University of North Texas

COI is accepting applications for a 3yr award to support the Interdisciplinary Information Science Ph.D. Program. Made possible by a grant from the International Internet Preservation Consortium, the mission of the IIPC is to acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations.

Krishna Shenoy first joined the Reading Room at The Sixth Floor Library in Dallas, TX as a library-intern volunteer in 2010. The College of Information is proud to report that she now continues this work as the Reading Room’s new Librarian/Archivist, helping to provide access to more than 4,000 books, magazines, newspapers and videos and covers topics ranging from Kennedy's life and legacy to conspiracy theories to 1960s pop culture. Shenoy is currently working on her Masters of Library Science at UNT and plans to graduate in Fall of 2012.

Since the 2011-12 Faculty Awards committee requested nominations for the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award, students, alumni, and faculty alike have put their vote in for Dr. Brian C. O'Connor.   This award recognizes dedication to the teaching profession, as well as outstanding academic, scientific, and scholarly achievements. The award will be announced May 2012. Read on to discover why so many feel Dr. O'Connor deserves this recognition.

Regents Professor Dr. Gerald Knezek has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist appointment to the University of Twente, The Netherlands, to carry out collaborative research and writing, and to conduct three two week seminars during the 2011-12 school year. The collaborative research will be to extend the work begun with European colleagues while serving as co-chair of the International Summit on ICT in Education at UNESCO, Paris, in June 2011. The three seminars will be for doctoral candidates and junior faculty in the areas of psychometric instrumentation, scaling methods, and research symposium presentation design. Dr. Knezek  previously served as a Fulbright Scholar to Japan in 1993-94 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Ecuador during 2006-07.

UNT College of Information is looking forward to the arrival of Dr. Michael Spector, who will begin his responsibilities as chair of the Department of Learning Technologies on January 2nd. Dr. Spector is a leading figure with an impressive listing of publications and presentations within the field.

International guests (Dorothy Hu, Anita Hu, Ann Cai, Clean Xie, Rex Gu, and Sabrina Zheng) spent Thursday afternoon touring the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit. The students are from Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China. They have been experiencing the Texan culture with a special trip to Fort Worth, a Bach Concert here in Denton, a Halloween Party in Sanger, and will soon visit Dallas museums.

Six students from Hang Zhou Normal University in Hangzhou, China, are experiencing Texas culture and the life of U.S. college students as they visit UNT for a month.

The visit of these six students follows the signing of a General Agreement on Co-operation Program between our two Universities.

The students will  stay on campus with UNT students, take seminars with College of Information faculty, and will also be introduced to two American holidays — Halloween and Thanksgiving.

The College of Information is pleased to announce that FISH Technologies is now an official sponsor of the Information and Research Analysis (IRA) Lab. The IRA Lab will be supporting FISH Technologies by researching the value of social media marketing and its relationship to information behavior. The partnership is the first of many such relationships to be developed in the future.

LIS Students Rhonda Pinter and Amanda Hawes were awarded the Dollar General Literacy Back to School Grant for a project proposed in the course: Library Operation and Policy Development. The $3,000 grant will create a Professional Literacy Library at Greta Oppe Elementary in Galveston. The library which would contain both professional development and literacy/technology classroom resources.