As the Curator of Archives and Library Resources at the IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (IUMAA), Kelsey Grimm (MLS IU 2015) wears many hats. As the steward of the museum’s library and archival collections, Grimm oversees the preservation and organization of diverse materials such as the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Ethnohistory Collection (also known as… Read more »
Alumni
ILS Department Alumni Panel Discussion
ILS Department Alumni Panel Discussion On Thursday, April 10th, the Information and Library Science Department held a virtual Alumni Panel Discussion. The panel was focused on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of information and library science and the ways it is transforming how we search, manage, and interact with information. Five panelists… 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 »