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September 10, 2007
Student submissions are now solicited for the fall issue of BiblioTech, the Library Student Organization online magazine. For more info, email Jason Kucsma (j450n@email.arizona.edu). The deadline for submissions is September 23, 2007 at midnight. The issue will be released on or around October 15, 2007.
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SIRLS Back-to-School party Faculty/Staff and Faculty Meeting SIRLS Research Brown Bag Lecture |
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LSO Regular Meeting Phoenix Friends of SIRLS LSO Regular Meeting |
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If you have an interest in genealogy as 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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An paper entitled Use Server2Go to Teach IT Courses for LIS Students, co-authored by SIRLS assistant professor Dr. Hong Cui and Gord Nickerson, has been accepted for publication in the recent issue of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. |
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Fall Semester Last day to drop courses resulting in deletion of course enrollment from record |
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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 1, 2007 is the deadline for students enrolled in an ALA-Accredited Library and Information Science Program or Trainees in Health Sciences Librarianship, Internship or Medical Informatics to submit unpublished bibliographical, issue/topic based, or research results paper or web-based project on health sciences librarianship or research results paper or web-based project on health sciences librarianship or medical informatics for the 2008 Rittenhouse Award competition. Manuscript submission information and procedure links may be found on MLANET's website. 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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The University of Arizona is in the process of acquiring its own island in the online virtual world Second Life. The space will be used to support direct instruction and research as well as outreach and recruiting. Over 400 universities are currently conducting classes, doing research, or holding events in Second Life. The UA effort is being coordinated through OSCR and LTC. For more info, contact Chris Johnson at cgj@email.arizona.edu. Register now for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) online seminar, "Virtual Reference Competencies: Acquire and Improve Technical Skills and Knowledge," to be offered Oct. 1-20, 2007. During this three-week course, engage in learning activities and discussion to acquire and improve the technical competencies required by effective virtual reference librarians. This course is a primarily asynchronous seminar, allowing you to work through course material at times convenient throughout the three weeks of scheduled course time. You may also choose to schedule online chat time with the teacher, as you feel necessary. Specific material and learning activities will be covered during each week of the course. For additional information and a link to the online registration form, visit: http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlproftools/virtualref.cfm 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. 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. |
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