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Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) provides major support for the annual Community as Intellectual Space (CIS) symposium. The fifth annual symposium, co-organized with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC) in Chicago, had “Critical Pedagogy” as its theme. One hundred people gathered June 12-14, 2009, in the neighborhood of the PRCC, Paseo Boricua. Professor Ann Bishop taught a summer session course related to the CIS.
In other news:
- Prof. Caroline Haythornthwaite taught the second of the two highly recommended community informatics courses in the Spring of 2009: Social Science Research Methods in LIS
- We received approval to offer a certificate in community informatics as part of the master’s level program in Library and Information Science.
- Several CI students have moved on to jobs or doctoral programs: Roy
Saldaña, Jr., works at a federally-funded Educational Opportunity Center; Kristin LoDolce is the outreach librarian at Tippecanoe County Library in Lafayette, Indiana; Michelle Torrise is the certified media specialist for Community Unit School District 201 in Westmont, IL.; John Vincler,
is now an Assistant Professor of Bibliography and Special Collections Librarian, at the University of Akron, and Safiya Noble received a full fellowship in the Information in Society doctoral program at GSLIS. Congratulations to all!