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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…