Earlier this year, the American Library Association awarded SLIS alumnus Sol M. Hirsch the 2011 Peggy Sullivan Award for Public Library Administrators Supporting Services to Children. Hirsch was our School’s 2008 Distinguished Alumnus. Text from the ALA press release announcing the award follows: CHICAGO – The American Library Association is pleased to announce the 2011 …
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Alumnus Hirsch won the ALA 2011 Sullivan Award
Mon to speak at British iSchool virtual celebration
Dr. Lorri Mon, assistant professor at SLIS, will be presenting “Libraries and social media” online at a Second Life launch day celebration of the Information School of the University of Sheffield, UK, on June 13 at 2:15 p.m. EST. Mon’s presentation will be part of a full program of events in the virtual world of …
CONTINUE READINGDoc student Yong Jeong Yi awarded 2011 BPM Garfield Fellowship
FSU-SLIS doctoral candidate Yong Jeong Yi has been awarded a 2011 Beta Phi Mu Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in the amount of $3,000. Up to six Garfield Fellowships are awarded each year to library and information studies doctoral students who are working on their dissertations. Requirements include: Meeting LIS program requirements for advancement to …
CONTINUE READINGEverhart quoted in HuffPost in AASL president role
Tallahassee, Florida, June 1, 2011 — Dr. Nancy Everhart was quoted in the Education section of the Huffington Post yesterday in an article titled, “Librarian Positions Cut in Schools Across the Country.” Everhart is an associate professor with the SLIS faculty and director of the PALM Center (Partnerships Advancing Library Media) called upon in her …
CONTINUE READINGMarty on users of digital museum website collections in ‘Library & Information Science Research’
Dr. Paul F. Marty published an article My lost museum: User expectations and motivations for creating personal digital collections on museum websites in Library & Information Science Research, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 211–219. The key points of this research are: Meeting visitor expectations for user-created content poses challenges for museums; Visitors are …
CONTINUE READINGSLIS alumna is Illinois State archivist
SLIS alumna April Anderson became the university archivist for the Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives at the Milner Library of Illinois State University in April, 2011. Anderson was previously a senior archivist and adjunct instructor in history at the University of Central Florida.
CONTINUE READINGMay conference presentations by Gross & Latham
Dr. Melissa Gross and Dr. Don Latham made two presentations at conferences together during May, 2011: “The ASE process model: An evidence-based approach to information literacy instruction” at Fiesta de Excelencia: Celebration Excellence in Library Instruction, the Library Orietation Exchange (LOEX) Annual Conference 2011 in Fort Worth, Texas, May 5–7; “Innovating information literacy instruction: Results …
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