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2026
Call for OU SLIS Outstanding Alumni Award Nominations for 2026
Alumni publication "FicSim: A Dataset for Multi-Faceted Semantic Similarity in Long-Form Fiction" in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
OU SLIS alumni are thriving as library media specialists in OKC Public Schools
Read the SLIS Oklahoma Library Association Conference Bulletin
OU SLIS Fresh Takes 2026
2026 SLIS Alumni Award Winners
Celebrate National Library Week with SLIS
Dr. Jung shared two of her research projects at AERA 2026
Fulbright Scholar Professor Dr. Polina Verbystka Visits SLIS
Celebrating International Museum Day
Museum Studies Student Presents at AAM
ICAST Awards Graduate Student Researcher Scholarship to Ziyang Xu
Dr. Harris and the Oklahoma Museums Association help celebrate Route 66’s 100th Anniversary at the State Capitol
SLIS Student Travel Support Awarded in 2025
SLIS PhD Candidate Mahdieh Nazari awarded Bullard Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2025
SLIS Faculty Hosts Hands-On Program on the Maker Movement for Older Adults
Call for Student Paper Award Submissions for 2025
Spotlight on OU SLIS Study Abroad 2024 OU in Italy: Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Fall 2024 Faculty and Student Highlights
Buffy Edwards, OU SLIS Lecturer and Internship Documentation Coordinator is seeking the office of Chair-Elect of the Educators of School Librarians
Museum Studies Faculty Join Museum Advocacy Day at the Oklahoma State Capitol
OU Celebrates National Library Week
Cherity Pennington Named as the Recipient of the 2025 OU SLIS Outstanding Alumni Award
Molly Dettmann wins 2025 OLA Ruth Brown Memorial Award
Lupita Gonzalez wins the Dr. Frances Laverne Carroll Student Paper Award for 2025
Celebrate the end of the semester with SLIS
Spotlight on SLIS Internships
Edwards Elected 2025-2026 Chair-elect of the Educators of School Librarians (ESL) Division of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
SLIS Celebrates National Library Week 2025
Banned Book Week Events 2025
Fall 2025 SLIS Alumni Info Mixer
Harris named President of MPMA 2025-2027
Endersby and Harris present at MPMA
School of Library and Information Studies represented at ASIS&T
Dr. Phillips Represented SLIS at the World Anthropology Union congress in Antigua, Guatemala
SLIS at the 2025 OU Online Conference
Endersby presents at multiple conferences with her expertise on Museum Property Acts
SLIS at the 2025 Oklahoma Museums Association Conference
Edwards Shares Model for Cross-Department Collaboration at the American Association of School Librarians National Conference
Dr. Jiqun Liu included in latest list of top-cited Global Researchers
OU SLIS Celebrates the Freedom to Read with Banned Books Week Events
OU SLIS Secures $150,000 IMLS Grant to Advance Generative AI Learning for Children in Public Libraries
Dissertation Defense: LLM-based Long-Term Life Task Planning to Reduce Human Uncertainty
2024
SLIS Alumni News: Amanda Kordeliski Seeking the Office of AASL President
Dr. Kun Lu Attending 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) Approved to Hire 6 Full-Time Faculty for the Museum Studies Program
SLIS End of Year Gathering for Spring 2024
Spring 2024 Student Highlights
Spring 2024 Faculty Highlights
Loss of Former SLIS Director Dr. Robert Swisher
Students Present Fresh Takes at the Oklahoma Library Association Conference
Spring 2024 IST Hub Updates
Kordeliski Elected 2025 2026 AASL President
Caroline Dulworth Named Outstanding Alumni Award Winner for 2024
Auguste Selected as Graduate Resident Director OU at Arezzo
Ben Wang, Ph.D. Student, and Dr. Jiqun Liu Present at ACM ICTIR
SLIS & OU Libraries celebrate the freedom to read with Banned Books Week Events
Dr. Kim Publishes Research Findings on Health Disparities
Study Abroad 2025 with SLIS
MLIS Student Lupita Gonzalez named 2024-2025 ALA Spectrum Scholar
2023
Dr. Jung and the Happy Teacher Project Research Team receives VPRP award for Excellence in Transdisciplinary, Convergent Research
Dr. June Abbas awarded with a Presidential Professorship in 2023
SLIS Staff Sarah Moran received Dean's Outstanding Staff Award in 2023
Dr. Jiqun Liu and Ben Wang, LIS Ph.D. student present current research findings at the Task-Focused Generative AI Workshop and ASIS&T
Name the SLIS Newsletter Contest
Call for OU SLIS Outstanding Alumni Award Nominations for 2024
SLIS Seeks Applications for Information Studies Ph.D. Program for the 2024 Cohort
Fall 2023 Alumni Highlights
Master of Arts in Museum Studies Moved to SLIS
Information Science Technology IST Hub Restarted
Fall 2023 Faculty Spotlight Dr. Susan Burke
Fall 2023 Alumni Spotlight Tim Miller
Fall 2023 Student Highlights
Fall 2023 Faculty Highlights
Fall 2023 Student Spotlight Lexi Walton
2024 OLA Alumni Meet and Greet
Call for Student Paper Award Submissions for 2024
OU in Italy Libraries Archives and More
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2023
Spring 2023: State of the Stacks Newsletter (pdf)
2022
Fall 2022: State of the Stacks Newsletter (pdf)
2018
Fall 2018 School & Alumni Newsletter (pdf)
2017
Fall 2017: School & Alumni Newsletter (pdf)
2016
Fall 2016: School Newsletter (pdf)
Spring 2016: Alumni Newsletter (pdf)
2015
Spring 2015: Alumni Newsletter (pdf)
