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Department at the top

A new paper ranking UK LIS academics shows Sheffield has 4 of the 10 most cited academics in the country. There are two other of our academics are in ranks 10-20. The paper will be published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). A pre-print of the paper can be downloaded from here .
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Sheila Webber/Yoshikawa interviewed by Metaverse TV

Sheila Webber has been interviewed by a Second Life television company, Metaverse TV, in the guise of her avatar, Sheila Yoshikawa . Second Life (SL) is a 3D virtual world, and Sheila has been leading teaching and continuing professional development activities on our SL island, Infolit iSchool . The 20 minute feature can be viewed on the web at http://blip.tv/file/739271
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DIS at LILAC 2008

The Department will have a strong presence at LILAC 2008 , the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference, a major event in the information literacy calendar attracting an international audience, which this year is being held in Liverpool (Monday 17-Wednesday 19 March). Prof Sheila Corrall will be presenting a paper on ‘ Librarians as Teachers: the Pedagogical Knowledge and Development Needs of Subject Librarians ’ which discusses the findings of an investigation conducted by former MA Librarianship student Laura Cox , who was awarded the Eduserv Prize for the best Information Literacy dissertation in 2007 and is now working at the University of Technology Sydney. Prof Corrall is also presenting a poster on her own research on Developing an Evaluation Framework for Information Literacy Strategies and in addition she is co-presenting another poster on the work of the CILASS Information Literacy Network, a University interdisciplinary special interest group which she chairs on ...
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Librarianship student Hammond wins Special Libraries Association award

Congratulations to Librarianship student Sarah Hammond , who has been awarded a student sponsorship to attend the Special Libraries Association Conference in Seattle , WA, USA at the Washington State Convention Center 15 - 18 June 2008. "The conference will create an environment for networking, communication, learning and other developmental opportunities for information professionals".
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