Dr. Howard Rodriguez-Mori, assistant professor at School of Library & Information Studies, College of Communication & Information, The Florida State University, will be the closing plenary session of the IX Trejo Foster Foundation Institute in Chihuahua, Mexico, Oct. 5, 2012. His paper is titled “What can libraries learn from Hispanic Marketing? An interdisciplinary analysis.” The …
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Rodriquez-Mori to speak on libraries and Hispanic marketing at Mexican conference in October
Koontz receives IMLS National Leadership Grant to serve diverse library populations
Dr. Christie Koontz of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University received a National Leadership Grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for her proposal to help public libraries better target and serve their diverse populations. Koontz and co-principal investigator Dean K. Jue of FSU’s Florida …
CONTINUE READINGMardis JASIST article analyzes NSF merit review criteria
A research article co-authored by Dr. Marcia Mardis, associate professor at the FSU School of Library & Information Studies, was published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Volume 63, Issue 9, pages 1758-1772, September 2012). Here is the abstract from the article, titled “Toward broader impacts: Making sense of …
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Check out our recent Publications Connecting to Collections in Florida: Current Conditions and Critical Needs in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Corinne Jörgensen, Paul F. Marty, and Kathy Braun The Library Quarterly October 2012, Vol. 82, No. 4: 453-476. Valeda Dent Goodman, Qualitative Research and the Modern Library Qualitative Research and the Modern Library …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS appoints interim director
Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information (CCI) Dean Larry Dennis announced Tuesday that Dr. Kathleen Burnett will serve as the interim director of the School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS). Dr. Burnett, a professor at SLIS has served in many roles within the School during her time at FSU. She was associate …
CONTINUE READINGWiegand to read this Friday at FSU Author's Day
Dr. Wayne A. Wiegand, the SLIS F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus, will be reading a selection from his book, “Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876-1956” (University of Iowa Press, 2011) at the 2012 Florida State University Authors Day, this Friday, March 24, …
CONTINUE READINGResearch by Stvilia, Jorgensen and Wu in this month's Library and Information Science Research
An article by FSU-SLIS’s Drs. Besiki Stvilia, Corinne Jörgensen, and doctoral student Shuheng Wu, Establishing the value of socially-created metadata to image indexing, appears in the current issue of the journal Library and Information Science Research [Stvilia, B., Jörgensen, C., and Wu, S. Library & Information Science Research, Vol. 34, No. 2. (April 2012), pp. …
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