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Archived 4, May 2010 -

The 2nd Annual IMLS Diversity Scholars Research Colloquium was held at the Farrison-Newton Communications Building on April 30th, 2010. The theme is Library as Place: Creating Diversity in Our Communities. We are excited to weclome our keynote speker, Dr. Roberto A. Ibarra, Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico.
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'.
The 19th North Carolina Serials Conference, hosted by the North Carolina Central University's School of Library and Information Sciences, will be held April 15, 2010 at the William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center in Chapel Hill, NC.
The 2010 conference theme is New Tricks for Old Dogs: Serials Control and Access. Watch this spot for more details!
SPRING 2010 STUDENT ORIENTATION VIDEO IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Spring 2010 Orientation was held on December 18, 2009. Over 25 attended on campus and at remote sites. New students are required to attend or view program online, and must complete assessments discussed at the orientation (contact Dr. Deborah Swain, Interim Associate Dean at dswain@nccu.edu for details).
Orientation Video
Financial assistance for graduate education in archival science
Mosaic Scholarship grants $5,000 in financial support to minority students, while promoting diversification of the American archives profession and the American historical record. Visit http://www.archivists.org/recognition/ for more information.
August 23, 2008: Dr. Neal served as an invited Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney from August 4-15, 2008. She was hosted by Dr. Andrew J. Campbell.
July 31, 2008: Dr. Neal has been invited to serve as a program committee member of iConference 2009.
July 31, 2008: Dr. Abdullahi has been invited to serve as a program committee member as well as speak at the 2008 Indian Library Association's International Conference in Mumbai.
July 27, 2008: Prof. Tate was featured on NC Bookwatch on Friday, August 1, at 9:30 p.m. and again at 5 p.m. on Sunday, August 3, on UNC-TV. She discussed reading, writing, and her book Celeste's Harlem Renaissance.
July 22, 2008: Dr. Abdullahi was invited to join the editorial board of The Journal of Pan African Studies, a transdisciplinary scholarly journal devoted to an Africological synthesis of African world community studies and research.
July 22, 2008: Dr. Abdullahi's paper proposal "Globalization and Library and Information Science: Ethical Challenges" has been accepted for presentation at the international conference on "Information Capital, Property, and Ethics" in Taipei, Taiwan, November 21-22, 2008.
July 22, 2008: Dr. Abdullahi's proposal to organize an IFLA pre-conference called "Bridge Building: connecting hearts and minds of LIS education in developing countries" in August 2009 in Milan, Italy was approved by the IFLA Professional Committee. The conference will bring together LIS educators from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
July 1, 2008: Dr. Yoo and Dr. Bracy have received a 2008 Diversity Research Grant from the American Library Association. (More)
June 17, 2008: NCCU SLIS has been awarded $839,073 by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to continue the School's Diversity Scholars program. (More)
May 24, 2008: Dr. Diane Neal has accepted an invitation to become a Research Associate of the Prometheus Research Team at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. (More)
May 19, 2008: Ms. Eleanora E. Tate's young adult historical fiction novel Celeste's Harlem Renaissance has beennamed an International Reading Association (IRA) 2008 "Teachers Choice" award winner.
May 14, 2008: Dr. Ismail Abdullahi is serving on the panel "Challenges of Library Development in Africa" at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, California on June 29, 2008.
May 14, 2008: Dr. Ismail Abdullahi's proposal "Bridging the Gap: Networking of LIS Education in Developing Countries: for IFLA Pre-conference 2009 in Milan, Italy was approved by the IFLA Professional Committee. The pre-conference will take place August 6-8, 2009. Dr. Abdullahi is a convener of LIS Education in Developing Countries Discussion Group and Chair of its Steering Committee.
May 8, 2008: Dr. Deborah Swain's proposal, "Disseminating National Library of Medicine Knowledge into Communities: Fighting Health Disparities," has been chosen to be presented in the first Call for Proposals Forum at the 2008 American Library Association Annual Conference.
May 8, 2008: Dr. Diane Neal will serve on the panel "Keeping Your Computers Up and Running -- We Can Help!" at the 2008 American Library Association Annual Conference.
May 6, 2008: Dr. Frank Exner, Little Bear, has published the chapter "North American Indian Personal Names in National Bibliographies" in Radical Cataloging: Writings from the Front, edited by K. R. Roberto.
May 2, 2008: Dr. Ismail Abdullahi's article "Internationalization of LIS education in Europe and North America," published in New Library World, has been chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008.
