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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News about the faculty of all schools comprising the the FSU College of Communication & Information
Urban teaching week-long DHWI intensive on web publishing course
Faculty 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 READINGAdams to receive 'Tranformation Through Teaching Award'
School of Communication Associate Professor Jonathan Adams has been selected to receive The Florida State University Spiritual Life Project Transformation Through Teaching Award on Nov. 5 at President Barron’s home. The Spiritual Life Project works to celebrate evidence of meaning, purpose and authenticity within the FSU community. Transformation Through Teaching is a recognition designed to …
CONTINUE READINGKoontz receives IMLS National Leadership Grant to serve diverse library populations
Dr. Christie Koontz of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University received a National Leadership Grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for her proposal to help public libraries better target and serve their diverse populations. Koontz and co-principal investigator Dean K. Jue of FSU’s Florida …
CONTINUE READINGMardis JASIST article analyzes NSF merit review criteria
A research article co-authored by Dr. Marcia Mardis, associate professor at the FSU School of Library & Information Studies, was published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Volume 63, Issue 9, pages 1758-1772, September 2012). Here is the abstract from the article, titled “Toward broader impacts: Making sense of …
CONTINUE READINGRaney to speak at international symposium on moral psychology
Dr. Arthur A. Raney, Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication, will speak at an international research symposium on the moral psychology of fiction at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim, Norway, on September 20 and 21. The symposium will bring together scholars from cognitive film theory, analytic …
CONTINUE READINGRaney to chair featured research symposium at BEA
Dr. Arthur A. Raney, Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication, and Dr. Mary Beth Oliver, Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of Media Effects Research Laboratory in the College of Communications at Penn State University, will chair the Research Symposium at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) annual convention in Las Vegas in …
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