Information School News

Professors Val Gillet and Peter Willett were two of the invited speakers at a symposium to honour the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. This is the world's leading journal in chemoinformatics, and Sheffield was the only institution to be represented twice amongst the speakers at this symposium, which was held on the 23rd August as part of the Boston national meeting of the American Chemical Society

Vanessa Fuidge, an MA Librarianship student, has been awarded a John Campbell Trust Dissertation Bursary (for details see http://www.cilip.org.uk/interests/jct/dissertation_bursary.html ) to defray the costs of her dissertation on "The Role of the Music Specialist Librarian"

As of this month the Department of Information Studies has officially changed its name to the Information School . This new name captures more concisely the range of activities in the department.

A number of Departmental members are speaking at the WLIC (IFLA conference) next week in Gothenburg, Sweden. Firstly, in the main conference: "We are here because you were there": minority ethnic genre fiction in UK public libraries BRIONY BIRDI (Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom) Developing inclusive models of reference and instruction to create information literate communities SHEILA CORRALL (Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom) The secret diary of Adrian Librarian MOLE. The value of using e-journals to reflect on learning and professional development in the area of management skills development for LIS students BARBARA SEN (Information School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom) Sustaining learning for LIS through use of a virtual world SHEILA WEBBER (Information School: the iSchool, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) and DIANE NAHL (Library and Information Science Program, Inf