MLIS Recruitment Workshop: Online at 10 am Tues July 30

Becoming a Library and Information Professional: All About Graduate School” on Tuesday, July 30 at 10:00 am. This will take place in the FSU Blackboard/Elluminate room. To access the session click on this link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.720146F7413F9DF4DC26CE4A2F6980&sid=9452 For more information contact Dr. Christie Koontz ckoontz@fsu.edu

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FRIDAY! NEFLIN Sponsored MLIS Online Recruitment Workshop

Becoming a Library and Information Professional: All About Graduate School” on Friday, July 26 at 2:00 pm. This will take place in the FSU Blackboard/Elluminate room. To access the session click on this link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.720146F7413F9DF4DC26CE4A2F6980&sid=9452 For more information contact Dr. Christie Koontz ckoontz@fsu.edu

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Koontz publishes her second book on Marketing Library and Information Services

Dr. Christie Koontz, research associate in the School of Library & Information Studies (SLIS), published the second volume of the book, Marketing Library and Information Services II: A Global Outlook.  Her co-editors are Dinesh K. Gupta and Àngels Massísimo.  It was published in 2013 by Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur. With contributions from library and information professionals including practitioners, …

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SLIS Doctoral Candidate Adam Worrall Invited to Attend ACM / IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries' Doctoral Consortium

  FSU School of Library and Information Studies doctoral candidate Adam Worrall was recently accepted to participate in the Doctoral Consortium at the 2013 ACM / IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), to be held July 22nd in Indianapolis, IN. Adam’s extended abstract of his doctoral research and dissertation, titled “Social Digital Libraries: Their …

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CCI hosts girls’ technology camp and workshops as part of community outreach

FSU’s College of Communications and Information (CCI) hosted its first Girls’ Technology Camp from Jun. 17-21 as part of their community outreach efforts.  Taking place in the William Johnston Building, 42 middle school girls from Leon County utilized a computer lab to learn about the world of information technology, compliments of CCI. The camp taught …

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SLIS Ph.D. alumnus wins Jesse Shera Award

Dr. Sung Jae Park (FSU SLIS Alum) has been selected as the winner of the Library Research Round Table (LRRT)’s Jesse Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research for the article, “Measuring Public Library Accessibility: A Case Study Using GIS,” published in Library & Information Research 34 (2012): 13-21, December 2011. Park’s article provides a well-defined research question, …

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