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Alumni Awards honor outstanding professionals

October 21, 2010

Elaine Didier, Larry Neal, SI Dean Jeff MacKie-Mason, and John Szabo at the 2010 Alumni Awards

Elaine Didier, John Szabo, and Larry Neal were honored by their peers at the annual Alumni Awards reception on Friday, Oct. 15, during the Michigan homecoming weekend.

Elaine Didier, director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, was presented with the Distinguished Alumni Award.  This award recognizes and honors alumni who have at least 25 years of professional service in the information professions and have made outstanding contributions.

Didier received her AMLS from Michigan in 1971 and her Ph.D. in 1982. Since 2005 she has been director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, located in Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor.  In that role, she has introduced a broad agenda to expand the programs and feature exhibits and increase the visibility of the library and museum both locally and nationally.

Her professional career prior to the Ford Museum and Library includes 22 years at the University of Michigan in various capacities, including associate dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, interim director of Academic Outreach, and director of Information Resources at the business school.

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Alumnus Peter Morville’s newest book out Friday

January 14, 2010

The fascinating and at times frustrating Web function known as search is explained and explored in the latest book by SI alumnus and former faculty member Peter Morville (MILS ’93). Released Friday, Jan. 15 by O’Reilly Media, Inc., Search Patterns is a provocative but practical guide designed to help make search better today across multiple categories, including web, E-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, and social search and discovery.

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Alumni, where art thou?

February 24, 2009

We’d love to include updates and information on where SI alumni are and what they’re doing on this blog. Of course, we want to respect your privacy, so please send me any information about yourself you’d like me to post. Fellow alumni, current and future students, and all SI-ers are curious about where you are and what you’re doing. Drop a note to me at kjordan@umich.edu.

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Welcome alumni, one and all

February 17, 2009

I hope this space will quickly grow with news of particular interest to School of Information alumni, from notes about what you’re doing in your careers to where we can all meet at receptions around the country. Contributions from alumni are always welcome — just send them to me — kjordan@umich.edu. (I’m associate director of development and external relations at SI.)

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Alumni will welcome SI students to D.C.

February 17, 2009

There will be quite a few alumni events in the next few months! I hope some of them will be in your neck of the woods. A group of alumni in the Washington, D.C., area are inviting SI students participating in the annual (Alternative Spring Break program in D.C.) to get together from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, February 26 at the Hawk and Dove), 329 Pennsylvania Ave. SE (ZIP Code: 20003). The students always appreciate the opportunity to meet alumni and hear about life in the “real world!” Let me know if you think you can attend at kjordan@umich.edu.

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Ann Arbor area alumni: Celebrate spring ’09 SI graduates

February 17, 2009

The Office of Alumni Relations and the SI Alumni Society Board will host a GRADUATE SEND-OFF event for this spring’s graduates. If you are an alumna/us of SI and live in the Ann Arbor area, please join graduating students from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12 at the Cottage Inn on William Street. This will be the chance to welcome our soon-to-be graduates into the SI alumni community and get together with fellow area alumni, as well. A good time should be had by all especially if you help out by encouraging fellow alumni to attend and to let me know they’ll be there. We’d like to have enough food! Please contact me (kjordan@umich.edu) if you have any questions!

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It’s what you want

February 11, 2009

A couple of months ago we conducted an SI community survey to get feedback on your opinions about how the School presents itself to the world and how it communicates with all its constituents. About 245 alumni participated (including a cross section of our alumni who graduated between 1950 – 2007), and while we weren’t surprised to find that the majority of recent cohorts engage in various Internet-based social networks, we were intrigued by the fact that blog-reading is almost universal. While fewer alumni actually contribute to blogs (18%) vs. reading blogs (59%), results also indicated a downward trend for interest in reading our printed newsletter. We all know this to be true as well for newspapers and print media more broadly.

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