Join SLIS at GA COMO, Oct. 7 to 9

The School of Library & Information Studies The Florida State University College of Communication & Information Invites our alumni & friends to  SOCIALS & CONVERSATIONS: Catching up with the College at COMO October 7–9, Columbus, GA At the 2009 Georgia Council of Media Organizations Conference� Set up an informal meeting with Mafé Brooks and Dr. …

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Alumnus quoted in BusinessWeek

SLIS bachelor’s alumnus Cedric Nabe was interviewed in the cover story of the September 14 issue of BusinessWeek, a special report on “Best Places to Launch a Career.” Cedric is working for Deloitte while training as a sprinter for the Olympics. His photo appears with the article.

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CCI board member is finalist for award

Allan Stamm, a member of the Florida State University College of Communication and Information Leadership Board, is a finalist for the Florida State University Leader of the Year Award. A Leader of the Year will be named from among several finalists on Sept. 17 during the annual banquet of the Distinguished Leadership Awards at FSU’s …

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SLIS researchers published in First Monday

SLIS associate professor Kathleen Burnett, Ph.D., doctoral graduate Manimegalai M. Subramaniam, Ph.D., and doctoral student Amelia Gibson published “Latinas cross the IT border: Understanding gender as a boundary object between information worlds” in the First Monday, Volume 14, Number 9–7 September 2009. The article questions how successful Latina IT professionals construct and reconstruct their conceptions of …

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SLIS professors to edit Library Trends issue

Drs. Paul F. Marty, Michelle M. Kazmer, and Corinne Jörgensen of the School of Library & Information Studies, College of Communication and Information, Florida State University will be co-editing a special issue of Library Trends titled “Involving Users in the Co-Construction of Digital Knowledge in Libraries, Archives, and Museums” along with Katherine Burton Jones (Harvard Divinity …

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