After almost 10 years working with the Florida State University (FSU) College of Communication and Information, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Barbara Robinson, will be starting a new job as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the FSU Panama City campus. Read the full story here: newsherald.com/news/fsu-pc-preparing-for-first-freshmen-1.74825
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CCI Assoc. Dean Barbara Robinson moves to FSU-PC campus
Urban teaching week-long DHWI intensive on web publishing course
Dr. Richard Urban of the School of Library & Information Studies will be teach a week-long intensive course, “Publishing and Using Linked Open Data,” as part of the Digital Humanities Winter Institute, Jan. 7–11. The institute is hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. In addition to Dr. Urban’s course, its 2013 …
CONTINUE READINGFaculty and alumni elected to ALISE board of directors
Two members of the FSU-SLIS family were recently elected to the board of directors of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). FSU-SLIS associate professor Don Latham, who earned his doctorate at FSU-SLIS, will serve as director for special interest groups and FSU-SLIS doctoral program alumna Laurie Bonnici, now an assistant professor at …
CONTINUE READINGJoy Koo Receives Elfreda Chatman Research Award at ASIS&T
FSU SLIS doctoral student Joung Hwa “Joy” Koo received the Elfreda Chatman Research Award at the SIG USE Symposium at the 75th ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 27, 2012, which includes a $1000 check to support the research. Together with Yong Wan Cho and FSU SLIS Professor Melissa Gross, Joy’s award-winning research investigates the …
CONTINUE READINGFSU SLIS iSchool at ASIS&T 2012
Join FSU SLIS faculty, staff, students & alumni at ASIS&T 2012! Here are some of the sessions where you’ll be able to find us at ASIS&T: Friday, October 26, 2012 8:30am-12:30pm Taxonomy: From Theory to Practice – Sara Mooney Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 1:30pm-6:30 SIG USE Symposium: Evolving and Emerging Research Methodologies in …
CONTINUE READINGStvilia/doc students publish journal article on authority control for scientific data
A research article co-authored by SLIS doctoral students Shuheng Wu and Dong Joon Lee, and associate professor Besiki Stvilia was published in the Journal of Library Metadata (Volume 12, Issue 2-3, pages 61-82, September 2012). The article, titled “Authority control for scientific data: The case of molecular biology” explores authority control practices and issues in …
CONTINUE READINGRodriquez-Mori to speak on libraries and Hispanic marketing at Mexican conference in October
Dr. Howard Rodriguez-Mori, assistant professor at School of Library & Information Studies, College of Communication & Information, The Florida State University, will be the closing plenary session of the IX Trejo Foster Foundation Institute in Chihuahua, Mexico, Oct. 5, 2012. His paper is titled “What can libraries learn from Hispanic Marketing? An interdisciplinary analysis.” The …
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