April 21, 2008: Dr. Deborah Swain has been invited to speak on "Preparing Health Information Professionals for Knowledge Management" at the 2008 International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM), October 23-25, Columbus, Ohio. This year's theme is "Knowledge Management Competencies and Professionalism." (More)
March 12, 2008: Dr. Diane Neal presented a paper titled "Who controls online user data, and who should control it?" at "The regulation of cyberspace: Balancing the interests," a session of the Oxford Round Table, March 23-28, 2008. (More)
March 15, 2008: Prof. Eleanora E. Tate was a featured author at the North Carolina Reading Association's annual conference held March 10-13 in Greensboro, NC. Ms. Tate spoke on "Hunting for History" and how educators and media specialists can use her award-winning historical fiction novel Celeste's Harlem Renaissance and her other books to interest children in their own neighborhood history.
March 7, 2008: Dr. Swain has published "Taking the Classroom into the Community: MIS Students Supporting Computational Learning Labs" in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, which is published by ALISE.
February 18, 2008: Dr. Abdullahi presented "LIS Education in a Diverse and Global World" on March 5 from 12:00 1:00 pm via Webcast for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee.
February 11, 2008: At the 2008 Midwinter meeting of the American Library Association (ALA), the ALA Council adopted a tribute resolution honoring Dr. Bracy for her service to ALA, to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), and to the profession.
February 11, 2008: Dr. Yoo has co-published "Understanding middle-aged women's health information seeking on the Web: A theoretical approach" in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
January 7, 2008: Dr. Ballard has been invited to serve on the jury for the American Library Association's Diversity Research Grants awards.
December 17, 2007: American Library Association President-elect Jim Rettig has appointed Dr. Abdullahi as Chair of the Committee on Diversity (Standing, Council) for 2008-2009.
December 17, 2007: Dr. Neal presented library website usability workshops for members of the Central Texas Library System on December 12 and 13, 2007.
November 19, 2007: Dr. Abdullahi presented a paper entitled "The Importance of Accreditation and Assessment of LIS Program in Asia Pacific Region" at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Library and Information Education and Practice in Taipei, November 22-25, 2007.
November 1, 2007: Dean Owens has received the 2007 REMCo Roadbuilders' Award for Library Education. (More)
October 22, 2007: Dr. Ballard has been appointed to the SLA Technical Standards Committee.
October 9, 2007: Dr. Deborah Swain leads health informatics and health education initiatives. (More)
October 8, 2007: Dr. Diane Neal has edited a special issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology on folksonomies. (More)
October 8, 2007: Eleanora Tate is the winner of the North Carolina American Association of University Women Juvenile Book Award for 2007.
October 2, 2007: Dr. Diane Neal is serving on a panel and co-presenting a poster at the 2007 ASIST Conference.
October 1, 2007: Dr. Ismail Abdullahi has been invited to present the lead paper at the 24th Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science National Conference, November 19-21, 2007.
September 14, 2007: Dr. Eun-Young Yoo will present a paper on "Understanding Undergraduates' Use of Information Sources and Social Networking Media: Implications for Librarians in the Networked Community" at the January 2008 Conference of ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) in Philadelphia. (Abstract)
September 7, 2007: Dr. Ismail Abdullahi has been invited to serve on the International Editorial Advisory Panel of the Sri Lankan Journal of Librarianship and Infromation Management.
August 28, 2007: Dr. Diane Neal's article, "CREST+ Model: Writing Effective Online Discussion Questions," has been published in the June 2007 MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. (More)
August 14, 2007: Dr. Eun-Young Yoo's article, "Understanding of Middle-Aged Women's Health Information Seeking on the Web: A Theoretical Approach," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
July 22, 2007: Dr. Deborah Swain's paper, "Using Modes of Collaboration to Share Project Knowledge" has been accepted by the 2007 International Conference on Knowledge Management in Vienna, Austria.
August 6, 2007: Dr. Gabe Peterson will be joining the NCCU SLIS faculty in the Fall 2007 semester. ... (More)
July 11, 2007: Dr. Diane Neal will be joining the NCCU SLIS faculty in the Fall 2007 semester. ... (More)
June 30, 2007: Dr. Abdullahi has been elected ALA Councilor-at-Large for the second time.
June 1, 2007: Dr. Abdullahi will speak at the IFLA Congress in Durban, South Africa, in August 2007 and at the Asia Pacific Conference of Library and Information Science Education and Practice in Taipei, Taiwan, in November 2007.
June 1, 2007: Dr. Yoo will present a paper on the use of social networking Websites and media by undersgraduates at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Society for Information Sciences & Technology in Milwaukee.
May 10, 2007: Dr. Ankem's article on "Information seeking behavior of women in their path to an innovative alternate treatment for symptomatic uterine fibroids" has been published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association (More)
May 10, 2007: Dr. Abdullahi has been listed as one of twenty notable members of ALA's International Relations Round Table. (More)
March 26, 2007: Instructor Eleanora Tate has published a new book, Celeste's Harlem Renaissance, and a new short story, "Root Beer Sit-In," Storyworks Magazine (January 2007).
