SLIS alumna Sarah Morrison (MLS'08) has a new position as the Adult Services Librarian, Neill Public Library in Pullman, Washington. In an email interview, we asked her about her position.
Students interested in art librarianship now have the option to join the newly established SLIS student group named the Society of Art Librarianship Students (SALS).
The following announcement was sent by Pnina Fichman (Chairperson, SLIS Faculty Policy Council) and Howard Rosenbaum (SLIS Associate Dean) on April 2, 2012:
The Indiana University Libraries hosted a reception in honor of a new biography about Herman B Wells. The reception was held on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Herman B Wells Library. The event featured remarks by IU President Michael A. McRobbie, IU Libraries Dean Brenda L. Johnson, and the book's author James H. Capshew (IU faculty member, History and Philosophy of Science Department). The biography, titled Herman B Wells: The Promise of the American University, was published by Indiana University Press.
The Indiana University Spring Graduate Commencement Ceremony will be held on Friday, May 4, 2012. The Ceremony is a nice event - and a fun way to celebrate graduation. There is plenty of room for guests. No tickets are required - and parking is free.
Greg Youngen (MLS'83) is the Associate Dean of Library Services at the Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. We asked him about his job and tips for students in a recent email interview.
Scott Walter (MLS ’98) was recently selected as the new College & Research Libraries editor by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). Scott will work with current editor Joseph J. Branin as editor designate from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013 - and then begin his three-year term as editor in July 2013. As editor, his responsibilities also include chairing the C&RL Editorial Board.
SLIS alumna Lindley Shedd (MIS ’08) recently published an article, “iTunes U: Experiences from Two Universities” in College and University Media Review.
Lindley is also the Media Services Coordinator for the University of Alabama Libraries. In a recent email interview, she shared information about the position as well as advice for current students.
Emily Ellis (MLS ’07), a graduate from the IUPUI campus, joins an ever-growing group of SLIS alumni named “Movers and Shakers” by Library Journal. Since 2001, the journal has created a list of library and information professionals worthy of being recognized for their contributions to the field. Fifteen SLIS alumni have been named “Movers & Shakers” in previous years.
SLIS Professor Susan Herring gave a talk in the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The talk was titled: "Interactive Multimodal Platforms: A Research Prospectus."
Photo Credit: Sunrise Lake Jackson - Tallahassee, FL - Sept. 25 2010 by SteveNakatani
Amy Tims, a current SLIS Master of Library Science student, curated an exhibit as a part of her internship at the Kinsey Institute during the Fall 2011 semester. The exhibit is entitled “Ephemeral Ink: Selections of Tattoo Art from The Kinsey Institute.”
SLIS graduate Michael Witt (MLS’ 06) is the Interdisciplinary Research Librarian at Purdue University. He is currently supervising two Master of Library Science interns from the SLIS Indianapolis program: Marcy Wilhelm and Rachel Newbury. Together, Witt, Wilhelm and Newbury developed a poster session titled "Finding Repositories of Research Data with Datalib" that has been accepted for the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference to be held June 2012 in Anaheim, California.
On March 14-16, 2012, SLIS Professor Blaise Cronin was at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland to give an invited presentation titled:
• Miniatures and Murals: Portraits of a Discipline and Its Adherents
The January 2012 issue of Research Trends featured an interview with SLIS faculty member Dr. Katy Börner. The article is by Gali Halevi, and is titled "The Power of Scientific Mapping and Visualization: an interview with Prof. Katy Börner."
On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Brian Winterman and colleague Megan Oakleaf (Assistant Professor, Syracuse University) presented initial results of the Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (RAILS) project. RAILS is a national study designed to test information literacy in higher education. Winterman is the Information Fluency and Assessment Librarian in the Teaching and Learning Department of the Indiana University Libraries. He is also a SLIS alumnus (MLS'03), a SLIS adjunct faculty member, and the faculty sponsor to the Special Libraries Association Student Group at SLIS.
SLIS lost a valuable member of its community in 2010 with the death of music cataloger and long-time adjunct faculty member Arsen Ralph Papakhian. Mr. Papakhian mentored many SLIS students in the Music Librarianship Specialization and/or dual MLS/Musicology or Music programs.
SLIS alumnus Scott Walter (MLS ’98) will join DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois) as the University Librarian in April 2012. He is currently the Associate University Librarian for Services and Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. According to the DePaul News Release, Walter “will oversee the libraries’ collection of more than 800,000 volumes housed in the John T. Richardson Library on the Lincoln Park Campus and DePaul’s Loop Campus Library.”
