iSchool professor named chair of National School Library Program of the Year Award committee

Nancy Everhart, a professor at Florida State University’s School of Information, has been appointed chair of the American Association of School Librarians’ (AASL) National School Library Program of the Year Award committee for the 2014-15 academic year. Everhart served as president of the AASL in 2010-11 and was a member of the National School Library Program …

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iSchool doctoral grad accepts faculty position at Texas Woman’s University

Aaron J. Elkins, a recent doctoral graduate of Florida State University’s School of Information, accepted a position as an assistant professor at Texas Woman’s University’s School of Library and Information Studies beginning in August. Elkins, who successfully defended his dissertation on June 23 and will officially graduate Aug. 2, will be teaching Librarians as Instructional …

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RDA for Music: Scores-webinar in The CAVE-July 31st

Are you interested in a career in Music Libraries? Keep up with the latest cataloging methods in this 90-minute workshop, Thursday, July 31, 2014, 2:30pm Eastern. The online workshop will be presented in The CAVE, Goldstein Library. The workshop is supported financially by our colleagues in the Warren D. Allen Music Library here at FSU. …

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CCI faculty, researcher publish study of ALS patient online community

A group of faculty and researchers from Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information (CCI) collaborated on an analysis of discussion board data from Patients Like Me and their findings were recently published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology. School of Information faculty members Michelle Kazmer, Mia Lustria and …

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iSchool faculty article earns 2013 Top 20 distinction by Library Instruction Round Table

Florida State University School of Information associate professor Don Latham and professor Melissa Gross’s article entitled, “Preparing Teachers and Librarians to Collaborate to Teach 21st Century Skills: Views of LIS and Education Faculty,” earned distinction as a 2013 Top Twenty article by the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the American Library Association (ALA). Latham …

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iSchool team receives I-Corps Entrepreneur Training Program grant from National Science Foundation

A faculty member and doctoral student from Florida State University’s School of Information are part of a three-person group that received an I-Corps Teams grant of $50,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to participate in NSF’s flagship I-Corps Entrepreneur Training Program. The primary goal of the NSF I-Corps is to foster entrepreneurship that will …

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Including Patrons With Autism in Your Library Programs

Autism is the fastest growing disability in the United States, and Florida is on the cutting edge in serving patrons on the autism spectrum. In this webinar: Anne Leon, Executive Director of Public Library Services; Alvin Sherman, with the Library at Nova Southeastern University, involved in a joint use partnership between NSU and the Broward …

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