Mardis to give keynote speech at SLAWNY, May 8

Dr. Marcia Mardis will be the keynote speaker at the School Librarians of Western New York (SLAWNY) conference on Friday, May 8, 2011. Her speech is titled “Who Are You? ‘Home Truths’, Possible Realities, and Opportunities for School Librarians to Thrive.” Mardis was the 2010 American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Service Award Winner. Later …

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Mardis' digital school library research is IMLS April 2011 profile of the month

The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies research grant Digital Libraries to School Libraries (DSL2SL) is the highlighted Institute for Museum and Library Studies (IMLS) website Project Profile for April 2011. The three-year study of the use of digital technology and professional development in school libraries to integrate digital learning objects into online …

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Two white papers by Everhart and Mardis included in NSF database

by Bob Branciforte Two white papers co-authored by Dr. Nancy Everhart and Dr. Marcia Mardis of The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies have been entered into the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) prestigious Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science (SBE) database, “SBE 2020.” The database seeks to assist the NSF and social science …

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SLIS at 2011 ALISE Annual Conference

Looking to connect with faculty, students and alumni of the FSU School of Library & Information Studies at the 2011 ALISE Annual Conference? As usual, they are making generous contributions to the event. Here are their presentations: WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5, 2011 10:30 a.m.–Noon ALISE Research Award 2010 Update: “An Activity Theory Approach to the Study …

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Everhart’s AASL ‘Vision Tour’ highlighted in American Libraries magazine

SLIS’ Dr. Nancy Everhart, in her role as president of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) of the American Library Association (ALA), was the focus of an article in American Libraries magazine on Dec. 20. “Road Trip: AASL president takes national ‘Vision Tour’ of excellent school libraries” by Leonard Kniffel focuses on Everhart, who …

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Gross elected ALISE Vice President/ President-Elect

Dr. Melissa Gross of The Florida State University will be the next president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), an organization that serves as the intellectual home of faculty in library and information science graduate programs throughout North America. Gross’ election as ALISE Vice President/President-Elect, seems a natural progression for the …

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Stvilia and Jörgensen publish journal article about Flickr usage

Dr. Besiki Stvilia and Dr. Corinne Jörgensen of the School of Library & Information Studies co-authored the article “Member activities and quality of tags in a collection of historical photographs in Flickr” in the December 2010 Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Citation of the article: Stvilia, B. and Jörgensen, C. …

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