Alumni, Students, and Supporters, We hope to see you at this years annual ALA Conference in Chicago, our faculty and staff will be located in the exhibitor hall, booth #4938! Swing by to see us for some awesome swag and to learn more about our program! 🙂 For more details about the conference please visit https://2017.alaannual.org/ As… Read more »
Alumni
Library and Information Science Alumnus Wins Oberly Award!
IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI alumnus Michael Witt was recently named an Association of College and Research Libraries Science and Technology Section Oberly Award recipient for 2017. Witt, who earned his master’s in Library Science in 2006, is an associate professor of library science at Purdue University and director of the Purdue… Read more »
Crown Point Community Library Grant
The Crown Point Community Library received a $76,338 grant from the Crown Point Community Foundation last summer. Why mention it now? Julie Wendorf, the current Adult Programming & Outreach Librarian at the Crown Point Community Library (Crown Point, IN) recently reached out to adjunct Elsa Kramer (soic.iupui.edu/people/elsa-kramer/) to mention the “huge grant I won for… Read more »
Sarah Burns Gilchrist Promotion to Librarian II in June 2017
Sarah Burns Gilchrist (MLS, IUPUI 2011; BA in Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies, IUB 2004) is the Research and Instruction Librarian for Visual Arts and Education at Towson University in Towson, MD. Gilchrist will be promoted to Librarian II in June 2017 and is submitting documents for Permanent Status (librarian tenure) August 2017.
Kevin Connolly makes Irish Book and Stamp History
Many of you know, Kevin (class of 2014) owned a bookstore for many years in Dublin, Ireland, before moving to Indianapolis. Unbeknownst to him, his bookstore, The Winding Stair, was nominated out of thousands of shops to be celebrated in a new stamp series on shopfronts. He made it the short list of 100 shops… Read more »