Skateboard Party, written by Karen English, illustrated by Laura Freeman, and published by Clarion Books, is the winner of the 2015 Gryphon Award for Children’s Literature.
The Gryphon Award, which includes a $1,000 prize, is given annually by The Center for Children’s Books. This year’s committee was chaired by Deborah Stevenson, director of the Center for Children’s Books, and Kate…
GSLIS master's student Erik Ponder and CAS student Kate Rojas (MS '14) have been chosen by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as 2015 Career Enhancement Program (CEP) fellows.
Each year, ARL member libraries select a group of library and information science master's students to participate in this competitive program, which provides avenues for students from traditionally…
Michelle Kazmer (PhD '02) has received the 2014 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award given by the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Kazmer is a professor at the School of Information within the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University (FSU).
Presented to Kazmer at the 2014 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, the…
Professor Alistair Black has been named the GSLIS Centennial Scholar for
2014-2015. The Centennial Scholar award is endowed by alumni and friends of
GSLIS and given in recognition of outstanding accomplishments and/or
professional promise in the field of library and information science.
A member of the GSLIS faculty since 2009, Black’s research interests
include the history of…
Doctoral candidate Tiffany Chao has been awarded ASIS&T’s Thomson Reuters Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
for 2014. Sponsored by Thomson Reuters, the scholarship provides a
$1,500 cash award to support doctoral students with their dissertation
research. The award will be presented at the upcoming ASIS&T 2014
Annual Meeting in Seattle October 31 through November 5.…
Members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Committee on Diversity and Leadership have selected thirteen LIS master's students to participate in the 2014–2016 Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW) as ARL Diversity Scholars.Underwritten by ARL member libraries, the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce offers numerous financial benefits to program participants as well as…
GSLIS doctoral student Peter Organisciak is among the recipients of the 2014 Outstanding Contribution Award given by the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities. The award recognizes a landmark contribution to the field of digital humanities made by a Canadian researcher or team or researcher(s) at a Canadian institution. The 2014 award honors the group that created and initially maintained a…
Eight GSLIS master's students have been named 2014 Spectrum Scholars by the American Library Association (ALA). Established in 1997, the Spectrum Scholarship Program was created to promote diversity among graduate-level library school students. Each master's-level scholar receives $5,000 from the ALA as well as over $1,500 toward professional development opportunities. In addition, GSLIS provides…
GSLIS master's student Raquel Flores-Clemons is a 2014 recipient of the Society of American Archivists's (SAA) Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award. The award recognizes minority graduate students of African, Asian, Latino, or Native American descent who, through scholastic achievement, manifest an interest in becoming professional archivists and active members of SAA.While pursuing her…
The GSLIS Library School Alumni Association (LSAA) has announced the recipients of its annual awards. The recipients were recognized on June 29, 2014, at the GSLIS reception held at the annual meeting of the American Library Association in Las Vegas.Loriene Roy (PhD ’87) has been awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Each year this award is given to an alum who has made an outstanding…
