Find the iSchool at #FLA2016!

FSU iSchool presents at the 2016 Florida Library Association The Plaza Resort & Spa, Daytona Beach, FL   Members of the Florida State University (FSU) School of Information ( FSU iSchool) community will be at the upcoming FLA Conference in Daytona Beach, FL February 29 – March 3, 2016.  The iSchool invites you to stop …

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SLIS Doctoral student wins George Atiyeh Award

Blake Robinson, a doctoral student in the FSU School of Library and Information Studies, Florida’s iSchool, has won the 2013 George Atiyeh Prize.  The award, presented by the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA), offers financial aid to attend the annual meetings of MELA and of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA). Robinson …

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SLIS Professor Mardis joins UCAR as Distinguished Research Fellow

FSU School of Library and Information Studies Associate Professor, Marcia Mardis, will join the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research (UCAR) during the 2013-14 academic year as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). UCAR is a consortium of over 100 member universities and academic affiliates focused on research and training in the atmospheric and …

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SLIS donates home library to Habitat for Humanity family

The FSU School of Library Information Studies (SLIS) and Dr. Nancy Everhart, Associate Professor and Director of the PALM Center (Partnerships Advancing Library Media), hosted a ceremony on Jun. 10 in the Goldstein Library to commemorate the donation of a 106-book library to a local single-parent family, the Josephs. The library contribution plans were announced on Feb. 12 at a celebration …

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SLIS Professor Everhart quoted in article on technology in K-12 education

Dr. Nancy Everhart, associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies and director of the PALM Center (Partnerships Advancing Library Media), was quoted in a Tampa Bay Times article.  She discusses some reasons advising against the removal of media specialists from primary education in Pasco County, FL. Everhart, who has expertise in media and digital curriculum, brought up that trying to …

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