FSU-SLIS alumnus Kenneth J. Hirsh (MSLIS ’89) has been elected to the executive board of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). He is director of the law library and information technology and professor of practice at the College of Law, University of Cincinnati. Hirsh has a history of leadership with both the AALL and …
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Alumnus Hirsh elected to Association of Law Libraries executive board
SLIS research ‘Author-team diversity and the impact on scientific publications’ published in LISR
A research article from FSU-SLIS faculty Charles C. Hinnant, Besiki Stvilia, Gary Burnett, Kathleen Burnett, Michelle M. Kazmer, Paul F. Marty, and doctoral students Shuheng Wu and Adam Worrall was published in “Library & Information Science Research,” a cross-disciplinary refereed journal. “Author-team diversity and the impact of scientific publications: Evidence from physics research at a …
CONTINUE READINGSpring grads/McClure published in 'First Monday'
Spring SLIS graduates Jeffrey Saunders (MLIS, 2012) and Lauren Mandel (PhD, 2012) published an article with Francis Eppes Professor of Information Studies Charles R. McClure in the peer-reviewed online journal First Monday (Volume 17, Number 11, November 2012), “Broadband applications: Categories, requirements and future frameworks.” The Abstract of the article: Recent telecommunications policies, private sector …
CONTINUE READINGKotrla and Dresang cited in Princeton Alumni Weekly
A 2009 research article* by FSU-SLIS faculty member Bowie Kotrla and former Eliza Gleason Atkins Professor Eliza T. Dresang was cited in Princeton Alumni Weekly, Oct. 10, 2012. Princeton English Department Chair and Professor William Gleason cites “Radical change theory and synergistic reading for digital age youth” (citation below) in his feature article on the …
CONTINUE READINGFaculty and alumni elected to ALISE board of directors
Two members of the FSU-SLIS family were recently elected to the board of directors of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). FSU-SLIS associate professor Don Latham, who earned his doctorate at FSU-SLIS, will serve as director for special interest groups and FSU-SLIS doctoral program alumna Laurie Bonnici, now an assistant professor at …
CONTINUE READINGMLIS student wins ALA Spectrum Scholarship
Master’s in Library & Information Studies student Jonathan DaSo, a Senior Library Assistant at Emory University’s Oxford College Library, was awarded an American Library Association 2012 Spectrum Scholarship. The Spectrum Scholarship Program provides scholarships to American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students pursuing graduate degrees in library and information …
CONTINUE READINGMLIS student wins FAME scholarship
Graduate student Lindsey Whittington was a winner of the $1,000 spring Sandy Ulm Scholarship, awarded by the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME) twice a year to Florida students pursuing an education in the field of library media services. Lindsey is currently an English teacher at Dixie Country High School in Cross City, Florida, …
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