Graduate students are learning about the future of public libraries as they help to build that future in courses from the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University. In classes such as “Intro to Information Services” and “Virtual Reference Environments,” students are learning first-hand how new online technologies are transforming libraries. …
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News about the alumni of the CCI School of Library & Information Studies
FSU students at the forefront of learning: The Internet Public Library
Mary Alice Hunt Memorial Service, Jan. 15
A memorial service for Mary Alice Hunt, Professor Emeritus at Florida State University, will be held on Friday, Jan. 15, 12:00 noon, at the Florida State University Alumni Center, Rendina Room (1030 West Tennessee St., Tallahassee, Florida). Memorial contributions may be made to the Mary Alice Hunt Endowed Scholarship Fund, Florida State University Foundation, 2010 …
CONTINUE READINGMary Alice Hunt: Remembering a life of service to SLIS
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 …
CONTINUE READINGPALM 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.
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