On July 24, 2018 the UW-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies (SOIS) held its inaugural Information Science & Technology (IST) Advisory Council Meeting. The 23 member advisory council is made up of IST alums and Milwaukee area technology leaders. The agenda… Read More
Dean Tomas A Lipinski represents SOIS and the Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) at the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
The UWM Libraries welcomed six library students from National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) to Milwaukee for a summer internship program at the UWM Libraries, Milwaukee Public Library, and Marquette University Raynor Memorial Libraries. The students – Chen-Chieh (Jesse) Huang, Ning-Chaio… Read More
Meg Metcalf. Photo by Shawn Miller. https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2018/06/pride-in-the-library-lgbtq-specialist-shares-her-story/?loclr=ealocb Meg Metcalf dreamed of a career at the Library of Congress from the time she was 17, inspired by a job at a Borders bookstore in northeastern Illinois, where she worked the reference… Read More
The School of Information Studies hosted a Recognition Ceremony on Friday, May 18, 2018 at the Italian Community Center to honor the Spring 2018 graduates. Graduates of all 4 academic programs (IST, MLIS, MSIST, and PhD) were on hand for… Read More
Tim Gleisner, Head of Special Collections at the Library of Michigan (SOIS Alumni 1998 and CAS Alumni 2011), won the prestigious 2018 Filby Award from the National Genealogical Society and ProQuest. This award is given to a librarian who has… Read More
Students in the SOIS Foundations of Library and Information Science (INFOST 501) class display their mini-zines, created as a class project in partnership with Milo Miller, of the Queer Zine Archive Proect (Milwaukee) and Max Yela, UWM Special Collections Librarian at Golda Meir Library. … Read More
Recent SOIS Winners Include Angie Sandowsky, Toby Deutsch Each year, the UWM Advisors and Counselors Network (ACN) recognizes outstanding commitment to student success with the Advisor of the Year Award. This year’s winner is SOIS Senior Advisor Brian Williams, who… Read More
Congratulations to Doctoral Candidate Laura Ridenour who was awarded a LEADS (LIS Education and Data Science for the National Digital Platform) fellowship spot for summer. Laura will be working with Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries on automatic keyword assignment to medieval manuscripts on OPenn…. Read More
Earlier this month, SOIS students put their problem-solving skills to the test at a pair of Milwaukee-area hackathons. The events were hosted by The Commons and Northwestern Mutual. They brought together many of the innovators and stakeholders in Milwaukee’s budding… Read More