The Florida State University team of Janice
Newsum and Dr. Marcia Mardis has received the Young Adult Library Services
Association (YALSA) 2010 Frances Henne/YALSA/VOYA Research Award. The award
provides $1,000 of seed money for small scale projects that reflect
YALSA’s research agenda in the area of young adult library services.
“Are Boys Radically Changing? A Fresh
Exploration of Boys’ Internet Use in Public Libraries.” is designed
to contextualize data about boys’ online behavior within the framework of
the Radical Change theory. Radical Change theory acknowledges the affect of
digital media on young adult’s and children’s literature from the
perspectives of interactivity, connectivity, and access.
“This is a very exciting
accomplishment,” said Mardis, an assistant professor at the Florida State
University School of Library & Information Studies. “First, in that
YALSA only awards one such grant each year and that Janice, who is a first-year
doctoral student, is the lead researcher. We are very proud of the quality or
our students. And second, that this grant allows us to build on the excellent
work of our colleagues at Florida State. We're very excited to continue on
their path to improve youth services.”
The research will replicate a 2002 study and
will allow the researchers to examine why differences between past findings and
the current study might exist. The researchers will also explore how the
results can facilitate changes in research and practice.
The research award will be presented at the American
Library Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C., summer 2010.
The
School of Library & Information Studies at Florida State University is
one of three schools comprising the College
of Communication & Information. It is also home of Partnerships
Advancing Library Media (PALM) Center, a joint effort of the College of
Communication & Information, College of Education and Learning Systems
Institute. Dr. Nancy Everhart is director and Dr. Marcia Mardis is co-director of
PALM Center; Janice Newsum is a doctoral fellow there. PALM works to increase
the visibility and focus on issues at the intersection of leadership,
technology integration, and critical literacies, particularly in the PreK-12
education arenas that include school library media centers
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