Dean’s Colloquium Series College of Communication & Information “iSchools and Education in the 21st Century” “Information Fast and Slow: iSchools in the 21st Century” Caroline Haythornthwaite Director, School of Library, Archival & Information Studies University of British Columbia Monday, February 18, 2013 11:00 a.m., Room 206 LSB Webcast link will be available Monday morning on …
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Colloquium, “Information Fast and Slow: iSchools in the 21st Century,” Monday, Feb. 18
FSU-SLIS team qualifies in collegiate cyber defense competition
A team of undergraduate students taking an information technology (IT) security class at the FSU School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) has successfully qualified for the 2013 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. The students placed as one of the top southeastern university teams in an eight-hour virtual qualification event on Feb. 2, during which …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS doc student Plato Smith II selected by NSF as early career scholar
FSU School of Library & Information Studies doctoral student Plato L. Smith II was chosen by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a leading American early career scholar to be invited to its “Early Career Strategic Visioning Workshop” for EarthCube last October at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. “We were very happy …
CONTINUE READINGAmerican Library Association grants continued accreditation to SLIS program
In a letter addressed to Dr. Kathleen Burnett, professor and interim director of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University, the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association (ALA) stated that it had voted to grant continued accreditation status to the school’s master’s degrees in library and information studies. …
CONTINUE READINGGary Burnett and Julia Skinner selected for 2013 ALISE Featured Presentation
Professor Gary Burnett and doctoral student Julia Skinner of the FSU School of Library & Information Studies have been selected for a “Featured Presentation” at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2013 Annual Conference in Seattle, WA. Their panel presentation “Questions Are Never Neutral: Examining the Occupy and Tea Party Movements as …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS doctoral team chosen for iConference 2013 Social Media Expo
The FSU School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS) would like to congratulate a team of its doctoral students who have been selected to compete in the inaugural Social Media Expo at iConference 2013, Feb. 12-15. Laura Spears, Nathaniel Ramos, Jr. and Jisue Lee have received a $3,000 award from conference sponsor Microsoft Research to …
CONTINUE READINGUrban teaching week-long DHWI intensive on web publishing course
Dr. Richard Urban of the School of Library & Information Studies will be teach a week-long intensive course, “Publishing and Using Linked Open Data,” as part of the Digital Humanities Winter Institute, Jan. 7–11. The institute is hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. In addition to Dr. Urban’s course, its 2013 …
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