Imagine earning credits for your master’s degree at your favorite place to visit – whether it’s online, in your hometown, or in another part of the world. Students in the Florida State University master’s program at School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS) are taking advantage of internships to gain credits, as well as learning …
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SLIS internships: Opening new worlds of opportunity to students
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 …
CONTINUE READINGFirst-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 …
CONTINUE READINGKoontz 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 …
CONTINUE READINGLaPointe 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. …
CONTINUE READINGInformation Institute to study rural broadband needs
By Bob Branciforte The Information Use Management & Policy Institute (Information Institute) at The Florida State University has received an award to evaluate the broadband needs of anchor institutions in 14 rural counties of northern Florida. The project is being done in conjunction with the $30 million North Florida Broadband Authority (NFBA) Middle Mile Project …
CONTINUE READINGApel and Thomas-Tate are researchers on $26 million IES grant
As part of a larger group of researchers at The Florida State University, Dr. Kenn Apel and Dr. Shurita Thomas-Tate of the School of Communication Science & Disorders are co-investigators on the “Reading for Understanding Research Network” project. The five-year, $100 million grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences …
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