Julia Skinner successfully defended her thesis, Ernestine Rose and the Harlem Public Library: Theory Testing Using Historical Sources on May 29th and accepted a position with Kennesaw State University as a Rare Book Curator shortly after. Skinner received her Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the School of Information. Skinner completed her undergraduate and graduate education at the …
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Julia Skinner joins Kennesaw State University as Rare Book Curator
iSchool Doc Students receive Sol Hirsch Scholarship
Sol Hirsch graduated with his Master’s in Library Sciences from Florida State University and has been an integral part of the FSU community ever since. One of his contributions to Florida State is the Sol and Beverly Hirsch Endowment, established in memory of his parents who were both Nazi concentration camp survivors. The endowment provides …
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Florida State University School of Information doctoral students Julia Skinner and Abigail Phillips were recognized for their efforts in the International Space Apps Challenge, a global collaboration led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in mid-April. The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that took place over …
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Several doctoral students and faculty members from Florida State University (FSU)’s School of Information are heading to the 2014 iConference in Berlin, Germany that will take place March 4 through 7. This year’s FSU participants include: Dr. Warren Allen, Dr. Gary Burnett, Dr. Kathleen Burnett, Wonchan Choi, Laura-Edythe Coleman, Dr. Nancy Everhart, Dr. Shuyuan Mary Ho, Ji Hei Kang, …
CONTINUE READINGGary Burnett and Julia Skinner selected for 2013 ALISE Featured Presentation
Professor Gary Burnett and doctoral student Julia Skinner of the FSU School of Library & Information Studies have been selected for a “Featured Presentation” at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) 2013 Annual Conference in Seattle, WA. Their panel presentation “Questions Are Never Neutral: Examining the Occupy and Tea Party Movements as …
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