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Four MSIS Students Receive John C. Winslow Memorial Scholarships
The John C. Winslow Memorial Scholarship was established in 2019 for both current and prospective MSIS students. Students who are already working in public libraries and who are graduates of the University of Tennessee and/or Vanderbilt University are given special consideration for this scholarship. This year, four students were awarded the scholarship; here’s a little…
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SIS Professor Dania Bilal Gets IMLS Grant to Create Institute on Artificial Intelligence
SIS Professor Dania Bilal, along with collaborators at two other universities, received a $208,142 Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to create the IDEA (Innovation, Disruption, Enquiry, Access) Institute on Artificial intelligence (AI). “We’re very excited about receiving this grant, as you know IMLS is very competitive. AI is one of the top three…
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MSIS Student Kay P Maye Awarded ALA Spectrum Scholarship
After a year in the MSIS program, student Kay P Maye is seeing information in a new light, through what he says is a critical lens that he’s learned to use. “I got into [information sciences] because I wanted to do something different, but still related to the social sciences, and now I feel like…
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SIS Alum Jennifer Chilcoat Becomes Arkansas State Library Director
Jennifer Chilcoat (’89) admits she didn’t follow a rule handed to her and other SIS students by their professor at the time, Mike Pemberton. He told them to stay at their first job out of grad school for 3-5 years, and then move onto something new…but she ended up staying at the Central Arkansas Library…
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Learn About a Lecturer: Plato Smith Introduces Students to Data Management
Lecturer: Plato Smith Location: University of Florida, Gainesville Education: MLIS, North Carolina Central University; PhD, Florida State University What do you teach at SIS?I teach INSC 590: Introduction to Data Management. This introductory course includes basic data management concepts and models within library information sciences that students need to know. The course leverages the DataOne…
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SIS Alum, School Librarian Kelly Passek Uses Drone Service to Loan Students Books
Kelly Passek loads books into packages to be delivered to students via Wing drone delivery. Photo courtesy of Wing. Imagine a middle school student looking out their front door to see a drone hovering above them, a long tether attached to a box extending from the small flying machine – when the box is released,…
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SIS Students Help LGBTQ+ History to be Heard Through ‘Voices Out Loud’ Projects
Director of Voices Out Loud and Research Librarian Donna Braquet Voices Out Loud is an archives and oral history project started by UT Research Librarian Donna Braquet, who felt like there needed to be a resource chronicling the history of LGBTQ+ people in East Tennessee. Various pieces make up the collection, including three projects SIS…
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Meredith Goins: SIS Alum, Lecturer, and Doctoral Student Receives TLA Honor Award
Meredith Goins (’00), an SIS alum, doctoral student, and a new SIS lecturer, was recently recognized by the Tennessee Library Association with the TLA Honor Award. This award is given to people who have made significant contributions to librarianship at either a state or national level. Goins has spent the last 20 years volunteering in…
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SIS 2020 Alumni Innovator’s Award: Wendy Cornelisen
SIS alum Wendy Cornelisen (‘07) is a big picture, out-of-the-box kind of person. This mindset is why her career trajectory took her from a reference librarian position all the way to her current job as Georgia’s assistant state librarian for library innovation and collaboration – and it’s also why she is the recipient of the…
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SIS Faculty Award Recipients: Associate Professors Awa Zhu and Devendra Potnis
SIS Associate Professor Awa Zhu was awarded the 2020 SIS Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award for the cumulative research she has done over the past two years. “I was so excited. I don’t have a lot of publications, so I was very surprised, and [SIS Director Diane Kelly] said that the award…