Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May was a public and academic librarian before she earned her doctoral degree and began teaching, and one of her very first teaching experiences was creating a user instruction class. “How I designed that class was by using all the things I wish I had known as an academic librarian who was […]
As COVID-19 continues to affect the way people live, work, and learn around the world, researchers are beginning to gather data on how the pandemic is affecting society, and one such research team is from the College of Communication and Information’s Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS) and the School of Information Sciences in […]
From left: SIS Assistant Professor Carolyn Hank with the 2019 Diversity & Inclusion Badge recipients, Kelsey Collins, Elaine Posanka and Joseph Winberry. The School of Information Sciences faculty weaves diversity, equity, and inclusion into its curriculum and scholarship, and the SIS community as a whole strives to incorporate it in all other aspects of its […]
Junior Holland Parkins recently became the first ever College of Communications and Information Land Ambassador for the School of Information Sciences (SIS), a position in which she will represent the college and assist CCI with student recruitment, student retention, alumni relations, community outreach, and college events. What is a CCI Land Ambassador? The CCI Land […]
Lecturer: Chris Cunningham Location: Hattiesburg, Mississippi Education: Undergraduate degree in history with a social studies concentration, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; MLIS, UNC Greensboro; PhD, University of South Carolina; currently working on an MBA from Kent State University. What classes do you teach at SIS? I am currently teaching INSC 514, technology foundations. I’ve also taught […]
Featured student: Adam Hembree Location: Knoxville, TN Education: Bachelor’s in Spanish and interdisciplinary studies, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia; Master’s degree in applied linguistics from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Career/Background: After I did my undergrad, I worked my way up at Rosetta Stone to being an area manager in Hampton Roads, Virginia,where I’m from, and it got […]
Dan Greene’s (’03) current life is immersed in information sciences: he’s an alum of SIS, he is the SIS technology coordinator, and he’s also an SIS lecturer. But information sciences wasn’t even on his radar when he was an undergraduate at East Tennessee State University. There, he switched majors so many times he almost lost […]
There are several fall conferences coming up soon, and SIS has faculty and graduate students participating in presentations, panels, and more. All of these conferences are virtual this year. Here is a round-up of their contributions. Professor Dania Bilal has several roles in the upcoming Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting Oct. 22-Nov. […]
For every single product you search for while shopping online, there are layers of data that led you to it. Granular data that has been dug up, categorized, standardized, and recorded by teams of people – people like Laura Creekmore (’17). Creekmore is vice president of content operations at Chicago-based Syndigo, and leads a team […]
Being an educator has been an amazing and fulfilling career for Kathleen Smith, who currently works at Bearden Middle School in Knoxville teaching eighth grade English. But she’s known for a while there was going to be a next step in her career, and that was to become a school librarian. “When I was first […]