February 20, 2007: Dr. Ankem has received a grant from the National Library of Medicine to establish and develop a health sciences librarianship specialization. (More)
January 22, 2007: Dr. Yoo has received a grant to study undergraduates' selection of information sources. (More)
December 17, 2006: Dean Irene Owens received the UNC School of Information and Library Science Distinguished Alumni Award at UNC's 2006 December commencement ceremony. (More)
June 12, 2006: Dr. Swain and MIS student Jill Wagy presented a poster session at the 2006 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
May 23, 2006: Dr. Ankem will present a paper at the 2006 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting
April 24, 2006: Dr. Ankem publishes articles on the information needs of cancer patients and the use of information sources by cancer patients.
February 28, 2006: Dr. Swain receives grant to develop computational learning labs.
February 3, 2006: Dr. Yoo receives $20,177 grant for developing a digital librarianship curriculum.
March 13, 2006: Dean Owens and Rebecca Vargha (MLS 1983) are co-presenters at the 2006 Librarians' Association at UNC Conference: "Looking Beyond the Five Year Plan: The Academic Library in 2025"
November 16, 2005: Dr. Burgin named Associate Dean
October 19, 2005: Professor Emeritus Kenneth Shearer's Obituary
May 23, 2005: New Faculty Appointments for Fall 2005
May 13, 2005: Dr. Irene Owens Begins as New Dean
April 12, 2005: New Director of Graduate Studies
February 2, 2005: Professor Burgin Edits Book on Nonfiction Readers' Advisory
May 18, 2004: Yoo Joins Faculty
April 27, 2004: Dr. Swain to Present at 2004 ASIST Conference
January 2, 2004: Hill Joins Faculty for Spring 2004
July 20, 2003: Professors Burgin and Bracy Study Impact of NC School Libraries
July 18, 2003: Professor Ballard Named Interim Dean
July 18, 2003: Professors Bracy and Burgin to Lead NCLA in 2003-2005

Student News

July 30, 2008: NEW STUDENT Orientation � 2008 If you missed the July 25 Orientation for students entering the School of Library and Information Sciences, please review the Information for Prospective Students [http://www.nccuslis.org/aboutslis/InfoProspStudents.pdf]. Also, new students have the opportunity to attend the School of Graduate Studies Orientation on August 14, beginning at 1:30pm. All graduate students at NC Central are invited. Topics will include: Campus Tours, Career Counseling, Financial Aid, Assistantships, the GSA (Graduate Student Association), Parking, Travel, International Student Affairs �and RESEARCH! We would like to promote research by all our students while in the MLS and MIS program. So please plan to attend this event in the Criminal Justice Building, from 1:30pm to 7:00pm, on Thursday, August 14.
April 20, 2008: David Hisle (MLS) has been awarded the Joyner Library (East Carolina University) SPA Fellowship.
April 3, 2008: Judy Allen Dodson (MLS) has been selected to represent North Carolina Central University at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA.
February 4, 2008: Rachel Hoff (MLS) has been elected Vice President for the North Carolina Preservation Consortium.
January 16, 2008: Season Hughes (MLS) has received a conference scholarship to attend the 2008 annual meeting for the Catholic Library Association (CLA) in Indianapolis from March 25-28, 2008.
November 6, 2007: Shorlette Ammons-Stephens (MLS) has been selected as one of two LAMA 2008 Emerging Leaders. (More)
August 22, 2007: Lucia Acin-Andion (MLS) has received a 2007 Reforma Scholarship and has been elected Vice-President of the Washington, D.C., local chapter of Reforma.
July 18, 2007: Minh Truong (MLS) has received a conference scholarship to attend the 2007 annual meeting for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MAC/MLA) in Atlanta from October 9-12, 2007.
June 14, 2007: Caroline Walters (MLS) has been elected Secretary of the North Carolina Library Association.
June 1, 2007: Kelvin Watson (MLS) has been selected as the 2008 RUSA (Reference and User Services Association) Intern. (More)
June 1, 2007: MLS student Blake Tyner has been elected President of the Society of North Carolina Archivists (More)
May 10, 2007: Cynthia Burke (MLS 1994) is the lead author of a published article: Burke, Cynthia, Stephen Greenberg, and Terry Armed. "Serving Our Colleagues: Reference and History of Medicine Services from the National Library of Medicine." Medical Reference Services Quarterly 26(Spring 2007): 73-90.
May 5, 2007: Spring 2007 Graduates
May 5, 2007: 2007 Beta Phi Mu Inductees
May 6, 2006: Spring 2006 Graduates
May 6, 2006: Beta Phi Mu Inductees for 2006
December 30, 2005: Fall 2005 graduates
July 12, 2005: Karin Shank (current MLS) and Jessica Rubis (MLS 2003) win NC SLA Awards
February 2, 2005: MIS Student Carla Hunt Gets Published
September 7, 2004: 2004 Spring Graduation: Beta Phi Mu Inductees and Honors Graduates (PDF)