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). …
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PALM Center to partner in Library of Congress grant
Mardis 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.
CONTINUE READINGSLIS study of The Geography of Virtual Questioning in Library Quarterly
A collaborative research study by SLIS faculty, students, and associates at the Information Institute entitled “The Geography of Virtual Questioning” appeared in Library Quarterly (Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 393-420). The research looked at activity within the Florida Electronic Library “Ask a Librarian” collaborative chat service. Researchers mapped IP addresses in participating Florida libraries as their …
CONTINUE READINGEverhart chosen to co-chair National Board committee
Dr. Nancy Everhart, associate professor at The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies in Tallahassee, Florida has been chosen by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) to co-chair a committee composed of a select national group of educators to assure the National Board’s Library Media Standards reflect the best practices …
CONTINUE READINGStudent Workshop Grants
Libraries of the Future Lakeland, Florida November 13, 2009 The Florida and Caribbean Chapter of SLA is offering student workshop grants that will reimburse student registration fees as well as travel expenses of up to $100 to attend. The Chapter may award up to five student grants to qualified applicants. STUDENT ELIGIBILITY AND REQUIREMENTS: To …
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