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K.C. Williams on Library Management, Programming, and Grant Writing

Classes taught: Grant writing, Adult Services, Rural Library Management Lecturer: K.C. Williams Location: Lives in Knoxville, works in Maryville, Tennessee as director of the Blount County Public Library. Academic/Work Background: I didn’t know I’d be a public librarian, it looked like the hardest type of librarian job. I went to school to be a medical…
SIS Announces New John C. Winslow Memorial Scholarship

The School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is pleased to announce a $30,000 gift from the John C. Winslow Fellowship Fund to establish the John C. Winslow Memorial Scholarship. Current and prospective students who are already working in public libraries and who are graduates of the University of Tennessee and/or Vanderbilt…
Student Spotlight: From Music to Cataloging, Nick Floyd Finds Inspiration in IS

Student Spotlight features one our current School of Information Sciences master’s students. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds, careers, locations and academics, and we want to highlight who they are and why they chose the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Information Sciences master’s program. Featured student: Nick Floyd Location: Nashville Education: Bachelor’s of music…
Alum Ari Baker Finds Fulfillment in Public Librarianship

When Ari Baker (’15) first got the career assessment results back that said they’d be an ideal librarian, they were skeptical. After all, they’d spent some time volunteering to shelve books at the Blount County Public Library, and it hadn’t been all that exciting. Now, three years after graduating with a master’s degree in information…
Learn About a Lecturer: SIS Alum Ashley Maynor Dives into the Nontraditional World of Digital Humanities

Lecturer: Ashley Maynor (’13) Location: New York City, NY Academic Background: I was a college scholar, which is part of the “design your own major” program for undergraduates at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I mostly focused on French literature and cultural studies but took courses across many curricula—from anthropology to cinema studies to international…
Student Spotlight: Josh Borycz Finds Purpose in Scientific Data Management

Student Spotlight features one our current School of Information Sciences Master students. Our students come from a variety of backgrounds, careers, locations and academics, and we want to highlight who they are and why they chose the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Information Sciences master’s program. Featured student: Joshua Borycz Location: Knoxville, TN Education: Bachelor of…
Student Food Insecurity Addressed by New SIS Food Box Program

Books, tuition, housing, utilities – these all add up for college students, and recent studies show that about a third of students find themselves choosing between necessities. Often, this means making food a low priority, resulting in food insecurity. When someone suffers from food insecurity, it means they don’t know where their next meal is…
Alum John Wilkin wins Hugh C. Atkins Memorial Award

SIS Alum John Wilkin (’86) was recently honored with the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award for his outstanding accomplishments as an academic librarian. He is the Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The award is jointly sponsored by the Association of College…
SIS & CCI Townhall Bridges the Gap

A dean, a school director, and a graduate studies director walk into a room—it’s not the beginning of a bar joke, but rather the events that unfolded on the evening of Feb. 5, 2019 in Patrick Auditorium. Michael Wirth, dean of the College of Communication and Information, Diane Kelly, director of the School of Information…
Alum Dorothy Ogdon Takes Libraries Into the Future with Technology Resources, Services

Virtual reality, 3D-printing, models of brains and bones – these are just a few of the things that Dorothy Ogdon (’07) is dealing with on a regular basis. And she’s a librarian. Of course, she’s not your typical librarian. Currently she is the emerging technologies librarian at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. It’s a new…