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October 1, 2007
This is a call for interest in membership in the UA student chapter of SLA (Special Libraries Association). SLA is currently without any officers since all of the previous ones have graduated. There is a student group advisor, Leslie Kent Kunkel, but the group is in need of a President, Vice President/Treasurer, Secretary, and Webmaster/Listserv Manager. For anyone planning careers in special libraries (e.g., medical, tribal, law, corporate, etc) this is a great opportunity to learn more about them through participation in this organization. Membership also looks good on your resume! You are invited to the first meeting of the academic year on Friday, Sept 28th, at 6:00pm, in the SIRLS MultiPurpose Room. FREE PIZZA, SODA, and SNACKS will be served! If you are interested, please contact Dana Von Berg or Leslie.
Some SIRLS students and alums have expressed interest in starting a SIRLS group on Facebook, perhaps similar to the one already available on MySpace (or perhaps different). If you are interested and have some ideas about what you think the group might focus on, or if you are interested in being an organizer, send an email to Bruce Fulton.
This is just a reminder that the abstracts to submit for the Symposium are due October 1st. See the story below for additional details
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The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has announced Banned Books Week activities for librarians and the general public in virtual worlds Second Life, Teen Second Life and on social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. ALA is working with other library partners to provide an interactive experience centered on Banned Books Week, September 29-October 6, 2007, to help librarians and others to feel comfortable in social networking spaces and to reach out to new audiences. Partners include Alliance Library System, Alliance Second Life Library, TAP Information Services and the new ALA membership group Virtual Communities and Libraries. For a complete list of activities and links, see http://infoisland.org/2007/09/18/ala-celebrates-banned-books-week-in-virtual-worlds/ |
Refworks Walk-in ClinicsThe library is offering walk-in workshops this fall to introduce you to the basics of RefWorks. The workshops will be held in the Main Library, Information Commons Computer Classroom. A112. Sessions will be held on: Choice: Current ReviewsThe UA Library subscribes to the electronic version of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, a resource that some of you use as part of your classes, but which may interest all of you. Choice Reviews is a “source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.” You can access Choice Reviews Online through the library web site (www.library.arizona.edu) by clicking on Locate E-Journals and searching for ChoiceReviews, or by searching for the title in the library catalog. A new feature, My Profile, has been added to Choice Reviews! You can set up a profile by subject or LC class and get a monthly email with reviews that meet your criteria. For more info, contact UA LIS librarian Mary Feeney. Library Study CarrelsNeed a quiet place in the library to study and do your research? The UA Library now has study carrels available for short-term use for graduate students. The small study rooms are available in the Main Library.
More information regarding use of the short-term study carrels is available at http://www.library.arizona.edu/services/carrels/shorttermloan.html. LSO Symposium Call for AbstractsThis is just a reminder that the abstracts to submit for the Symposium are due October 1st. Be sure to get your abstracts in, and remember that this is not only a fantastic opportunity to share your stories with your peers but it looks extremely good on your resume. Future employers will be impressed that you’ve delivered a professional presentation prior to graduation. Here’s your chance to present in a low-pressure environment and get your voice and name out there in the library world! All types of presentations are encouraged, as well as poster sessions. You have a choice of 25 or 50 minutes for your session. Feel free to co-present with a colleague, put together a panel, present a training session on a new technology, or use your time to facilitate a discussion with the audience. Creative ideas are more than welcome! Also encourage your peers who have given good presentations in your classes to share them with us. Heck, if you’ve already done the work to create the presentation why not go ahead and do it once more in a professional setting? Photos WantedSeveral people have commented on the flickr photo sets like the this one featuring the SIRLS back to school party. Distance students tell us they enjoy seeing fellow students, faculty, staff and local happenings as a way to keep connected to the SIRLS community. Well, those of us here would like to see what you distance students and virtual instructors are doing as well! Please consider posting photos you can share -- you, where you work or play, the library you use, or where you study -- whatever you feel comfortable with. You can post them to Flickr yourself with tags SIRLS LSO VIRTUAL if you have an account, or email them to our news and calendar contact and we'll make up a photo set. |
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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. October 23, 2007 is the deadline to apply for an SBSRI Grant for Graduate Students. The SBSRI invites graduate students from all SBS units (including SIRLS!) to apply for the following grants: 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 1, 2007 is the deadline to submit a proposal to the National Science Foundaton for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The NSF aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 1,100 graduate fellowships in this competition. The Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are in the early stages of their graduate study. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) invests in graduate education for a cadre of diverse individuals who demonstrate their potential to successfully complete graduate degree programs in disciplines relevant to the mission of the National Science Foundation. See https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/ (application), http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201 (solicitation), and http://www.nsfgradfellows.org/downloads/. (brochures) November 15, 2007 is the deadline to apply for The Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship established by MLA to fund research aimed at expanding the research knowledge base of health sciences information management and enhancing the role of health sciences librarians and other information professionals in health care access and delivery, public health, consumer information, health professions education or biomedical research. The endowment will provide a $8,100 grant, awarded by MLA through a competitive grant process, to a qualified health sciences librarian, informatician, health professional, researcher, educator, or health administrator. An application and more information about the fellowship can be accessed at www.mlanet.org/awards/grants/ or by contacting Lisa C. Fried, MLA's Credentialing, Professional Recognition and Career Coordinator at mlapd2@mlahq.org. 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. December 1, 2007 is the deadline to apply for the The BRASS Thompson Financial Student Travel Award for travel to the American Libraries Association’s annual conference, which will be held in Anaheim, CA June 26-July 2, 2008. This includes a cash award of $1,000 for travel expenses incurred at the ALA Annual Conference which would include a one-year membership to ALA/RUSA/BRASS if the recipient is not already a member, and the recipient of the award will be formally invited by the Chair of BRASS to attend BRASS Executive Committee meetings and other BRASS activities. For eligibility and application information, see http://www.sis.utk.edu/files/BRASS_TFSAward.doc December 7, 2007 is the deadline for PhD students to apply for ACRL's award in support of your dissertation. Each year Thomson Scientific funds a $1500 award and provides a plaque for a student doing research in academic librarianship. Criteria are available at http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlawards/doctoraldissertation.htm. Note: You do not need to be enrolled in a library science doctoral program, but can be enrolled in any kind of accredited program as long as your research focus is academic librarianship. Questions? Contact Nan Seamans, chair of the ACRL Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Committee for 2007-08, at nancy-seamans@uiowa.ed. |
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The podcast of Kevin Kemper's September 19 research brown bag lecture on court cases affecting academic freedom in universities is now available. Listen both to the lecture and to the lively Q & A that followed. You may jump directly to the podcast, or you may visit the podcast page to review all the available recordings and subscribe via iTunes or your favorite RSS reader. This year's podcasts are set up to stream, so you can listen or watch directly in your browser without having to wait for a lengthy download. Or, download to your mp3 player for later replay. 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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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:
At the SIRLS Calendar page, you can SUBSCRIBE to the SIRLS calendar to receive a weekly email event calendar formatted in color with live hyperlinks and other notification features. An RSS feed is also available, as well as iCalfiles that can be used to add events automatically to your own personal calendar system. For job postings and related discussions, please use the JOBOPS listserv. The Library Student Organization maintains UA-LSO listserv for discussion of issues of interest to the SIRLS community. The LSO listserv features additional event reminders and last minute updates that miss this weekly digest’s deadlines. For more discussion on events and other topics of interest to the SIRLS community, subscribe to UA-LSO. All are welcome. See http://www.sir.arizona.edu/lso/lsolist.htm for further information. To subscribe, send an email message to listserv@listserv.arizona.edu with the following text in the body of the message:
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