FSU SLIS doctoral student Joung Hwa “Joy” Koo received the Elfreda Chatman Research Award at the SIG USE Symposium at the 75th ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 27, 2012, which includes a $1000 check to support the research. Together with Yong Wan Cho and FSU SLIS Professor Melissa Gross, Joy’s award-winning research investigates the …
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Joy Koo Receives Elfreda Chatman Research Award at ASIS&T
FSU SLIS iSchool at ASIS&T 2012
Join FSU SLIS faculty, staff, students & alumni at ASIS&T 2012! Here are some of the sessions where you’ll be able to find us at ASIS&T: Friday, October 26, 2012 8:30am-12:30pm Taxonomy: From Theory to Practice – Sara Mooney Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 1:30pm-6:30 SIG USE Symposium: Evolving and Emerging Research Methodologies in …
CONTINUE READINGStvilia/doc students publish journal article on authority control for scientific data
A research article co-authored by SLIS doctoral students Shuheng Wu and Dong Joon Lee, and associate professor Besiki Stvilia was published in the Journal of Library Metadata (Volume 12, Issue 2-3, pages 61-82, September 2012). The article, titled “Authority control for scientific data: The case of molecular biology” explores authority control practices and issues in …
CONTINUE READINGKoontz receives IMLS National Leadership Grant to serve diverse library populations
Dr. Christie Koontz of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University received a National Leadership Grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for her proposal to help public libraries better target and serve their diverse populations. Koontz and co-principal investigator Dean K. Jue of FSU’s Florida …
CONTINUE READINGMardis JASIST article analyzes NSF merit review criteria
A research article co-authored by Dr. Marcia Mardis, associate professor at the FSU School of Library & Information Studies, was published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Volume 63, Issue 9, pages 1758-1772, September 2012). Here is the abstract from the article, titled “Toward broader impacts: Making sense of …
CONTINUE READINGDigital Libraries poster a collaboration of SLIS faculty, staff and undergraduate student
SLIS Assistant Professor Marcia Mardis presented a poster with CCI staff member Casey McLaughlin and undergrad IT student Grant Gingell at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, George Washington University, June 10-12. The poster, “Sharing and Using STEM Digital Content in School Libraries,” relates recent research in Mardis’ IMLS Early Career Researcher grant project (2009-2013), …
CONTINUE READINGResearch by Stvilia, Jorgensen and Wu in this month's Library and Information Science Research
An article by FSU-SLIS’s Drs. Besiki Stvilia, Corinne Jörgensen, and doctoral student Shuheng Wu, Establishing the value of socially-created metadata to image indexing, appears in the current issue of the journal Library and Information Science Research [Stvilia, B., Jörgensen, C., and Wu, S. Library & Information Science Research, Vol. 34, No. 2. (April 2012), pp. …
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