Sandy Littletree has lots to share: She is the recipient of the inaugural Cobell Summer Graduate Research Fellowship. For the fellowship, she will continue her research on the history and development of tribal libraries. Congratulations on this prestigious award! ... She presented and served as a consultant for the Tribal College Librarians Institute (TCLI) held in Bozeman, Montana from May 22-26. Her topics were Indigenous Systems of Knowledge and the advocacy campaign for the American Indian Library Association. ... She’s served on an ad hoc committee with the American Indian Library Association (AILA) focused on saving tribal library funding. She authored the AILA statement on the proposed federal budget and has collected Tribal Library Stories regarding the impact of IMLS funding on their institutions. ... The University of British Columbia, First Nations Curriculum Concentration, invited her to serve on its advisory board. The next meeting will be held on July 5. ... The Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting invited her to speak on the Archival Education That Serves the Needs of Tribal Archivists and Communities panel. The conference will take place July 23-29 in Portland, Oregon. ... Finally, she will give an "Inspire Talk" at the 2017 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) conference. The title is, Sharing Stories of Tribal Libraries: History, Sovereignty, and Empowerment.
Jevin West, along with Katherine Stovel from UW Sociology, was awarded an NSF grant of $293,372 for their research study titled, Echo Chambers in Science? The Impact of Academic Recommender Systems on the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge. ... Bill Howe, Max Grechkin and Microsoft researcher Hoifung Poon published their paper, Wide-Open: Accelerating public data release by automating detection of overdue datasets, in PLOS Biology and got terrific exposure in The Scientist, nature.com, and UW Today. The paper identifies private datasets overdue for release.
Norah Abokhodair, along with Adel Al-Dawood, Houda El Mimouni, and Svetlana Yarosh received a Best Paper Award at the ACM DIS 2017 – Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Their paper is titled, Against Marrying a Stranger: Marital Matchmaking Technologies in Saudi Arabia. The conference took place June 10th to 14th in Edinburgh, U.K. ... Liz Mills, Katie Campana, Allyson Carlyle, Ivette Bayo Urban, and Cheryl Metoyer had a paper accepted to Library Quarterly titled, Early literacy in library storytimes Part 2: A quasi-experimental study and intervention with children’s storytime providers. It details the intervention that took place during Project VIEWS2 and is the second lead paper for the study.