in December 2005, behalf. George Christian, Executive Director of the Library Connection, a con - sortium of libraries in Connecticut, and Barbara Bailey, Peter Chase, and John Doe Speaks Out Janet Nocek, all members of the Library Connection’s Board of Direc - A federal district judge eventually declared the gag order unconstitu - tors, were bound by a gag order enforced by the U.S. government. This tional and government lawyers withdrew their appeal, giving John Doe gag order prevented them from acknowledging receipt of a National the freedom to finally speak. In a May 2006 press conference, plaintiffs Security Letter requesting patron records and subsequently prevented Christian, Bailey, Chase, and Nocek spoke out for the first time. them from acknowledging their In an Associated Press article, role as “John Doe” in the land - Christian was quoted as saying, mark court case that challenged “I am incensed that the govern - the USA PATRIOT Act. ment uses provisions of the Because accepting the award Patriot Act to justify unrestrained s e i r a would have meant a violation of r b and secret access to the records i L n a c

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dom, at a reception during the : of the day. The idea that the gov - o t o h ALA annual midwinter meeting P ernment can secretly investigate The John Doe librarians, (from left) Barbara Bailey, Janet Nocek, Peter Chase, and George Christian in San Antonio, Texas. of the Library Connection, receive the Robert Downs Award from Michael Gorman (center). what the public is informing When the award was first itself about is chilling.” announced, Leigh Estabrook, director of the Library Research Center Shortly following their first public appearance, on June 22, the Justice and professor at GSLIS said, “It takes courage to defend the principles Department officially ceased their efforts to obtain records originally of intellectual freedom in libraries—to insist that every person has the requested nearly a year previously. Christian, Bailey, Chase and Nocek right to read, think, and inquire without fear. This year we honor an spoke at a panel at the annual ALA conference in New Orleans where unnamed individual for his or her courage in defending intellectual free - they finally accepted the Downs Award. dom when it was not even possible to talk to friends, family, or other pro - The Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award is given annually fessionals. This person not only stood alone at the moment of upholding to acknowledge individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of principle; but has to remain isolated because of the gag order under the intellectual freedom, particularly as it affects libraries and information USA PATRIOT Act.” centers and the dissemination of ideas. Granted to those who have resis - In August 2005, the ACLU filed suit against the U.S. government on ted censorship or efforts to abridge the freedom of individuals to read or behalf of “John Doe” and his employer who challenged the constitu - view materials of their choice, the award may be in recognition of a par - tionality of Section 505 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the section that ticular action or long-term interest in, and dedication to, the cause of relaxes the guidelines the government must follow when requesting intellectual freedom. The award was established in 1969 by the GSLIS information from libraries. John Doe and his lawyers were bound by a faculty to honor Robert Downs, a champion of intellectual freedom, on gag order preventing them from discussing or even acknowledging the his 25th anniversary as director of the school. I government’s request. Additional information about the award and past recipients can be found at www.lis.uiuc.edu/about/awards/downs-award.html.

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CHAMPAIGN-URBANA HOSTS ITS FIRST ANNUAL EDIBLE BOOKS FESTIVAL GSLIS students, faculty, and friends played key roles in the smashing success of the First Annual C-U Edible Books Festival. Although similar festivals have been held worldwide since 2000, April 3, 2006 marked the first such celebration at Illinois. Sue Searing, LIS Librarian, assembled a planning group that included Paula Carns (MS ’02), assistant professor in the Modern Languages & Linguistics Library, and Bea Nettles, professor of art and teacher of book arts workshops at GSLIS. The rules were simple: create a book or a book-related sculpture from edible ingredients. Deliver it to the Illini Union at the appointed time. After the judging and photographing of the entries, come back to view the works of art, and then devour them! Doyle Moore, retired art professor and resident chef at WILL-AM, served as the judge and awarded book- or food- related prizes donated by local merchants and campus organizations, including the Alpha Chap - ter of Beta Phi Mu. Among the entries Doyle selected were “The Dead Seaweed Scrolls,” a sushi-themed team effort by GSLIS students Lucy Moynihan, Chris D’Arpa, and Cathy Oeden - walt; and Searing’s own entry, entitled “Melvil Dewey’s Pizza,” where the class number for pizza (641.824) was spelled out with boiled lin - guine and olive slices, mushrooms, and pepperoni represented the dec - imal points. Other inventive entries by GSLIS alums included Carns’ “A Tasty Books of Hours,” a cake decorated to resemble a medieval manuscript; a book-like sandwich by Gail Hueting (MS ’73) entitled “Hamming It Up”; and “Quipo,” by Nelly Gonzalez (MS ’73) and Vera Mitchell, a colorful dough depiction of knotted strings used by the Incans as a record-keeping system. In an interview with the U of I News Bureau, Searing was asked about the connection between book lovers and food lovers. “There’s certainly a lot of overlap,” she said. “So many of us enjoy a snack or a warm drink while curled up with a good book. Not to mention all the cook - book collectors out there—who greatly out-number the actual cooks. For me, Top: Melvil Dewey’s Pizza personally, reading and eating are two of life’s greatest pleasures.” Right: Dead Seaweed Scrolls Below: “The Toast of the Town” Check out all the mouth-watering and thought-provoking entries at www.library.uiuc.edu/mdx/Books2Eat/books2eat_cu.htm. Photos: Bea Nettles Photo For background on the festival, see its international website, www.books2eat.com.

Melvil Dewey’s Pizza Dead Seaweed Scrolls Bea Nettles’ “The Toast of the Town”

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Library Research Center Turns 45 In 1961, Herb Goldhor, then director of holds a distinctive position: “Because evaluate their collections to, more GSLIS, envisioned a center that would the LRC is located in a library school, it recently, the effects of the PATRIOT collect and analyze data for state has strengths that librarians can’t buy ACT on public libraries. libraries across the Midwest. Forty-five from commercial social science The LRC recently received a years later, the Library Research Cen - research firms. We bring to our work a $500,000 grant from the Institute of ter (LRC) is the oldest of its kind in the deep knowledge of what happens in Museum and Library Services to nation and boasts the largest profes - the field of library and information sci - examine how low-income people sional staff of any existing university- ence.” access government information. They based library research group. Historically, the LRC has worked on have also acquired software that will Its client list still includes Illinois a variety of projects including, among allow them to design more interactive public and state libraries, but the LRC others, market research and focus websites for clients, allowing freer has since added such clients as the groups for H.W. Wilson and Blackwell access to the information, and more American Library Association, the Books to make their products more sophisticated tools to sort and filter National Science Foundation, and The directly relevant to librarians’ needs. data. Estabrook calls it a “more robust, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. They have conducted surveys and ana - useful, broad-based system than any - Leigh Estabrook, former dean of lyzed information about everything thing available now.” GSLIS, is the current director of the from the differences between how For more information, please visit Center. She explains why the LRC librarians and government officials http://lrc.lis.uiuc.edu/.

Stinky Stern Forever Wins 2006 Gryphon Award by Andrea Lynn, News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The winner of the 2006 Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature is Michelle Edwards for her easy-to-read book Stinky Stern Forever . Edwards also illustrated the book, published last year by Harcourt. The award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is given by the Center for Children’s Books. Three Gryphon Award honor books were named: Jigsaw Pony , by Jessie Haas (Greenwillow), illustrated by Ying-Hwa Hu; Babymouse: Queen of the World! , written and illustrated by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House); and Chameleon, Chameleon , by Joy Cowley (Scholastic), illustrated with photographs by Nic Bishop. Established in 2004, the annual award is given to the author of an outstanding work of fiction or nonfiction for children in kindergarten through fourth grade. The title chosen “best exemplifies those qualities that successfully bridge the gap in difficulty between books for reading aloud to children and books for practiced readers,” said GSLIS Profes - sor Betsy Hearne, Center Director and the chair of the Gryphon Award Committee. The award was created to focus attention on transitional reading, “an area of literature for youth that does not receive the recognition it deserves,” Hearne said. The award is funded by the Center’s Outreach Endowment Fund. Gifts may be made to the fund at: www.lis.uiuc.edu/development/funds.html or by contacting Diana Stroud, 217-244-9577.

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GSLIS Names Three New GSLIS Retains Top Spot Research Fellows in U.S. News & World Report Rankings The GSLIS faculty has elected three new research fellows, each appointed to a two-year term, to In April 2006, U.S. News & World Report begin in August 2006 and end in August 2008. released its latest rankings of graduate Research fellows are chosen because their work is professional schools of library and infor - relevant to the interests of GSLIS faculty mation science. We’re proud to report and students. Each will give at least one that GSLIS remains at the top of the list, lecture during their appointment. sharing the number one spot with the University of North Nominated by Professor Betsy Hearne Carolina-Chapel Hill. and Associate Professor Christine Jenk - “Since the last rankings in 1999, GSLIS has been and now ins is Lynne McKechnie, Associate Pro - continues to be the only school or college in the University fessor in the MLIS program at the of Illinois system that is ranked number one in this national University of Western Ontario. Her research areas survey. Maintaining this position in a time of declining state include the role of the public library in the develop - support is an accomplishment of which the School should ment of children as readers and the use of theory be proud, but it has not been easy, and it will not be possi - in LIS research, with an emphasis on ble in the future without significant new investment,” said information-seeking behavior research. Dean John Unsworth. Nominated by Assistant Professor Not only did GSLIS retain the number one spot (with an Kathryn La Barre is Birger Hjørland, average assessment score of 4.5/5.0), but also ranked highly Research Professor at the Institute of in a number of specialty groups. Information Studies, Royal School of In the Digital Librarianship category, new this year, GSLIS Library and Information Science in ranked first. “Such recognition is an honor, given the level Denmark. Among his many research areas, Hjør - and quality of work going on in this area at other schools. land is interested in information production, repre - The caliber of students we’re attracting to the program is a sentation, and retrieval, especially in the areas of reflection of this work and we are excited to be among the professional and scientific communication. leaders in digital librarianship,” said Jerome McDonough, Nominated by Associate Professor Carole Palmer Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the Certifi - is Maryann Martone, co-director of the cate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries. National Center for Microscopy and GSLIS also moved into first place in Services for Children Imaging Research and a Professor-in-Res - and Youth, tied with Florida State University. “GSLIS has idence in the Department of Neuro - intensified its focus in the last several years, so we’re science at the University of California, pleased that this work is being reflected in the rankings. In San Diego. Martone’s recent work has addition to unparalleled faculty and library resources, we focused on building an ontology for cultivate a sense of community among our graduate stu - describing the subcellular anatomy of the nervous dents that creates lifelong affiliations. Over a third of our system, and integrating such ontologies into image graduates have taken courses in youth services, an indica - analysis and data mining tools. tion of our national impact on the future of information liter - acy, reading, and readers,” said Betsy Hearne, Professor Research Fellows’ websites: and Director of the Center for Children’s Books. Additional rankings include placing fourth in Information Lynne McKechnie: www.fims.uwo.ca/whoswho/facultypage.htm?PeopleId=130 Systems, fifth in Law Librarianship (also shared with UNC), Birger Hjørland: and tying for eighth with Syracuse and University of South www.db.dk/bh/home_uk.htm Carolina-Columbia in Health Librarianship. I Maryann Martone: http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/Contact/Personnel/maryann_Martone.htm

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SCHOOL NEWS

Corporate Roundtable Expanding to Three New Program Areas Now Chicago Under Way The majority of students who enroll at GSLIS each year have Now beginning its third year, the GSLIS Corporate Roundtable brings their eyes on the core of our top-ranked program: the master together GSLIS faculty and graduate students on the cutting edge of of science in library and information science. But with more students joining the program to earn a combined M.S./K–12 research with leaders in the business community. From software engi - Library Information Specialist Certification and others pursu - neers to business educators, corporate librarians to web taxonomists, ing the new Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries, it is clear that prospective students are interested in GSLIS Corporate Roundtable members work together to solve a broad range providing them with both a general and a specialized educa - tion. This past academic year has seen the addition of three of information science–related challenges. The group meets bimonthly new program areas that will continue this tradition of letting to discuss topics brought to the table by corporate members in the students focus in areas that most interest them.

form of a detailed case. Past topics have included: organizational Certificate in Special Collections In response to research libraries reporting a shortage of qual - informatics, taxonomies/controlled vocabularies, data mining prob - ified applicants for current openings in special collections, lems and solutions, governance of taxonomies including funding stan - GSLIS has partnered with the University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library to offer a new Certificate in Special Col - dards and policies, group processes involved with the Text Encoding lections. Most of the courses for the certificate—which will Initiative, and so on. be granted upon the completion of twelve credit hours—will be offered during the summer in two-week intensive ses - As the group continues to evolve and topics of interest expand, we sions and will include topics such as Bibliography, Adminis - tration and Use of Archival Materials, Preserving Information are seeking to involve a wider range of GSLIS alumni. While there has Resources, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarianship, been a great deal of expressed interest by those working in and Great Printers and Their Books, and History of the Book.

around Chicago, relative distance has made it challenging for these

professionals to attend our meetings in Champaign. Therefore, in early

2007, the School plans to hold its first Corporate Roundtable in

Chicago. We are still in the early stages of the planning process, and

will continue to evaluate various topics of interest.

