Welcome back students, faculty and staff, and hello again, friends of SIRLS! We hope you had a great summer.
The 2007-2008 school year is gearing up for an exciting mix of events and activities. Don't miss the first Research Brown Bag this Wednesday, August 29. SIRLS Senior Lecturer Kay Mathiesen will talk about Group Rights to Control Information versus Individual Rights to Access Information. See the abstract below for more details. To kick of the series, SIRLS is providing refreshments, so no need to bring a brown bag to this one. Rumor has it that there may even be cake.
Read on for details on exciting events, important deadlines, new scholarship notices, news about faculty, staff and alums, and more!
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SIRLS Graduate Assistant Orientation SIRLS Faculty/Staff Meeting SIRLS Research Brown Bag Lecture |
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LSO Meeting LSO Ice Cream Social LSO Graduate Student Symposium Planning Meeting |
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SIRLS welcomes two new professors to its distinguished faculty. Dr. Hong Cui, an academic research specialist and award-winning teacher joins the school this fall as an assistant professor of information technologies, a full-time, tenure-track position. Read the full press release here. Also joining SIRLS is Dr. Peter Botticelli, selected as the new Assistant Professor of Practice for the Digital Information Management (DigIn) certificate program. Read the full press release here. SIRLS Alum Dr. Gwen Alexander is the new dean of Emporia State University’s School of Library and Information Management (SLIM). SAVE THE DATE! SIRLS Back-to-School party for full and part time faculty, staff, students, and other special friends of SIRLS, including UA librarians, will be held Saturday, September 15, at Jana's house, from 5:30 to 9. More information will come soon! |
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Fall Semester Last day to add classes for credit from zero units using only a Change of Schedule form Labor Day - no classes |
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August 31, 2007 is the deadline to apply for the Association of Research Libraries' Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce, which offers a stipend of up to $10,000 over two years to MLS students from underrepresented groups who are interested in careers in research libraries. The initiative also offers a mentoring relationship with an experienced librarian, a leadership training curriculum, and the opportunity to work in an ARL library upon graduation. The stipend may be coupled with other financial aid to provide an extra incentive for completing library school. The initiative is funded by IMLS and voluntary contributions from 52 ARL member libraries. This funding reflects a commitment to create a diverse research library community that will better meet the new challenges of global competition and changing demographics. Visit http://www.arl.org/diversity/ for more details and to apply. November 17, 2007 is the deadline to apply for the Art Libraries Society of North America's (ARLIS/NA) Gerd Muehsam Award, which is given annually to recognize excellence in a graduate student paper or project on a topic relevant to art librarianship. This award was established to honor the memory of Gerd Muehsam (1913-1979), distinguished scholar, teacher, and art bibliographer, whose support of and dedication to ARLIS/NA was an inspiration to her colleagues and students. The Award Winner will receive $500.00, up to $300.00 travel reimbursement to attend the ARLIS/NA 36th Annual Conference (Denver, Colorado, May 1-5, 2008), the registration fee to this Conference and a one year membership to ARLIS/NA. For details and to apply, visit http://www.arlisna.org/about/awards/muehsam_info.html. |
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SIRLS will continue its popular podcast series starting with the Brown Bag lecture on August 29th. Podcasts are usually posted within 72 hours. Remember, you don't need an iPod to listen to them. You can listen to them directly on our podcast page. New this year is the University of Arizona's alliance with Apple's iTunes University. SIRLS is pleased to announce that last year's podcast series is among the first collections offered through this service. SIRLS will be exploring how to make good use of this service over the coming year. For more details, see the UANews Press Release and the recent article in the Arizona Daily Wildcat. Or, visit http://itunes.arizona.edu and click on the Go to UA On iTunes button. Want to make your own podcast or video blog? SIRLS faculty and students may check out audio and video recording equipment for classes, projects or events. We have a digital audio recorder, a digital camera with some video capability, and a digital video camera with tripod. Contact Geraldine Fragoso in the SIRLS main office for reservations (email sirls@email.arizona.edu). |
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Now through October 22, 2007, Special Collections and the Main Library at the University of Arizona will display a variety of artist books from the UA library collections. The exhibition is co-curated by Associate Professor Karen Zimmermann, Chair, Visual Communications Division, UA School of Art and Paula Wolfe, Fine Arts and Architecture Librarian. Special Collections is located in the Main Library complex at the corner of Cherry and University Blvd. Viewing hours are M-Th 9am-6pm and 9am-5pm Fridays. The Library will be closed Monday, September 3 for Labor Day. For more information call Special Collections at 520.621.6423. The Library Student Journal has a new look, courtesy of a new server and Open Journal Systems, an open source journal editing system developed by the Public Knowledge Project to support Open Access publishing. See http://www.librarystudentjournal.org for the full text of the most recently published papers. The Center for Consciousness Studies here at the U of A hosts a series of presentations that take place on a fortnightly basis. The schedule for the fall series is now available online. The Center maintains a mailing list for the distribution of information about upcoming talks and conferences organized by the Center. If you would like to be on the list and are not (or not sure whether you are), please contact Brian Fiala (fiala@email.arizona.edu) or Uriah Kriegel (theuriah@gmail.com), and they will be very happy to add you. This fall, the Office of Student Computing Resources (OSCR) continues with monthly themes for workshops. They are as follows: August and September - Digital Video; October - Page Layout and Web Development; November - Digital imaging; December - Digital Audio. Other activities include workshop support for the iFlick contest, an InDesign workshop, and in late September, Office productivity workshops. These will cover Excel, PowerPoint and Word. For those of you that have taken the plunge to Office 2007, OSCR has some Tool-a-Hoops designed to help make the transition with ease.You can register at http://www.oscr.arizona.edu/workshops. This in from Pima Public Library director Nancy Ledeboer - Pima County is now hiring Substitute Librarians. Anyone currently enrolled in Library School is eligible. We will be opening on Sundays at 14 branches this fall and each branch will have 8 hours per week to use on Substitute Librarians to help cover the extended schedule. The schedules will be different at each library so this would be a good opportunity for students. They can work up to 19 hours per week. We are also going to be hiring Computer Monitors and Pages in the next few weeks. These are all part time positions with no benefits but the hourly rates are pretty good and it will give your students exposure to working in a public library.The Substitute Librarian is currently posted on the web site: http://www.library.pima.gov.
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