• GSLIS 2009-2010 Centennial Scholar
• Numerous keynote addresses at conferences in the US and internationally
• College of Education Senior Scholar Award and the Faculty Fellows Award
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications Faculty Fellows Award
• Freeman Foundation Fellow, China, 996
• Fellow of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy

Teaching

• University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher/Scholar, 2006-07
• Pratt-Severn Faculty Innovation Award from the Association for Library and Information Science Education, 2006
• Council of Graduate Students in Education Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Advising, and Research, 1995
• Regularly on the University’s “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students”

Fulbright

• Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the National College of Ireland in Dublin, 2007-08
• Fulbright Specialist in Sweden (2005), Finland (2004), Turkey (2015), and Nepal (2018)
• Fulbright Inter-Country Lecture Program in Cypress (2008)

Grants

Numerous grants from National Institutes of Health; National Science Foundation; Institute for Museum & Library Services; Department of Education; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Department of Education and Science, Ireland; Dublin Docklands Development Authority, Ireland; foundations, universities, publishers, and tech companies.

Reviews

• Editorial boards of 20+ journals,
• ad hoc reviews for many others;
• frequent reviews of proposals or manuscripts for publishers,
• regular conference program reviews,
• reviews for research funding agencies,
• editing for Wikipedia and Open Directory.