To find out more about the GSLIS Corporate Roundtable, visit

www.lis.uiuc.edu/development/corp-roundtable.html. If you would

like to join the GSLIS CRT listserv, share your thoughts and opinions,

or suggest a topic for discussion at our Chicago meeting, please con -

tact Chantelle Hougland, Associate Director of Development, at

217-244-6473. I

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Instructors for these courses will include GSLIS and Palmer and Heidorn are developing the library and infor - Library faculty such as Professor Christine Jenkins, Profes - mation science concentration as part of a campus-wide, sor Emeritus Don Krummel, Professors Emeriti Kathryn interdisciplinary master’s program. More information is Luther Henderson and William T Henderson, Assistant Uni - available at www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/ms- versity Archivist Chris Prom, and Head of the Rare Book and bioinformatics.html. Manuscript Library Valerie Hotchkiss. Other instructors com - Community Informatics Corps mitted to teaching in the program are Christopher de Hamel GSLIS is now recruiting students to its master’s degree pro - from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Sidney Berger gram to become a part of its new Community Informatics (MS ‘87), Simmons College, who has been teaching the His - Corps (CIC). The aim of the CIC is to recruit and mentor a tory of the Book and Rare Book and Special Collections cohort of Latina/o, African-American, and other students Librarianship courses at GSLIS since 2003. interested in the experiences of underserved groups in soci - More information about the Rare Book School on the ety who are eager for a career that gives them the opportu - Prairie is available on page 22. nity to contribute to their communities. Students in the CIC Master’s Degree in Bioinformatics will have the opportunity to focus their coursework on social Supported by a National Science Foundation grant and led entrepreneurship and community library and information by GSLIS Associate Professors Carole Palmer and Bryan services, so that they are prepared to create innovative infor - Heidorn, GSLIS has developed a curriculum for a new mas - mation services implemented within and across a range of ter’s degree specializing in the burgeoning field of bioinfor - community-based and public interest organizations. matics. The CIC combines courses offered at the Puerto Rican While bioinformatics is frequently associated with data Cultural Center in Chicago with online and intensive courses mining and molecular modeling, informatics is impacting all on the Urbana-Champaign campus. CIC students will have a biological sciences and all stages of research, from data col - blended experience that emphasizes neighborhood-based lection and analysis through dissemination of results. To service learning enriched with online and on-campus study. respond to the qualitative changes in biological research and For more about the CIC, call (800) 982-0914 or visit specific scientific workforce gaps, the GSLIS program will www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/ms/cic.html. I train professionals to fill important roles on scientific teams.

New Online Library Access for Alumni The University of Illinois Libraries and the University of Illinois Alumni Association are introducing a valuable new service for alumni. Beginning July 1, 2006, Alumni Association members will have online access to more than 4,000 magazines, newspa - pers, periodicals, scientific and professional journals, and trade publications. The database, ProQuest/ABI-INFORM Complete, includes current and archived issues in full text and/or abstract versions. In addition, users can perform basic and advanced queries such as subject and key word searches. Among the titles contained in the collection are USA Today , Time , Newsweek , U.S. News & World Report , Forbes , The Chronicle of Higher Education , Harvard Law Review as well as highly specialized publi - cations. Although license restrictions prohibit alumni access to all of the databases that the three UI libraries make available to the campus communities, the University Librarians and the Alumni Association staff are glad to provide this new benefit that will extend the reach of the University’s world-class libraries to UI alumni living in all 50 states and more than 125 countries of the world. Until now, these services have been available only to UI faculty, staff, and students with a University net-id. Alumni who have not already joined the Alumni Association and are planning to because of this new service, PLEASE NOTE: when joining, use the GSLIS code of UD31 so that the membership is credited to the Library School Alumni Association specifi - cally, and not just the UIAA generally. To access this service visit: www.uiaa.org/proquest.

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SCHOOL NEWS

Rare Book School Opens on the Prairie

Valerie Hotchkiss, new Head of The Rare Book & Manuscript held by the library here, make it a Library at Illinois, is breathing life into a collection that she great place to study rare book and calls “one of the most remarkable in the country.” In her manuscript topics. “I’m quite cer - first year at the RBML—a 300,000 piece collection valued at tain,” she said, “that the certifi - over $750 million—she has changed the face of rare books cate in special collections at Illinois. librarianship from GSLIS will In one of the most notable developments, Hotchkiss is become a coveted credential in teaming with GSLIS and the Library faculty to launch The our field.” u a e

Rare Book School on the Prairie. The first and only of its Hotchkiss is involved in a num - r u B s

kind in the Midwest, the Rare Book School will offer a cer - ber of other projects as well. She w e N I tificate at its completion and present a wide variety of recently acquired a $600,000 grant U courses including the history of the book, bookbinding, spe - from the Mellon Foundation to embark on a massive cata - cial collections librarian - loguing project, dramatically improving ship, archival studies, and access to tens of thousands of materi - printing history, among als in the Library; she has arranged for others. Christopher de an exhibition of treasures from the Illi - Hamel, internationally nois collection to appear at the Grolier known for his expertise in Club in New York in summer 2008; and rare books, will be teach - she has organized the first book col - ing a Manuscripts course lecting club on campus, The No. 44 when the School launches Society, a group that awarded their in summer 2007. Classes first book collecting prize this spring. will also be taught by Hotchkiss is also working on a lecture GSLIS special collections series that will bring national and inter - instructors Sid Berger, Bea national experts in book collecting to Nettles, Hotchkiss, and Illinois, both to lecture and to teach in other guest instructors. the Rare Book School, and she intends “Geographically, The to inaugurate a fine press imprint for Rare Book School on the the University of Illinois, aptly named Prairie sits between the The Soy Bean Press, in the very near venerable Rare Book future. In the midst of all these innova - School of the University of tions, she even found time to oversee a Virginia and the new renovation of the public spaces in the school for special collec - RBML, greatly improving the reading tions at UCLA,” said space for those using special collec - Hotchkiss. “We hope to tions material. learn from our colleagues If you are interested in learning more on the two coasts, while about The Rare Book School on the also exploring new and Prairie, please contact Marianne different ways to make Steadley by e-mailing our school unique.” [email protected] or calling 217-244- Hotchkiss believes that the 2751. To learn more about The Rare school’s location within the number-one-rated LIS program Book and Manuscript Library, visit in the country, and its reliance on the incredible collections www.library.uiuc.edu/rbx/.

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FACULTY NEWS

Professor Betsy Hearne Calls Hit Film Adaptations scene where Curious George and the for Young Audiences a “Mixed Blessing” Man with the Yellow Hat are sailing over New York City with a bunch of by Andrea Lynn, News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign balloons, there’s a wonderful sense of release and joy that just takes over the GSLIS Profes - we have is the ‘ADHDing’ of pop cul - screen without interference or over - sor and Direc - ture for kids,” said Hearne. dramatics. tor of the Instead of the slow quiet moments “In fact, one of the film’s major Center for authors build into stories so that motifs is a simple game of peek-a- Children’s young readers can step back, rest, and boo, which accords perfectly with the Books Betsy reflect between climactic moments, child audience’s experience without Hearne deliv - filmmakers often substitute “frenetic peppering or pressuring them with ered the 2006 activity”—loud music, chase scenes, nonstop gimmicks.” Lois Lenski violence, gimmicks, and busy com - Similarly, “Holes” (2003) based on Children’s Lit - puter animation. Louis Sachar’s Newbery-winning erature Lecture at Illinois State Univer - “Apparently, it is assumed that novel, “is a film that does not betray sity in March. Her talk was titled, “And young people will not want to pause the book’s subtle balance of action Now a Major Motion Picture: The for even a moment while no exciting and reflection,” Hearne said. Translation of Children’s Literature action happens on screen,” Hearne “Nor does it become strictly into Film.” said. “Unfortunately, this becomes a duplicative, in the vein of literal fac - Movies such as “The Chronicles of self-fulfilling prophecy. We have cre - simile that is characteristic of the Narnia” or the Harry Potter series are ated a juvenile audience with hyperac - ‘Harry Potter’ movies. Rather, ‘Holes’ “a mixed blessing for their young tive expectations often involving a transforms one work of art into audiences,” Hearne said. Their shared range of violence from slapstick to another. The flashbacks indicated by shortcoming is symptomatic of the sensational.” spaces in the book are, in the film, way most children’s stories are being She also suspects that today’s pop skillfully rendered through fadeouts told on the silver screen these days. culture creators “don’t really believe that clarify transitions between pres - The problem, according to Hearne, is in the power of story to hold chil - ent and past events but at the same that two critical elements—“creative dren’s attention.” Hearne believes that time add a striking visual dimension.” spaces and silences”—are typically now, more than ever, as we grapple In addition to her work at GSLIS, left on the cutting-room floor in the with our “information-besieged lives,” Hearne is a prize-winning author and process of translating a children’s finding space and even silence in our the former children’s book editor of book into celluloid. lives is “critical.” Booklist and of The Bulletin of the “Silence and space are important “Somehow we must reappropriate Center for Children’s Books . She has elements in all stories—regardless of the all-important silences that con - reviewed books for 38 years and con - format,” Hearne said, but instead of vey suspense, emphasis, and humor - tributes regularly to the New York offering modulated spaces—silences ous pacing. We need space to think Times Book Review . The Lecture that often reflect the “real mystery of and be.” Series honors Lois Lenski, a children’s the story”—contemporary filmmakers The recent film “Curious George” author who “who gave so generously are “besieging and ultimately shorten - is a good example of one that does of her time and her papers to the stu - ing children’s attention spans through give the kind of space featured in the dents of Illinois State University.” I unnecessary over stimulation. What picture book, Hearne said. “In the

