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 …
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News about the alumni of the CCI School of Library & Information Studies
SLIS grad published in national teen manual
Latest 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 READINGWiegand 'gathers no moss'
In their July 2011 article in The Library Quarterly, “Wayne A. Wiegand and the Library: A Passionate Engagement,” co-authors Arthur P. Young and John C. Bertot accurately anticipated that retirement would not be “a retiring activity for Wayne…” Earlier this year, the Florida State University F. William Summers Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies …
CONTINUE READINGBeta Phi Mu events set for Nov. 18
The Gamma Chapter of Beta Phi Mu is holding its 54th Annual Meeting and Evening of Events on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, during FSU Homecoming Weekend. All Beta Phi Mu members—as well as alumni, faculty, and friends of the School of Library & Information Studies—are invited. Among those expected to be in attendance is retired …
CONTINUE READINGEmeritus SLIS Professor Wayne Wiegand discusses his new book, "Main Street Public Library", in American Libraries Magazine
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/09272011/main-street-public-library WAYNE A. WIEGAND is F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus at Florida State University in Tallahassee, president of the FSU Friends of Libraries, and director of the Florida Book Awards.
CONTINUE READINGMLIS Nina Rose article accepted for publication!
CCI SLIS student in the LIS 5661 Government Information class, Nina Rose, has hadarticle accepted for publication in the student papers edition of the American Library Association Government Documents Roundtable journal, DttP: Documents to the People, titled “Lilly Ledbetter: A Tour of the Three Branches” and traces the history of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay …
CONTINUE READINGInformation Institute publishes "E-Govt Service Roles for Public Librarians"
Bradley Wade Bishop, PhD, a SLIS alumnus formerly at the Information Institute and now at the University of Kentucky; Charles R. McClure, PhD and Director; and Lauren H. Mandel, Research Coordinator, recently published “E-Government Service Roles for Public Librarians,” in Public Libraries, vol. 50 no. 3 (May-June 2011): pp. 32-37. The research is based on work …
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