Marika Cifor and co-PIs Temi Odumosu and Stacey Wedlake were awarded an $850,000 Mellon Foundation grant for “Faculty Organizing for Community Archives (FOCAS) Internship & Resource Development Project.” This is part of a collaborative grant with other institutions that have MLIS programs in the United States and Canada.  

Marika Cifor has been appointed Associate Editor of the science and technology studies journal, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience, she will serve a three-year term overseeing special sections of the journal.  

Heather Whiteman received the UC Berkeley Haas Case Series Top 3 “Best Case Award” for “Org1: In Invitae? Or Out?”. This annual award is given to the author of the case published in the preceding calendar year that has made the most important contribution to management education. 

Sandy Littletree and co-authors Nicola Andrews, Jessie Loyer’s paper “Information as a Relation: Defining Indigenous Information Literacy” was identified as one of the Library Instruction Round Table’s Top 20 Articles of 2023. 

Stacey Wedlake and co-authors Youngrim Kim, Megan Finn, Amelia Acker, Bidisha Chaudhuri, Ryan Ellis, and Janaki Srinivasan’s paper “Epistemologies of Missing Data: COVID Dashboard Builders and the Production and Maintenence of Marginalized COVID Data” has been published in Big Data & Society.  

Tracie Hall authored a piece titled “Human Rights Hero: The Librarian” for Civil Rights, a quarterly magazine published by the Civil Rights and Social Justice member group of the American Bar Association. 

Tessa Campbell was a commentator in a documentary film about missing and murdered Indigenous women titled “Missing from Fire Trail Road,” which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. In the film, Tessa shares the archival history of Native American Boarding Schools.  

Chirag Shah wrote an article for The Conversation titled “AI Search Answers are the Fast Food of your information diet – Convenient and Tasty, but no Substitute for Good Nutrition.”