Join Florida State University School of Information faculty, staff, students and alumni at ALISE 2015 in Chicago, Illinois from January 27-30, 2015! Here’s where you can find us at ALISE: Tuesday, January 27 6:30pm – 9:00pm Works In Progress Poster Session and Opening Reception Grand Ballroom, Floor 8 Jon Hollister – FSU iSchool doctoral student,”Mirror …
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iSchool Conferences – Spring 2015
The Spring 2015 semester brings another round of conferences. Florida’s iSchool will be well represented at the international, national and state level. Warren Allen will be attending the Consortium for the Sciences of the Sociotechnical, iConference 2015, and the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Work and Social Computing. Wonchan Choi will be attending ALISE and …
CONTINUE READINGDoc candidate Abigail Phillips named YALSA Board Fellow
School of Information doctoral candidate Abigail Phillips has been recognized as the 2015 YALSA Board Fellow for the American Library Association. Phillips is a third year doctoral candidate in information studies, who returned to Florida State after receiving her MLIS in 2008 and then working as a librarian for four years. YALSA, Young Adult Library Services Association, selects …
CONTINUE READINGAcross the Sea: Meet iSchool alum Denny Windgassen
The life change from high school to college can be overwhelming. But, what if you finished high school in Germany and then pursued college in the United States? Denny Wingassen hopped the ocean with ease, moving from Germany to the United States. “My parents had won a green card/permanent resident card in the Green Card lottery,” …
CONTINUE READINGFrom Libraries to Fires: Meet iSchool alum: Mike Siriwardena
Libraries by day, and Fire Fighting by night; this is the life that Mike Siriwardena chooses to lead. Mike first started working in Florida State’s Strozier Library in the Collection Maintenance Unit while in his undergrad. Not content with only performing the daily tasks and projects of his assigned department, Mike spent his free time …
CONTINUE READINGJohn Marks presents at NFOIC
Attorney John Marks teaches classes like information policy & legal research at Florida State University‘s School of Information. Last month, Marks spoke at the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC) in St. Petersburg. NFOIC works to protect American’s right to open government and their annual conference touched topics like the ease access of public records. Marks was invited …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool’s Katy Comellas defends Master’s Thesis
Katy Comellas started her graduate degree in the School of Information in 2012. She had just finished her Bachelor’s at University of Central Florida and joined the MLIS program with the intention of studying children’s literature. “I’ve always found international children’s literature fascinating,” she shared. In the iSchool, and many other graduate programs, a thesis …
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