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SIS Student Rose Borden Selected as ESIP Community Fellow

SIS student Rose Borden has been selected as an Earth Science Information Partners Community Fellow, which is a national-level fellow that names five to six students a year to its program. Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is an open, networked community that brings together science, data and information technology practitioners, according to its website. “The…
Student Spotlight: Long-time Lawyer Follows New Path to the Library

Featured student: Stephen Spann Location: Franklin, Tennessee Past Job: Lawyer Current Job: Working as a substitute librarian and doing a practicum at Vanderbilt Libraries in Nashville Why SIS: I’ve been a lawyer for several years, and I realized a few years ago I wanted to do something different with my degree than just practice. Librarianship…
SIS Director Kelly’s Speaking Tour in China

In the spirit of advancing cross-cultural research collaborations, SIS Director Diane Kelly toured Beijing, China last week and was a featured speaker at several academic institutions and China’s largest online retailer. She shared her expertise on interactive information search and retrieval, information search behavior, and research methods. Her talk “On the Generalizability of Results from…
Professor Mehra’s Promotion Recognized at the UT Faculty Bookplate Reception

The University of Tennessee Libraries and the Provost’s office honored SIS Professor Bharat Mehra’s recent promotion from Associate to Full Professor earlier this week at the Faculty Bookplate Reception. The Faculty Bookplate Reception celebrates faculty promotions by allowing honorees to choose a book to include in the University Libraries’ collections. A bookplate is placed in…
Alumni Natalie Hansen Switches from Medieval Art to Nuclear Archiving

What do medieval stained-glass pieces have in common with old film from the Y12 National Security Complex? Both should be archived properly, according to Natalie Hansen (‘12), an SIS alumni. Hansen started her academic career studying art history, and moved into medieval art as she attained her master’s degree in medieval studies at the University…
Where Digital Literacy, Social Media, and Fighting Corruption Converge

Social media is a tool for people across the world to utilize in versatile ways – and in some cases, it can change countries. One aspect of this phenomenon was recently studied by School of Information Sciences Associate Professor Devendra Potnis and two SIS students, Hilary Jasmin and Lindsey McLennan. They undertook the research for the…
Student Spotlight: Technical Writer Caitlin Carroll Takes a Dive Into Special Collections

Featured Student: Caitlin Carroll (’12) Location: Nashville, Tennessee Current job: Technical Writer Why UT Knoxville?: I got my undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in English-Creative Writing. So when I was deciding to go back for information sciences, what I knew I wanted to look for is that I could do 100 percent…
Alumni Q&A: Laura Frizzell, from Coca-Cola Archives to the CDC

October is National Archives Month, and we’ll be running a series of articles celebrating the importance of this area of information sciences. “National Archives Month is an opportunity for us all to think about the importance of archives and archival collecting in our world of information. Archivists collect, arrange, describe, and preserve documents that reflect…
Diversity & Inclusion: Watch Jessa Lingel’s Presentations on Video

Did you ever wonder how extreme body modification enthusiasts were able to find others in their niche community, and how that played out with the advent of the internet? Jessa Lingel, assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and is core faculty in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program at the University of…
Alumni Q&A: Taylor Hixson, a librarian in the Middle East

Alumni Q&A’s introduce us to School of Information Sciences graduates and lets them describe, in their own words, why they went into Information Sciences, and what they’re doing with their degree. Alumni: Taylor Hixson (’14) Position: Librarian for Geospatial Services at New York University Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates What does your current…