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SLIS booth at virtual Second Life College Fair

BBranciforte — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:25:54 +0000

The FSU College of Communication & Information’s School of Library and Information Studies will be participating with a booth in the virtual world of the Second Life College Fair on October 24 and 25. We have a slideshow, web links, and inworld books with pictures of FSU. There’s information for those interested in our IT undergrad major, our MLIS graduate major, and about FSU.

To visit the booth online:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/International%20Schools%202/114/49/23

To learn more about the Second Life College Fair visit:

http://groups.google.com/group/second-life-college-fair/web/college-fair-2009?pli=1

Focus on Research 2009: October 26-30

BBranciforte — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:05:14 +0000

Join members of our three schools in celebrating the first research week of the newly-merged College of Communication & Information, highlighted by faculty and doctoral research presentations and culminating in a celebratory reception. Wednesday through Friday events will be Webcast; find a link to the Webcasts at the College Web site (http://cci.fsu.edu).

Monday – Faculty publications on display in Goldstein
Time – ALL WEEK
Location – Goldstein

Tuesday – Doctoral Poster Session
Time: 12:00 – 1:00
Location – Goldstein

Wednesday – Colloquia
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Kazmer
Topic: Crossing Boundaries in the iField: Life-cycle Formation & Long-term Scientific Collaboration
Time: 1:00 – 2:00
Location – LSB 206

Thursday – Brown Bag Lunch
Speaker: Dr. Charles McClure
Title: Pulling together and submitting Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) proposals: Worse than herding cats!
Time: 12:00 – 1:00
Location – LSB 206

Friday – Research Colloquia & Reception
Speaker: Leonard LaPointe
Title: Competition, Interference and Distraction in Neurological Diseases: Contributions to Injurious Falls
Time: 12:00-2:00
Location – LSB 006

Workshop on CCI graduate programs to be held Oct. 16

Audrey — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:43:53 +0000

The College of Communication & Information will hold an informational workshop for students considering applying to its graduate programs at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, in Room 006 of the Louis Shores Building. Learn about the exciting graduate programs in Communication, Communication Science & Disorders and Library and Information Studies.

Send an e-mail to Audrey Post (audrey.post@cci.fsu.edu), the college’s director of communications and graduate recruiting, for more information or to reserve a seat. Please put “Grad School Workshop” in the subject line and tell us your major, scheduled graduation date and the graduate programs that interest you.

Banned books to be read on Strozier Library steps

Audrey — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:15:25 +0000

What do Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World have in common?

In addition to being acknowledged as literary classics or among the best of recent novels, they were among the dozens of books that groups attempted to ban from school or public libraries in the United States during the past two years. To honor the ongoing battle to preserve Americans’ freedom to read, a Banned Books Reading will be held on the steps of Florida State University’s Strozier Library on Wednesday, Sept. 30, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.

The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Florida State University Libraries, the English Department and the School of Library & Information Studies’ student chapter of the American Library Association. FSU administrators, faculty and students will read brief excerpts from a variety of books. John Fenstermaker, the Fred L. Standley professor of English and president of the Friends of the Florida State University Libraries, will preside.

Banned Books Week was created in 1982 by the American Library Association in response to a surge in challenges to books in schools, libraries and bookstores. The ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom reported 513 challenges in 2008 alone, but it estimates that this reflects only 20 to 25 percent of actual incidents, because most go unreported.

To view a Google map and brief descriptions of cases documented by ALA and the Kids’ Right to Read Project, a collaboration of the National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, visit
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=112317617303679724608.00047051ed493efec0bb8 <http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=112317617303679724608.00047051ed493efec0bb8>

2009 Convocation and Homecoming Ceremonies

BBranciforte — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:30:02 +0000

THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Communication & Information

Cordially invites you to the
2009 Convocation & Homecoming Ceremonies

Saturday, October 31, 2009
Louis Shores Building, Florida State campus

• 8:00 a.m. Buffet breakfast

• 9:30 a.m. Ceremonies honoring alumni, faculty, and others of the recently merged Schools of Communication, Communication Science & Disorders, and Library & Information Studies.

Parking: Lot behind Shores Building and adjacent to the FSU Police (corner of Woodward and Jefferson)
Map to Shores Building

For more information, call 850-644-9698