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    STUDENT NEWS

    • SLIS Alumnus Aleck Williams Jr, MLS, has become a reference librarian at Colleton County memorial library in Walterboro, SC.

    • SLIS Alumna Kate Mester is the founding librarian at Kestrel Heights Charter School! In her own words: ?This process is truly ground-up, as the building is still being built and we don't have much money to procure materials. I'm trying to get all the furniture I can from Duke Surplus and other cheap-to-free donation sites so that I can spend money on books, supplies, and a cataloging system for the school. I know that it won't be the richest or the most beautiful library ever but I'm hoping it will progress yearly and eventually be the hub of learning and teaching at Kestrel. At the very least I'm so excited to be back in a school and working with students again!
      ?I would love for the library to be functional when the new school year starts on August 25th, or at least semi-functional. And this is where I would like to call on the amazing power of my fellow SLIS students and teachers. I will need help processing and cataloging a (hopefully large) quantity of books around the beginning to mid-August, and I would feel most comfortable if fellow library students instead of parent volunteers helped with this process, since I won't have to spend so much time training. I don't know if library students want to gather as part of an ALA service project, or for some school media hours, or even as part of a class. I can send out emails individually to the students and alumni I know, but I thought I'd let you know as well and see if you can help me to organize a small group of students together. Any help you can offer or help to organize would be greatly appreciated by Kestrel and me. ?Thank you for everything! It is the direct result of the SLIS program that I feel prepared (and stressed but excited!) to take on a project and job of this magnitude.?
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    ALUMNI NEWS


    • Special thanks to alumnus Al Cordle for forming the NCCU-SLIS Alumni facebook group!
    • On December 3, SLIS Gradate Tamika Barnes received the Meritorious Award from the North Carolina Chapter of SLA. Here is a link to the write up that UNC put on their site. http://sils.unc.edu/news/releases/2009/12_tamika.htm

      Shawn Coates: MBA/MIS Graduate Promoted at the ODNI!

      Shawn B. Coates has recently been named Deputy Chief of Staff in the Office of the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer (IC CIO) of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

    • May SLIS graduate Clyde Wilson was one of three NCCU graduate students featured in July 22 article on the NCCU web page entitled "Confederate Archives Find Unlikey Transcribers. The three students are working as interns at the Museum of the Confederacy transcribing the papers of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Read the original article here!

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    FACULTY NEWS

    • With Dr. E. Joyce Roland, Interim Assistant Chair of Nursing, Dr. Deborah Swain presented research on social networking among nursing students at the 2011 NC Health and Information Communications Alliance (NCHICA) meeting held in Asheville, Oct. 26-28. The conference brings together medical, government, corporate, and educational healthcare representatives to discuss regulations and improvements in electronic health records. Collaborative research about nursing students using blogs (web logs) and improving their education experience and career skills was conducted at NC Central University with assistance from MLS graduate student, Charlene Johnson. Dr. Swain directed the development of a social network analysis (SNA) map and textual analysis of the data from the blogs. The pilot study team found evidence of analytical skills and cohort support among participants as well as patterns of gatekeeping and knowledge sharing that educators and informatics systems builders can apply to designs.

    • Congratualtions to SLIS Professor Robert M. Ballard, who delivered the paper "Trends in Outsourcing Business and Information Systems" at the Global Ourtsourcing Summit, Maanchan, China, May 23-27, 2011.

    • The Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsors the Summer Faculty Research Program and the Sabbatical Leave Program for U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who hold teaching or research appointments at U.S. colleges and universities. These programs provide an opportunity for faculty members to participate in research of mutual interest to the faculty member and professional peers at U.S. Navy Laboratories. onr.asee.org

    • Please joins SLIS in congratulating Dr. Deborah Swain on her article on "Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication? to be published in ASIST!

    • SLIS Professor Robert M. Ballard and Ms. Yingqi Tang have published their study "Distance Education: The Impact of Technology on Higher Education and the Duties of Librarians and Information Officers" in the proceedings of The Second International Conference on Society and Information Technologies. March 27th - 30th, 2011-Orlando. Florida, USA. pp: 130-136.

    • The NCCU Office of International Affairs has noted the contributions of Dr abdullahi for the Study abroad program and Dr. Peterson for his receipt of an OIA research grant to study health literacy disparities. The Office of International Affairs newsletter can be found here.

    • Dr. Peterson has published the article "The Effectiveness of the Practice of Correction and Republication on the Biomedical Literature" in the April issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association

    • On March 2, 2010, Dr. Peterson gave a presentation for the Center for University Teaching and Learning on the topic "An Introduction to Classroom Podcasting". The notes and podcast can be found here.

    • Dr. Abdullahi has published a chapter entitled 'Collaboration among Developing Countries' in Developing LIS Curricula in Library and Information Science in Digital Age vol. I & II. 2009

    • ALA President Elect Roberta Steven has appointed Dr. Abdullahi as a new Chair of ALA Committee in Education 2010-2011. Roberta Steven will speak at NCCU-SLIS in November 2010.

    • We welcome Professor Edmiston as instructor for LSIS 5440 for Spring 2010. She can be contacted at elizabeth.edmiston@gmail.com

    • Dr. Ballard has contributed to the process of refereeing papers for publication in The International Journal of the Book and has completed a report for the paper 'Controversial Issues in Media'.


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