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    • Alum Frank R. Allen Reflects on Career and Serving on SIS Advisory Board

      Frank R. Allen (’91) has such fond memories of his time in what was then the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, he came back 26 years later to serve on the School of Information Sciences Advisory Board. For Allen, giving back to the next generation of information science…

    • SIS Alumni, Faculty, Students Focus on Research at Empirical Librarians 2020 Conference

      SIS and Chancellor’s Professor Suzie Allard delivers the keynote at the Empirical Librarians 2020 conference in Knoxville. The Empirical Librarians conference is a small event that allows librarians to learn more about research, and how to support original research. The 2020 conference was hosted in Knoxville Feb. 27-28. Several SIS students, alumni and faculty attended…

    • Student Spotlight: Kristy Cunningham Combines a Passion for People and Tech

      Featured student: Kristy Cunningham Location: Cookeville, TN Education: Bachelor’s in Management Information Systems, MBA from Tennessee Tech, will graduate Spring 2020 with an MSIS Career: I work at Tennessee Tech, but not in the library. I am the assistant director for the Center for Career Development; I do resume reviews, career fairs, classroom presentations about interviews and resumes, and…

    • Alum Ken Wise Directs UT Libraries Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project for 23 Years

      It was his longtime love of hiking that pushed Ken Wise from being an accountant to becoming director of the UT Libraries’ Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project in 1998. So it was a little bit of being in the right place at the right time, and a lot of passion. Even before Wise had completed…

    • Kendra Albright: SIS Alum, Former SIS Faculty, Director of Kent State University’s LIS School

      When one takes a step back and looks at the varied career of alum Kendra Albright, it’s not difficult to see why she was awarded the SIS Distinguished Alumni Award in 2017. While Albright is humble about work she put in to get to where she is now, there’s no doubt that she built on…

    • Recent Alum’s Hands-On Learning at SIS Leads to Instructional Librarian Position

      Brooke Olson (’19) was a project manager for almost a decade when she decided it was time for a career overhaul. The Nashville resident began taking distance education classes through SIS in 2017, but she knew she wanted a look at what happens behind the scenes in a library before deciding that was her endgame.…

    • MSIS Student Rachael Murphy Uses Practicum to Explore Diversity & Inclusion in Hodges Library

      MSIS student Rachael Murphy started an assistantship at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Hodges Library in fall 2019, conducting a “kindness audit.” The audit takes an inventory of all the signage throughout the library to assess what kind of messages or ideas are being communicated to those who walk into the building. “We’re looking at,…

    • Amanda Liford Hopes to Start Career Through USGS Practicum

      Recent graduate Amanda Liford (’19) transitioned from a student practicum into an assistantship at the US Geological Survey this past year, and now she’s hoping it could turn into a full-time career as a data manager at the organization. Liford was part of the User Experience Assessment Cohort that was funded by a grant and…

    • Alum Rick Wallace: A Scholastic Cheerleader, Lifelong Learner and Librarian

      Rick Wallace takes the traditional tenets of being an academic librarian seriously – he ensures students have the skills and access to information they need, and maintains a space for them to study and explore that information. But he also takes it a step farther by making the library a place they can go for…

    • Katie Knight Pursues Big Data and Her Doctorate

      Katie Knight has traveled from one end of the information sciences highway to the other – from public libraries to archives, and from archives to metadata. As part of her job as an assistant librarian at the New York School of Design, she cataloged and archived items requiring metadata tagging. It was then that she…