Dear IS PhD Students, Please join us for the last SIS public lecture and discussion of the semester on April 27th from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the Scripps Theater. Our guest will be Dr. Ericka Patillo, associate dean of libraries at Appalachian State University, who will present her research about the academic library middle manager role: https://www.sis.utk.edu/patillo-lecture-what-does-“middle-management”-mean-academic-libraries We will host a special lunch for Dr. Patillo with SIS Faculty and PhD students from 11:30-12:45 in Scripps Conference Room. Please RSVP to Pamela Durban if you would like to attend this lunch by the end of the day tomorrow (April 24th). The lunch starts at 11:30 in case anyone also wants to attend the IS PhD student dissertation defense at noon. Cheers, Diane --- Diane Kelly, Professor and Director School of Information Sciences University of Tennessee 1345 Circle Park Dr., Suite 451 Knoxville, TN 37996-0341 Telephone: 865-974-5882 [facebook30]<https://www.facebook.com/UTKSIS/> [instagramupdated] <https://www.instagram.com/utk_sis/> [twitter30] <https://twitter.com/UTKSIS> [linkedinlogo30] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/utksis/> [spacer] [School of Information Sciences - Shortcut-2Line]<https://www.sis.utk.edu/>