The School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS) will be well represented in a Tallahassee celebration of all things “book” in late March. With FSU English Professor Emeritus John Fenstermaker and Library of Congress Center for the Book Director John Y. Cole, Dr. Wayne Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor at SLIS, will discuss “The Power …
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SLIS/FSU active in Tallahassee book events, March 19–24
SLIS doc student on primary sources in School Library Monthly
An article written by SLIS doctoral student Melissa Johnston entitled, “A Historical Partnership: Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Direct,” appeared in the December 2009 issue of School Library Monthly (Volume XXVI, Number 4). “The Library of Congress Educational Outreach Division, in October of 2008, asked seventeen practicing educators for input on how to teach other …
CONTINUE READINGMary Alice Hunt: Remembering a life of service to SLIS
Mary Alice Hunt, retired professor emeritus of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University, passed away at her home on Saturday, December 19, 2009. Mary Alice was born in Lima, Ohio on April 14, 1928. She graduated from Ocala High School in 1946 and enrolled at Florida State University, where …
CONTINUE READINGPALM Center to partner in Library of Congress grant
The PALM Center at the Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies is part of a team that has been awarded a $300,000 grant by the Library of Congress. The collaborative project, Successfully Teaching Educators about Primary Sources, will extend the work of the Library of Congress initiative Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS). …
CONTINUE READINGMardis edits Library Trends issue on School Libraries
Dr. Marcia Mardis, assistant professor at the Florida State University College of Communication & Information, edited the new issue of Library Trends (vol. 58, no. 1, summer 2009) entitled “Important to Us All: School Libraries and LIS Research.” This issue was Library Trends’ first to focus on school libraries in over 40 years. In addition …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS to create distributed information system for image-based biodiversity data
Dr. Greg Riccardi of the School of Library & Information Studies received a National Science Foundation grant of $483, 582 for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Data Integration for Repository Services in Biodiversity Informatics. He and co-principal investigator Dr. Austin Mast of the FSU Department of Biological Science are collaborating with the University of Texas …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS study on issues of cross-contextual information quality evaluation
A faculty-student research study entitled “Issues of cross-contextual information quality evaluation—The case of Arabic, English, and Korean Wikipedias” appears in Library & Information Science Research (Vol. 31, Iss. 4, pp. 232-239). The article is authored by Dr. Besiki Stvilia, Abdullah Al-Faraj, and Yong Jeong.
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