The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to Florida State University and the University of Florida to coordinate 92 institutions in 45 states working to digitiz the nation’s biological collections. FSU’s Center for Information Management and Scientific Communication, in the College of Communication & Information, will work with UF’s Florida Museum …
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CCI part of $10 million project to digitize U.S. biology collections
SLIS, Dunn Foundation to present home libraries to 2 families
The Warrick Dunn Family Foundation, in collaboration with The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies, will present home libraries to two single-parent families at 11:30 a.m. Friday, July 8, at FSU’s Goldstein Library in the Louis Shores Building. The presentation is the culmination of a pilot project partnering WD-FF with Dunn’s alma …
CONTINUE READINGInformation Institute publishes "E-Govt Service Roles for Public Librarians"
Bradley Wade Bishop, PhD, a SLIS alumnus formerly at the Information Institute and now at the University of Kentucky; Charles R. McClure, PhD and Director; and Lauren H. Mandel, Research Coordinator, recently published “E-Government Service Roles for Public Librarians,” in Public Libraries, vol. 50 no. 3 (May-June 2011): pp. 32-37. The research is based on work …
CONTINUE READINGSee Everhart at AASL President Program – ALA, New Orleans, June 25
Dr. Nancy Everhart, president of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), will be presenting the AASL President’s Program on Saturday, June 25, 10:30 a.m. in New Orleans during the American Library Association Annual Conference in the Convention Center, Room 260-262. Everhart will conclude her term as AASL president on June 28, 2011. Dr. Everhart’s …
CONTINUE READINGAlumna Platt appointed editor of ALA division newsletter
SLIS alumna Alice Platt (’09) has been appointed as the new editor of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Newsletter Online. The ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association. The three-year appointment begins on July 1, 2011. Alice is currently the digital initiatives librarian at Southern New Hampshire University. Prior …
CONTINUE READINGRSVP for SLIS ALA Reception Friday, June 24
RSVP. Please take a minute to click on this link and complete the RSVP for the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University “SLIS-FSU Reception for Students, Alums and Friends” on Friday, June 24, 2011, during the American Library Association conference in New Orleans. The event is being held at from …
CONTINUE READINGLatham & Gross present at Canadian information science conference
Dr. Don Latham and Dr. Melissa Gross presented Enhancing skills, effecting change: Evaluating an intervention for students with below-proficient information literacy skills at the 39th Annual Canadian Association for Information Science Conference, June 2–4, 2011. Their presentation abstract was ranked in the top six submitted to the conference, whose theme was “Exploring Interactions of People, …
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