Dr. Wayne A. Wiegand, the SLIS F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus, will be reading a selection from his book, “Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956” (University of Iowa Press, 2011) at the 2012 Florida State University Authors Day, this Friday, March 24, …
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Wiegand to read this Friday at FSU Author's Day
Research by Stvilia, Jorgensen and Wu in this month's Library and Information Science Research
An article by FSU-SLIS’s Drs. Besiki Stvilia, Corinne Jörgensen, and doctoral student Shuheng Wu, Establishing the value of socially-created metadata to image indexing, appears in the current issue of the journal Library and Information Science Research [Stvilia, B., Jörgensen, C., and Wu, S. Library & Information Science Research, Vol. 34, No. 2. (April 2012), pp. …
CONTINUE READINGFive FSU-SLIS faculty on journal's most cited articles list
Five faculty members of The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies are among the authors of the top 25 research articles cited in the journal Library & Information Science Research since 2007, according to Elsevier. Articles by Drs. Melissa Gross, Don Latham, Besiki Stvilia, Corinne Jörgensen, and Gary Burnett are named in …
CONTINUE READINGHinnant serving on Florida Courts Technology Commission
Dr. Chris Hinnant, Assistant Professor of Information Studies, has been appointed to the Florida Courts Technology Commission (FCTC) by Chief Justice Charles T. Canady of the Florida Supreme Court. Administrative order no. AOSC11-27 set the term of appointment and service to last from June 2011 until June 2014. The FCTC’s overall mission is to oversee, …
CONTINUE READINGThree articles by FSU-SLIS authors in JASIST, March 2012
Research articles by two SLIS faculty members and one doctoral graduate are among those in the March 2012 issue (Volume 63, Issue 3) of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology: Dr. Sanghee Oh (Assistant Professor, FSU-SLIS). The characteristics and motivations of health answerers for sharing information, knowledge, and experiences in …
CONTINUE READINGInformation Institute garners 'top paper' at iConference
An Information Use Management & Policy Institute (Information Institute) paper won one of five best paper awards at the iSchools’ iConference 2012, held February 7-10 in Toronto. The paper, Rural Anchor Institution Broadband Connectivity: Enablers and Barriers to Adoption, covers two projects currently under way at the Information Institute at the Florida State University College of Communication and Information, School of Library and …
CONTINUE READING3-Day Startup seeking tech entrepreneurs, sponsors
Students, do you have an idea for a new technology company but aren’t quite sure how to get it started? If the answer is “yes,” have we got an opportunity for you! FSU 3-Day Startup is an entrepreneurship education program designed for university students with an emphasis on learning by doing. The weekend is designed …
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