A team of CCI information experts recently built a new Web portal that could modernize how sustainable energy researchers share their work. The new Renewable Energy Research Portal will also, its creators hope, serve as a model for a state-of-the-art cyber infrastructure offering a more sophisticated way to use the Internet to efficiently seek out …
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CCI team research to aid renewable energy researchers
Everhart, Mardis & PALM research: SLJ cover story
The cover story of the May 1, 2010 issue of School Library Journal (SLJ) highlights the research of three institutes that are “poised to make the biggest difference” in school libraries, among them the PALM Center at Florida State University. Drs. Nancy Everhart and Marcia Mardis of the School of Library & Information Studies at …
CONTINUE READINGWiegand receives Antiquarian grant
Dr. Wayne Wiegand, F. Williams Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies, received a “Grant-in-Aid” from the American Antiquarian Society to do research their collections for his current study, “This Hallowed Place: A People’s History of the American Public Library.”
CONTINUE READINGWiegand in SIGNS
Dr. Wayne Wiegand, F. Williams Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies, co-authored an article published in the Spring 2010 issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. “By Invitation Only: The American Library Association and the Woman’s Library of the World’s Columbia Exposition, Chicago, 1893” was written with Associate Professor Sarah Wadsworth …
CONTINUE READINGColloquium, "The Young and the Digital", S. Craig Watkins, May 14
"The Young and the Digital: Race, Class, and the New Media Ecology" Presented by S. Craig Watkins Associate Professor, The Department of Radio-Television-Film The University of Texas at Austin Friday, May 14, 2010 10:00–11:00 a.m. Gregory Conference Room, Goldstein Library Louis Shores Building, FSU Campus Or view live on the web at Abstract: From the …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Leadership Board member/alumus Ahli Moore in Florida State Times
Comm alumnus and CCI Leadership Board member Ahli Moore was highlighted in a Florida State Times April/May 2010 article (page 6). Moore is the current president elect of our leadership board. Moore’s X-Factor teaches success By Bayard Stern, Managing Editor Ahli Moore grew up in an area where people of affluence and poverty lived …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS senior named as 2009 Woman of the Year by FSU Greek council
SLIS senior Charleta Williams was named as “2009 Woman of the Year” by the Multicultural Greek Council of the Florida State University in a ceremony held at the Tallahassee Civic Center on Thursday, April 15. At the ceremony, Williams was recognized for her outstanding leadership and service to the FSU campus and the Tallahassee community. …
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