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FACULTY NEWS

Associate Professor Christine Jenkins ter’s in English/Children’s Literature from Eastern Michigan University. Named Centennial Scholar Before joining the faculty at GSLIS, she worked as a Media Specialist in Associate Profes - given presentations on her research at the Ann Arbor Public Schools and as sor Christine A. numerous professional conferences. the State of Wisconsin’s Intellectual Jenkins has been Her work has appeared in Libraries Freedom Information Coordinator at named the 2006- and Culture, Library Trends , Library the Cooperative Children’s Book Cen - 2007 GSLIS Cen - Quarterly , VOYA (Voices of Youth ter at the University of Wisconsin- tennial Scholar in Advocates) , Horn Book Magazine , Madison. recognition and Booklist , School Library Journal , and Jenkins is active in the American support of her the Journal of the Ameri - Library Association; she’s accomplishments can Society of Information been a member of both the and promising scholarship in the field Science . Most recently, Newbery and the Caldecott of library and information science. Scarecrow Press released Award committees and is Jenkins has been on the GSLIS fac - her book, co-authored with past chair of the Library His - ulty since 1994. She teaches in the Michael Cart, The Heart tory Round Table. Currently, areas of school and public youth serv - Has Its Reasons: Young she is a member of the edito - ices librarianship, children’s and Adult Literature with rial boards of Language Arts young adult literature, and literacy Gay/Lesbian/Queer Con - and Library Quarterly and the studies. Her research focuses on the tent, 1969-2004 (Scarecrow advisory committee for the history of school and public library Press, 2006). Bulletin of the Center for service to children and young adults; As an undergraduate, Children’s Books . Students youth services librarians as canon- Jenkins studied English and art, at have consistently voted Jenkins to the shapers and intellectual freedom Macalester College in St. Paul, Min - University’s List of Teachers Ranked as advocates; U.S. librarians and Cold nesota. She went on to earn a Mas - Excellent by their Students, and she War censorship; and gay/lesbian con - ter’s and Ph.D. in Library and received the UIUC Campus Award for tent in young adult literature. She has Information Studies from the Univer - Excellence in Off-Campus Teaching in sity of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Mas - 2003. I

GSLIS Faculty and Staff Set Campus Giving Record

The fund-raising letter sent to the gone before him, Dean Unsworth put to lobby the administration for signifi - GSLIS faculty and staff this past April himself up as the prize when GSLIS cantly increased investment in GSLIS. led with some enticing possibilities: launched its first-ever faculty and staff Those donating any amount to a Will Dean Unsworth dive into a fund-raising campaign this year. The School fund of their choice had the pool of grape Jell-O? goal was bragging rights on campus: opportunity to suggest a diabolical Will he post his “baby on a bear to be the first Dean to reach a 100% plan for the Dean should the goal be skin rug” photo to the GSLIS website? faculty and staff participation rate. met. Suggestions included making Will he let us sock him in the puss This measure of support, along with him go technology-free for 24 hours, with a cream pie? our high alumni giving rate, was telling a story at the next Storytelling Like the head-shaving, pig-kissing intended to be used as evidence of the Festival, and singing the Alma Mater elementary school principals that have high level of internal support for the at the New Student Orientation. He School as Dean Unsworth continues was spared from all such fates by the

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Professor Chip Bruce Receives Fulbright, Awards FACULTY EXPERTS Professor Chip Bruce has enjoyed distributed knowledge project and the Our faculty, staff, and students are often con - great success this academic year: information school movement at the sulted by local and national media to comment among his accomplishments include a on issues that are important to the field of LIS. Swedish School of Library & Informa - Chances are, you’ve seen mention of them Fulbright, an award, and distinction tion Science in Borås. While in Swe - while turning the pages of your favorite maga - from the University. den, Bruce was able to teach his zine and newspaper. Here are the most recent classes here in Champaign with the publications that relied on GSLIS expertise: Fulbright Senior use of Web-based, Specialist Award video conferencing American Libraries Last fall, Bruce was software. Bangor Daily News selected for a Ful - Chronicle of Higher Education bright Senior Spe - Pratt-Severn Fac - Houston Chronicle cialist Award and ulty Innovation ILA Reporter spent the second Award La Voz Del Paseo Boricua half of October trav - Bruce was also the Library Journal eling in Sweden. Linux World 2006 winner of the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette Bruce spent the first Pratt-Severn Fac - Nature week at the Depart - ulty Innovation New York Times ment of Informatics Award from the St. Paul Pioneer Press at Umeå University, Association for US News & World Report where he visited Library and Infor - with faculty who mation Science To follow GSLIS press clippings, please visit: work in computer Education. This www.lis.uiuc.edu/news/current.html#Press support for collabo - award is given rative learning and annually and is, in human-computer interaction and according to ALISE, “designed to activity theory. He also gave a major identify innovation by full-time faculty talk on learning, as well as led a dis - members . . . in incorporating evolv - cussion on the U.S. Schools of Infor - ing information technologies in the mation movement. The second week curricula of accredited masters degree Bruce traveled to the IT-University at programs in library and information campaign coming in just shy of the Göteborg. He presented, along with studies.” mark. However, the 75% participation rate that was achieved set a record Diane Sonnenwald from the Univer - for campus faculty and staff cam - sity College of Borås, at a half-day University Distinguished paigns—more than double the aver - seminar, “Supporting Distributed Col - Teacher/Scholar age giving rate of most other units laboration in Science: Reflections from The Provost’s Teaching Advancement on campus. Insiders report that the Experiences.” Later that week, Bruce Board named Bruce a University Dis - Dean would have submitted to the taught a two-day short course on group’s collective will at 90%, giving tinguished Teacher/Scholar for the campaign organizers encouragement Pragmatic Design of Information and 2006-2007 school year. The award rec - for next year. Communication Technologies. During ognizes faculty members who repre - his visit, Bruce also gave talks on his continued on next page

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STUDENT GROUP WRAP-UP

Faculty News continued sent excellence in teaching, and draws This year, as is true every year, our stu - American Society for Informa - upon their talents to mentor other dent groups were very active. Here are tion Science & Technology some highlights of their programs and Student Chapter educators on campus. Each recipient events. You’ll see that whether organiz - is asked to design a program that will ing volunteer work in the community or ASIS&T continued to reach out to LEEP stu - have an impact on and improve the hosting a lecture, the activities of our dents by broadcasting monthly meetings and student groups are a valuable part of teaching at Illinois. workshops and co-sponsoring social events the GSLIS experience . He will be designing a seminar during LEEP on-campus sessions. entitled “Inquiry for Action and Under - The group sponsored a talk given by GSLIS standing,” in which faculty across dis - ALA Student Chapter doctoral student Kalev Leetaru entitled “Col - ciplines can identify the ways in which lecting a Campus.” The UIPhotos Project This year, the ALA student chapter was the theory and practice of inquiry can (http://uiphotos.ncsa.uiuc.edu/) is a large and involved in a wide variety of activities. benefit their teaching. The seminar complex database of images related to Illi - will explore the historical and philo - Examples of recent charity work include col - nois buildings and sites. This talk introduced sophical foundations of inquiry, the lecting books to donate to the New Orleans the project and its sister UIHistories project, ways in which teaching can go Public Library and cataloguing books for the and described their current state and some of beyond the classroom to involve the Center for Women in Transition in Cham - the obstacles, insights, and underlying issues community, and ways to support paign, a group that offers shelter and services surrounding them. Leetaru also discussed the interdisciplinary thinking. to area homeless women and children. indexing and cataloging challenges he has “I was very pleased to receive this To pay tribute to Associate Professor Terry encountered. award, especially knowing how many Weech, the group established the Weech Professor Burks Oakley II, Associate Vice excellent teachers there are within Award to honor his past, present, and future President for Academic Affairs at Illinois, GSLIS and the University. My hope is dedication to the chapter. Weech was a spoke to a group of students on “The What, that the seminar will provide an founding faculty member of the GSLIS ALA Why, and How of Podcasting.” Through his opportunity for participants to share student chapter twenty-five years ago. The innovative use of technology in teaching, their insights with one another and to chapter also selected Beth Larkee as the Stu - Professor Oakley has earned a national repu - have the kinds of experiences I’ve dent-to-Staff Scholarship winner to represent tation as a practitioner and promoter of Inter - been fortunate to have had with our GSLIS at the ALA Annual Conference. net-based asynchronous learning inquiry-based projects,” said Bruce. I In March, the chapter hosted Professor Fran environments. He explained exactly how to Miksa, University of Texas at Austin School produce and distribute a podcast and elabo - of Information. Dr. Miksa is a specialist in rated on the significance of podcasting in Faculty Footnotes library classification and library history. His higher education. pear on these presentation was entitled “The Genius of The stories that ap In April, ASIS&T organized a group of ight a small por- Cataloging and its Possible Future.” In April, pages only highl interested students to drive to St. Louis and k that our produc- the chapter hosted via LEEP an interview tion of the wor get an intimate behind-the-scenes tour of the have with ALA Presidential candidates Bill Crowe tive faculty members d a Missouri Botanical Gardens. These students this past year. To rea and Loriene Roy. completed were shown the Garden’s collection of rare g of recent The ALA Student Chapter took the lead on more complete listin ase visit books, the organizational methods used with ssional activities, ple planning the GSLIS Annual Holiday Party profe the specimens in the herbarium, and their from the fac- and organized some social outings for LEEP the bio pages linked eb site. nomenclatural database Tropicos. ulty listing on our W on-campus weekends and boot camp.

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In addition to regular meetings, ASIS&T share with master’s and doctoral students Center, who was invited to discuss solo sponsored several workshops led by guest their insights on preparing for a successful librarianship from her days as a law librarian. experts including: Introduction to XML career in the LIS field, as well as experiences The second event featured Wendy Shelburne, Workshop, Introduction to Unix/Linux, and a with learning and working in a non-native Electronic Resources Librarian at Illinois, Wiki Workshop. culture. and covered vendor relations. The last talk in Members of the group have offered their the series was given by Tom Lipinski, and is translation services as well: volunteers have summarized below. GSLIS Chinese Group translated IFLA materials and slides for In addition to the new series, the SLA wel - This year, the GSLIS Chinese Group co- international conferences, as well as served comed talks from Alice Cisna of the Arthur organized a series of seven “Career Develop - as oral interpreters for visiting scholars from Public Library and Joel Berger, President of ment Workshops” China. Members were also C. Berger Group, a library and information with the Chinese Stu - instrumental in the success science management consulting firm; held a dents and Scholars of the second Chinese grant writing workshop with Susan Harum, Association at Illinois. Librarian Summer School, director of the Illinois Researcher Informa - The workshops, tar - translating all the lectures tion Service (IRIS); and organized a number geting international and co-organizing some of of social events to gather as a group. In an students on campus, the social events. attempt to include LEEP students, some of invited experts to The group also works these events were recorded or discussed on introduce career very hard to provide the bulletin boards. resources and job incoming students with seeking skills. Group academic orientation infor - members benefited mation as well as informa - Working Together from the workshops tion about financial aid In addition to their own activities, GSLIS stu - n not only as an audi - a dent groups joined forces with the Library

b and life issues. They held r U d r ence, but had the a Colloquium Committee to cosponsor a lec -

h parties to celebrate Ameri - c i R f opportunity to prac - o ture by Tomas Lipinski (PhD ’98), Associate

y can and Chinese holidays, s e t r u tice public speech, o Professor at University of Wisconsin-Mil -

c when it was impossible for o t o h publicity, networking, P most group members to waukee’s School of Information Studies. Lip - Matt Cordial, 2005-2006 ASIS&T student chapter pres - and teamwork by ident, grills at the GSLIS End-of-Semester Barbecue. reunite with their families. inski presented his talk “To Mentor or to making the workshops Monitor, That is the Question: Evolving possible. Well attended by international stu - Roles for Institutional Actors within the dents from different departments, these work - Special Libraries Association Copyright Law” to 100 attendees. This pres - shops also helped raise the visibility of the SLA took a different route this spring for entation reviewed legislative and judicial group as well as of GSLIS. offering programs to the GSLIS community developments in the area of copyright law as Each semester, the group also held one by organizing and presenting the “Thinking well as industry initiatives that are shaping “Alumni Talk.” They invited Fang Huang Gao Outside the Library” series. The subjects of the role of information intermediaries such as (MS ’02), Serials Cataloger at the UIUC these three events were rooted in, but libraries and schools from one of “mentor” to Library, and Yin Zhang (PhD ’99), Associate extended beyond, the traditional fields of one of “monitor.” The presentation high - Professor in the School of Library and Infor - special librarianship and were pertinent to all lighted the increased burden placed upon the mation Science at Kent State University, to members of GSLIS. The first guest was intermediary library or educational entities. Dawn Cassady, now with the Mortenson

