Suncoast Information Specialists Call for Applications: Scholarships to Attend 2012 FLA Conference, April 18-20. Application deadline: February 1, 2012 Announcement of winners: February 10, 2012 Suncoast Information Specialists is accepting applications for two student and one librarian/staff scholarship to attend the 2012 Florida Library Association Conference at Wyndham Resort, Orlando, Florida. The maximum amount of …
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News about the FSU College of Communication & Information
Scholarships available to attend 2012 FLA Conference; applications due Feb. 1
SLIS 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 READINGEverhart in news article on Ohio school library closures
Dr. Nancy Everhart’s comments were referred to in a Nov. 29, 2011, online article in The Columbus Dispatch, “Cutbacks shut elementary’s library, threaten middle school’s.” Read the article: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/11/26/cutbacks-shut-elementarys-library-threaten-middle-schools.html
CONTINUE READINGFSU School of Communication hosts Dr. Binod C. Agrawal
Presentations (All CCI students welcome) this coming week at by Dr. Binod C. Agrawal is the guest of the School of Communication at Florida State University during the week of November 28 to December 2, 2011. During his visit to FSU, Dr. Agrawal will lead two workshops on qualitative research methods (each offered two times), …
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 READINGIT Leadership students and STARS provide H.S. Outreach
Students in the IT Leadership class (which could be named Public Speaking for IT) and STARS students have been out at local high schools talking about IT and ICT majors. The group spent time at Leon High School (11/8) and Godby High (11/21). Each visit included speaking to 4 different senior classes. According to ICT …
CONTINUE READINGIT/ICT Students Tour MindComet and GrooveShark
Students from the IT/ICT program toured companies in Gainesville and Orlando in early November. In Orlando, they met with MindComet, a Social Media Marketing company. MindComet hosted the group of IT/ICT students, answered questions about their company, the direction for social media, and the importance of social media marketing in business today. MindComet is a …
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