School of Information Sciences

Alum Tyler Martindale Puts Business Background to Work as an Academic Librarian

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Tyler Martindale quit his real estate appraiser job and started waiting tables and bartending not long after he graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in business economics. “I had that early millennial mindset, and I didn’t want to do something I didn’t derive personal satisfaction from for the rest of my life,” he said. […]

Alum and Science Librarian Alexa Carter Focuses on Student Success

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Helping students find science resources comes naturally to Alexa Carter (’18). When she was an undergrad at the University of Tennessee, earning her degree in chemistry, she often found herself helping other students find information for lab classes. Her interest in chemistry merged with a love of the information sciences when she began looking for […]

MSIS Student Dylan Miller Leads Library’s First Pride Event

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When MSIS student Dylan Miller heard local LGBTQ+ nonprofit organization OUTMemphis speak at her library about LGBTQ+ inclusivity, it planted the seed of an idea: why not host a Pride event at the library? She wasn’t the only one who understood the importance of the organization’s message and had the same response – two other Benjamin […]

UT Hodges Assessment Librarian, SIS Alum Regina Mays & Associate Professor Rachel Fleming-May Carry On a Decade of Collaboration

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When Regina Mays and Rachel Fleming-May get together, it’s a close camaraderie. They joke about which one of them is “the best” (each claiming it’s the other, and not themselves), and their interactions have that underlying trust and ease that takes years to build. In fact, it’s been about a decade since the two began […]

SIS Director and Professor Diane Kelly Named as iSchool Chair-Elect

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SIS Director and Professor Diane Kelly was recently elected incoming chair-elect for the iSchools organization. She will serve two years as chair-elect beginning in March 2020 at the iConference in Sweden, and will work alongside Gobinda Chowdhury, professor of information science and chair of the iSchool at Northumbria University, who is iSchools incoming chair. Her two-year […]

Student Spotlight: Yasmin Stoss Zeroes in on Providing Information Access to Researchers

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Featured student: Yasmin Stoss. Location: Knoxville, TN. Education: Bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in Japanese. Career: After graduating, I was working for a while, I had two full-time jobs before I started the master’s program.  One of them was working with an institutional review board at a different university and through that job, I […]

SIS Clinical Associate Professor Cindy Welch as a Faculty Innovator

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SIS Clinical Associate Professor Cindy Welch was chosen by the University of Tennessee’s Teaching & Learning Innovation to be a Teaching Innovator for 2019. “When it comes to Teaching & Learning Innovation, I never say no because they’re so great at what they do,” Welch said. TLI provides support to faculty members, teachers, and staff […]