iSchool’s Katy Comellas defends Master’s Thesis

Katy Comellas started her graduate degree in the School of Information in 2012. She had just finished her Bachelor’s at University of Central Florida and joined the MLIS program with the intention of studying children’s literature. “I’ve always found international children’s literature fascinating,” she shared. In the iSchool, and many other graduate programs, a thesis …

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Mark your calendar – iSchool Research Brown bags

Brown Bags will be held from 11:45-1:30pm in Rm 206 in the Shores building.   19-Nov: Sanghee Oh and Mia Lustria–eHealth Research at the iSchool 10-Dec: Gary Burnett, Julia Skinner, Jisue Lee, and Jon Hollister -Theory, Practice, and Collaboration 14-Jan: Chuck McClure and Laura Spears–IT School and Career Pathways in Rural Florida 18-Feb: Don Latham and …

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Meet the iSchool at ASIS&T 2014

Are you attending ASIS&T 2014?   Join us October 31-November 5 in Seattle, Washington for the 77th  ASIS&T Annual Meeting – Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities.  Here’s where you can find  FSU iSchool faculty, staff, students and alumni at ASIS&T!   SUNDAY, November 2   3:30pm-5pm Youth I (Panel) Youth Beyond Borders: Methodological Challenges in Youth …

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iSchool presents at TPRC42

Florida State University’s Information Institute presented the preliminary findings of the National Science Foundation-funded Assessing Information Technology Educational Pathways that Promote Deployment and Use of Rural Broadband project at the nationwide Telecommunication Policy Research Conference, TPRC42. The conference was held at the George Mason University in Arlington, VA from September 12-14, 2014. Doctoral candidate Jisue Lee presented …

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iSchool Doc Students receive Sol Hirsch Scholarship

Sol Hirsch graduated with his Master’s in Library Sciences from Florida State University and has been an integral part of the FSU community ever since. One of his contributions to Florida State is the Sol and Beverly Hirsch Endowment, established in memory of his parents who were both Nazi concentration camp survivors. The endowment provides …

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iSchool’s Mardis & Spears Published

Two faculty members in Florida State’s School of Information have recently had their research published: A Failure to Connect: The Elusive Relationship between Broadband Access and Children’s Information Seeking in American Academic Research.  Associate Professor Marcia Mardis and doctoral candidate Laura Spears conducted a study concerning children’s information seeking and broadband access. In the United States, the …

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