Allan Martell joins the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) as a Postdoctoral Researcher collaborating on the Virtual Footlocker Project (VFP). He graduated with his PhD in information from the University of Michigan in May. His dissertation focused on the memories of children and grandchildren of former refugees and veterans of the guerrilla army during the civil war in El Salvador.

SLIS Welcomes New Faculty Member, Ana Roeschley for the Fall 2020 semester.

SLIS student Ishmael Ross is the 2020 recipient of the Josephine Forman Scholarship sponsored by the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church, in cooperation with the Society of American Archivists (SAA).

Last month during the iConference2020, the LSU School of Library & Information Science was officially recognized as a member of the iSchools Consortium.

A news page about a new course being offered by SLIS.

In fall of 2020, SLIS will start offering its archival studies and records and information management programs through LSU Online.

LSU School of Library & Information Science Associate Director Edward Benoit III, PhD, and Wellcome Collections Information Manager Alexandra Eveleigh, PhD, recently released Participatory Archives, a new book that examines the role digitization and social media has played in the rise of participatory and DIY digital culture.

LSU School of Library & Information Science Assistant Professor Edward Benoit, III, recently received a $391,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Science, or IMLS, for the Virtual Footlocker Project, or VFP.

CHICAGO-- Erin E. Voisin of Louisiana State University is the 2019 recipient of the F. Gerald Ham and Elsie Ham Scholarship given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The award will be presented at a ceremony during the Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and SAA in Austin, TX, July 31-August 6. The $10,000 scholarship supports the graduate archival education of a student who is studying at a United States university program. Scholarship selection criteria include the applicant's past performance in his or her graduate program in archival studies as well as faculty members' assessment of the student's prospects for contributing to the archives profession.