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 researchers published in First Monday
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 …
CONTINUE READINGKoontz chairs Athens IFLA conference
Dr. Christie Koontz (School of Library and Information Studies, College of Communication & Information) chaired a pre-conference for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in Athens, Greece, August 19-21. The event, hosted by the IFLA’s Management and Marketing Section, its Management of Library Associations Section, and the Greek Ministry of National Education …
CONTINUE READINGAlumnus published in MultiCultural Review
Congratulations to School of Library and Information Studies alumnus Ricardo Antoni (MSLIS, 2007). His article “Computadoras al Alcance de Todos: Bridging the Latino Digital Divide with Computer Literacy Programs in Spanish at the Library” was published in the Summer 2009 issue of Multicultural Review. It appears in the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Services Roundtable Bulletin …
CONTINUE READINGWiegand named as Rollins College visiting scholar
Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor at The Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies, has been named as a “Visiting Scholar-in-Residence” at the Winter Park Institute of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida for the 2009-2010 academic year. In that capacity, he will teach a course about the history of book censorship in the United …
CONTINUE READINGResearch Colloquium: Rodriguez-Mori, Aug. 6
The School of Library & Information Studies hosts Dr. Howard Rodriguez-Mori, Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College Presenting a research colloquium “The Information Behavior of Puerto Rican Migrants in Central Florida, 2003-2009: Grounded Analysis of Six Case Studies — Use of Social Networks During the Migration Process” Thursday, August …
CONTINUE READINGMardis on WCTV, WTLX news
Dr. Marcia Mardis (center) discusses school library resources with Stephanie Salvatore and Lauren Searcy of WCTV. Dr. Marcia Mardis, assistant professor at the School of Library & Information Studies, appeared on local television evening news reports, Friday, July 24, 2009, on WCTV and WTLX. The features highlighted the recent grant received by Mardis to investigate the …
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