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Gender Equity Council Podium

The Universal Design Podium has arrived at GSLIS in room 126. The Universal Design Podium final prototype was unveiled at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in March, 2011.  It includes: Easy push button operation allowing speakers to raise

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Oct 24 Online Dialogue: Community Broadband

Community Broadband as a Path to Thriving Local Economies and Neighborhood Development is an online dialogue scheduled for Wednesday, October 24th at 10am PST / 1pm EST (for 60 minutes) *RSVP Now!* In the last several years local communities, governments,

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Rhinesmith publishes on Philadelphia Hot Spots

Colin Rhinesmith, Research Scholar at the Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) and doctoral student at the at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) just had an article published in the International Journal of

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The Very First GSLIS Urbana Free Library Volunteers Program

Community informatics much? The following excerpt comes from the 1893-1903 University of Illinois State Library School Report and Student Record: The seniors in the library school offered their services in 1898 to the board of trustees of the Urbana public

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