Chavez-Hernandez Receives Outstanding Volunteer Award

Dr. Maria Chavez-Hernandez, Associate in Information Studies at the College of Information, received the Outstanding Volunteer Achievement Award from the Florida Association of Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas (FAVACA) at their annual volunteer reception in Tallahassee on April 20. During the reception, Dr. Chavez-Hernandez was recognized for her volunteer achievements and presented …

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Arbogast de Hubert-Miller Wins Garfield Award

Brian Arbogast de Hubert-Miller, a doctoral student at the College of Information, has been awarded the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the national Beta Phi Mu Honor Society. The fellowship is the highest honor that a doctoral student in library and information studies can receive. Brian was formerly a faculty member at the College …

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CI Grads Receive SLA Award

Five master’s program graduates of the FSU College of Information-Rebecca Augustyniak, Amy Finley, Dawn Aguero, Blair Monroe, and Brian Arsenault-have been selected for the Special Library Association’s H.W. Wilson Award for Excellence in Writing for the article “The Information Professional’s Role in Creating Business Management Systems.” From the SLA website: Rebecca, Amy, Dawn, Blair, and …

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Mary Jo Lynch Award for LIS Students Available

Purpose: To encourage library school student statistical research using public library data collected at the state and national level. Sponsors: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), American Library Association (ALA), Public Library Association (PLA), Federal-State Cooperative System (FSCS) for public library data collection. Eligibility: Any student working …

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ALA Conference Award Available

The Federal Librarians Adelaide Del Frate Conference Sponsorship Award is: For students who are currently enrolled in any ALA-accredited library school who: do not already have an ALA accredited degree, have expressed an interest in some aspect of Federal librarianship, and are either full or part-time students at the time of application. From the Federal …

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2006 Florida Library Association Scholarships

The following notice is from the Florida Library Association: The Florida Library Association (FLA) Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce that the application process has begun for the 2006 scholarships, which will be awarded at the Annual Conference (April 18-21, 2006 at the Buena Vista Palace Resort, Lake Buena Vista). There are three graduate school …

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2005 College Award Winners

Congratulations to the winners of awards at the 2005 Convocation & Awards Ceremony: Outstanding Alumni: Laurence Miller Outstanding Faculty Member: Darrell Burke Outstanding Staff Member: Susanne Houff F. William Summers Outstanding Graduate Student: LaTasha Spradley Gene T. Sherron Outstanding Undergraduate Student: Kysandra Ladner

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