IT Leadership students bridging 'Digital Divide' at Senior Center

The Digital Divide between generations is narrowing in Tallahassee, thanks to a group of students in an Information Technology Leadership class. All 28 students in the summer class were required to complete an outreach project, and five students organized training classes at the Tallahassee/Leon County Senior Center in Keyboarding, Facebook and Microsoft Word. They have …

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SLIS senior honored by MGC as 2009 Woman of the Year

School of Library & Information Studies senior Charleta Williams was named “2009 Woman of the Year” by the Multicultural Greek Council of The Florida State University in a ceremony held at the Tallahassee Civic Center on Thursday, April 15, 2010. “I am blessed to have been nominated for the Women of the Year award, and …

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Collaborative study using public libraries to boost toddler literacy

By Audrey Post CCI Director of Communications   TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Researchers from The Florida State University’s College of Communication & Information are collaborating with a team from the University of Washington and several Washington agencies on a project intended to boost early literacy initiatives in the nation’s public libraries.  “Project VIEWS: Valuable Initiatives in Early Learning …

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Researchers to model the life cycles of successful virtual teams

By Audrey Post College of Communication & Information Each year, hundreds of scientists from all over the world come to the Florida State University campus to conduct research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Starting in January, the researchers themselves will become the subject of study as a team from the College of Communication …

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Banned books to be read on Strozier Library steps

What do Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World have in common? In addition to being acknowledged as literary classics or among the best of recent novels, they were among the dozens of …

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