Paul T. Jaeger was awarded the Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Award in recognition of winning the Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition at the 2006 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference on January 17. Jaeger is a doctoral candidate at FSU’s College of Information and the Manager for Research Development at FSU’s Information Use Management and Policy Institute.

His poster was entitled “Multi-method Evaluation of U.S. Federal Electronic Government Websites in terms of Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities.” It summarized the findings of Jaeger’s dissertation, which examined issues of the accessibility and usability of federal government websites. Jaeger will be defending his dissertation on February 7.

This is the first time a student from Florida State University has won the ALISE Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition. This year’s competition included 60 entries from doctoral students from Library and Information Science programs across the United States and Canada.

January 18, 2006