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LIS LIBRARY NEWS

What should she asserts—whether it’s a formal duce our international colleagues to librarians call workshop, a guest lecture in a class, the key information resources for the people we or a spontaneous one-on-one lesson American librarianship, and in return serve? Recently I sparked by a reference question. they share their expertise about found myself in “Learner”—I like the sound of that! library practices abroad. y r o

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P that old unre - itus professor—are engaged in learn - engage in endless intellectual explo - Susan E. Searing, Library & solved question. ing of one kind or another. Integrating ration. Last fall I enrolled in LIS 590DI: Information Science Librarian Patrons, cus - the library into the teaching and learn - Digital Libraries: Research and Prac - tomers, users—none of the common ing mission of GSLIS is one of our tice, one of the courses required for labels truly captures the richness of most important goals. Below are a few the new Certificate of Advanced Study our relationships with them. My col - ways we accomplish it. in Digital Libraries. Dr. Stephen league Susan Avery, who works in the That last example—our work with Downie challenged me to look at Undergraduate Library, prefers the the Mortenson Center affiliates from familiar library practices in radically term “learner.” Academic librarians around the world—is a reminder that new ways and to acquire practical are constantly engaged in teaching, learning goes both ways. We intro - skills in manipulating image, sound, and text files, as well as creating metadata. Meanwhile, Library Special - • Every incoming master’s student, whether pursuing the degree via LEEP or on ist Lori Carroll is making steady campus, receives basic information literacy training specific to LIS in course- progress toward earning her master’s integrated workshops led by me or other members of the LIS Library staff. in LIS. With each class she completes, she becomes a more valuable • We develop special pathfinders for assignments. For example, see the guide to employee. For both of us, it’s been researching “hot topics” in information policy at: www.library.uiuc.edu/lsx/Workshop2/LIS502TrackingSummer05.htm. educational to see afresh our work - place and our services through the • Individually structured practicum projects in the LIS Library provide students eyes of a student. with opportunities for hands-on learning that reinforces principles learned in Alums have yet another angle of formal coursework. vision on the LIS Library—the invalu - • Students in LIS 458: Instruction & Assistance Systems designed online tutorials able perspective that comes with hind - on searching for LIS information; these are hosted on our library’s Web site. sight. Looking back on your time at GSLIS, how did the LIS Library make a • Back in 1999, the LIS Library was the first departmental library on campus to difference in your learning? How offer a full range of electronic course reserves, hosted on a GSLIS server. Now could it have been more effective? Do we’ve merged with the central-library–hosted e-reserves service that was established later. you still turn to us for professional information? (Many resources on our • Twice a week, I hold office hours at the GSLIS building. This has proven most website, www.library.uiuc.edu/lsx, helpful in strengthening connections with faculty and staff. such as the Virtual New Books Shelf • UI Current LIS Clips , a publishing partnership of the LIS Library and GSLIS, and our list of topical links, are freely supports the School’s commitment to provide continuous learning opportuni - available.) Have you made innova - ties for alums and other members of the profession. See tions in your own workplace that we www.lis.uiuc.edu/clips. could adopt here? Please contact me at any time with your thoughts and • Our collections and services support the on-campus training programs of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs. ideas: by phone at 217-333-3804, or by e-mail at [email protected]. I

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$9 Million Dollars by 2011 for GSLIS I am pleased to have been given the opportunity to become the Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations at a very exciting time for GSLIS. Coming to the School in mid-December, I knew that I was following in the footsteps of a very successful and well-liked Assistant Dean, Susan Barrick. Susan and I began our Illinois development careers at about the same time. In fact, while I was working for the School of Social Work, she and I met often to discuss the challenges of raising money WAYS YOU CAN HELP: in what are considered small units on this campus. Susan’s tireless efforts • Help us establish alumni networks around on behalf of GSLIS have made this development program one of the best on the country, like alumna Irene Hoffman our campus. I plan to continue that tradition with your help. (MS ’81) who is helping us bring alumni together in the Washington, D.C. area. Our goal at GSLIS is to raise $9 million by 2011 for student scholarships, fellowships, an endowed chair, professorship, faculty research, centers, and • Provide funding for a fellowship by partici - building spaces. The importance of private giving has been and will con - pating in LSAA’s matching gift challenge. tinue to be critical to our School’s success and number-one national ranking. Last year $75,000 was raised. Look for a new challenge this year. The good news is that we have raised 52.2% of our goal to date, thanks to • Check to see if the company you or your GSLIS alumni, faculty, and friends. In 2005, we began forming the GSLIS spouse work for or retired from will match Campaign Advisory Committee. Lionelle Elsesser (MS ’67) agreed to chair your gift to the School. our committee and take on the task of helping us meet our goal. The Advisory Committee is in the process of forming and they need your help! • Encourage your classmates to join you and challenge another graduating class to Because of you, GSLIS is able to boast one of the highest giving rates at match your gifts! Illinois. I am proud that I am able to work with so many of you to help • Identify people or companies who have an ensure that incoming students receive the same high-quality education you interest in GSLIS or our research. did. We must continue this work so that we can support the innovative pro - grams and research that ultimately produce graduates who go on to fill lead - • Host a small dinner for alumni in your area ership positions around the world—who, like you, shape the field of LIS. with Dean Unsworth. We will be happy to assist you with the arrangements. This campaign is another opportunity for you to give back to a program that has made a difference in your life. Whether you are a new graduate • Update your personal information and tell (with a new graduate salary!) or established in your career, I hope you will us about your work by sending an e-mail consider playing a part in the future success of our School. Every contribu - to [email protected] or filling out our tion counts. By working together to combine our knowledge and ideas, we alumni update form at can meet our $9 million goal. www.lis.uiuc.edu/people/alumni/mail.html. • Recent graduates—make your first gift to I look forward to hearing from you and working with you to achieve our the GSLIS Annual Fund. goal. Please contact me with your questions and ideas at 217-244-9577 or [email protected].

Diana Stroud Assistant Dean for Development & Alumni Relations

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Alumnus Finds New Home After Katrina storm not only affected the collec - tions, but forced the library to lay off 80% of its staff. Stein was one of the over 200 library workers who lost his job. Unable to return to New Orleans, Stein moved on to Jacksonville, Florida to stay with folklorist Stetson Kennedy. He has since settled in Fresno, California and is a specialist cataloguer at the Henry Madden Library at California State University- Fresno. Stein’s position at the Henry Madden Library was created specifi - cally to help a displaced Katrina librar - ian find work. Instrumental in this process was Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services at California State University-Fresno and 2005–2006 ALA president. In a statement released by Al Stein conducting a video oral history workshop in Selma, Alabama. the ALA in January 2006, Gorman stated, “I heard of universities offering One year ago, librarian Al Stein (MS advocating for its relocation as part of temporary positions to faculty mem - ’97) locked up the New Orleans Public his disaster plan when Katrina hit. bers displaced by Katrina and thought Library for the last time. He was lucky “I have been through earthquakes in we could do that in the library. As it enough to hail one of the last cabs to California, have seen tornadoes in the has turned out, Al Stein has proven to take him out of the city as Hurricane Midwest, and witnessed the floods of be a great asset as he has expertise Katrina approached. “We drove out of 1992 along the Mississippi River near and skills that we need for the Arne the Central Business District past the St. Louis and Alton, Illinois. However, Nixon Center and the Special Superdome and I noticed the forma - nothing could have prepared me for Collections Library.” tion of the first lines of evacuees hold - this hurricane. It was life-changing,” GSLIS offered assistance to Stein ing pillows, blankets, and their pos - explained Stein. after the storm as well. “GSLIS sessions in backpacks,” Stein said. On Saturday, August 27, 2005, Stein resources helped me prepare for job At the time of the hurricane, Stein not only nabbed one of the last cabs interviews even before my permanent was the head of the Louisiana to the airport, but also caught one of separation from the city of New Division, City Archives & Special the last flights out of the city as well. Orleans. Dean John Unsworth was Collections of the New Orleans Public Stein evacuated first to Chicago where particularly gracious, helping me with Library. He, along with his team, col - he watched Katrina wreak havoc on office space to job network, inviting lected and preserved the stories of the Gulf Coast. me to attend the Library History New Orleans through photographs, Miraculously, after the storm qui - Seminar in October, and letting me manuscripts, and oral histories. As eted, the City Archives were left intact stay in his home, meeting his family head of the collection, one of his jobs and unharmed. However, all branches and friends,” Stein explained. was to prepare a disaster plan. of the New Orleans Public Library sus - For many years, the City Archives tained some level of damage from the collection has been housed in a sub- storm. Eight of the twelve branches basement of the library. Stein was were damaged beyond repair and are now being rebuilt. Currently, six branches are open to the public. The

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Returning Home While librarians from across the coun - On the Cutting Edge try walked the convention floor at this Anyone who has waited their turn in a hair salon or year’s annual ALA conference in New barber shop is familiar with the reading choices usu - Orleans, Stein spent most of his time ally made available: copies of the latest celebrity mag - volunteering to clean up. He also gath - azines, Time , Newsweek . But hairdresser Joanne ered the last of his things and pre - Kaczmarek (MS ’00) wanted to broaden the selection. pared to bring them to Fresno. “I miss When she brought in her own materials to offer, the Gumbo; I don’t miss the heat. I miss salon she worked for told her she “couldn’t bring in a the culture, and the friends I made little bookcase displaying a collection of alternative there. We have a special connection reading materials for my clients. They said the book - post-Katrina,” he said. case didn’t fit with the décor. I had books on conserva - It was while Stein was in tion and alternative energy, philosophy, history, mechanics, stuff like that. Jacksonville that friend and colleague I wanted to give people something besides Cosmo and Glamour to look Stetson Kennedy encouraged him to at…” Kaczmarek explained. write about Katrina. Stein is at work After she opened her own salon called Armadillo in Champaign, on many Katrina-related publications, Kaczmarek was free to offer her clients a wide variety of reading choices. conferences, and proposals. He has But she didn’t stop there. “The LIS degree option seemed to fall in my authored a chapter entitled, “Oral lap as a possibility when my clients who were faculty at GSLIS saw I was History, Folklore, and Katrina” that will offering free public access to the Internet and to desktop computing in appear in the upcoming anthology the salon’s reception area. It was probably the first Internet-connected ThereIs No Such Thing as a Natural salon in the country.” Disaster: Race, Class and Katrina Kaczmarek entered GSLIS in the fall of 1997 and continued to run edited by Chester Hartman and Greg Armadillo while she took classes part-time. After she graduated in 2000, Squires. He is also in the midst of she worked as a project manager for On the Job Consulting, a company working on an oral history project, doing software development and web design in Urbana. “The Katrina Evacuees’ Project: In 2001, Kaczmarek was project coordinator for one of the first initia - Women to the Rescue.” This project tives involving the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI- aims to collect stories of displacement PMH)—a project focused on aggregating cultural heritage materials and relocation as well as design a cur - undertaken by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. riculum for using them in the class - In 2002, she became the first archivist for electronic records for the room. Stein expects to develop a part - University Library, a job that was created after University Archivist nership with the Library of Congress William Maher made a case for support in addressing the increasing Folklife Center’s “In the Wake of the number of electronic records. Hurricanes” oral history project and Digital archiving and librarianship is an emerging and exciting field, The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank at one in which Kaczmarek is eager to take part. “[There] is a need to collab - George Mason University. orate and work together across traditionally defined disciplines to Stein called Hurricane Katrina “life- develop agreed upon best practices and standards. The challenges exist changing” and his journey over the in part in the area of redefining the roles and responsibilities of librarians, past year is surely evidence of that. archivists, records managers, and information technologists. Other chal - While he may not return to New lenges lie in determining what is considered ‘good enough’ with respect Orleans permanently, he has an to data security, collection description, and re-use,” she said. enduring connection to the city. Kaczmarek is currently organizing a bicycle ride to benefit women’s “What is it that keeps me anchored shelters in both Champaign-Urbana and New Orleans. The ride is to New Orleans if it is sinking? To bor - expected to take place in May 2007, and riders will travel in three weeks row from Carl Sandburg: in one from New Orleans to Minneapolis. She hopes to include a team of librari - answer it is the people, yes! The spirit ans and archivists on the trip. here is always uplifting, even if the I undertow has left its visible mark.” I

