FSU-SLIS alumnus Jim Morris (MS ’89) was named as the Florida Library Association’s 2012 Librarian of the Year at an awards ceremony held during their annual conference on April 20. Morris, who is Executive Director of Library and Community Services at Florida Gateway College (FGC) in Lake City, has been highly active in academic librarianship …
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FSU-SLIS alumnus named Librarian of the Year by FLA
Congratulations to our 2012 FLA Scholarship winners
Congratulations to Catharine “Caty” Greene and Natasha Fortune, who have won two of the three 2012 Florida Library Association (FLA) Scholarships available to graduate students. Each year the FLA awards three $2,000 graduate scholarships, one to a student attending Florida State University, one to a student at the University of South Florida and one, the …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS wins 2012 ALA Student Chapter of the Year Award
TALLAHASSEE (April 9, 2012) — On Friday the American Library Association (ALA) New Members Roundtable congratulated The Florida State University ALA Student Chapter as the winner of its 2012 Student Chapter of the Year Award. The annual award is presented to one of the 57 national chapters in recognition of outstanding contributions to the American …
CONTINUE READINGAdams to participate in Veterans' Entrepreneurship panel
Dr. Jonathan Adams, Associate Professor at the School of Communication, has been invited to participate in the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans’ Families (EBV-F) on the Venture Pitches panel. The Venture Pitches and judging will be held at the Residence Inn on Gaines St. on April 17, 2012 from 12:00pm to 5:00pm. The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans …
CONTINUE READINGDoc alumna Johnston to join University of Alabama faculty
Recent FSU-SLIS doctoral program graduate, Dr. Melissa Johnston, is joining the faculty of the University of Alabama School of Library & Information Studies in August, according the following JESSE listserv post on March 23, 2012, by Professor and Director Heidi Julien: The School of Library & Information Studies at The University of Alabama is delighted to …
CONTINUE READINGWiegand to read this Friday at FSU Author's Day
Dr. Wayne A. Wiegand, the SLIS F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus, will be reading a selection from his book, “Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956” (University of Iowa Press, 2011) at the 2012 Florida State University Authors Day, this Friday, March 24, …
CONTINUE READINGResearch by Stvilia, Jorgensen and Wu in this month's Library and Information Science Research
An article by FSU-SLIS’s Drs. Besiki Stvilia, Corinne Jörgensen, and doctoral student Shuheng Wu, Establishing the value of socially-created metadata to image indexing, appears in the current issue of the journal Library and Information Science Research [Stvilia, B., Jörgensen, C., and Wu, S. Library & Information Science Research, Vol. 34, No. 2. (April 2012), pp. …
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