SIS alum and Seattle Public Library Executive Director and Chief Librarian Marcellus Turner credits the library’s staff for earning it the 2020 Gale/Library Journal Library of the Year Award. “This is well-deserved recognition of their commitment to involving community voices in programs, reducing barriers to access and actively pursuing key partnerships. It’s our staff that […]
Brianna Blackwell already had an undergraduate and graduate degree in English when she decided to earn her MSIS degree at the University of Tennessee starting in the fall of 2019. Her desire to further pursue research that can be applied in real-world scenarios is part of what piqued her interest in the field of information […]
Dear UTK School of Information Sciences Students, Alumni and Friends, We know that SIS students, alumni, and friends, particularly African-American students, alumni, and friends, are hurting right now. We are hurting with you. Many of you are suffering due to the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, which sadly join a […]
Every year, the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences recognizes students for specific academic achievements. These include best thesis, best project, and best paper awards. Best Thesis Award Scott Shumate “My thesis is a participatory research study analyzing the impact of a computer system migration on the employees and processes of a non-profit organization.” […]
Special Student Awards Each year the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences gives several awards in recognition of achievement, and for students’ contributions to the information professions and to information sciences scholarship. These are our 2020 special student awards and recipients. The Gary Purcell Award honors the memory of Gary Purcell, the school’s founding […]
Meredith Goins (’00), an SIS alum, doctoral student, and a new SIS lecturer, was recently recognized by the Tennessee Library Association with the TLA Honor Award. This award is given to people who have made significant contributions to librarianship at either a state or national level. Goins has spent the last 20 years volunteering in […]
SIS alum Wendy Cornelisen (‘07) is a big picture, out-of-the-box kind of person. This mindset is why her career trajectory took her from a reference librarian position all the way to her current job as Georgia’s assistant state librarian for library innovation and collaboration – and it’s also why she is the recipient of the […]
SIS Associate Professor Awa Zhu was awarded the 2020 SIS Bonnie Carroll and Roy Cooper Faculty Enrichment Award for the cumulative research she has done over the past two years. “I was so excited. I don’t have a lot of publications, so I was very surprised, and [SIS Director Diane Kelly] said that the award […]
Fayetteville Public Library has long been the Arkansas city’s center, a hot spot for learning, special events, and other communal gatherings. In 2005, it won the Library of the Year award sponsored by Library Journal and Thompson/Gale Publishers – the smallest library ever to earn that accolade, said the library’s current director, SIS alum David […]
One of the reasons student Jessica Giles entered the MSIS program was to learn how to better represent data through visualization for her job as an associate data engineer at Intermx in Atlanta, Georgia. She had hoped to gain skills that would allow her to put data and statistics into an easy-to-consume format for the […]