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Something in the Food his librarian’s search had popped to work on a PhD in classics. This these catalog records I had created focus left him unsatisfied, however, so Michelle Kazmer (PhD ’02) and Paul and input [to RLIN]. Now this doctoral he returned to Champaign. He took a Marty (PhD ’02) have reason to student was in my library the follow - job as the Director of Information remember Associate Professor ing week—from the UK!—looking at Technology at the new Spurlock Michael Twidale’s doctoral seminar items he would not have known about Museum on campus and became very from the fall of 1997 fondly. As Marty had I not provided bibliographic interested in museum information explains, “I sat next to her on the first access to them. How could you NOT organization and management as well day of class, starting a seating chart become a librarian after that?” she as the role of new information tech - trend that would continue for the next said. nologies in museums. A colleague four years. Michelle and I are living After graduating with her engineer - urged him to speak with Leigh proof that if you eat lunch together ing degree, Kazmer went straight to Estabrook and she, in turn, encour - every day at the Thai restaurant in the the University of Pittsburgh, earning aged him to pursue a degree at YMCA you will her MLS the following GSLIS. “As soon as I started I realized eventually get mar - year. Her first job was I had found my home in academia,” ried.” as a visiting librarian said Marty. “The courses I took at Both Kazmer and at the Grainger GSLIS provided me the structure I was Marty are begin - Engineering Library missing to guide my thoughts and ning their fifth year Information Center at direct my actions.” as assistant profes - Illinois. She then took Their current research keeps them sors at the College a position at Ford busy at FSU. Kazmer’s research is in of Information at Motor Company as a online environments and she is cur - Florida State Technical Information rently looking at the long-term career University. Both Specialist in Dearborn, outcomes and contributions to the are working Michigan. Before long, profession of graduates of online toward tenure. And she realized she learning programs in LIS. Marty works both were on very missed Champaign- in museum informatics and is different academic Urbana. “Of all the researching the evolution of paths when they places I’ve lived it’s sociotechnical systems and collabora - found library and still my absolute tive work practices in museums, the information science. favorite, and I really wanted to go usability of museum websites, the Kazmer found her passion for LIS as back,” she said. She enrolled at GSLIS evolving roles of information profes - an undergraduate at Columbia in the fall of 1997. sionals in museums and the digital University. While a mechanical engi - Marty grew up in Champaign in a museum in the life of the user. neering undergraduate, she worked “very academic household. The prob - Kazmer remembers that as a child with Dr. Linda Kruger, a cataloguer at lem with growing up around academ - she, just like Marty, had a hard time the Columbia University Library. Dr. ics is that you end up interested in deciding what to do when she was Kruger received a grant to catalog everything,” he explained. “I was one older. “My focus was never on a nearly 6,000 trade catalogs of lighting of those kids who got straight As in career or job; it was on what I wanted fixtures, paint, and pre-fabricated every subject, aced every standardized to learn, which was everything!” she homes for the Avery Art and test and had absolutely no idea what I explained. Now Kazmer and Marty are Architecture Library rare book collec - wanted to be when I grew up.” parents themselves. Whether he tion. Kazmer worked as an assistant Staying true to his “interdisciplinary wants to be an astronaut or an actor, on the project and discovered she roots” as he calls them, Marty earned their two-year-old son finds himself loved cataloging. Shortly after she two bachelor’s degrees from Illinois: a with perfect company on that winding began, she noticed a patron in the BS in computer engineering and a BA road through interests and career reading room surrounded by trade in history. He began to focus his stud - aspirations. No doubt they’ll guide catalogs of paint. “The previous week, ies and earned a master’s in ancient him well, and even encourage him to history from Illinois before he went to take the scenic route. I King’s College, Cambridge University

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Indiana Jones and the knowledge other people just don’t Three Alumnae Receive have,” Priestley said. Mountain of Info Priestley first cut his teeth in busi - Prestigious Awards If there is one trait ness with Monroe Calculator Chicago Public Library Commissioner that all LIS profes - Company selling programmable calcu - Mary Dempsey (MS ’76) was the 2006 sionals seem to lators. He went on to work in product recipient of the Illinois Humanities share, it is the drive planning for rival company Victor Council’s Public Humanities Award. to search for infor - Business Concepts where he saw his Dempsey received the award on April mation. Tom role as “the interpreter between mar - 27, 2006 at a luncheon chaired by Priestley (MS ’06) is keting and engineering.” Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. no different. “I Most recently, Priestley worked for Given annually, this award recognizes wanted to be Lucent Technologies in suburban individuals and organizations for their Indiana Jones Chicago. In 2002 Lucent conducted a contributions to public understanding before there was an Indiana Jones, series of layoffs and unfortunately of the role the humanities play in traveling down the Amazon and dis - Priestley’s job was one of the many transforming lives and strengthening covering things,” said Priestley. While that were eliminated. He began con - communities. he hasn’t gotten his chance to visit the sulting and took this opportunity to Mary Jane Petrowski (CAS ’93), Amazon (yet) he has acted on his pas - reassess his interests and goals. After associate director of the Association sion of discovery—he just completed a bit of research, he realized that a of College and Research Libraries his library and information science degree in library and information sci - (ACRL), received the 2006 ACRL degree. ence was a perfect fit. He entered the Instruction Section’s Miriam Dudley Shortly after graduation, Priestley LEEP program shortly thereafter. Instruction Librarian Award. The began working for Motorola as a pro - “When I tell people I have an LIS award recognizes a librarian who has gram manager in staff development degree, they’re intrigued. I work in a made a significant contribution to the where he is responsible for making pure business environment but it [LIS] advancement of instruction in a col - sure the information needs of thou - does work, it does fit. I bring an lege or research library environment. sands of employees are met, from entirely different approach to the Carol Tenopir (PhD ’84), professor at ensuring people have the training they analysis,” Priestley said. He is excited the University of Tennessee School of need to perform their jobs well to cre - to blend his experience in business Information Sciences, was selected to ating a structure around which infor - with his love of information and is present the 2006 Miles Conrad mation is collected, stored, and made looking forward to a long career at Lecture, given at the annual confer - available. “Almost every business is Motorola. “Motorola is a dynamic ence of the National Federation of trying to put together a depository of organization, and I want to be integral Abstracting and Information Services information. My degree gives me in their continued growth.” I (NFAIS). Tenopir delivered her remarks, “Building Bridges to Information Products and Services” on February 26, 2006 in Philadelphia. More information, including a tran - Loriene Roy Elected ALA President for 2007–2008 script and powerpoint slides of Loriene Roy (PhD ’87), professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School Tenopir’s talk, is available from NFAIS of Information, has been elected president of the American Library at: www.nfais.org/publications/ Association (ALA) for the 2007–2008 term. Roy became president-elect in mc_lectures.htm. I July 2006, and will assume the ALA presidency in July 2007, following the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. She will serve a one-year term as president. For more information, please visit the ALA election Web site: www.ala.org/2006election.

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LSAA NEWS The five recipients of the 2006 Library School Alumni Association Awards were honored at the June 25, 2006 GSLIS and LSAA Alumni Reception during the Annual American Library Association Conference in New Orleans.

DISTINGUISHED Remarks from the LSAA President ALUMNUS AWARD The following remarks were delivered by Donna This year, the LSAA has chosen two Dziedzic (MS ’73) at Convocation on May 14, 2006. alumni to honor with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. This award honors alumni who have I’m Donna Dziedzic, current President of the Library made an outstanding contribution to School Alumni Association. On behalf of our Board and the field of library and information members, let me congratulate you! It is an honor to wel - science.

come you to the incredibly dynamic profession that is Mohamed Mohamed El-Hadi (MS ’60, library and information science. PhD ’64) has enjoyed a forty-year I am proud to have a GSLIS degree and pleased that as career as a leading figure in library and information science in Egypt. He soon as I graduated I became a life member of the Library is currently Professor Emeritus of School Alumni Association, LSAA. LSAA works to pro - Computer Science and Information mote the interests of GSLIS and to maintain communica - Systems, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences; Founder and tions among alumni. Your membership can serve as your President of the Egyptian Society for continuing link to GSLIS and to your more than 5,500 out - Information Systems and Technology; and President of CompuLand standing fellow alumni around the world. Computer Company, based in Cairo. In my case, GSLIS and its alumni have helped me with a Mohamed El-Hadi came to the career that to date has spanned 37 years, working in aca - United States in 1958 to study at GSLIS. After receiving his PhD in demic, public, and state libraries; in state and national 1964, he returned to Cairo and began library associations; as well as in the private sector. his career working for the Ministry of As you can see, however you direct your career, your Higher Education. Over the years he has had a variety of influential posi - LSAA affiliation can serve you long and well. Your mem - tions in LIS, including having been a bership will benefit you while supporting GSLIS and our consultant to the Egyptian govern - profession. ment, regional organizations, and sev - eral private companies. In addition to Currently, our major project is raising funds to support his service at the Sadat Academy, he fellowships for GSLIS. We need to raise less than $10,000 has served as a visiting professor to a number of universities in Egypt, guid - more to reach our goal of $75,000. This will be matched ing many students through their dis - dollar for dollar by a most generous alumni donor, Lionelle sertations. His influence on the field of Elsesser (MS ’67). That $150,000 will then be matched by LIS can be felt throughout Egypt, North Africa, Europe, and the Middle the Provost, giving GSLIS two endowed fellowships in per - East. petuity. Once again, congratulations and enjoy your career! Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson ’s (MS ’78) dis - tinguished career has taken her from the Midwest to the Northwest. Currently, she is the director of the University Libraries, University of Washington. She is a former president

