Heinz von Foerster, one of the scholars whose work will be made available through the grant. Image courtesy of the University Archives, record series 11/6/26, box 116.
The University of Illinois Archives has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to develop a prototype web-portal and analysis-engine to provide access to archival material related to the development of the iconic, multi-disciplinary field of cybernetics.
Lisa Hinchliffe, Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction at the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named the first ever recipient of the Larry Romans Mentorship Award. This award is sponsored by the American Library Association Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) and the ALA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Roundtable (GLBTRT).
This award will be presented at the GODORT awards program at the ALA annual conference this summer in Chicago.
The 2017 Biennial Conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries will include presentations by University of Illinois Library faculty on topics including digital scholarship, data mining, information literacy, digital humanities and more.
Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named to the 2017 class of Library Journal‘s Movers & Shakers. Her highlight appears in the March 15 edition of Library Journal.