Kelly Lafferman (BS, Communication, 1992), a marketing, branding and communications executive in Central Florida, recently joined WebSolvers, a digital design and development firm as Principal of Strategy and Development. In this role, Lafferman will build a marketing, branding and communications practice area that enables WebSolvers to provide more strategic services toclients. Lafferman brings nearly two …
CONTINUE READINGCategory: CCI Alumni News
News about (and for) the alumni of the schools comprising the FSU College of Communication & Information
FSUComm alum Kelly Lafferman joins WebSolvers
SLIS 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.
CONTINUE READINGSLIS doc student and alumna Aisha Johnson publishes "Service to African Americans"
SLIS doctoral student and alumna Aisha Johnson was published “Service to African Americans” in The American Public Library Handbook. Aisha earned her MLIS at SLIS (’09) before entering the doctoral program and is currently working as an archival intern at the Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, funded by a nine-month Institute …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS grad published in national teen manual
SLIS alumna Jennifer Parsick (’08) has been published in the Collaborative Summer Library Program manual for teens. Forty-nine out of 50 U.S. states, as well as some American territories, use the manual to create their summer reading programs. “When I received my copy of the manual this morning,” Jennifer said, “I opened it and found …
CONTINUE READINGLatest Student Newsletter Released
Check it out – the Fall STUDENT newsletter is out! Click Here! If you know of any stories that we missed, send them to me (eranderee@cci.fsu.edu) for the Spring Newsletter (coming mid-March)
CONTINUE READINGAlumnus Hirsch won the ALA 2011 Sullivan Award
Earlier this year, the American Library Association awarded SLIS alumnus Sol M. Hirsch the 2011 Peggy Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children. Hirsch was our School’s 2008 Distinguished Alumnus. Text from the ALA press release announcing the award follows: CHICAGO – The American Library Association is pleased to announce the 2011 …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS alumna is Illinois State archivist
SLIS alumna April Anderson became the university archivist for the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives at the Milner Library of Illinois State University in April, 2011. Anderson was previously a senior archivist and adjunct instructor in history at the University of Central Florida.
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