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of the LSAA and has an impressive Welshons (MS ’02) to launch the as a researcher for the Library of history of service to the LIS commu - eUpdate, a quarterly e-mail newsletter Congress National Digital Information nity: most recently she is chair of the sent to all alumni. Infrastructure and Preservation board of trustees of OCLC and sits on Barrick earned her undergraduate Program (NDIIPP) grant that was the board of directors of the degree from Bowling Green State awarded to several other organiza - Association of Research Libraries. In University in Ohio and went on to tions and GSLIS. He is widely pub - addition, she has served as president receive an MLIS from Kent State lished in the area of digital archiving of the Association of College and University. Before coming to GSLIS, and in 2005 published A Glossary of Research Libraries and participated in she spent 18 years at Southwest Archival and Records Terminology . numerous committees in a variety of Public Libraries in Grove City, Ohio. professional organizations. Her first position was as an outreach Before Wilson began working at the librarian; she then became the youth STUDENT AWARD University of Washington, she had a services librarian and finally assistant long career at Illinois. After she earned director for public services. Honore Bray (MS ’06) is the recipient her degree at GSLIS, she began work - In 2005, she moved to Florida after of the 2006 LSAA Student Award. This ing as an assistant librarian at the her husband accepted a position as award recognizes a student who Ricker Library of Architecture and Art. dean of the College of Agricultural and “caught the spirit” of the library and She eventually worked her way up to Life Sciences at the University of information science profession while assistant director of libraries for Florida. She is now the chair of the employed in a library setting and so undergraduate and instructional serv - Alpha Phi Foundation which raises chose to enter the master’s program. ices while also serving as coordinator funds for women’s scholarship, lead - This graduating student must have a of online catalog user services. She is ership, and education activities as well strong commitment to return to a pro - a widely published and award-winning as for women’s heart health. fessional position in a library setting librarian having received the Miriam and help others “catch the spirit.” Dudley Instruction Librarian Award for After teaching high school home lifetime achievement and the Margaret LEADERSHIP AWARD economics for twenty years, Bray, a E. Monroe Award for achievement in Montana native, was awarded the library service. Richard Pearce-Moses (MS ’01) has position of library director at Hearst been awarded the LSAA Leadership Free Library in her hometown of Award, given for accomplishments in Anaconda, Montana. Bray had worked DISTINGUISHED the field of library science within ten nine years at the library when the pro - SERVICE AWARD years of graduation. gram received a grant from the Pearce-Moses is director of digital Institute of Museum and Library Susan K. Barrick has been awarded government information at the Services for her and five others to the 2006 Distinguished Service Award, Arizona State Library, Archives and attend school to earn their master’s given for outstanding service for Public Records. Less than five years degrees. She entered the LEEP pro - LSAA and/or GSLIS. after graduation, he was named the gram while continuing to work as Barrick was the assistant dean for 2005–2006 president of the Society of library director. While at GSLIS, she development and alumni relations American Archivists. Pearce-Moses shared her experiences as a public from 1996 to 2005. She was the first has worked in archiving for more than librarian by serving as a mentor to full-time development officer at GSLIS twenty years. Before coming to the other students who were new to the and was instrumental in building the Arizona State Library, he worked for field. Bray graduated from GSLIS in GSLIS advancement program into one the Harry Ransom Humanities May 2006 and has held the position of of the most successful on campus. Research Center at the University of library director at Missoula Public She has been described by her peers Texas at Austin, the Texas Historical Library since fall of 2005. as “an excellent ambassador for Foundation, the Texas State Library GSLIS.” In 2001, Barrick worked and Archives, and the Heard Museum closely with assistant dean for publi - in Phoenix. For additional information on the awards program and pre - vious recipients or to make a nomination for the 2007 cations and communications Marlo He continues to work closely with awards, please visit http://lsaa.lis.uiuc.edu/awards.html. colleagues at GSLIS through his work

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1950s Judith Hopkins (MS ’57; CAS ’73) was for the Book as one of the twenty New Nauvoo: Mormon City on the selected as the 2006 winner of the Jersey Notable Books for 1995–2005. Mississippi River (Houghton Mifflin) Margaret Mann Citation. Hopkins Two years ago, this same book and a mystery novel entitled Shadow received the award at the Association received a commendation from the Island (Blue Horse Books). for Library Collections & Technical American Association for State and Bonnie Postlethwaite (MS ’79) was Services awards ceremony on June Local History. appointed associate dean of libraries 25, 2006 at the ALA annual conference Lou Coatney (MS ’73) reports: “After at the University of Missouri-Kansas in New Orleans. 15 fascinating years in the Alaska City on March 27, 2006. She was pre - Bonnie Crell (MS ’59) retired in 2000 State Library I returned to Illinois to viously vice president of information as principal librarian, California State work in Western’s library in Macomb services at Baker University with government. and get an History MA. After adven - responsibility for the library and for tures in tenure and a mid-career retire - information technology. In previous ment, I have the best position at Carl roles, she worked at Tufts University 1960s Sandburg doing reference, interlibrary in Massachusetts where she was loans, library instruction, etc. As you director of university library technol - Anne (Graver) Edwards (MS ’67) can see from my webpage at ogy and for the Faxon company where retired in 2000 as assistant head, Ellis http://LCoat.tripod.com I’ve main - she was product manager and man - Reference Services, University of tained my interest in military and ager of client support and training. Missouri-Columbia. Edwards worked naval history and gaming. My daugh - Bonnie is very active in the library at the University for 31 years and at ter works in a library in Colorado and community and was recently presi - Macalester College (asst. catalog my son is in aerospace engineering at dent of the Library and Information librarian) for two years. UIUC.” Technology Association (LITA). Wanda Dole (MS ’75) has been named 1970s dean of the Ottenheimer Library at the 1980s University of Arkansas-Little Rock. She Shirley May Byrnes (MS ’71) has been was dean of libraries at Washburn Irene Hoffman (MS ’81) was named elected president of the Illinois Library University in Kansas since 1999. Executive Director of OCLC CAPCON, System Directors Organization a division of OCLC Online Computer (ILSDO). Byrnes reports: “We are cele - Connell B. Gallagher (MS ’78), director Library Center. She was previously the brating 40 years of regional library for research collections, University of associate university librarian for per - systems in Illinois since the bill that Vermont Libraries, has been made a sonnel planning and assessment at created them was signed on August Fellow of the Society of American Georgetown University Library. 17, 1965. Library systems have Archivists. changed a lot since then, and we con - Judith Siess (MS ’82) has published Steven Schoenly (MS ’78) retired from tinue to change as the environment two new books: The Essential OPL, the University of Mississippi as an and needs of our customers change.” 1998–2004: The Best of Seven Years of associate professor of Computer and The One-Person Library : A Newsletter Paul Richert (MS ’71), law librarian Information Science, after 27.5 years for Librarians and Management , and professor of law at The University of service at that university. Scarecrow Press, 2005 (ISBN 0-8108- of Akron, has co-authored the third David A. Tyckoson (MS ’78) has been 5429-5); and The New OPL edition of Searching the Law , which elected president of the Reference and Sourcebook: A Guide for Small and was published in fall 2005. User Services Association (RUSA), a Solo Libraries , Information Today, Inc., African American Women Writers in division of the American Library 2006 (1-57387-241-5). Siess reports New Jersey 1836–2000: A Biographical Association, for the 2007–2008 term. that she has also recently traveled “to Dictionary and Bibliographic Guide He is currently head of public services, Australia to teach six workshops on (2003: Rutgers University Press), writ - California State University, Fresno. library management, to Africa for a ten by Sibyl Moses (MS ’72; PhD ’95), two-week photo safari in Kenya and Raymond Bial (MS ’79) has two new was chosen by the New Jersey Center Tanzania and one week of relaxation children’s books coming out in fall in Cape Town, South Africa (and met 2006: a nonfiction book called

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with librarians, of course), and two (which IS part of the job), but I’m also Center. McKay also served as GSLIS weeks in Germany to teach workshops going to be creating the metadata for assistant dean for student affairs until in Stuttgart and Berlin.” our ContentDM collections. I’m also 2004. working on a big bunch of 19th and Diane Zabel (MS ’82), the Louis and early 20th century law treatises that Mark Stengel (MS ’88) is associate Virginia Benzak Business Librarian (an had never gotten into our OPAC for dean at Cal State University San endowed position) at the Schreyer various reasons. (Life is fun: I was Marcos, where he has been collec - Business Library, Pennsylvania State able to take 3 weeks this summer and tions coordinator since 2001. University, has been appointed editor backpack 291 miles of the Appalachian Beth Kaashoek Postema (MS ’89), of Reference and User Services Trail in NY, NJ, PA, MD, WV, and VA.).” Quarterly (RUSQ), a refereed research deputy director of the Fargo Public journal published by the Reference Irene Hansen (MS ’88, CAS ’95), is a Library, was elected vice- and User Services Association doctoral student in Library and president/president-elect of the North (RUSA), a division of the American Information Studies at the University Dakota Library Association this past Library Association (ALA). Zabel will of Wisconsin-Madison. September. As such, she will be serv - serve for three years as editor. ing as the conference chair for NDLA’s Lorraine Haricombe (MS ’88; PhD ’92) Centennial Conference in September Patricia E. Kirkwood (MS ’84) has has been named dean of libraries at 2006. Kaashoek Postema was also joined the library faculty at the University of Kansas and began on selected as one of the 30 fellows of University of Arkansas as engineering August 1, 2006. She served as the the Fourth Annual Leadership Institute and mathematics librarian. dean of libraries at Bowling Green of the Mountain Plains Library State University since 2001. Association, a six-day institute led by Beverly Allen (MS ’87) is working hard Maureen Sullivan and Dr. Mary to establish the Colorado Fuel & Iron Mary Hollerich (MS ’88) recently Bushing and held at the Ghost Ranch Archives—her grant writing ability has joined the staff of the National Library retreat center near Abiquiu, NM in just garnered a $240,000 award from of Medicine in Bethesda, MD, where, October 2006. the National Endowment for the as their new head of the collection Humanities for a two-year processing access section, she oversees three Susan Kulasekara (MS ’89) reports grant. She presented a session on units: interlibrary loan, onsite access, that she is “currently staying at home heavy industry archives at the Society and DOCLINE system development with my two children, Michaela (9) of American Archivists annual meet - and support. Hollerich reports that she and Ryan (4).” ing in August 2006. “looks forward to seeing lots of GSLIS alumni at MLA conferences. If you’re Roger Strouse (MS ’87) was promoted in the D.C. area, I would love to hear 1990s to vice president & lead analyst of from you!” Outsell, Inc. in December 2004. James G. Durham (MS ’90) is the new Strouse remains largely focused on Naomi Lederer (MS ’88) has had her head of public services at the Touro profiling corporate information users book, Ideas for Librarians Who Teach: College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law based on job functions and industries, With Suggestions for Teachers and Center Library in Huntington, New among other variables, and still partic - Business Presenters , published by York. He supervises reference, faculty, ipates in Outsell’s benchmarking of Scarecrow Press (0-8108-5212-8 and circulation services, in addition to corporate and government libraries, $35.00). coordinating the library’s legal as well as consulting with clients on research instruction program. He information management strategies Curt McKay (MS ’88), director of the occasionally serves as program and operational matters. UIUC Office for LGBT Concerns, has administrator for the college’s sum - received a Robert P. Larsen Human mer legal study abroad program in Kurt A. T. Bodling (MS ’88) began Development Award. The honor is Shimla and Dharamsala, India. He pre - working as the electronic resources given to those making a significant viously served as publications and ref - cataloger at the State Library of contribution to the campus consistent erence librarian at South Texas Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA in with the mission of the Counseling College of Law in Houston. He October 2005. Bodling reports: “I told my kids ‘I’m cataloging the Internet’

