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Chad Lanctot on What it is Like Being a Veteran and a Student

April 21, 2022 by Hillary Tune

It took a decade for Chad Lanctot to finish his undergraduate degree, and for good reason: Lanctot was in the U.S. Coast Guard and was taking online classes while he actively served. It was tough going but once he was done and retiring from the Coast Guard, he knew that more higher education was his […]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Student Spotlight Tagged With: Diversity & Inclusion, veteran

MSIS Student Sarah Calise Founds Nashville Queer History Digital Archive, Lands Deal to Write First Book on Nashville’s LGBTQ+ History

March 4, 2022 by Hillary Tune

It’s easy to forget history, but even more so if no one preserves it. Sarah Calise, an archivist and a student in the School of Information Sciences master’s program, is someone who specializes in preservation. So when they saw the history of Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community slowly slipping away, they also saw an opportunity to make […]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Student News, Student Research Tagged With: Diversity & Inclusion

SIS Alum, Children’s Author & School Librarian Alice Faye Duncan to Publish Two New Books

November 18, 2021 by Hillary Tune

Children’s picture book author and school librarian Alice Faye Duncan (’91) looks for those moments in history that define generations yet are not often discussed—and especially aren’t stories typically told via picture book. She was the first-ever picture book author to delve into the Memphis Sanitation Strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. […]

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Student Spotlight: H.B. Fach Discusses Neurodiversity and Information Sciences

October 22, 2021 by Hillary Tune

Featured student: H.B. Fach Location: Lavergne, Tennessee Career Background: I’ve been in libraries in one form or another since 2008, ever since I started part-time at Lavergne Public Library. I went to Nashville Public Library after that, and then the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Currently I’m with HCA Healthcare in their Knowledge Management division. […]

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MSIS Student Diona Eberhart Layden Awarded ALA Spectrum Scholarship

August 12, 2021 by Hillary Tune

Diona Eberhart Layden is a licensed attorney and has served as a judicial law clerk for the Tennessee Supreme Court, worked in the Davidson County District Attorney General’s Office, and currently serves as a Guardian ad Litem in the Davidson County Juvenile Court. But after two decades of working as a lawyer, she decided she […]

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SIS Associate Professor Devendra Potnis Honored by ASIS&T as SIG Member of the Year

September 25, 2020 by Hillary Tune

Anyone reviewing SIS Associate Professor Devendra Potnis’s research and service work throughout his career can see he has a deep passion for helping people at an international level, as well as a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Whether it’s helping low-income populations in India become digitally literate, exploring how social media can be used […]

Filed Under: Faculty News, Faculty Research, Featured Story Tagged With: Diversity & Inclusion

SIS Students Help LGBTQ+ History to be Heard Through ‘Voices Out Loud’ Projects

June 10, 2020 by Hillary Tune

Director of Voices Out Loud and Research Librarian Donna Braquet  Voices Out Loud is an archives and oral history project started by UT Research Librarian Donna Braquet, who felt like there needed to be a resource chronicling the history of LGBTQ+ people in East Tennessee. Various pieces make up the collection, including three projects SIS […]

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Alum Andrew Grissom: Librarian at Nonprofit That Helps Advance Women in the Workplace

April 16, 2020 by Hillary Tune

When Andrew Grissom (’15) entered the MSIS program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, he had imagined himself working in an academic library setting. He loved the idea of helping others with research, as well as getting a chance to conduct his own research. But his career took a surprise turn when an interest in […]

Filed Under: Alumni News, Featured Story Tagged With: Diversity & Inclusion

Guest Speaker Aisha Johnson-Jones Explores Diversity in Information Sciences

March 13, 2020 by Hillary Tune

It was by chance that Aisha Johnson-Jones found information about the historic Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program while she was doing research on increasing African-American diversity in archives. As she started learning more about the program, she started asking around to see what research had been done on the topic. When it became clear that […]

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MSIS Student Rachael Murphy Uses Practicum to Explore Diversity & Inclusion in Hodges Library

January 30, 2020 by Hillary Tune

MSIS student Rachael Murphy started an assistantship at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Hodges Library in fall 2019, conducting a “kindness audit.” The audit takes an inventory of all the signage throughout the library to assess what kind of messages or ideas are being communicated to those who walk into the building. “We’re looking at, […]

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