Mary Alice Hunt, retired professor emeritus of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University, passed away at her home on Saturday, December 19, 2009. Mary Alice was born in Lima, Ohio on April 14, 1928. She graduated from Ocala High School in 1946 and enrolled at Florida State University, where …
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News about the alumni of the CCI School of Library & Information Studies
Mary Alice Hunt: Remembering a life of service to SLIS
PALM Center to partner in Library of Congress grant
The PALM Center at the Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies is part of a team that has been awarded a $300,000 grant by the Library of Congress. The collaborative project, Successfully Teaching Educators about Primary Sources, will extend the work of the Library of Congress initiative Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS). …
CONTINUE READINGBrockmeier: Honoring the passing of a SLIS alumna
Mrs. Kristina Marie Crittenberger Brockmeier (Ph.D. ’92), Librarian at Providence Day School (PDS), whose 30-year career included the leadership of libraries within public, college, and independent school settings, died of cancer at 55 on October 13, 2009 in her home at Matthews, NC. Born into an Army family on December 12, 1953, in Washington, D.C., Kristina …
CONTINUE READINGMardis edits Library Trends issue on School Libraries
Dr. Marcia Mardis, assistant professor at the Florida State University College of Communication & Information, edited the new issue of Library Trends (vol. 58, no. 1, summer 2009) entitled “Important to Us All: School Libraries and LIS Research.” This issue was Library Trends’ first to focus on school libraries in over 40 years. In addition …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS study on issues of cross-contextual information quality evaluation
A faculty-student research study entitled “Issues of cross-contextual information quality evaluation—The case of Arabic, English, and Korean Wikipedias” appears in Library & Information Science Research (Vol. 31, Iss. 4, pp. 232-239). The article is authored by Dr. Besiki Stvilia, Abdullah Al-Faraj, and Yong Jeong.
CONTINUE READINGSLIS study of The Geography of Virtual Questioning in Library Quarterly
A collaborative research study by SLIS faculty, students, and associates at the Information Institute entitled “The Geography of Virtual Questioning” appeared in Library Quarterly (Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 393-420). The research looked at activity within the Florida Electronic Library “Ask a Librarian” collaborative chat service. Researchers mapped IP addresses in participating Florida libraries as their …
CONTINUE READINGEverhart chosen to co-chair National Board committee
Dr. Nancy Everhart, associate professor at The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies in Tallahassee, Florida has been chosen by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) to co-chair a committee composed of a select national group of educators to assure the National Board’s Library Media Standards reflect the best practices …
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