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received his J.D. from The Ohio State Cheryl Miller Maddox (MS ’94) Kyle Banerjee (MS ’96) co-authored University, and is licensed by the returned to the Midwest in July 2004, the book Digital Libraries: Integrating State Bar of New Mexico. to become head of public services at Content and Systems, published by the Christian Theological Seminary Chandos Publishing. Lian Ruan (MS ’90) has received a FY Library in Indianapolis, IN. Previously, 2006 Library Services and Technology Maddox was reference librarian at the Elizabeth Figa (MS ’96, PhD ’02), Act (LSTA) grant award of $81,626. Graduate Theological Union at assistant professor in the University of The grant project, which was awarded Berkeley, CA. North Texas School of Library and by the Illinois State Library, is entitled Information Science, received “Creative Use of Libraries-Deliver Jonathan David Makepeace (MS ’94) Outstanding Online Course and Right Information to Illinois became a Canadian citizen on January Teacher Awards for Fall 2005. The Firefighters at Right Time.” 9, 2006, in Montreal. He retains U.S. award recognizes excellence in the citizenship as well and has been bibli - instructional design of web-based ALA Publishing and ALA’s Information ographic services librarian for the courseware and the instructional Technology and Telecommunications Leddy Library at the University of experience of this courseware. Figa’s Unit have hired Jenny Levine (MS ’92) Windsor in Ontario since September current research includes storytelling as Internet development specialist and 1, 2004. through digital and virtual means. strategy guide, effective August 1, 2006. John Finn (MS ’95) recently accepted Patricia M. Mathews (MS ’96) reports: the position of director of the Hearst “This is my 10th year as a library Rosie L. Albritton (PhD ’93) has been Free Library in Anaconda, MT, after media specialist at Dr. Howard named a 2006–2009 councilor-at-large four years as head of the Information Elementary School in Champaign. for the American Library Association. Services Department at Great Falls This spring two of my sons will gradu - Haralds Robeznieks (MS ’93) and Public Library (MT). Finn reports: “It’s ate from college and one son will Dana Cass were married in Foresthill, truly amazing to live at mile-high alti - graduate from high school so my hus - CA on September 24, 2005. Haralds is tude right on the Continental Divide. band and I look forward to a very busy the Research Lead for Accenture’s Montana has been good to me. I spring full of pomp and circum - Finance & Performance Management recently ended a term as President of stance.” practice. the Montana Library Association, right at the height of the PATRIOT ACT con - Terrence Edwards (MS ’97) began Sandra Stewart (MS ’93) moved to troversies of 2003–2004. It was great working at Texas State University in sunny California and is having a great to be a public advocate for privacy March 2006 at the rank of librarian. time managing a really busy branch and intellectual freedom issues for Previously he has been the head of library in San Jose. Montana’s library community.” reference for Central College in Iowa and the University of Maine at Julie James (MS ’94) has joined Wake Colleen C. Manning (MS ’95), head of Farmington. He lives in New Forest University Health Sciences as a public services for Florida Coastal Braunfels, Texas, with his wife, Anne, Systems Librarian in the Technical School of Law, received the 2005 and daughter, Abigail. Services department. She is also Florida Coastal School of Law Staff recently married. Vision Award. The award is presented Kara L. Giles (MS ’97) has joined the by the graduating law class and is in staff of the American Library A book by Kari (Bero) Kells (MS ’94), recognition of a member of the staff Association as a Public Programs entitled Inside Indexing , has been who has made significant contribu - Officer and Web Editor. Her primary published. Kells has been employed tions to the law school and the stu - responsibilities include management since 1995 by the Pierce College dents. of the Public Programs Office Web site Library in Washington State, which and serving as editor of the PPO has been awarded the 2005 ACRL John Millard (MS ’95), head of the Online Resource Center. Giles was Excellence in Academic Libraries Digital Initiatives department of the previously the systems librarian at award. Miami University Libraries, has been Dominican University in River Forest, promoted to rank of associate librar - IL. ian and awarded a continuing con - tract.

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The North Suburban Library System erings and programs targeted specifi - (A/V, junior and teen fiction and non- has selected Kathleen Lovelace (MS cally at their needs. Programs will fiction and Adult books for Young ’97) as its Public Library Staff Member include career advancement, technol - Adults) and The Video Librarian . of the Year for her work as head of the ogy in the workplace (blogs and special services department at the Ela online portfolios), cooking for one or Randy Fletcher (MS ’99) recently Area Public Library in Lake Zurich, IL. two, etc. It is an exciting opportunity returned to the library profession after to re-educate Generation X about the spending nearly 8 years in institu - Loring Prest (MS ’97) was recently wide range of services that the library tional research and policy studies. He promoted to the rank of associate pro - offers. was named dean of library & aca - fessor at California University of demic services at Danville Area Pennsylvania. He is in his eighth year Linda Defendeifer (MS ’98) has relo - Community College in January 2006. as electronic resources librarian & cated to Washington, D.C., to work as Fletcher lives in Royal, Illinois with his library webmaster. Loring continues to a research analyst at the law firm of wife and two daughters. author the “Religion” section of Hogan and Hartson. Defendeifer Magazines for Libraries, including the reports, “I look forward to seeing any David Hamilton (MS ’99) is currently forthcoming 14th edition. GSLIS grads who work in or visit the the program coordinator for the newly nation’s capital.” formed CARLI - Consortium of In summer 2005, Ryan Roberts (MS Academic Libraries in Illinois. ’97, CAS ’99) became the official web - Lila Fredenburg (MS ’98) has accepted Hamilton was married in April of 2005. master for British poet and essayist a position as associate director for James Fenton planning and administrative services (www.jamesfenton.com). Fenton at Florida State University Libraries 2000s served as Oxford Professor of Poetry effective August 1, 2006. Christina M. Desai (MS ’00) and (1994–1999) and contributes fre - Stephanie Graves (MS ’04) presented quently to the New York Review of Rebecca Graham (MS ’98) joined the “Does Co-browsing Enhance Books and the Guardian . Roberts also Harvard College Libraries (HCL) in Instruction in Virtual Reference?” at maintains the official websites for Ian April 2006 as the special assistant for the VRD Conference in San Francisco, McEwan (www.ianmcewan.com) and strategic initiatives, a position estab - Nov. 14–15, 2005. Julian Barnes lished to augment the College Library’s strategic planning efforts. In (www.julianbarnes.com), both of Morris Levy (MS ’00) co-authored The concert with the HCL Administration, whom contended for the 2005 Man Italian Ballet Collection , from the John and in close collaboration with senior Booker Prize. Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection managers, this position provides of The Harvard Theatre Collection. Lisa Zhao (MS ’97), assistant catalog direction to special strategic initiatives This second catalogue of materials librarian at the University of Illinois- that span multiple units and is instru - includes over 2,100 items relating to Chicago, received the highest award mental in aligning HCL with programs Italian ballet from the seventeenth from the Library Society of China 2006 of other libraries both within and through the twentieth century. Annual Conference’s Best Paper beyond Harvard. Rebecca came to (Harvard University Press ISBN Contest. Lisa’s article “Developing in HCL from the Countway Library of 0-974396-31-1) Practicing Laws” will be published by Medicine, having served for three the Library Society of China. years as the library’s operational Rich McGowan (MS ’00) has accepted director. a position as assistant librarian at the Michelle Budt-Caulk (MS ’98), along Weill Cornell Medical College Library with three of her colleagues at the St. Jane Halsall (MS ’98) presented, along in New York City. McGowan has been Charles Public Library (IL), has been with her colleague Bill Edminster, at working for the past three years at the awarded an LSTA grant in support of the March 21–25, 2006 Public Library University of Illinois at Chicago Health a new library initiative, “TnT: Twenties Association conference in Boston. The Sciences Library. and Thirties Reconnect with the title of the program was “From Anime Library.” The purpose of the program to Zoolander: Taking Teens and Teen Cyril Oberlander (MS ’00) delivered is to draw the 20s and 30s demo - Films Seriously.” Halsall is currently a the presentation “Resource Sharing graphic back into the library by offer - reviewer for School Library Journal Discoveries: Exploring What’s Possible ing a series of social/networking gath -

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with Collaboration and Technology” at Chungho Min (MS ’01) has moved to Ria Newhouse (MS ’02) has been the International OCLC ILLiad Meeting Korea, and asks alumni to “contact me named a 2006–2009 councilor-at-large March 17–18, 2005. if you are planning a visit.” for the American Library Association. She was also featured on the cover of Michelle V. Ornat (MS ’00) has been Leslie Owens (MS ’01) is happy to the April 15, 2006 issue of Library promoted to manager of the Indian share news of the birth of her son Journal . Newhouse participated in the River Library, Chesapeake Public Graham on July 27, 2005. Owens LJ series, “A Day in the Life” in which Library System. reports “My husband Erik was LIS professionals share their experi - awarded a post-doc at UVA so we’re ences through personal essay. Catherine Ritchie (CAS ’00) wrote and spending the year in Charlottesville, presented a “contributed paper” for Newhouse is a reference and instruc - VA. I’m continuing my career at tion librarian at Metropolitan State the 2006 Annual Conference of the Abbott (telecommuting, part-time) Texas Library Association, on the topic University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She working on search and taxonomy was named a “LJ Mover & Shaker” in “Rally Around a Cause: Developing projects.” the First GLBT Author Series in 2004. Dallas.” Andrea (Mark) Telli (MS ’01) has been Sue Phillips (MS ’02) is in her second manager of the Humboldt Park Branch Jennifer Woodruff Tait (MS ’00) year as the upper school librarian at of the Chicago Public Library since the Catlin Gabel School, a wonderfully defended her doctoral dissertation at December 2004. Duke University and graduated in creative, dynamic private school in December 2005. Terren Ilana Wein (MS ’01) is the Portland, Oregon. Phillips reports that director of communications for the she “is astonished to discover how Lora L. Thompson (MS ’00) started a University of Chicago Divinity School. much she loves working with new position December 22, 2005 at She and husband Tony Elia (current teenagers.” the Dartmouth College Biomedical LEEP student) welcomed baby Lilah Libraries as associate director of edu - John (MS ’02) and Connie (MS ’02) Evelin to the world on November 1, Repplinger had a baby girl, Mehayla cation and information services. 2005. Thompson had been director of library Rae, on May 2, 2006. services at Easton Hospital for the pre - In August 2005, Sarah Ziah (MS ’01) Since September 2005, Bryce Rumbles vious four years. began working as a librarian at the (MS ’02) has been a Librarian II in the Todd Library at Waubonsee Dawn Cassady (MS ’01) accepted the Reference and Information Section of Community College in Sugar Grove, the Broward County Libraries, Fort position of training and technical Illinois. assistance coordinator for the Lauderdale, Florida, where, he reports, Mortenson Center for International Kelly Czarnecki (MS ’02) recently he’s “already survived two hurri - Library Programs at the UIUC Library accepted a position as a teen librarian canes.” in August 2005. at ImaginOn (www.imaginon.org) in Elizabeth Watkins (MS ’02) has been Charlotte, North Carolina. Czarnecki selected to participate in a Fulbright Victor Harari (MS ’01) participated in also presented at the Gaming, two meetings of the “Biblioteca de Hays Seminar Abroad. Her program is Learning and Libraries Symposium in called “Broadening the Knowledge Babel” Project: the first in Paris, Chicago, December 5–6, 2005. The France and second in Utrecht, Base on India” and includes at least topic of the presentation was 10 different cities and sites, as well as Netherlands. In this project librarians “Supporting a Culture: Gaming in the from European and Latin American instruction on Indian history, cultures, Library.” religions, and economic issues. universities gathered to analyze the (http://gaminginlibraries.com/). use of ITCs in university libraries. Another emphasis of this particular Harari will attend a third conference in Esther Gillie (MS ’02) has taken a program is to give participants ideas Valparaiso, Chile in November 2006. supervisory position at University of and skills to locate and evaluate Connecticut. Gillie has been with the resources and potential collaborations Pamela J. Miller (MS ’01) assumed the University of Illinois Music Library for for their projects. Watkins will also be position of head of youth services at the past three years. developing educational materials Messenger Public Library (North about India for use throughout area Aurora, IL) in May 2005. schools.

