Ramos-Morton wins ALA Spectrum Scholarship

SLIS master’s student Jeri Ramos Morton has been chosen to receive an American Library Association (ALA) Spectrum Scholarship. The Spectrum Scholarship Program is ALA’s national diversity and recruitment effort designed to address the specific issue of under-representation of ethnic librarians within the profession. It seeks to improve service at the local library level by developing …

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Library Director

The South Georgia Regional Library is currently searching for a new director. As a Library and Information Science professional, we would like to make you aware of this valuable career opportunity. South Georgia Regional Library is a vibrant organization serving a wide spectrum of community needs. This six branch system spans Lowndes, Lanier, and Echols …

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First-year doc student Baeg wins seat in NCES database seminar

First-year SLIS doctoral student Jung Hoon Baeg has won a seat in the exclusive training seminar, “Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) Database for Research and Policy Discussion” being held in Washington, D.C., August 3-5.   The limited-seating (approximately 40 nationwide) seminar is open to advanced graduate students and faculty members from …

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Koontz co-edits IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines

Dr. Christie Koontz of the School of Library & Information Studies co-edited the International Federation of Libraries Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Public Library Service Guidelines with Barbara Gubbin, director of the Jacksonville Public Library. The guidelines are “framed to provide assistance to library and information professionals in most situations. They assist to better develop effective …

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LaPointe and Stierwalt publish research on cognitive loading and injurious falls

Leonard La Pointe and Julie Stierwalt of the SCSD faculty have published a research article in the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology along with Charles Maitland (College of Medicine).  For “Talking while walking: Cognitive loading and injurious falls in Parkinson’s disease,” the researchers studied 25 participants with Parkinson’s disease and 13 participants without neurological compromise. …

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