Four SLIS master degree students have had a class project implemented for real world use. Stacey Doyle, Asik Pradhan, Rebecca Reed, and Jane Shin completed their class project (a database) for Dr. Ying Ding's class (SLIS S511: Database Design) during the Spring 2011 session. Dr. Ding recently emailed: "Just got great news from our last year database design class - their group project is now being used on the Black Film Center/Archive’s website."
SLIS alumna Susan Gibbons (MLS’95) is the University Librarian at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Her appointment began on July 1, 2011, and was featured in Yale’s Newsletter - Yale News (March 21, 2011).
SLIS alumna, Kisha Tandy (MLS ’10) is the Assistant Curator for History and Culture at the Indiana State Museum. She was recently interviewed by the Indianapolis Star newspaper regarding her work on a new exhibit for the museum titled “Represent.” The exhibit which “presents work by African-Americans who have lived and worked in Indiana” opened on January 21 and will run through October 14, 2012.
The Society of American Archivists - Student Chapter (SAA-SC) of Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington campus, is set to host their fourth annual Graduate Student and Early Professionals Conference Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4, 2012.
The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) is pleased to announce the establishment of a new dual-degree program in partnership with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).
SLIS faculty member actively contribute research to the profession. Their articles and papers make a difference. Read some recent contributes to the field.
SLIS faculty member Jingfeng Xia and eight of his students have co-authored an article that was recently published in the 2012 portal: Libraries and the Academy (Vol.12, No.1, pp. 85-102.) The article is titled "A Review of Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Policies" and is accessible online through Project Muse.
The ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Annual Conference was held this year in Dallas, Texas from January 17-20, 2012. At a reception on January 19th, the ALISE Board of Directors announced the 2012 award recipients. They noted that "these individuals exemplify the excellence that ALISE encourages and represents in the LIS community."
Barbara Weaver (MLS ’75), the regional library director for Ivy Tech Community College Northwest, was one of the 10 recipients of the 2011 I Love My Librarian Award. Weaver, who has 90 percent hearing loss as the result of a childhood illness, has served the people of Indiana as a librarian for over thirty years.
SLIS doctoral students Peter Hook and Shannon Oltmann presented posters at the ALISE/Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition, ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas on January 18, 2012. Hook is a doctoral candidate having completed his qualifying exams in 2011. Oltmann will receive her Ph.D. soon. She recently completed her final dissertation defense.
"My research is guided by the conviction that the expansion of digital information services can play a role in bridging the gap between libraries and local communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean." -Timothy A. Thompson
December 2011 found SLIS faculty member Hamid Ekbia giving talks at the London School of Economics and Poltical Science, at the University of Western Bohemia, and at the University of Trento. Below are abstracts from his talks, and links to the institutions where they were presented.
The 2012 Indianapolis Youth Literature Conference will be held on Saturday, February 25th at the Central Library of the Indianapolis Public Library. Co-sponsors of the conference are the Indiana State Library, the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Public Library, and Kids Ink.
Included here are some of the activities of SLIS faculty members at the close of the year 2011. As you can see, there are a variety of connections both globally and with other disciplines. From Ireland to Japan, from the Mayo Clinic to journal articles, SLIS faculty members are involved in future-driven research.
Current Master of Library Science student Jose Rincon led the book talk for the final session of SLIS S672 (Seminar on Literature for Youth). Jose is doing the Children's and Young Adult Services Specialization as a part of his MLS degree program. The display for the class was inviting. We asked instructor (and Specialization Director) Dana Backs for details, and we asked Jose Rincon to tell about the experience.
SLIS alumna Amy Jankowski (MLS'11) is now an Assistant Librarian with responsibilities for the Archives and Rare Books Collections at the San Diego Zoo Global Library in Escondido, California. While at SLIS, Amy did the Archives and Records Management Specialization within the Master of Library Science degree.
On January 3, 2012 the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities posted the results of the Digging Into Data Challenge.
SLIS Dean Debora Shaw sent out an announcement regarding grants received by SLIS faculty members Cassidy Sugimoto, Staša Milojević, Ying Ding and Katy Börner.
Indiana University proudly issued the following press release. It includes news that SLIS faculty member, Dr. Katy Börner is one of ten IU faculty who were selected to be Fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This is a significant honor for both SLIS and the university. The recipients will be recognized at the AAAS Annual Meeting to be held February 16-20, 2012 in Vancouver, Canada.
