Every year ASIS&T, the gold standard in Information Science publications, awards coveted and prestigious awards to professionals in the field of information. This year, Michelle Kazmer has found her place on the list as the Thomas Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher. Established in 1980, the award was created to honor exemplary information science teachers. Michelle’s …
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iSchool’s Kazmer named ASIS&T Outstanding Teacher
iSchool’s Mardis & Spears Published
Two faculty members in Florida State’s School of Information have recently had their research published: A Failure to Connect: The Elusive Relationship between Broadband Access and Children’s Information Seeking in American Academic Research. Associate Professor Marcia Mardis and doctoral candidate Laura Spears conducted a study concerning children’s information seeking and broadband access. In the United States, the …
CONTINUE READINGInternship — Penn Digital Library Metadata Management (Philadelphia, PA)
Availability: one position available to begin September 2014 through May 2015 Hours: 10 to 20 hours/week, flexible during Monday-Friday 9-5 time period. Salary: $18/hour. Duties and Responsibilities: The Penn Libraries seeks a Metadata Intern to help build and support electronic library services for scholars and learners worldwide. This is an opportunity to gain practical work …
CONTINUE READINGCCI Alumni Tracker: [iSchool] Dr. Lee Shiflett
In 1979, Lee Shiflett graduated from Florida State University with his doctorate. Since then, he’s written a book about Louis Shores, worked and taught across the country in Library Sciences and today he works for the Department of Library and Information Studies at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Career paths are never the same. Dr. …
CONTINUE READINGiSchool doc student Dong Joon Lee earns highly coveted NSF internship
Dong Joon Lee, doctoral candidate in the School of Information interned this summer at Research Data Alliance. Lee was one of eight selected for the highly coveted internship, which is provided by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and funded by a National Science Foundation grant. He was mentored by Michael Witt from the Distributed Data …
CONTINUE READINGInternship — Lippincott Library of the Wharton School (Philadelphia)
Availability: one year long position open for Fall 2014 Salary: $15/hour. Hours: Up to 20 hours per week. Weekend hours and one night per week required. Overview: The Lippincott Library, http://www.library.upenn.edu/lippincott, is the business library at the University of Pennsylvania. We provide information resources, services and programs primarily for students, faculty and staff of the …
CONTINUE READINGCCI alumnus Dr. Plato Smith awarded fellowship
Dr. Plato L. Smith II, recent graduate of Florida State University, has accepted a fellowship at University of New Mexico’s (UNM) College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences. Dr. Plato Smith has been chosen for a fellowship at University of New Mexico. After defending his dissertation “Exploring the Data Management and Curation Practices of Scientists …
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