Mardis 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 …

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Raney 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 …

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Raney 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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Recent Faculty Publications

Check out our recent Publications   Connecting to Collections in Florida: Current Conditions and Critical Needs in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Corinne Jörgensen, Paul F. Marty, and Kathy Braun The Library Quarterly October 2012, Vol. 82, No. 4: 453-476.   Valeda Dent Goodman, Qualitative Research and the Modern Library Qualitative Research and the Modern Library …

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SLIS appoints interim director

Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information (CCI) Dean Larry Dennis announced Tuesday that Dr. Kathleen Burnett will serve as the interim director of the School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS). Dr. Burnett,  a professor at SLIS has served in many roles within the School during her time at FSU.  She was associate …

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Opel, four MP students attend 2012 Full Frame Festival

Dr. Andy Opel, associate professor of Communication and the director of the Media Production Program, and four Media Production majors took part in the Full Frame Fellows Program at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C., April 12-15. Thanks to the generous support of the Bickel Scholarship, Cat Sullivan (’12), Pierce Kafka (’12), …

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Adams 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 …

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