At the 2025 Indiana Library Federation Annual Conference Awards & Honors Luncheon, our department was well represented by current students and alumni from the program. Alumni Recognized: Ben Moore, MLS 2008, was recognized as the Peggy L. Pfeiffer (AISLE) Service Award winner. Diane Rogers, MLS 2004, was recognized with the Federation Leadership Award. Student Scholarship… Read more »
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Food Assistance Resources
SNAP & the government shutdown The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — more commonly known as SNAP, or food stamps — is a key benefits program that serves more than 40 million people across the country. Now, the shutdown is threatening to suspend benefits, raising concerns over where millions of people who rely on the program will turn to… Read more »
Congrats to Adrienn Mendonca-Jones on her VRA conference poster presentation!
Building Primary Source Literacy through Digital Literacy: Using the Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History at Huntington Library and IIIF Manifests to Encourage Informed Digital Curation Practices Adrienn Mendonca-Jones, MLIS Graduate Student Archives Management & Digital Curation Specializations Adrienn will virtually present her poster at the Visual Resources Association tomorrow. A… Read more »
LIS students: interested in study abroad? Consider Helsinki this May!
Study Abroad in Finland: Providing Digital Services to International Users Application opens today, September 15! The program starts in spring semester because you take a course, S531 Information Structures for the Web, where you collaborate with students from Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki who work with you in the Canvas course. There is… Read more »
Preserving the Past, Shaping the Future: MLIS Student Brings History to Life
When Michael White began volunteering at the Lake County Historical Society in August 2023, just as he entered the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) program at IU Indianapolis, he saw it as more than community service. “I have seen it as a kind of unofficial internship,” Michael explained. “A place to not only… Read more »