Friday, November 7, 2014                                                                   

Inside CCI – Available online at http://www.cci.utk.edu/insideCCI.

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COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION

Research submissions for CCI’s 37th Annual Research Symposium are encouraged from all CCI faculty, CICS researchers, and students at all levels — undergraduates, masters and doctoral.  New this year:

1. CCI’s Graduate Student Association is sponsoring the poster contest!   The poster session is for completed works or works-in-progress (please specify), and submissions are peer reviewed.  
2. “Share your Research” session.  Share a poster presented elsewhere.  There is no review process since this is a community information event.
3. Undergraduate researcher participation. Undergraduate research is encouraged at the symposium and also at the upcoming EUReCA event later in the spring. 

WHAT: CCI’s 37th Annual Research Symposium – “Communication, Information & the Community”    

WHEN: Feb. 25, 2015

WHERE: Patrick Auditorium & Scripps Convergence Lab

SUBMISSION DUE DATES:

Papers: 250–500 word abstracts, due Dec. 15, 2014

Poster:  250–500 word abstracts, due Jan. 10, 2015

Share Your Research: email statement of interest & title, due Jan. 30, 2015

INFORMATION SCIENCES

Professor Suzie Allard was the keynote speaker at the XII International Conference on University Libraries held Oct. 29 – 31 in Mexico City, Mexico. Her talk, “The information professional with a business vision,” focused on discussing how librarians and information professionals can act as entrepreneurs.

Chancellor’s and BOV Professor Carol Tenopir and Professor Suzie Allard made presentations on two panels at the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, October 31-November 5. The link and description of the panels can be found at, http://www.asis.org/asist2014/program.html#monday.

Panel 1: “Transforming the data landscape: Connecting data, policies and communities.”

Tenopir and Allard presented, “Research data practices of scientists and academic librarians.”  Allard presented on scientists, and Tenopir presented on academic librarians.

Panel 2: “Responding to emerging data workforce demand: Harnessing data center expertise.” Allard presented “The educator perspective on engagement with research centers,” and

Tenopir presented “Research data services: What opportunities really exist in academic libraries.”

Assistant Professor Carolyn Hank and Nina Verishagen, a faculty librarian at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, had their paper, “Are there birds in the library? The extent of Twitter adoption and use by Canadian academic libraries,” published in First Monday, 9(11). The article is available here: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4945/4161. 

JOURNALISM AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Professor Julie Andsager’s article, “Nutrition information in community newspapers: Goal framing, story origins, and topics,” has been published online in Health Communication. Co-authors are Li Chen, Stephanie Miles, Christina Smith (all PhD students in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Iowa (UI)), and Faryle Nothwehr, associate professor in the Dept. of Community & Behavioral Health at UI.

Lecturer Chris Wohlwend’s story on the Tri-Cities area and its music ran in the travel section of The New York Times on Sunday, Nov. 2. The link is nytimes.com/2014/11/02/travel/where-the-hills-and-hollows-are-alive-with-music.html?

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