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College of
Communication & Information
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Florida State University Ranks #4 on
Princeton Review
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Our 41,000 students, of whom 8,500 are graduate and professional
students, come from across the nation and around the world.
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Florida State University, in Tallahassee, is No. 4—one of the best
values in the US!
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Only the top 10 are ranked.
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The selection criteria included more than 30 factors in three areas:
academics, costs and financial aid.
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Costs: FSU Online program –did you know that only 20% of
expenses go to tuition—the rest is usually towards living expenses!!
iSchools: connecting people, information
& technology
People
Communication
Information
Technology
FSU iSchool’s approach
Individual &
Organization
Behavior
Communication &
Communication
Science
Information
Management
& Use
Information
Technology
College of Communication & Information
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School of Library & Information
Studies
School of Communication
 School of Communication Science &
Disorders
 2700 students (1700 undergrad, 1000
grad)
 75 faculty
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An Introduction Our Academic Programs
College of Communication & Information
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Master’s Programs
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Advertising
Communication Science & Disorders
Information Technology
Information Communication &
Technology
Media Communication Studies &
Production
Public Relations
Library & Information Studies
Media & Communication Studies
Comm Sci & Disorders
Integrated Marketing Comm
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PhD
Communication
Comm Science Disorders
Information Studies
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Specialist
Library & Information Studies
Undergraduate
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Certificates
Developmental Disabilities
Digital Video Production
Hispanic Marketing
Leadership & Management
Museum Studies
Project Management
Reference Services
SLM Leadership or Youth Services
Web Design
Health Informatics
Research
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Health informatics
Social informatics
Literacy development
Multicultural marketing communications
Communication science & disorders
Information & communication policy,
management & use
School of Library & Information Studies
C OLLEGE OF C OMMUNICATION & I NFORMATION
THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Leadership
Faculty Research
Dr. Nancy Everhart,
President of the
American Association
of School Librarians
Student
Awards
Dr. Melissa Gross,
President-elect of the
Association for Library
& Information Science
Education
Lauren Mandel,
2011 Norman Horrocks
Leadership Award
• Consistently top -ranked LIS program
FSU
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• Prolific faculty (Adkins & Budd, 2006)
• Award-winning students
• Home of LIS journals (JELIS, Museum
Management and Curatorship )
• National headquarters of Beta Phi Mu
Visit us online at http://slis.fsu.edu
Impact of research collaborations
Morphbank (biology, IS)
 Military Suicide (psychology, IS)
 Tallahassee Museum (science,
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science education, museum, IS)
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Magnetic Lab
physics
(social informatics, IS,
Internships!
Internships offer students tangible insight into
collaborations
Libraries, service vehicles for IT and IS
 Web sites, archives (FBI, CIA, ESPN, NBC, MTV…)
 Health Information & Communication
 Multicultural Marketing Communication
 Florida Children’s Campaign
Middle School Health Clinic
 Museums such as Guggenheim, Ringling
 International – Florence, Rome, London
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SLIS Internships!
Gain work experience and credits
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3 to 6 hours available—9 hours per week for
15 weeks for 3 credits….
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“I just wanted to say thank you for the course I took last Spring, LIS 5603,
Introduction to Information Services. I was just hired tonight for an
Instructional Services internship partially based things on the study guide I
created for your class and the IPL experience.”
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“This is just so exciting for me as I have never worked in a library before
and it should be a wonderful experience.
Anyway, I just wanted to thank you,
it was a great course.”
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Not required but a terrific option!
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International internships available!!
On Campus & Distance Learning…
Newly renovated Johnston Building:
server room
Johnston atrium rendering
Tomorrow’s information professionals (IP)
graduate from FSU
Abstractor / Indexer
Bioinformatician
Cataloger / Classifier
Computer Graphics Librarian / Archivist
Database Analyst
Database Manager
End-user Trainer
Government Documents
Information Architect
Information Broker
Information Consultant
Information Scientist
Information Systems Manager
Medical Information Broker
Network Administrator
Online Services Representative
Publisher Representative
Rare Books Specialist
Records Manager
Technical Editor / Writer
Telecommunications Specialist
Usability Analyst
Web Developer/Administrator
Web Editor
Web Page Designer
YOU 
Librarian
Art Librarian
Bibliographer
Corporate Librarian
Digital Library Coordinator
Law Librarian
Researcher Systems Librarian
Library Director
Medical Librarian
Software Support Analyst
School Median Specialist
Special Librarian
FSU Fellowships, Awards, and Financial Aid
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The Graduate School at FSU http://www.gradstudies.fsu.edu/ has
created the Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards
http://ogfa.fsu.edu to help graduate students search for and
obtain everything from fellowships to awards for research and travel
– all from external, off-campus foundations, libraries, or institutes to
supplement internal, on-campus resources.
Graduate students may make an appointment with Director Anne
Marie West via email [email protected] or call (850) 644-8132.
Graduate assistantships (on campus)
SLIS has approximately 9 annual scholarships
FSU Office of Financial Aid
http://financialaid.fsu.edu/aid/OFA_Foundation_2011.html
SLIS Master’s Requirements
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36 credit hours (24 hours are electives)
A bachelor’s degree with 3.0 GPA on
junior/senior level coursework
FSU requires GRE; also GMAT and LSAT are
being accepted
SLIS requires a combined score of 1000 on GRE,
focus on verbal 550
Your work & life experience
Tuition and fees online at www.sfs.fsu.edu
Deadlines: Summer (March 1); Fall (June 1) &
Spring (Nov 1)
PhD Program
Why Come to CCI for Your PhD?
The Ph.D develops successful career
opportunities
 Students gain a wide range of research
methods in social science, computer
science, &/or humanities
 Collaborative work with faculty analyzes,
evaluates, & explains information
phenomena
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PhD education also offers opportunity to
embrace interdisciplinary research
SLIS Faculty Research : What it
Means for Students’ Education!
… awards
of $2,311,349 this FY
Our faculty compete and succeed –nationally
in these five areas…
Director Corinne Jorgensen &
Dean Larry Dennis
School of Library &
Information Studies
College of Communication
& Information
iSpace is your space to learn
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iSpace is a suite of CCI webhosting tools …
– Learn to create and manage:
 websites
 databases
 blogs, wikis
– Open doors/build content
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Digital Libraries
Open Collections
Digital Media
Your own portfolio…
CCI will host your work for 4 years – all fully web
accessible and free!
FUTURE DIRECTIONS…
Increase focus on needs of Florida
libraries and customers
 Continue building CCI online community
 Facilitate leadership skills via certificate
program
 Explore new technologies for education, &
ultimately service to customers…
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GET SOCIAL …
TWEET on TWITTER … or
http://twitter.com/fsulibit
http://www.facebook.com/pages
/Tallahassee-FL/FSUlibIT
F2F with SLIS on Facebook!!!!
Get the latest news via our Twitter &
Facebook feeds.
Thank You & Come See Us
College of Communication & Information
Florida State University
http://cci.fsu.edu