Mrs. Kristina Marie Crittenberger Brockmeier (Ph.D. ’92), Librarian at Providence Day School (PDS), whose 30-year career included the leadership of libraries within public, college, and independent school settings, died of cancer at 55 on October 13, 2009 in her home at Matthews, NC. Born into an Army family on December 12, 1953, in Washington, D.C., Kristina …
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Brockmeier: Honoring the passing of a SLIS alumna
Mardis edits Library Trends issue on School Libraries
Dr. Marcia Mardis, assistant professor at the Florida State University College of Communication & Information, edited the new issue of Library Trends (vol. 58, no. 1, summer 2009) entitled “Important to Us All: School Libraries and LIS Research.” This issue was Library Trends’ first to focus on school libraries in over 40 years. In addition …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS to create distributed information system for image-based biodiversity data
Dr. Greg Riccardi of the School of Library & Information Studies received a National Science Foundation grant of $483, 582 for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Data Integration for Repository Services in Biodiversity Informatics. He and co-principal investigator Dr. Austin Mast of the FSU Department of Biological Science are collaborating with the University of Texas …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS study on issues of cross-contextual information quality evaluation
A faculty-student research study entitled “Issues of cross-contextual information quality evaluation—The case of Arabic, English, and Korean Wikipedias” appears in Library & Information Science Research (Vol. 31, Iss. 4, pp. 232-239). The article is authored by Dr. Besiki Stvilia, Abdullah Al-Faraj, and Yong Jeong.
CONTINUE READINGSLIS study of The Geography of Virtual Questioning in Library Quarterly
A collaborative research study by SLIS faculty, students, and associates at the Information Institute entitled “The Geography of Virtual Questioning” appeared in Library Quarterly (Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 393-420). The research looked at activity within the Florida Electronic Library “Ask a Librarian” collaborative chat service. Researchers mapped IP addresses in participating Florida libraries as their …
CONTINUE READINGEverhart chosen to co-chair National Board committee
Dr. Nancy Everhart, associate professor at The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies in Tallahassee, Florida has been chosen by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) to co-chair a committee composed of a select national group of educators to assure the National Board’s Library Media Standards reflect the best practices …
CONTINUE READINGCCI-SLIS Grad student named ALA Emerging Leader
Graduate student Nicole Stroud of the FSU College of Communication & Information’s School of Library & Information Studies was chosen for the American Library Association (ALA) 2010 Emerging Leader program. In January at the 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, Nicole will be one of about 100 library staff from across the country to participate …
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