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Faculty News, posted on Wednesday, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:17:29PM
Dr. Yvonne Chandler has been elected to the Texas Library Association executive board as President-Elect. Dr. Chandler is an associate professor in LIS. Her research areas include legal information services, internet resources and services, and education for library and information services. Feature Story, posted on Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 at 09:26:04AM
UNT alumna Priscilla Shontz, gave the lecture "Improving Your Odds: What You Can Do While You're in School" at the Houston All-School Day program on April 21. Shontz is an author specializing in career management for information professionals. Her newest book What Do Employers Want? : A Guide for Library Science Students, co-authored with Rich Murray, will be published by Libraries Unlimited on May 28, 2012. Faculty News, posted on Thursday, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:22:37AM
Amy Eklund (MS ‘06) was recently promoted to the position of Director of Library Technical Services at Georgia Perimeter College. Linh Uong (MS ’10) and Jolanta Radzik (MS ’10), are members of the Research Working Group of the Georgia Library Association’s Technical Services Interest Group. Send your updates to ci-extaffairs@unt.edu Feature Story, posted on Tuesday, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:24:48AM
Angel Durr, a library and information science master's student, presented the results of her research at the 2011 Texas Library Association conference on why ethnic minorities, especially African Americans, remain as paraprofessionals instead of pursuing graduate work in library science. Her accomplishment was featured in the latest issue of the UNT Research magazine. Read more here.Feature Story, posted on Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:34:47AM
Congratulations to UNT alums, Cheryl Rowan and Mark Phillips, for being named 2012 Library Journal Movers and Shakers. Cheryl currently works for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine - South Central Region, and Mark currently works for the UNT Libraries.Feature Story, posted on Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:21:44PM
The faculty has selected three courses to offer this summer to DLIS students through the WISE Consortium. These are: Archiving and Preserving Digital Media, International Issues and Innovations and International Librarianship.
Feature Story, posted on Wednesday, Feb 08, 2012 at 12:20:28PM
The Medical Library Association featured Jodi Philbrick, assistant director of the Houston Program and course coordinator of the health informatics program, in their January, 2012 MLA News publication. Philbrick is pursuing a PhD in Information Science from the College of Information. Jodi says Emerging technology keeps her excited about the profession; click here to read the full article.