Five faculty members of The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies are among the authors of the top 25 research articles cited in the journal Library & Information Science Research since 2007, according to Elsevier. Articles by Drs. Melissa Gross, Don Latham, Besiki Stvilia, Corinne Jörgensen, and Gary Burnett are named in …
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Five FSU-SLIS faculty on journal's most cited articles list
Four SLIS grads included in Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers 2012
We are proud to honor four graduates of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University who were selected as Movers & Shakers 2012 by Library Journal: Andrew Coulon and Mathew Moyer, Paul “Library Guy” Clark, and Christian Zabriskie.
CONTINUE READINGGuest lecture, "Interactive Multimodal Platforms," Susan C. Herring, March 21
Interactive multimodal platforms (IMPs) allow Internet users to comment on content in multiple modes, for example: YouTube. Users may respond either via text or video to YouTube videos. World of Warcraft. Players may engage in real-time chat via text or voice. VoiceThread.com. Participants may comment on multimedia slide shows via text, audio, or video. Google+ …
CONTINUE READINGHinnant serving on Florida Courts Technology Commission
Dr. Chris Hinnant, Assistant Professor of Information Studies, has been appointed to the Florida Courts Technology Commission (FCTC) by Chief Justice Charles T. Canady of the Florida Supreme Court. Administrative order no. AOSC11-27 set the term of appointment and service to last from June 2011 until June 2014. The FCTC’s overall mission is to oversee, …
CONTINUE READINGThree articles by FSU-SLIS authors in JASIST, March 2012
Research articles by two SLIS faculty members and one doctoral graduate are among those in the March 2012 issue (Volume 63, Issue 3) of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology: Dr. Sanghee Oh (Assistant Professor, FSU-SLIS). The characteristics and motivations of health answerers for sharing information, knowledge, and experiences in …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS faculty/doc students to present 9 research posters at iSchools iConference in Toronto
Nine research posters by FSU-SLIS faculty and students have been accepted for presentation at the upcoming iSchools iConference in Toronto, February 7–10, 2012: Rural Anchor Institution Broadband Connectivity: Enablers and Barriers to Adoption by Lauren H. Mandel, Nicole D. Alemanne, Charles R. McClure Observations of the Lifecycles and Information Worlds of Collaborative Scientific Teams at …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS alumna Blondeau elected to Tampa Bay Library Consortium Board
Karen Blondeau, FSU-SLIS alumna (MLIS ’10) and director of the Valencia College West Campus Library in Orlando, was recently elected to the Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC) Board of Directors as a representative of academic libraries.
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