Brenda Johnson, who currently serves as University Librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been named Ruth Lilly Dean of the Indiana University Libraries, Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson announced today (Nov. 18).

The Kuali Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce that a group of leading academic research libraries is partnering in the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) (pronounced Oh-LAY) project to develop software created specifically for the complex business management and workflow operations of academic and research libraries.

Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around the country.

For John Walsh, an assistant professor in Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science, a picture will soon tell so much more than a thousand words. Backed by $400,000 just awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Walsh will collaborate with peers from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the Digital Humanities Observatory in Belfast, Ireland, to develop a new technical infrastructure designed for unleashing all of the knowledge connected to any one image or document, from a historic manuscript or painting to an image in a children's book or a graphic novel.

Indiana University Bloomington holds more than 560,000 audio and video recordings and film reels, many of which are historically significant, all of which are actively deteriorating. And the window of time to save these materials is closing fast.

Two candidates for the position of dean of university libraries at Indiana University will visit IU Bloomington next week for campus interviews and meetings with librarians, faculty, staff and students. The two are Brenda L. Johnson, dean of university libraries at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Diane Parr Walker, deputy university librarian at the University of Virginia.

Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science has been ranked among the best in the nation in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools."

Eight Indiana University graduate schools and programs are ranked among the nation's top 25 by U.S. News and World Report magazine in its latest annual report, "America's Best Graduate Schools."

Undergraduate students will show off their reference and Internet literacy skills during the Digital Literacy Contest on April 7 at Indiana University Bloomington's Herman B Wells Library.

WIC Week, a string of events tonight (March 9) through Thursday -- organized by Indiana University's Women in Informatics and Computing -- will focus as much on the social aspects of securing success in technology fields as it will on talking technical applications. WIC Week is but one outgrowth of an organization founded in 2002 to increase opportunities for women in computing and information technology.

Minority students interested in a Master of Library Science degree are being asked to apply for their share of a three-year, $1 million federal grant aimed at helping Indiana University and the Indiana State Library system increase ethnic diversity in the state's libraries.

The book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus and its gender stereotypes on how the sexes communicate remains fodder for debate, but two Indiana University researchers have confirmed one thing: When men and women talk through technology, it's the women who are more expressive.

More than a century's worth of scholarship on Indiana history is now available on a free, searchable Web site created by the Indiana University Digital Library Program and the Indiana Magazine of History.

Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, an exhibit that illustrates the social interactions of scientists and the substance of their research, opens Saturday, May 17 at the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. The exhibit will remain on display until June 30, after which it will travel to Chinese Academy of Sciences branches in Lazhou (July 15 - Aug. 15), Chengdu (Sept. 1 - Oct. 1), and Wuhan (Oct. 15 - Nov. 15).

The National Institutes of Health has given $1.2 million to Indiana University researchers to build the ultimate international epidemic research tool. Principle investigators Katy Börner, Steven J. Sherman and Alessandro Vespignani will oversee the project, EpiC, which they hope will make the sharing and re-using of epidemics datasets and algorithms as easy as sharing videos via YouTube.

Information architecture (IA) addresses the design of effective and efficient information systems and structures that provide access to collections of information resources. IA involves the processes of planning, overseeing implementation, and managing the growth of organizational structures that provide meaningful context in support of user understanding and mediate interaction between system content and user. These organizational structures include digital libraries, web sites, databases, information retrieval systems, educational software and even games.

The Indiana University Bloomington School of Library and Information Science is first in the world in faculty and program citations, according to a new study by Swedish sociologists.

The Indiana University Bloomington School of Library and Information Science is receiving national recognition for its individuals and effectiveness as a program. SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin will receive the American Society for Information Science and Technology's Award of Merit at its annual November meeting in Austin, Texas.

Several IU graduate programs, particularly those in library and information science, education and business, are ranked among the best in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools." These rankings also reflect renewed focus and momentum for the Bloomington campus' life science effort.

Indiana University has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the information technology needed to study large-scale networks in a variety of scientific domains. When completed, the cyberinfrastructure will provide an online data-code-computing resource for researchers, educators and practitioners.

The IU Digital Library Program today (Sept. 20) received a $768,747 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to extend its groundbreaking digital music library to college teachers and students across the country. The project will create an online learning and research tool, like the highly successful version already in place at IU, that can be easily deployed at a wide range of college and university libraries.

Seven faculty from four IU campuses have received awards from various Fulbright programs, a major source of federal funding, for the 2005-06 academic year.

Howard Rosenbaum's research topics include, among others, customer relationship management and trust in e-commerce. Those topics might be considered a metaphor for his relationship with his students, who are very satisfied "customers" of his courses. He is the recipient of the 2005 Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award.

The Indiana University Board of Trustees today (Jan. 30) approved the appointment of Blaise Cronin as dean of the School of Library and Information Science.