Planning continues this week on the Graduate Student Symposium scheduled for November 10. This is a great event that deserves your enthusiastic support. Whether you're a student, faculty member or friend of SIRLS, there's something you can do to help. Check out the Student events section below or the Symposium web site for details.
Planning also continues for the Back To School party and potluck at director Jana Bradley's home on September 15. Stay tuned...
The University of Arizona Library is considering putting together a new web space, Virtual Spaces - A learning Community for Graduate Students, that will function both as a portal both for library resources and for social networking / social computing access. Take a look at the mockup at http://intranet.library.arizona.edu/users/arawan/GradEd.html and respond to the survey to let them know what you think.
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SIRLS Back-to-School party |
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LSO Graduate Student Symposium Planning Meeting |
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If you have an interest in genealogy like many librarians do, check out the calendar of the Arizona State Genealogical Society at http://www.rootsweb.com/~asgs/. Several events this coming season may be of interest. |
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Send us your news. Don't make be beg!! |
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Labor Day - no classes Fall Semester Last day to drop courses resulting in deletion of course enrollment from record |
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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. October 2, 2007 is the deadline to register for a free, one-day seminar on geoscience librarianship will be presented by the Geoscience Information Society on Saturday, October 27, 2007 in Denver. Registration is open to all information professionals as well as students in library and information studies.“Geoscience Librarianship 101” will provide participants with a basic understanding of earth science information resources and their organization. The program is set for 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM in the Jerry B. Robinson Library Instruction Lab, Room 245, Auraria Library, 1100 Lawrence Street, Denver, Colorado. There is no charge for the seminar, but pre-registration is required. Owing to security regulations, no walk-ins will be admitted. Registrations must be received by October 2, 2007. To reserve your place or to request additional information, please contact Shaun Hardy, GSIS Publicity Officer, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20015, telephone 202-478-7960, e-mail hardy@dtm.ciw.edu. 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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The first podcast of the school year is now up on our podcast page. SIRLS Senior Lecturer Kay Mathiesen gave a lively and very thoughtful presentation on the rights of indigenous people to control information. Give it a listen. You don't need an ipod to take advantage of these; improvements have been made to the playback functionality on the web page, so click the link and give it a spin. Last year's podcasts are archived and still available in case there are any you missed. 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 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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This weekly news and event reminder is distributed to the IRLSADMIN and IRLSALUM-FRIENDS listservs. Notification of new issues via RSS is also available through the SIRLS Community News Online RSS feed:
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