Congratulations to Sean Burns, a 2013 winner of the TA Choice Award presented by MSA, “Through the TA Choice Award, the Missouri Students Association aims to recognize teaching assistants in all areas of education at MU for upholding excellent standards in the educational process.” Sean was recognized for his work in ISLT 9410 Metadata.

Way to go Karen!
SLA – St Louis Metro Area Chapter presented Karen with the Elizabeth Owens Award for her distinguished service to the Chapter and the library profession.

http://stlouis.sla.org/chapter-awards-and-recognition/

IMPORTANT!

If you are interested in school library media certification or you know someone else who is, PLEASE read this message!

MU’s LIS program is providing one final offering of 9404 School Library administration and 9406 Curriculum and School Libraries in Summer 2013!

Register for them NOW if you need to. Starting in Fall 2013,  MU will not offer these courses.

These content areas are required for DESE school library media certification in Missouri.

For questions or concerns, please contact our student coordinators office:  SISLT.missouri.edu

Congratulations to Zach Coble and Holli Beckmann Duggan, LiS alumni!   They are part of the Emerging Leaders Class of 2013.

Zach and Holli are featured in this month’s issue of American Libraries Magazine. Congratulations to both of you, it’s well deserved!

You can read the magazine article here: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a11df2f8#/a11df2f8/1

LIS alum Heather Hill publishes article about treatment of people with disabilities in Library and Information Science  Research.

Title:  Disability and accessibility in the library and information science literature:  A content analysis

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740818813000030

The College of Education Alumni Organization Awards have recognized two of our Library & Information Science alumni for their outstanding achievements:

Steve Potter – Outstanding Achievement Award
Brandy Sanchez – Outstanding Young Professional

Celebrate their achievements as well as other recipients at the 45th Annual College of Education Recognition Awards Banquet on April 19, 2013.

Complete details: http://education.missouri.edu/news/events/2013/2013-4-19-education-awards-recognition-banquet.php

At the 2011 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in Philadelphia, PA, John Budd, a professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri at Columbia, presented preliminary findings on his most recent study of retracted publications in biomedical literature.

…For more of this very interesting story on John Budd’s research please click here.

From Fox 4 News in Kansas City (John Pepitone reporting): More students are looking to stay closer to home to further their education, and as a result the University of Missouri is bringing a unique program to the Kansas City metro area as specialized graduate classes are now underway at the new Mizzou Center in Blue Springs, MO.
Watch the video.