iSchool Faculty Published

Faculty at Florida State’s School of Information have recently had their research published: Shuyuan Mary Ho, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Florida State University who specializes in Information Systems Security Research was published in JASIST. Her article “Dyadic attribution model: A mechanism to assess trustworthiness in virtual organizations“ was published in the current issue of JASIST (pages 1555–1576) with Izak Benbasat. “I am honored …

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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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Latham & Gross present at Canadian information science conference

Dr. Don Latham and Dr. Melissa Gross presented Enhancing skills, effecting change: Evaluating an intervention for students with below-proficient information literacy skills at the 39th Annual Canadian Association for Information Science Conference, June 2–4, 2011. Their presentation abstract was ranked in the top six submitted to the conference, whose theme was “Exploring Interactions of People, …

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May conference presentations by Gross & Latham

Dr. Melissa Gross and Dr. Don Latham made two presentations at conferences together during May, 2011: “The ASE process model: An evidence-based approach to information literacy instruction” at Fiesta de Excelencia: Celebration Excellence in Library Instruction, the Library Orietation Exchange (LOEX) Annual Conference 2011 in Fort Worth, Texas, May 5–7; “Innovating information literacy instruction: Results …

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Gross elected ALISE Vice President/ President-Elect

Dr. Melissa Gross of The Florida State University will be the next president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), an organization that serves as the intellectual home of faculty in library and information science graduate programs throughout North America. Gross’ election as ALISE Vice President/President-Elect, seems a natural progression for the …

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New book by Gross: HIV/AIDS in Young Adult Novels

Dr. Melissa Gross of the School of Library & Information Studies at The Florida State University has co-written a book, HIV/AIDS in Young Adult Novels: An Annotated Bibliography, with Annette Y. Goldsmith, Ph.D. and Debi Carruth, doctoral candidate. The book was published by Scarecrow Press (citation below). Not long after becoming public health concerns in …

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