SLIS News

COPE Dean names Hoffman SLIS Director

Gretchen Hoffman, PhD, is the new director of the School of Library and Information Studies as of August 2023.

Kizhakkethil joins SLIS faculty

Priya Kizhakkethil, PhD, joined the faculty of the School of Library and Information Studies starting August 2023.

Program awards TWU educator $400,000 grant to fight misinformation

What is real? What isn’t? Can I trust this? These are familiar questions we ask ourselves when scrolling through social media or looking for information online. These are also questions that School of Library and Information Studies assistant professor Tara Zimmerman, PhD, plans to help children in kindergarten through fifth grade (K-5) learn how to answer.

SLIS hosts three Taiwanese exchange scholars

While a library can open the entire world to a person willing to discover it, librarianship can sometimes literally lead a person to the other side of the globe. That is the case for three students from Taiwan this summer. 

Three receive SLIS alumni awards

Rosemarie Rodriguez, Sierra Laddusaw and Tonya Marie Hinkebein were all recognized with alumni awards from the School of Library and Information Studies.