Florida public library outlets and K-12 public schools reported inadequate connection speeds and insufficient workstations to serve patrons in a needs assessment report recently issued by the Information Use Management Policy Institute at The Florida State University College of Communication & Information. The research, funded by a contract from the State Library and Archives of …
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Research news from the CCI School of Information
Institute public library report highlights broadband needs
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 …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS 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 READINGDoc student receives Literati award
Doctoral student Plato L. Smith II recently received an 2009 Outstanding Paper Award from the Emerald Literati Network for his journal article, “Where IR you? Using ‘open access’ to extend the reach and richness of faculty research within a university.” The purpose of the paper was to clarify relationships between researchers, digital librarians, and catalogers …
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 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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