Scottish Rite is sponsoring a fish fry from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, to benefit the L.L. Schendel Speech and Hearing Clinic operated by FSU’s School of Communication Science & Disorders. Proceeds will be used for clinic scholarships, which cover fees for children’s therapy as well as tuition at Communication Camp in the …
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Fish-fry to benefit Comm Disorders clinic
CCI merges school development/advancement programs
The Florida State University’s newly merged College of Communication & Information Leadership Board meets to merge development & advancement programs On July 17, 2009, Dr. Lawrence Dennis, dean of the newly merged departments of Communication, Communication Science & Disorders, and Information met with notable alumni and friends from all over the country in this inaugural …
CONTINUE READINGDoc student receives Literati award
Doctoral student Plato L. Smith II recently received an 2009 Outstanding Paper Award from the Emerald Literati Network for his journal article, “Where IR you? Using ‘open access’ to extend the reach and richness of faculty research within a university.” The purpose of the paper was to clarify relationships between researchers, digital librarians, and catalogers …
CONTINUE READINGAlumnus published in MultiCultural Review
Congratulations to School of Library and Information Studies alumnus Ricardo Antoni (MSLIS, 2007). His article “Computadoras al Alcance de Todos: Bridging the Latino Digital Divide with Computer Literacy Programs in Spanish at the Library” was published in the Summer 2009 issue of Multicultural Review. It appears in the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Services Roundtable Bulletin …
CONTINUE READINGGrad student wins library association scholarship
Congratulations to School of Library & Information Studies graduate student Nicole Stroud, who won the 2009 Palm Beach County Library Association scholarship this summer. The annual $1,000 scholarship is awarded to a student enrolled in the graduate study in librarianship at an ALA accredited school of library or information science. Nicole won the scholarship for …
CONTINUE READINGWiegand named as Rollins College visiting scholar
Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor at The Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies, has been named as a “Visiting Scholar-in-Residence” at the Winter Park Institute of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida for the 2009-2010 academic year. In that capacity, he will teach a course about the history of book censorship in the United …
CONTINUE READINGAlumnus book on history of FL black school bands
Dale A. Thomas (MSLIS ’07) published A Band in Every School: Portraits of Historically Black School Bands in Florida. The book is a historical account of the role played during the days of segregation by the Florida Association of Band Directors in improving the quality of instrumental music education in Florida’s historically black schools. Although …
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