University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Renaissance Scholar of Library and Information Science: Professor Linda C. Smith

Coleman, Anita S.; Kyrillidou, Martha

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Title
The Renaissance Scholar of Library and Information Science: Professor Linda C. Smith
Author(s)
  • Coleman, Anita S.
  • Kyrillidou, Martha
Issue Date
2023
Keyword(s)
  • Linda C. Smith
  • Festschrift
Date of Ingest
2023-12-20T03:41:07-06:00
Abstract
This collection of essays is to honor Linda C. Smith, widely recognized as a well-established and dedicated teacher and scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the soul of the iSchool. Smith's contributions to library and information science (LIS) research, teaching, and higher education administration, as an award-winning professor of LIS for the past forty-five years, have been characterized by attention to interdisciplinarity, people, and information technology. From the very beginning of her graduate studies, Smith targeted key aspects of the information revolution that would come to shape our technological world. Her impact on education for the information professions as well as on generations of graduate students has been a richly complex and multithreaded story. It is thus fitting that an issue in her honor recognize and laud Professor Smith as the renaissance scholar of LIS, trace the arc of a relevant past, and reflect on a future that Smith so presciently studied.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 71 (1). August 2022
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2023.0000
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Copyright 2023 University of Illinois Board of Trustees

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Library Trends 71 (1) August 2022: Library and Information Science, Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Festschrift in Honor of Linda C. Smith [Restricted Access] PRIMARY
Library Trends 71 (1) August 2022: Library and Information Science, Interdisciplinary Perspectives: A Festschrift in Honor of Linda C. Smith. Edited by Anita S. Coleman and Martha Kyrillidou.