The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is soliciting applications for the 2009 A.R. Zipf Fellowship in Information Management.

The fellowship is awarded annually to a student currently enrolled in the early stages of graduate school who shows exceptional promise for leadership and technical achievement in Information Management.

The amount of the award is $10,000.

Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

Application deadline: April 6, 2009.

For applications and additional information, please go to http://www.clir.org/fellowships/zipf/zipf.html

The Goldstein Library and the CI Help Desk will be open weekdays8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.from Dec. 15 through Dec. 24. Normal operating hours will resume on Jan. 4.

On Friday, Dec. 12,a reception was held for our students graduating at the end of the Fall 2008 semesterin the Goldstein Library,Louis Shores Building. Dean Larry Dennis addressed the gathering of students and their families, alumni, faculty, and staff. Student achievements were honored and awards were presented. Photos from the event are available in a gallery at: http://images.ci.fsu.edu/?level=collection&id=3

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The Florida State University College of Information was recognized by the American Library Association in a press release issued last week entitled, Florida State University supports ALAs diversity efforts in the library profession. The article also recognized our recent 2008 Spectrum Scholarship winners Letitia Bulic and Diedra Garcia. Read the full article at Florida State University supports ALAs diversity efforts in the library profession.

Assistant Professor Lisa M. Tripp of The Florida State University College of Information was a research collaborator on the most extensive U.S. study of teens and their use of digital media, recently released by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The three-year study showed that Americas youth are developing important social and technical skills online often in ways adults do not understand or value.

Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures” incorporates interviews of 800 youth and young adults and over 5000 hours of online observations. Dr. Tripp was among the 28 researchers involved in the study, part of a $50 million project on digital and media learning funded by the MacArthur Foundation, and is a co-author of the full report which will be published as a book with MIT Press next fall; a draft is currently available online.

For more information about the study, visit Kids Informal Learning with Digital Media.