Join the iSchool at ALISE 2021

Join iSchool faculty, staff, and students for the annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), which will take place virtually from September 20-24. The theme of ALISE 2021 is "Crafting a Resilient Future: Leadership, Education, and Inspiration."

Presentations and Panels

Affiliate Professor Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Adjunct Lecturer Melissa Wong will present at the 2021 Virtual ALISE Academy, "Moving Beyond Diversity Day: The Way to Social Justice is Through Action," on September 20 at 12:00 p.m.

Adjunct Lecturer Melissa Wong will serve on the panel, "Rethinking Resilience: Inclusive Instruction to Support Success," on September 21 at 12:00 p.m.

Associate Professor Sarah Park Dahlen will serve on the panel, "Still Struggling to Breathe: Another Conversation on Libraries and Communities in Crisis," on September 21 at 3:30 p.m.

Director of Alumni Affairs Jill Gengler and Professor Emerita and Interim Executive Associate Dean Linda C. Smith will serve on the panel, "Crafting Resilient Futures by Looking to the Past: 25 Years of Online Learning at FSU and Illinois," on September 21 at 6:00 p.m.

Assistant Professor Rachel M. Magee will lead the session, "Youth Services: Promoting Health, Inclusion, and Resiliency through Libraries and Library Education," on September 22 at 10:30 a.m.

Associate Professor Kate McDowell will serve on the panel, "Storytelling and/as Resilience," on September 22 at 5:00 p.m.

Posters

Teaching Assistant Professor Inkyung Choi will present her poster, "Exploring the Core: After Almost a Decade of IT Integration into LIS Education," during the Works in Progress Poster Session on September 21 at 5:00 p.m.

Doctoral candidate Ly Dinh will present "Advances to Network Analysis Theories and Methods with Applications in Social, Organizational, and Crisis Settings," and doctoral candidate Jessica Cheng will present "Agreeing to Disagree: Applying a Logic-Based Approach to Reconciling and Merging Multiple Taxonomies" at the ALISE/Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition on September 22 at 3:45 p.m.

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