Title: Prospectus Defense: Jung A Lee Location: Trezza Conference Room, Shores BuildingStart Time: 14:00Date: 2010-08-04End Time: 16:00
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Prospectus Defense: Jung A Lee
Ramos-Morton wins ALA Spectrum Scholarship
SLIS master’s student Jeri Ramos Morton has been chosen to receive an American Library Association (ALA) Spectrum Scholarship. The Spectrum Scholarship Program is ALA’s national diversity and recruitment effort designed to address the specific issue of under-representation of ethnic librarians within the profession. It seeks to improve service at the local library level by developing …
CONTINUE READINGFirst-year doc student Baeg wins seat in NCES database seminar
First-year SLIS doctoral student Jung Hoon Baeg has won a seat in the exclusive training seminar, “Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B) Database for Research and Policy Discussion” being held in Washington, D.C., August 3-5. The limited-seating (approximately 40 nationwide) seminar is open to advanced graduate students and faculty members from …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Faculty Retreat
Title: CCI Faculty RetreatLocation: HCB 203Description: Annual Faculty RetreatStart Time: 09:00Date: 2010-08-16End Time: 17:00
CONTINUE READINGKoontz co-edits IFLA Public Library Service Guidelines
Dr. Christie Koontz of the School of Library & Information Studies co-edited the International Federation of Libraries Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Public Library Service Guidelines with Barbara Gubbin, director of the Jacksonville Public Library. The guidelines are “framed to provide assistance to library and information professionals in most situations. They assist to better develop effective …
CONTINUE READINGInformation Institute to study rural broadband needs
By Bob Branciforte The Information Use Management & Policy Institute (Information Institute) at The Florida State University has received an award to evaluate the broadband needs of anchor institutions in 14 rural counties of northern Florida. The project is being done in conjunction with the $30 million North Florida Broadband Authority (NFBA) Middle Mile Project …
CONTINUE READINGTeam wins $1.2 million grant to teach children to monitor wildlife
A research team led by School of Library & Information Studies faculty is using a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to equip fourth- and fifth-graders with handheld digital journals to monitor natural habitats and analyze wildlife behavior at the Tallahassee Museum. Habitat Tracker — a joint project of FSU’s College of …
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