Doc alumna Johnston to join University of Alabama faculty

Recent FSU-SLIS doctoral program graduate, Dr. Melissa Johnston, is joining the faculty of the University of Alabama School of Library & Information Studies in August, according the following JESSE listserv post on March 23, 2012, by Professor and Director  Heidi Julien: The School of Library & Information Studies at The University of Alabama is delighted to …

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Mills family requests scholarship donations as memorial

The family of Bill Mills Jr., founder and chairman of The William Mills Agency and one of the School of Communication’s Distinguished Alumni, asks that anyone wishing to honor his memory make a contribution to the Bill & Eloise Mills Scholarship fund at FSU’s College of Communication & Information. Mr. Mills died Thursday, March 15, …

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Florida Library Conference: April 18-19 Orlando

Join SLIS FSU at FLA at the Wyndham Hotel in Orlando April 18 – 19 Student Mixer 4.18 1 – 2 pm SLIS Reception 4.18, 6:30 to 8 pm Visit us at the Exhibition Hall at booth #409 Faculty, students and alums are presenting, facilitating, & sharing in committee work  at FLA! Contact Dr. Christie …

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Wiegand 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, …

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Research 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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Five FSU-SLIS faculty on journal's most cited articles list

Five faculty members of The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies are among the authors of the top 25 research articles cited in the journal Library & Information Science Research since 2007, according to Elsevier. Articles by Drs. Melissa Gross, Don Latham, Besiki Stvilia, Corinne Jörgensen, and Gary Burnett are named in …

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