The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to Florida State University and the University of Florida to coordinate 92 institutions in 45 states working to digitiz the nation’s biological collections. FSU’s Center for Information Management and Scientific Communication, in the College of Communication & Information, will work with UF’s Florida Museum …
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CCI part of $10 million project to digitize U.S. biology collections
Latham & Gross present at Canadian information science conference
Dr. Don Latham and Dr. Melissa Gross presented Enhancing skills, effecting change: Evaluating an intervention for students with below-proficient information literacy skills at the 39th Annual Canadian Association for Information Science Conference, June 2–4, 2011. Their presentation abstract was ranked in the top six submitted to the conference, whose theme was “Exploring Interactions of People, …
CONTINUE READINGMon to speak at British iSchool virtual celebration
Dr. Lorri Mon, assistant professor at SLIS, will be presenting “Libraries and social media” online at a Second Life launch day celebration of the Information School of the University of Sheffield, UK, on June 13 at 2:15 p.m. EST. Mon’s presentation will be part of a full program of events in the virtual world of …
CONTINUE READINGEverhart quoted in HuffPost in AASL president role
Tallahassee, Florida, June 1, 2011 — Dr. Nancy Everhart was quoted in the Education section of the Huffington Post yesterday in an article titled, “Librarian Positions Cut in Schools Across the Country.” Everhart is an associate professor with the SLIS faculty and director of the PALM Center (Partnerships Advancing Library Media) called upon in her …
CONTINUE READINGMarty on users of digital museum website collections in ‘Library & Information Science Research’
Dr. Paul F. Marty published an article My lost museum: User expectations and motivations for creating personal digital collections on museum websites in Library & Information Science Research, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 211–219. The key points of this research are: Meeting visitor expectations for user-created content poses challenges for museums; Visitors are …
CONTINUE READINGMay conference presentations by Gross & Latham
Dr. Melissa Gross and Dr. Don Latham made two presentations at conferences together during May, 2011: “The ASE process model: An evidence-based approach to information literacy instruction” at Fiesta de Excelencia: Celebration Excellence in Library Instruction, the Library Orietation Exchange (LOEX) Annual Conference 2011 in Fort Worth, Texas, May 5–7; “Innovating information literacy instruction: Results …
CONTINUE READINGRSVP for FSU's ALA Reception, June 24 in New Orleans
RSVP. Please take a minute to click on this link and complete the RSVP for the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University “SLIS-FSU Reception for Students, Alums and Friends” on Friday, June 24, 2011, during the American Library Association conference in New Orleans. The event is being held at from …
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