News and Events
Events
Online Orientation Webinars
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Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 (Spring 2025 admits)
SLIS Director Gretchen Hoffman, PhD, will walk you through the basics essential for a successful start and answer your questions.
News
SLIS Director conducts visiting lectureship in Taiwan
11/9/21
Ling Hwey Jeng, School of Library and Information Studies Director, conducted a visiting lectureship on community informatics at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. During the lectureship Jeng presented four lectures to master’s and doctoral students and gave speeches at the National Central Library and the National Chengchi University Library.
Besides books, rural librarian’s focus is telehealth
10/15/20
Access to broadband internet and healthcare are challenges to rural Texans. And in a pandemic, those challenges are magnified. But efforts by a Texas Woman’s University graduate student are chipping away at those issues in one North Texas community.
SLIS welcomes new faculty
9/3/20
With every fall semester comes new beginnings for students, this year more so than others. However, students are not the only ones to experience change this time of year. The School of Library and Information Studies is happy to announce four new members of the faculty and recognize another who joined in the spring of 2020.
Franklin Receives 2020 Barnett Service Award
6/12/20
The Ann Barnett Service Award recognizes exemplary service to the principles and purposes of librarianship and professional education as demonstrated by sensitivity and responsiveness to people’s needs. This year's recipient actually had the opportunity to interact with the award's namesake, Ann Barnett, during her time in the TWU School of Library & Information Studies.
Sheppard and Canales Receive 2021 SLIS Alumni Awards
5/11/21
April Sheppard is the recipient of the 2021 Ann Barnett Service Award while Beatrice Canales received the S. Janice Kee Continuing Education Award, both presented by the Texas Woman’s University School of Library & Information Studies.