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 …

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iSchool faculty article earns 2013 Top 20 distinction by Library Instruction Round Table

Florida State University School of Information associate professor Don Latham and professor Melissa Gross’s article entitled, “Preparing Teachers and Librarians to Collaborate to Teach 21st Century Skills: Views of LIS and Education Faculty,” earned distinction as a 2013 Top Twenty article by the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the American Library Association (ALA). Latham …

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iSchool graduate student awarded ALA Spectrum Scholarship

Florida State University School of Information graduate student Camille Thomas received a 2014-15 Spectrum Scholarship awarded by the American Library Association’s Office of Diversity on June 24. Thomas, a Master of Science in Library & Information Studies (MLIS) student, is one of 50 exceptional library and information graduate students to earn the award. A committee …

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iSchool alumna to receive 2014 Beta Phi Mu Award

Florida State University School of Information alumna Beth M. Paskoff will receive the 2014 Beta Phi Mu Award, given annually to a library school faculty member or to an individual for distinguished service to education for librarianship, on June 29 at the http://ala.org/. Paskoff, who earned her doctorate from Florida State in 1989, has served …

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iSchool alumna garners innovation award from Association of College and Research Libraries

Florida State University School of Information alumna Meredith (Gorran) Farkas was recently honored with a 2014 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section Innovation Award. Farkas collaborated on with other faculty members at Portland State University, where she is a general education instruction coordinator, to develop the software Library DIY, which assists students …

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Wiegand receives ALA diversity grant

Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus, has received one of three 2012 Diversity Research Grants from the American Library Association (ALA). His research project, “This Hallowed Place: The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the American South, 1954-1968,” will analyze primary source materials like African American newspapers; local, state …

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RSVP for SLIS ALA Reception Friday, June 24

RSVP. Please take a minute to click on this link and complete the RSVP for the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University “SLIS-FSU Reception for Students, Alums and Friends” on Friday, June 24, 2011, during the American Library Association conference in New Orleans. The event is being held at from …

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