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Jodi Weisz-Fulgione (MS ’02) has Kay Shelton (MS ’03) has won the been working in the engineering been appointed director of the Outstanding Service Award for Civil library at Caterpillar, Inc for the past Emerson Public Library in Emerson, Service at Northern Illinois University, few years. New Jersey where she joined a year which included a $1,600 salary bonus ago as the Youth Services Librarian. and is the highest award given by the Christine Carmichael (MS ’04) began university. The award was in large working on August 1, 2005 as Laura Akerman (MS ’03) has been part for her work on a memorial book Creighton University’s web technology and metadata librarian at entitled Daw May Kyi Win and the services/reference librarian and liaison Emory University since January 2005, Burmese Bibliographic Collection at to the College of Business administra - where, she reports, she has been Northern Illinois University: Homage tion. Carmichael reports, “After 12 “dealing with both advanced MARC to a Southeast Asian Librarian . years with the federal government, catalog maintenance/enhancement Shelton served as managing editor, this is a big change. I love it! issues and metadata for digital proj - with editorial assistance by Paul T. Everything I learned through LEEP at ects, and it’s been a good stretch!” Webb (MS ’01), for the book that was GSLIS is being put to use.” Akerman also says she would love to published by the Center for Burma hear from classmates. Gretchen Brooke Gould (MS ’04) Studies in 2004. moved to the Washington, D.C. area in Natalie Hoyle (MS ’03), school media Morgann Thomas (MS ’03) has been July 2005, where she is a librarian at coordinator for the Lemont-Bromberek asked to participate in Synergy: The the American Speech-Language- School District 113A, served on the Illinois Library Leadership Initiative Hearing Association in Rockville, Newbery Committee in 2005. 2006. Sponsored by the Illinois State Maryland. Raizel Liebler (MS ’03) recently began Library, the Illinois Library Association Leah Gregory (MS ’04) reports, “I am a position as a Reference Librarian at and their partners, this program working part-time as a preschool John Marshall Law School (Chicago). brings together working librarians teacher, teaching three-year-olds, and I from around the state who have love it! I am also pursuing a master’s Sushila Mertens (MS ’03) recently demonstrated leadership. Each partici - degree in teaching. I will graduate in accepted a position as children’s pant will take part in events held 2007 and hope to go to work as an library services manager for Placer throughout the year, events that are elementary teacher soon after that. County Library’s 12 branches in meant to “nurture future Illinois Right now, I am still home most of the Northern California. library leaders” by fostering leader - time with my kids, Olivia age 6, and ship skills and encouraging mentoring Jennifer Nelson (MS ’03) was recently Finn, age 3. My biggest accomplish - relationships. Thomas is currently a hired as the manager of information ment that I can think of is that we librarian at Carle Foundation Hospital services for the Illinois Association of have finally succeeded in potty train - in Urbana, Illinois. School Boards in Springfield, IL. ing the youngest and have left diapers Debbie J. Allen (MS ’04) reports: “I behind forever.” A paper written by Aditya Nugraha enjoyed my time at GSLIS. I have (MS ’03) has won first place in the Since July 2005, Rudy Leon (MS ’04) incorporated several of my school 2006 ASIST SIG-III International Paper has been working as instruction & col - projects into actual library programs Contest. Nugraha will present the lection development librarian for such as introducing an adult book club paper, entitled “Desa Informasi-The SUNY Potsdam. and heading up a ‘Paws to Read’ pro - Role of Digital Libraries in the gram for the children in my library Edith Pfeifer List (MS ’04) received a Preservation and Dissemination of district. I received great guidance from promotion at the Marshall Brooks Indigenous Knowledge,” at the 2006 GSLIS staff and I appreciate that so Library, Principia College, to librarian ASIST Annual Meeting in Austin, TX much!” with the rank of assistant professor in on Nov 3–9, and it will be published in July 2005. Her duties include informa - the journal International Information Melissa (Smith) Allen (MS ’04) was tion literacy, reference, electronic and Library Review . married to Nicholas Allen in Morton, resources, and ILS database mainte - Illinois in August of 2005. She has Megan Sapp (MS ’03) is currently nance. coordinator of reference for the Purdue University Engineering Library.

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Eleannor Maajid (MS ’04) has recently International Evidence-based Library tion coordinator for the Medical become the science librarian at the and Information conference, in 2007 at Historical Library’s rare book collec - Latin School of Chicago. Maajid Chapel Hill!” tion. reports that she has moved back to Chicago where she has “purchased a Karen Santamaria (MS ’04) is teen Since August 2004, Amy Crump (MS house with my husband and daughter, librarian at Kalamazoo (MI) Public ’05) has been working as the library Elise, who is now two years old.” Library. director for the Marshall Public Library in Marshall, MO. Emily (Urban) Machula (MS ’04) is Gabrielle Toth (MS ’04) has been a ref - now the head cataloger at the Addison erence and instruction librarian at Jacquelyn Erdman (MS ’05) is assis - Public Library in Addison, Illinois. She Chicago State University since tant to the director and assistant refer - married Shawn Machula on June 5, January 2005. ence librarian at Florida Atlantic 2006. University in Boca Raton. Erdman Brandi Tuttle (MS ’04) has been hired writes that in her position she “will be Jan Pye Marry (MS ’04) has recently as an information & education serv - exposed to many aspects of academic moved to San Antonio, Texas where ices librarian for the Duke University librarianship!” she is seeking a library job. Medical Center Library. She and her husband, Jim Tuttle (MS ’04), live in Marc Gartler (MS ’05) just started a Dipesh Navsaria (MS ’04) has com - Durham, NC. Jim is a fellow and the new position as library director at pleted medical school at the geospatial data librarian at North Harrington College of Design in University of Illinois, Urbana- Carolina State University in Raleigh. Chicago. Gartler is working on a Champaign and is pursuing his resi - Brandi reports that she “is busy study - Humanities M.A. at the University of dency at the University of Wisconsin, ing up on medical terminology, MeSH, Chicago, where he has also been Madison. He writes, “I’m done with and new databases while Jim happily working on a project in their Digital med school and off to pediatric resi - creates digital libraries galore.” Library Development Center. dency! Funny, when I was interview - ing they didn’t want to hear about my Terry von Thaden (PhD ’04) was past experience in pediatrics or public awarded the prestigious health, but almost everyone asked Aerospace Human Factors Association’s E W S ! about my library science degree.” D U S Y O U R N Stanley N. Roscoe Award S E N address in te, or to update your Carol Perryman (MS ’04) reports, “My for the best doctoral dis - To submit a class no e form at research focus has shifted to evi - sertation written in a tabase, please use th our da ail.html, or e-mail .edu/people/alumni/m dence-based library and information research area related to www.lis.uiuc c.edu. ation to lis-dev@uiu practice (EBL/EBLIP), long an interest aerospace human factors. the following inform in addition to consumer health behav - The award, along with a iors. Research I conducted while at plaque and honorarium, • Name stitution GSLIS in Carole Palmer’s fabulous was presented at the • Position title and in addresses ‘Use & Users’ class won me first place AsHFA annual business • E-mail and postal • Year of graduation rsonal for research at MLA in San Antonio, meeting luncheon held , professional and pe ils about your career an unexpected bonus! I’m completing during the Aerospace • Deta tivities. ments, and family ac my last semester of coursework and Medical Association confer - accomplish tion gearing up for what comes next, ence in Kansas City in May d the above informa it by post, please sen which will involve looking at academic 2005. To subm dress: and medical librarians’ readiness for to this ad evidence-based practice, and library Sarah Burge (MS ’05) moved to New Haven, ni Newsletter settings as supportive environments Alum nformation Science hool of Library and I Connecticut in August 2005 Graduate Sc ign for research. EBL’s an opportunity to is at Urbana-Champa for a position at Yale University of Illino examine our own needs and practices 501 E. Daniel Street University as the preserva - -6211 during an era of change. Look for Champaign, IL 61820 announcements about the 4th

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Erin Gratz (MS ’05) recently accepted and the Decline of Imposed Linearity” DECEASED the position of chair of the department at the Material Cultures and the of user services at the University of La Creation of Knowledge conference, Phianna A. Sutten (BS ’28) Verne Library. University of Edinburgh, UK, July Catherine M. Wick (AB ’29, AM ’31) 22–24, 2005. Mary E. Garst (BS ’31) Dennis Kim-Prieto (MS ’05) has been Fern I. Garrett (BS ’33) hired as reference librarian in the Law Susie Sutherland (MS ’05) is now a Nina M. Cooper Morton (BS ’35) Library, Rutgers School of Law. Kim- research analyst for McKinsey & Ilo Bales Maynard (BS ’37) Prieto reports: “I finally found a job, Company in London, focusing on UK Gilbert L. Campbell (BS ’38) and it’s a great one! Not only do I get and Ireland local research and macro - Mary Ellen Biery Cole (BS ’39) to work with fellow GSLISer Kevin economics. Mary Seely Dodendorf (BS ’39, AM ’39) Reiss (MS ’01), I also get paid to pur - Melba E. McKibben McCoy (BS ’39) sue my interest in reference sources Kayleigh Van Poolen (MS ’05) recently Genevieve J. Labb Miller (BS ’39, MS ’50) for Latin American jurisdictions! I accepted a position as a research Annie E. Chadwick (BS ’40) hope to hear from more GSLISers assistant with the DePaul College of Carolyn Johnson Kruse (BS ’40) (and ex-GSLISers) now that we’ve Law’s Center for Rural and Urban Edward C. Werner (BS ’40, MS ’54) moved to New Jersey!” Community Development. Van Poolen Mayme P. Bugg (BS ’41) reports that challenges include devel - Esther M. Norman (BS ’41) A paper written by Amy Koehler (MS oping a national conference on legal Ruth E. Reuss Boorkman (BS ’42) ’05), student services librarian at issues and community development Genevieve Turner Crites (BS ’42) Moody Bible Institute, has been as well as developing policy research Constance M. Gall Rehr (BS ’43) accepted for publication by Serials projects. Helen L. Holt (BS ’44) Review . The paper, entitled “Some Mary Wait Jeffries (BS ’45) Thoughts on the Meaning of Open Sandra Wiles (MS ’05) moved from Mary Swisher Smith (BS ’45) Access for University Library Technical Victoria, British Columbia to become Marie Duesenberg (BS ’46) Services,” was originally written for head librarian of the Phoenix Art Marian Mullendore (BS ’46) her final project in LIS 578LE: Museum, a 50,000 volume art Marjorie A. Sohl (BS ’46) Technical Services Functions, taught research library. Wiles reports, “I am Marguerite E. Fritz Abel (BS ’47) by Steve Oberg (MS ’91) in Summer the only employee in the library so Helen F. Kuhns (BS ’47) Deborah S. Fisher (BS ’48, MS ’54) 2005. every shred of my LEEP training is being put to the test (and then some)! Andrew Lasslo (MS ’48, PhD ’52) Oswaldo (Ozzie) Meza (MS ’05) In addition to my library duties, I am Betty H. Bloss Ford (BS ’50) accepted a position in July 2005 as the asked to give public lectures in the Elizabeth C. Davis Johnson (BS ’50) research analyst for both Carlyle galleries on art and artists in the col - Velma May Cravens (MS ’51) Group Ltd. (an executive search firm) lection and help prepare panel notes Harold N. Wiren (BS ’51, MS ’56) and Akoya Capital (a merchant broker - for the exhibitions. I also provide jobs Thomas E. Parks (MS ’52) age firm). for some 30 docent volunteers and Martha C. Stenstrom (MS ’52) provide instruction for new docents as Betty Ann Krahn Baldarotta (MS ’53) Nita Lavaggi (MS ’53) Karen Pardue (MS ’05) was appointed they complete their two-year training Hallet Gildersleeve (MS ’56) to Colorado State University at Pueblo program.” as the instructional technology librar - Marjan Merala (MS ’56) ian. While her primary responsibility is Merinda Hensley (MS ’06) presented Robert J. Adelsperger (MS ’58) to teach bibliography and research, the paper “The Missing Link: Douglas M. Hieber (MS ’59) Pardue is the webmaster for the Alternatives in Gift Processing at the Cynthia Meseke-Lowry (MS ’62) library, and also designs online tutori - University of Illinois,” at the Graduate Carl L. Parmenter (AB ’65, MS ’71) als and online course modules for Student Research Forum sponsored Alice L. Hilliard Payne (MS ’66) Beverly Hershbarger Miller (MS ’67) Blackboard. by LRRT, ALA National Conference, Lorraine F. Selander (AB ’67, MS ’76) New Orleans. Hensley also recently Alayne J. Moore (MS ’68) Alec Sonsteby (MS ’05) and M. curated an exhibit at the University’s Kathleen Kern (MS ’99) presented a Mary E. Fau (MS ’71) Main Library on community cook - Anne Young McConnell (CAS ’78) paper “Disordering Knowledge: books. Reflections on Libraries, Technology Michael S. Montgomery (MS ’79)

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