Brian Winterman (MLS'03) will participate in the Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (RAILS) project for the 2011-2012 academic year. Winterman, Information Fluency and Assessment Librarian for the IUB Libraries, will represent Indiana University. He “was selected from librarians attending the ACRL Assessment Immersion Program, an intensive professional development experience focused on building librarian capacity to assess student learning.”
The SLIS Office Opens for the New Year: Tuesday, January 3, 2012
•The SLIS Office will be closed Friday, 12/23/11 through Monday, 1/2/12.
SLIS Information Commons:
This SLIS Information Commons is open during the official semester dates. It will be closed for the weekend of 12/17 and 12/18 — and between Friday, 12/23/11 through Monday, 1/2/12.
SLIS doctoral student Guo Zhang presented a paper at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES). The conference was held from November 21-23, 2011 in San Francisco, California.
SLIS MLS student, Ulrich Houzanme, presented a poster on influential researchers from Africa in the field of Library and Information Science at the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) 2011 Annual Meeting. The conference was held this year in New Orleans, Louisiana from October 9-12, 2011. Ulrich stated that ASIS&T offered a platform where the constructive criticism received will help improve his research. He expects the paper to be ready for publication in the early months of next year.
Each year, around 160 new students begin their studies at SLIS - with about 20 of these students beginning in the Spring Semester. This year, new students admitted to begin in the Spring 2012 semester come from Wyoming, Indiana, China, West Virginia, Iran, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Washington. We look forward to welcoming them to SLIS.
The Indiana University Winter Commencement Ceremony will be held on Saturday, December 17, 2011. The Ceremony is a nice event - and a fun way to celebrate graduation. There is plenty of room for guests. No tickets are required - and parking is free.
Included here is a partial list of SLIS faculty activities in November 2012. Additional appointments, presentations and publications can be found in other SLIS News stories, or on individual faculty pages. Students are encouraged to follow research trends in the field. Stay informed.
The Indiana Library Federation recently awarded Marcia Smith-Woodard the 2011 Special Services Award. The award “recognizes exceptional contributions or services which strengthen library services in a local community, school, or across the state. The person’s contributions must be of an extraordinary nature with unprecedented benefits to library or media center services.”
Congratulations to SLIS alumna Stephanie Derrick (MLS'11) for being featured in the ACRL Member of the Week column on October 31, 2011. The column is part of the ACRL Insider, a newsletter for the Association of College and Research Libraries. The article and photo are posted here with permission of Mary Jane Petrowski, ACRL Associate Director.
Each year, Library Journal surveys graduates from all American Library Association (ALA)-accredited schools for its annual Placements and Salaries Survey, published as a special October 15 issue. The survey emphasizes information relevant to current LIS students as they begin their job search, including trends, salaries, and types of library jobs graduates find out of school. SLIS at Indiana University participates in this survey.
Each year, the American Library Association selects approximately 75 newer librarians and information specialists to participate in its Emerging Leaders Program. The program, which began in 2007, “is designed to enable library staff and information workers from across the country to participate in project planning workgroups; network with peers; gain an inside look into ALA structure; and have an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity early in their careers.”
SLIS alumna Sara Laughlin (MLS ’72) was awarded the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce - Franklin Initiative.
Amy Koester graduated from SLIS with her Master of Library Science degree in May 2011. She is now a Children’s Librarian at the Corporate Parkway Branch Library in Wentzville, Missouri. The library is a part of the St. Charles City - County Library District. In a recent email interview Amy told us about her job and shared tips for current students.
"Professor Jean Preer has informed Executive Associate Dean Tomas Lipinski of her intent to retire at the end of July, 2012. Dr. Preer joined the IU School of Library and Information Science in fall 2002, one of the first faculty in the school's expanded program in Indianapolis. In her years at SLIS Indianapolis, she has been recognized for both teaching and research excellence.
Students from many departments enroll in SLIS classes to enhance their degrees. Michael V. Ney is an example. He received his Master of Health Administration degree from Indiana University (IUPUI campus) in 1990. Then, he continued his education with an additional 16 credit hours in SLIS (School of Library and Information Science). Michael recently wrote to SLIS Dean Debora Shaw to congratulate her on her appointment. Recalling his time as a student in one of her classes, he commented that the "additional courses I took with SLIS in the '90s have paid dividends ever since."
