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Drs. Suzie Allard, Bharat Mehra, and Vandana Singh at the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences have scored a triple play of grant awards from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) totaling over $1.6 million for the next four years.

The School of Information Sciences invites you to hear Dr. Jinfang Niu speak on “Perceived Documentation Quality of Social Science Data,” Friday, June 19, from 11:15 – 12:00 in Communications Bldg. Room 420. Dr. Jinfang Niu is visiting the School to grow acquainted with its students and faculty as she considers a visiting academic appointment for the 2009-2010 academic year. Due to increased student interest, the School seeks to strengthen its archives and records management areas.

It's that time of year and, of course, the deadline is tight (June 30). Yes, it's time to nominate someone whom you feel has good ideas and would represent your alumni well.

In front of some 75 alumni and friends, the School of Information Sciences Alumni Board announced its Distinguished Alumnus for 2009, along with its inaugural Innovator’s Award, at the School’s Alumni & Friends Day on March 7 at the UT Hoskins Library.

Dr. Mike Pemberton (’75) was honored with the School’s Distinguished Alumni award for 2009, and James Staub (’04) was honored with the inaugural Innovator’s Award.

The School of Information Sciences was pleased to announce several awards at today’s Graduation and Awards Ceremony in the University Center ballroom. Dr. Bharat Mehra, the chair of the Student Affairs Committee, announced the awards. The School received a large number of scholarship applications this year and fielded many outstanding applications.

Congratulations to the following students for the following SIS awards.

Best paper: Samuel Jason Ezell

The School of Information Sciences invites you to hear Dr. Bill Michener, the director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries at the University of New Mexico, speak on the DataONE (Observation Network for Earth) project, which represents a “new virtual organization whose goal is to enable new science and knowledge creation through universal access to data about life on earth and the environment that sustains it.”

A webcast of the event is now available.

The School of Information Sciences’ Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature is pleased to cosponsor the venerated May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture on April 18, 2009, at the Children's Defense Fund Haley Farm in Clinton, Tenn. A webcast of the event is available.

Walter Dean Myers, author of award-winning fiction, poetry and nonfiction for children and young adults, will deliver the lecture.