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DU’s GSLIS Symposium on Community Empowerment

River Forest , IL - Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) will present eChicago: A Community Informatics Symposium on Friday, April 20 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The symposium will be held in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

The symposium will bring together librarians, community activists, policy makers and academic researchers to discuss how local communities are grappling with new tools and information flows as they enter the digital age. Speakers will share the results of studies and projects that have resulted in community empowerment through digital technology.

The symposium will be moderated by Kate Williams, assistant professor of library and information science at Dominican University. Williams’ research has focused on the uses and potential of information technology in ethnic and underserved communities, including Chicago. The keynote speaker will be Doug Schuler, a member of the faculty of Evergreen State College and former chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. He is the author of New Community Networks: Wired for Change and co-editor of Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace.

Other speakers will include Charles Benton, former president of such media, education and entertainment businesses as Encyclopaedia Britannica Education Corporation, Lionheart Television International and Home Vision Entertainment. Benton was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as chairman of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and by President Bill Clinton as a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligation of Digital Television Broadcasters.

In addition, Kathryn Clodfelter, webmaster for the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University, founder of two geographically based community networks in Indiana and a board member of the Indiana Community Network Association; Salvador Rivas, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Democracy and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin; and Karen Mossberger, associate professor in the graduate program in public administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-author of a forthcoming book on the benefits that technology presents for political and economic participation and its consequences for citizenship and equality of opportunity, will share their work during the symposium.

Adrian Kok, assistant professor in the university’s Graduate School of Social Work, whose research has focused on, among other topics, teaching computer skills to older adults, will also speak during the symposium, as will Harold Lukas, founder and publisher of BronzevilleOnline, a Web site dedicated to promoting the redevelopment of Chicago’s premier African-American renaissance neighborhood.

For more information on this free program, please visit www.dom.edu/echicago or contact echicago@dom.edu.

Accredited by the ALA, Dominican University’s GSLIS has been educating future library leaders and information professionals since the 1930s. The school offers master’s degrees in library and information science and in knowledge management.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 17 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2007 issue of America’s Best Colleges , U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the ninth consecutive year.