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SIS 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient David Johnson
Fayetteville Public Library has long been the Arkansas city’s center, a hot spot for learning, special events, and other communal gatherings. In 2005, it won the Library of the Year award sponsored by Library Journal and Thompson/Gale Publishers – the smallest library ever to earn that accolade, said the library’s current director, SIS alum David…
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Student Jessica Giles Creates Map to Track People’s Movements During the Pandemic
One of the reasons student Jessica Giles entered the MSIS program was to learn how to better represent data through visualization for her job as an associate data engineer at Intermx in Atlanta, Georgia. She had hoped to gain skills that would allow her to put data and statistics into an easy-to-consume format for the…
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Alum Andrew Grissom: Librarian at Nonprofit That Helps Advance Women in the Workplace
When Andrew Grissom (’15) entered the MSIS program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, he had imagined himself working in an academic library setting. He loved the idea of helping others with research, as well as getting a chance to conduct his own research. But his career took a surprise turn when an interest in…
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SIS Alumni Share How Their Organizations Are Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic
We know that everyone’s lives have been impacted by this pandemic, and just as we have adjusted our work and support for students here at the School of Information Sciences, many of our alumni have had to drastically change everyday operations. We reached out to some of our alums to see how they and their…
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SIS Students, Staff Step Up and Embody the Volunteer Spirit
SIS Student & Staff Member Hillary Tune (featured at 0:29) sews face masks for Knox Makes Masks During this time, people are coming together (while staying apart), and doing what they can to support and inspire their community. The members of the SIS community are no different; alumni, faculty, students, and staff are already…
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SAA Chapter is Revived, Hosted First Speaker Event
Julia Proctor and some fellow students have worked for months on reinstituting the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s student chapter of the Society for American Archivists (SAA). While at first it may have seemed that the timing of their inaugural special speaker wasn’t ideal – with it being the Sunday after Spring Break and in the…
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Guest Speaker Aisha Johnson-Jones Explores Diversity in Information Sciences
It was by chance that Aisha Johnson-Jones found information about the historic Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program while she was doing research on increasing African-American diversity in archives. As she started learning more about the program, she started asking around to see what research had been done on the topic. When it became clear that…
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Student Spotlight Jeff Zentner is a Musician, Lawyer, Author, and Librarian is Next on His List
Featured student: Jeff Zentner Location: Nashville, TN Education: Bachelor’s degree in communications from University of Utah, law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School Career/Background: I’ve had a number of different lives. I used to be a musician. As a musician, I recorded several albums with bands and solo, and wrote a bunch of songs. I’ve worked with Iggy…
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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…
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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…