The 2024 ASIS&T Conference: Hearing from ILS Doctoral Students The 2024 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Conference was held from October 25th-29th in Calgary, Alberta. The theme for this year’s meeting was “Putting People First: Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Care in Information Research and Practice.” The Information and Library Science department had five doctoral… Read more »
ILS Spotlights
ILS Hosts Movie Night and Student Group Call-out
ILS Hosts Movie Night and Student Group Call-out By Megan Sherry The ILS Department hosted a successful interactive movie night featuring Scooby-Doo (2002) the Friday before Halloween, drawing one of the largest crowds for an “after hours” event in years. Organized by graduate assistant Sophia Congdon, the event included character props, boarding passes, and Scooby… Read more »
Always Learning: ILS Students on the Job
Always Learning: ILS Students on the Job By Megan Sherry It is no secret that the best supplement to a library science graduate program is hands -on experience. While some might be unsure about finding a job in the field without first attaining an MLS degree, IU and Bloomington have a variety of opportunities for… Read more »
ILS Professor Selected for EMPOWER Award
ILS Professor Selected for EMPOWER Award By Megan Sherry Dr. Rongqian Ma, Assistant Professor of Information and Library Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, has been selected for the EMPOWER Program, aimed at supporting junior faculty from historically marginalized groups in securing external research funding. Working with Dr. Manling Luo, an… Read more »
Reconnecting through Research: More Than a Conference
“For Dr. Susan Herring, an invitation to be the keynote speaker at the Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora (CMC2024) in France was more than an honor; it was the chance she had been waiting for.” Faculty member Dr. Susan Herring traveled to Nice, France, to deliver her keynote address at the… Read more »
Projects and Passions: A Q&A with New ILS Faculty
Professors Christina Boyles, Yuerong Hu, and Siqi Wu are all first year ILS faculty members. We asked them a few questions to find out their thoughts on IU, Bloomington, and their own research and interests. [Note: Responses were lightly edited for grammar and clarity.] Read the full Q&A here!
The power of archives: Sharing the rich history of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
Professor Devan Donaldson’s fall 2023 ILS-Z 581 Introduction to Archives and Records Management course provided library science students with both theoretical and practical experience—and most importantly, the opportunity to get hands-on experience using their archival skills to work with the extended IU community. Through a partnership with the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Donaldson and his… Read more »
Information and Library Science Alumni Appointed to New Positions
Alums Grayson Murphy (MIS/MLS ’22) and Runxiao Zhu (MLS ’14) were recently appointed to new positions in university libraries. We talked to them about their new jobs and their time in the ILS department. You can see more of our conversation here!
Rosemary Pleva Flynn to be Inducted as Fellow of the Society of American Archivists
From the press release: “Rosemary Pleva Flynn, principal librarian and archivist at the University of North Dakota, will be inducted as a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) on July 27 during an awards ceremony at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and SAA in Washington, DC. The distinction… Read more »
IU alums hope to make impact with new digital collection creation tool
Two ILS department alums, Devin Becker (MLS ’10) and Olivia Wikle (MLS ’18) are part of a team out of the University of Idaho that created and maintain CollectionBuilder, a new free tool for publishing online digital collections. See what they’re up to and read more about their project here! ** For further information about… Read more »