Convocation Webcast Link

The 2005 Annual Convocation & Award Ceremony at the FSU College of Information will be webcast live this Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005. View Webcast Some of the highlights of the day will be: Syrgley Lecture. “The Student Information Scientist: An Analogy for Future Information Inquiry Environments” being presented by Daniel Callison, Professor and Executive Associate …

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Convocation: Distinguished Lecturer; Honored Alumni, Faculty, & Students

This Saturday, Oct. 29, at the 2005 Convocation & Award Ceremony, Daniel Callison, Executive Associate Dean of the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, will present the Srygley Lecture entitled “The Student Information Scientist: An Analogy for Future Information Inquiry Environments.” Callison is founding editor of School Library Media Research journal. The Convocation …

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The CI at ALA Annual Conference

The FSU College of Information will be active at the 2005 Annual Conference of the American Library Association in Chicago next week at the ALISE booth in the LIS pavilion, and as part of the 2005 ALISE/ALA Cooperative LIS Alumni Reunion. Our students and alumni will have the opportunity to visit with our dean and …

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Bertot Article Recognized with 2005 Literati Award

Professor John Bertot’s article “Libraries and networked information services: issues and consideration in measurement” has been named as Outstanding Paper for 2005 for the publication Performance Measurement Metrics: The International Journal for Library Information Services by Emerald, as part of the publisher’s Literati Club Awards for Excellence. Emerald publishes a wide range of management and …

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O Canada!: The CI at SLA Annual Conference in Toronto, June 5-7

The College of Information will be represented at an exhibition booth staffed by Dr. Maria Chavez-Hernandez at the 96th Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) in Toronto, Canada on June 5-7 (the full conference runs June 5-8). The booth will be in the SLA conference exhibition area of the Toronto Metro Convention Centre, …

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Two CI Alumni Celebrated as LJ Movers and Shakers

Two College of Information alumni were highlighted among 51 “people who are shaping the future of libraries” in the 2005 Movers and Shakers supplement to the March issue of Library Journal. Linda Golian-Lui (MLIS, 1988) and Terry Reese (MLIS, 2002) were among those selected from across the US and Canada as “innovative, creative, and making …

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Two CI Grad Students Win FLA Scholarships

College of Information master’s students have been awarded two of the three 2005 Florida Library Association (FLA) Scholarships. Harold George will receive one of two General FLA Scholarships and Julio Granda will receive the Minority FLA Scholarship. The scholarships will be awarded next week (April 12) at the opening ceremony of the 2005 FLA Annual …

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