The American Library Association (ALA) today announces the opening of the application process for the prestigious 2016 Google Policy Fellowship program. For the summer of 2016, the selected fellow will spend 10 weeks in residence at the ALA policy office in Washington, D.C., to learn about national policy and complete a major project. Google provides …
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2016 Google Policy Fellowship
Join the iSchool at ALA, June 25-30!
FSU iSchool at ALA! The Florida State University (FSU) School of Information iSchool will be in force at the upcoming ALA conference in San Francisco, June 25-30! Visit us at the ALISE/Library & Information Studies Booth (Booth #3532) at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. iSchool staff, faculty and students will be stationed at the …
CONTINUE READINGRDA for Music: Scores-webinar in The CAVE-July 31st
Are you interested in a career in Music Libraries? Keep up with the latest cataloging methods in this 90-minute workshop, Thursday, July 31, 2014, 2:30pm Eastern. The online workshop will be presented in The CAVE, Goldstein Library. The workshop is supported financially by our colleagues in the Warren D. Allen Music Library here at FSU. …
CONTINUE READINGJoin FSU iSchool at the ALA Annual Conference!
Join FSU iSchool faculty, staff, students and alumni at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26 – July 1, 2014! Here are some of the places and times where you can find us at ALA Annual: Friday, June 27 8:30am to 4:00pm – Dr. Richard Urban, “Practical Linked Data with …
CONTINUE READINGAnnette Goldsmith as chair of Batchelder Award Committee
In January, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the 2010 Mildred Batchelder Award. Each year this presitigious award honors the most outstanding non-English language children’s book published outside the U.S. and translated into English for publication within the U.S. Alumna Annette Goldsmith served as the Batchelder Committee Chair and was quoted in the ALA press release entitled, “2010 …
CONTINUE READINGBanned books to be read on Strozier Library steps
What do Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World have in common? In addition to being acknowledged as literary classics or among the best of recent novels, they were among the dozens of …
CONTINUE READINGMeet us at ALA Anaheim, June 29
Attending the American Library Association Annual Conference In Anaheim, California this June? Join us at FSU table at the: ALA ALISE Reunion 2008 Cooperative Library & Information Science School/Program Alumni Reception Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:307:30 PM Disneyland Hotel Anaheim, California
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