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Consistently named one of the top library and information science programs in the nation, the School of Information Sciences, founded in 1893 at the Armour Institute in Chicago, maintains a reputation of excellence and innovation. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was founded in 1867, and is regularly cited among leading universities in the United States. General information:

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The is accepting applications for adjunct faculty to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in a range of areas. Lin...
10/14/2026

The is accepting applications for adjunct faculty to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in a range of areas. Link to the full announcement ▶️ bit.ly/4k1VqRk

In a recent article by The Daily Illini highlighting , Interim Dean Emily Knox, The Center for Children's Books (CCB)...
10/14/2026

In a recent article by The Daily Illini highlighting , Interim Dean Emily Knox, The Center for Children's Books (CCB)’s Assistant Director Suzan Alteri, and graduate assistant Wally Cornell discussed the importance of intellectual freedom, access to books, and the freedom to read.

“It’s important to know what is possible out there,” Knox said. “Even if certain people don’t agree with it … the possibilities of what a good life could look like are varied, and in order to find out what those are, you have to be exposed to them, and often people are exposed to them through books.”

Read the full article ▶️ bit.ly/3TV4op8

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🔸 Written by Qyler Bowie
🔹 Graphic by Rikkie Gunawan

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Student Resource Fair last week!Students had the opportunity to connect with ...
10/13/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Student Resource Fair last week!

Students had the opportunity to connect with student organizations, local libraries, career services, and campus and community resources, including the Champaign Public Library, Books to Prisoners, The Center for Children's Books, the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab, Women in Data Science (WiDS), and more.

A special thanks to all the organizations that participated!

Imagine if we could share smells the same way we share sounds and images through digital technologies. PhD student Eva...
10/12/2026

Imagine if we could share smells the same way we share sounds and images through digital technologies.

PhD student Evan Guerra is working to make that possible by turning unstructured smell descriptions into structured text computers can understand and predicting the smell of molecules from their structure.

"Olfaction is an area we know so little about, and there is so much to discover," Guerra said.

His research has earned him the 2026 Lucille M. Wert Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Information, making him the first Illinois student to receive the honor.

Learn more about his research ▶️ bit.ly/4B2ZjM6

The freedom to read is worth celebrating all year long! To wrap up , we're sharing a few photos of students and alumn...
10/09/2026

The freedom to read is worth celebrating all year long!

To wrap up , we're sharing a few photos of students and alumni reading challenged books. Thank you for championing the importance of intellectual freedom!

What challenged book do you recommend? 💬👇

Congratulations to MSLIS student Wendy Rein, who has been selected to receive the 2026 American Library Association Ce...
10/08/2026

Congratulations to MSLIS student Wendy Rein, who has been selected to receive the 2026 American Library Association Century Scholarship!

Rein's passion for libraries began in elementary school and has continued through internships, library positions, and research focused on improving access to library services.

Read more about Wendy ▶️ bit.ly/3VZ8U6x

What does it mean to protect the freedom to read? “You cannot have social justice without intellectual freedom. You have...
10/07/2026

What does it mean to protect the freedom to read?

“You cannot have social justice without intellectual freedom. You have to be able to hear and imagine other ideas about how the world could be.”

Interim Dean and Professor Emily Knox joined the Liberating Lit podcast for a conversation about censorship, the role of libraries and librarians, and what people can do to support intellectual freedom in their communities.

Listen to the conversation during 🎧 ▶️ bit.ly/4rRP1tT

10/06/2026

Technology changes fast. Keeping up with it can be frustrating.

You’re invited to a free virtual conversation with Michael Twidale, professor and interim associate dean for faculty affairs in the School of Information Sciences, on Oct. 27. He’ll explore why everyday technologies can feel confusing, what poor design has to do with it and how we can think differently about those frustrating digital moments.

Register free for the UIAA Speaker Series: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e94u6p04QQi-Pev2FNS06w

School of Information Sciences at Illinois

Assistant Professor Jiaqi Ma has received a $90,000 grant from the Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conver...
10/05/2026

Assistant Professor Jiaqi Ma has received a $90,000 grant from the Amazon-Illinois Center on AI for Interactive Conversational Experiences (AICE).

His project, “A Data Regularization Framework for Data- and Compute-Efficient LLM Post-Training,” addresses a fundamental challenge in training large language models: high-quality data are often limited and expensive to obtain, while larger datasets may be cheaper to collect but contain noisy or inaccurate information.

Ma’s research explores how a small amount of high-quality data can be used to guide learning from a much larger dataset, improving both data and compute efficiency.

Congratulations, Jiaqi!

Learn more about his research ▶️ bit.ly/4dohZvE

This , we’re spotlighting adjunct lecturer Jarrett Dapier’s graphic novel, “Wake Now in the Fire,” which tells a fict...
10/05/2026

This , we’re spotlighting adjunct lecturer Jarrett Dapier’s graphic novel, “Wake Now in the Fire,” which tells a fictionalized account of Chicago Public Schools’ 2013 decision to remove Marjane Satrapi’s "Persepolis" from classrooms.

For his graduate thesis at the iSchool, Dapier (MSLIS ’15) interviewed teens who fought to get the ban “mostly” reversed, which ultimately grew into a graphic novel of its own.

“Wake Now in the Fire” was recently named by Book Riot as one of the best books of the first half of 2026 in both the graphic novels and young adult novels categories.

Read more ▶️ bit.ly/4y1C6qM

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