Linda R. Most and Renee Franklin Hill, SLIS doctoral program alumni who were among the winners of four 2011 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Best Conference Paper Awards earlier this year, had articles published in the October issue of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS).

Dr. Most’s award winning paper was Hands on from a Distance: The Community-Embedded Learning Model Contextualizes Online Student Coursework. Dr. Franklin Hill co-authored Are We There Yet? Results of a Gap Analysis to Measure LIS Students’ Prior Knowledge and Actual Learning of Cultural Competence Concepts with Dr. Kafi Kumasi. Most is currently serving as an assistant professor at Valdosta State University and Franklin Hill is an assistant professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

JELIS is a refereed scholarly journal published quarterly by ALISE. In recognition of their accomplishment, the award winners were given the opportunity to develop articles from their papers that were published in the current issue (Volume 52, no. 4). SLIS faculty members Kathleen Burnett and Michelle Kazmer are the editors of JELIS.