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Dr. Natalie Taylor to Serve Second Term as Part of ALISE DDC Council
Dr. Natalie Taylor secures a second term as Co-Chair for the ALISE Deans, Directors, and Chairs Council.
November 1, 2023iSchool News
Dr. Karen Kaufmann Co-Authors New Article "Measuring outcomes: Information literacy instruction assessment in a cross-institutional study"
Dr. Karen Kaufmann, in collaboration with her peers, has co-authored an article focused on assessing the influence of information literacy in higher education.
October 11, 2023iSchool News
USF School of Information at DEFCON 31
Dr. "Scuba" Steve Gary attended DEFCON 31, the world's largest hacker conference. He attends every year to keep abreast of the latest innovations in the hacker community. "The more we know about the threats and vulnerabilities in cyberspace, the more we know how to reduce the threats, and prevent or mitigate exploitation (hacking) of those vulnerabilities."
August 21, 2023iSchool News
Intelligence Studies Graduate Student Alexandra Sosa Mora Attends IC-CAE 2023 Summer Seminar
The Intelligence Community College of Academic Excellence (IC-CAE) conducts every year a weeklong seminar in Washington DC, where students are exposed to the different facets of the intelligence community (IC), visit different IC agencies, attend forums, speak with recruiters and get to participate in a completely immersive analytic simulation that is presented to intelligence community professionals at the end of the week in the National Intelligence University (NIU).
August 15, 2023iSchool News
Dr. Christina Eldredge Publishes Research on "Foundational Domains and Competencies for Baccalaureate Health Informatics Education"
We caught up with Dr. Christina Eldredge in our recently published Fall 2023 Newsletter about her efforts in Health Informatics Education. In that publication she shared her efforts serving on committees to develop accreditation standards for both graduate and undergraduate level health informatics programs.
August 10, 2023iSchool News
Dr. Ly Dinh Recent Research Article: "Are We Projecting Gender Biases to Ungendered Things? Differences in Referring to Female Versus Male Named Hurricanes in 33 Years of News Coverage"
Hurricanes are ungendered phenomena that are ascribed with gendered names. Dr. Ly Dinh and collegues examined if news information about the hurricanes are presented using gendered language.
July 25, 2023iSchool News
USF SI Student Erika Cooley Selected as Library of Congress Junior Fellow
Erika is currently pursuing an MLIS degree at USF while interning for the Library of Congress at the National Audio Visual Conservation Center as part of the Junior Fellows program. She will be creating metadata for the Universal Music Group collection.
May 25, 2023iSchool News
2023 Economic Report of the President of the United States Cites USF SI Faculty Member Dr. Christina Eldredge
The President of the United States recently released the 2023 Economic Report of the President of the United States, which cited USF Faculty members, including our own School of Information Dr. Christina Eldredge.
March 20, 2023iSchool News
Revisioning Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated and Detained
Dr. Kathleen McCook has been working with the American Library Association on the "Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People" initiative as a member of the "New Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated and Detained" Task Force.
March 10, 2023iSchool News
USF School of Information to Sponsor ALISE 2023 Conference
It is that time of the year again where conference season starts to sneak up on us. We are happy to announce we will be sponsoring the ALISE 2023 conference again this year with lanyards!
March 1, 2023iSchool News
USF School of Information to Host Alumni Reception at 2023 FLA Conference
Over the years the USF School of Information has worked tirelessly to find ways to support the library profession and professional organizations.
February 20, 2023iSchool News
2nd Annual State of the Program Hosted by the School of Information
Each year, the USF School of Information (SI) hosts a State of the Program event where we discuss accomplishments of the M.A. in Library and Information Science program, where we aim to be over the next few years, and where we recognize our Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award winner along with our USF SI Outstanding Student Award winner.
November 1, 2022Honors and Awards, iSchool News