Month: November 2016

2016-11-08

The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the iSchool at Illinois , is pleased to announce the appointment of Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (MS ’94) as editor of its quarterly journal Library Trends . Hinchliffe will begin her new role on January 1, 2017. Read more…

For more information about Library Trends , visit www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/ .

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2016-11-03

Chris Prom, assistant university archivist and Andrew S. G. Turyn Endowed Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is co-chairing a Task Force on Technical Approaches for Email Archives. The Task Force was announced on November 1, 2016, and is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Digital Preservation Coalition.  Its work will help the library and archives community better preserve electronic correspondence that is of value for future scholarship and research. Read more from the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation…

Do you have a story you’d like added to the Library News & Events? If so, please contact Heather Murphy ( hmurphy@illinois.edu ).