Learning Systems Institute l PALM CENTER

» Palm Center Offers Crucial Stimulus- Related Research and Evaluation Consulting Services

The PALM Center offers a range of consulting services related to school library modernization, broadband deployment, technology integration, rural schools, leadership development, and other critical areas to support implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

» Post Doctoral Fellow's Poster Receives Hononorable Mention

Annette Goldsmith, a recent College of Information Doctoral program graduate and PALM Center Postdoctoral Fellow" was given an honorable mention in the ALISE/Jean Tague Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition. The contest was held January 21, 2009 in Denver. Posters were judged according to the significance of the dissertation research topic to the field of Library and Information Studies. Her outstanding poster "Found in Translation" displayed the results of her dissertation. Goldsmith employed a sequential explanatory design (web-based survey with follow-up interviews) within a sense-making theoretical framework to identify editors' motivations for acquiring books to translate, the barriers that they face in this task, and the resources that are available to them. In addition, editors were queried on the value that they place on publishing translations.

» Daniella Smith chosen to be an Inaugural Scholar

Daniella Smith, doctoral student at Florida State University's College of Information and Research Program Coordinator for the PALM Center has been selected as an Inaugural Scholar. She will be traveling to Washington to participate in the Inauguration festivities and the University Presidential Inaugural Conference. Interested parties may read about her trip on her blog.