Faculty 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 …

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Joy 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 …

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FSU 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 …

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Stvilia/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 …

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Rodriquez-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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Koontz receives IMLS National Leadership Grant to serve diverse library populations

Dr. Christie Koontz of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University received a National Leadership Grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for her proposal to help public libraries better target and serve their diverse populations. Koontz and co-principal investigator Dean K. Jue of FSU’s Florida …

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Mardis JASIST article analyzes NSF merit review criteria

A research article co-authored by Dr. Marcia Mardis, associate professor at the FSU School of Library & Information Studies, was published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Volume 63, Issue 9, pages 1758-1772, September 2012). Here is the abstract from the article, titled “Toward broader impacts: Making sense of …

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