Karen Blondeau, FSU-SLIS alumna (MLIS ’10) and director of the Valencia College West Campus Library in Orlando, was recently elected to the Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC) Board of Directors as a representative of academic libraries.
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News about the alumni of the CCI School of Library & Information Studies
SLIS alumna Blondeau elected to Tampa Bay Library Consortium Board
Two SLIS alumni, ALISE conference paper winners, published in JELIS
Linda R. Most and Renee Franklin Hill, SLIS doctoral program alumni who were among the winners of four 2011 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Best Conference Paper Awards earlier this year, had articles published in the October issue of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS). Dr. Most’s award …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS alumna named FSUS 2011 teacher of the year
SLIS alumna Jennifer Underhill, who earned her Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies, Masters in Public Administration and Bachelor’s in English from FSU, has been recognized as the 2011 Teacher of the Year by the Florida State University School (FSUS). Jennifer serves as the K-12 Media Specialist at FSUS, which is a K-12 charter …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS doc student and alumna Aisha Johnson publishes "Service to African Americans"
SLIS doctoral student and alumna Aisha Johnson was published “Service to African Americans” in The American Public Library Handbook. Aisha earned her MLIS at SLIS (’09) before entering the doctoral program and is currently working as an archival intern at the Fisk University John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, funded by a nine-month Institute …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS grad published in national teen manual
SLIS alumna Jennifer Parsick (’08) has been published in the Collaborative Summer Library Program manual for teens. Forty-nine out of 50 U.S. states, as well as some American territories, use the manual to create their summer reading programs. “When I received my copy of the manual this morning,” Jennifer said, “I opened it and found …
CONTINUE READINGLatest Student Newsletter Released
Check it out – the Fall STUDENT newsletter is out! Click Here! If you know of any stories that we missed, send them to me (eranderee@cci.fsu.edu) for the Spring Newsletter (coming mid-March)
CONTINUE READINGWiegand 'gathers no moss'
In their July 2011 article in The Library Quarterly, “Wayne A. Wiegand and the Library: A Passionate Engagement,” co-authors Arthur P. Young and John C. Bertot accurately anticipated that retirement would not be “a retiring activity for Wayne…” Earlier this year, the Florida State University F. William Summers Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies …
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