Alice G. Smith Lecture

The Alice G. Smith Lecture, established in 1989, is sponsored by the University of South Florida, School of Information. The lecture is an annual recognition of a scholar or author whose achievements have been instrumental in the development of librarianship or information studies. The lecture series honors the memory of the School's first director, Alice Gullen Smith, known for her work with youth and bibliotherapy.[1] The Lecture Fund was created with the purpose of memorializing the visionary work of Dr. Smith, who was central to the School's first accreditation by the American Library Association in 1975.[2] Florida Library Association archivist, Bernadette Storck has provided an oral history of the development of libraries in Tampa, Florida that details the contributions of Dr. Smith including her establishment of the Tampa Book Fair that encouraged thousands of children to foster a love for books and reading[3]

USF School of Information

The lecture is usually presented at the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida, School of Information. However, the 2010 lecture was held at the Florida Atlantic University Library in Boca Raton; the 25th anniversary lecture was held at the annual conference of the Florida Library Association on May 7, 2014 in Orlando, Florida; and the 30th lecture at the Robert W. Saunders Sr. Public Library a branch of the Tampa–Hillsborough County Public Library System in historic Ybor City. The Tampa Bay Library Consortium was a community partner for the 2019 lecture.

The lecturers
Jane Yolen

10th Anniversary Lecture--Dr. Robert S. Martin, first Librarian to Lead U.S. IMLS
  • 2002: Dr. Robert S. Martin was the first librarian to direct the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS.), national President of Beta Phi Mu and a Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University. His lecture was titled “Libraries and the Twenty-first Century.”
  • 2003. Dr. Eugene Garfield chemist and leader in the field of Library and Information Science. He is also a past American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) President (1998-2000) and the President and Founding Editor of The Scientist.
  • 2004: Dr. Samantha K. Hastings is director and professor at the University of South Carolina, School of Library and Information Science. She served as president American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) in 2004.
  • 2005: Tom W. Sloan was Executive Director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN). Lecture: “Leading 21st Century Libraries.”
  • 2006: Dr. Donald O. Case, Professor University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information Studies was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to lecture at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Dr. Case's book, Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior (2002) was given the “Best Book of the Year” Award by the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T).
Ashley F. Bryan
  • 2007. Ashley Bryan: In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the passing of Dr. Alice G. Smith, author, illustrator, and storyteller Ashley Bryan was chosen to be the Smith Lecturer. He has been honored with the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. James E. Andrews & Dr. John M. Budd, 2010 Alice G. Smith Lecture

*2009. John M. Budd, Professor in the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. Among his publications are Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science (2001), which won the 2002 ALA/Highsmith Library Literature Award, and Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship (2008).

  • 2010. Raymond Santiago was director of the Miami-Dade Public Library System (MDPLS) He won Library Journal Librarian of the Year Award for 2003. This lecture was held in connection with the 14th annual USF School of Library and Information Science East Coast Graduates Reception.[6][7]
  • 2011. C.J. Roberts is President and CEO of the Tampa Bay History Center. Located in downtown Tampa, the Tampa Bay History Center is a non-profit educational institution preserving and promoting historical materials and artifacts from the greater Tampa and Hillsborough County area. The lecture, “A Shared Mission: The Tampa Bay History center and the USF Libraries: Florida Studies Center Partnership,” has been uploaded to YouTube.[8]
  • 2013: Dr. Anthony Betrus professor in the Computer Science/Organizational Leadership and Technology Department at the State University of New York (SUNY Potsdam). He has implemented a six-course, 18-credit hour concentration on Game Development as an option for Information Technology graduate students. Betrus’ research interests include the motivational qualities of games and using games for training and instructional purposes.

25th anniversary lecture--Angie Drobnic Holan, editor of PolitiFact.com
Politifact's Angie Drobnic Holan @ SXSW 2017 (33419985765)

*2014: Angie Drobnic Holan, editor of PolitiFact.com, the School of Information's 25th anniversary lecturer. She is also the 2014 recipient of the School of Information Distinguished Alumni Award. Angie Drobnic Holan was a member of the PolitiFact team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2008 election. She has been with the Tampa Bay Times since 2005 and previously worked at newspapers in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and New Mexico. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master's of library science from the University of South Florida, School of Information. This lecture, the 25th anniversary lecture, was held at the Florida Library Association annual meeting on May 7, 2014.Introduction by Jessica Riggins of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium.[9]

  • 2015: Dr. Barbara J. Stites, Assoc. Dean at Florida Gulf Coast University. Dr. Stites has been president of Florida Library Association. She has also been Director of both the Southwest Florida Library Network and the Tampa Bay Library Consortium. She is the 2008 recipient of the School of Information Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Stites' lecture, "Doing the Next Right Thing, Simple Lessons for a Successful Career" was presented at the Florida Library Association annual meeting. May 13, 2015.
  • 2016: Dr. Roy Balleste, Law Library Director and Professor of Law at St. Thomas University, in Miami Gardens, Florida. Balleste is also an instructor for the University of South Florida and his latest publication is Internet Governance: Origins, Current Issues, and Future Possibilities. [10]
  • 2017: Dr. Douglas W. Oard, Professor, University of Maryland, School of Information.:[11] "There's an iSchool in your future (and in your past!)"—the University of South Florida iSchool: The Virtuous Cycle between Engagement and Resources.
  • 2018: Dr. Nathan R. Johnson, Department of English at the University of South Florida, historian of librarianship, information, and public memory.[12] His lecture in May 2018 was on "Building Memory's Infrastructure: The Invisible Work of Librarians."

30th anniversary lecture--Jessamyn West-- creator of librarian.net
Jessamyn West

References
  1. Smith, Alice Gullen. 1989. "Will the real bibliotherapist please stand up?." Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 2, 241-249.
  2. Bensen, Arlen, and Alicia K. Long. 2010. "Celebrating Scholarship, Knowledge, and Camaraderie: The 20th Anniversary of the Alice G. Smith Lecture Series." Florida Libraries 53, no. 1: 14-15.
  3. Oral History of Ms. Bernadette Storck. USF SUS and the Special and Digital Collections at the USF Tampa Library (http://guides.lib.ufs.edu/%5B%5D collections)
  4. Immroth, Barbara Froling, Library Services to Youth of Hispanic Heritage. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000.
  5. A last minute family issue impeded Ms. Orange to be present, and Dr. Kathleen de la Peña McCook, Distinguished Professor of the University of South Florida, gave an alternative lecture : “Librarians Building Community: A Librarian at Every Table.”
  6. Librarian of the Year 2003: Raymond Santiago (http://lj.libraryjournal.com/awards/librarian-of-the-year-2003-raymond-santiago/#_)
  7. Raymond Santiago, Director of Miami-Dade Public Library System, Announces Retirement Effective August 1, 2014 (http://www.infodocket.com/2014/06/04/director-of-miami-dade-public-library-system-raymond-santiago-announces-retirement-effective-august-1-2014/)
  8. LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/c-j-roberts/18/675/29b)
  9. The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners National Reporting. http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2009-National-Reporting
  10. Balleste, R. (2015). Internet governance: Origins, current issues, and future possibilities. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.
  11. Oard, Douglas W. (2008). User-assisted query translation for interactive cross-language information retrieval. Information Processing & Management, 44(1), 181–211.
  12. Johnson, N. R. (2017). Rhetoric and the cold war politics of information science. Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology 68(6), 1375–1384.
  13. Jessamyn West. Social Justice is a Library Issue; Libraries are a Social Justice Issue librarian.net October 18, 2019.
  14. University of South Florida, School of Information. Mission and Vision November,2020.

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