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SIRLS Assistant Professor Dr. Hong Cui has had one short paper and one demo accepted by the ACM and IEEE Joint Conference for Digital Libraries. She is also Invited to the workshop (April 21-23) on digital floras, sponsored by Flora of North America and Harvard University Herbaria.

SIRLS Associate Professor Dr. Cheryl Malone will present at an upcoming conference of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America.

SIRLS Assistant Professor Dr. Heshan Sun's recent paper, coauthored with Dr. Ping Zhang and Dr. shelley Aikman, has been conditionally accepted by the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. The paper is about how different types of user attitudes toward information and communication technology (ICT) interact. Sun also presented at the Arizona Exposium on Frontiers in Information Technology and Applications (FITA) on February 29th. FITA was organized by the MIS Department at the Eller College of Management. http://fita2008.ecom.arizona.edu/

Randy Silverman, SIRLS adjunct faculty, received coverage in an article by Randy Harwood, “More Preservatives: The Marriott Library’s Preservation Department Gets an Extreme Makeover of its Own,” Continuum: The Magazine of the University of Utah, 17/2 (Spring, 2008): 4. Silverman will also present at the University of Maryland seminar, The Well-dressed Book, "Research Librarians as Biblioclasts: The Fate of Publishers' Bindings," Baltimore, MD. 14 March 2008, and the Russian Academy of Sciences Library (Bibliotheca Akademii Nauk–BAN), Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of Libraries, Archives and Museums, “Disaster Recovery of Library Material Since Florence,” St. Petersburg, Russia. 14 February 2008.

Diane Tuccillo, SIRLS adjunct faculty, gave a preconference, “Youth Participation @ Your Library: Putting It into Practice” at the November 2007 Colorado Association of Libraries annual conference in Denver. She presented this same session, plus another called “Teens’ Top Ten: Giving Teens a National Vote on What’s Hot to Read,” at the Colorado Young Adult Advocates in Libraries meeting in March. Her second professional resource book, “The Teen-Centered YA Department: Putting Youth Participation into Practice,” was just accepted for publication by Libraries Unlimited, and her contract was just signed.

Bruce Fulton, SIRLS Communications and Outreach Librarian and part-time faculty, will present Presenting at the 2008 Southwest Institute for Learning with Technology, May 19-21, Flagstaff, http://www.nau.edu/~d-elearn/events/detail.php?EVENT_ID=142, The presentation title is “Creating Virtual Hands-on Labs.”

Congratulations to SIRLS alums Sol Gomez (2004), Annabelle Nunez (2003) and Jennifer Schember (1998) who were recently featured in Library Journal's 2008 Movers and Shakers special issue. Congratulations also go to Patricia Tarin, former director of Knowledge River, who is the 2008 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award. This award is given biennially to an individual for making positive changes in the profession of librarianship.

The Arizona Library Association has been working with the UA Scholarship Development Office to create a new scholarship for SIRLS students, the Louise A. Stephens Memorial Scholarship. In the inaugural year of the scholarship (2008-2009), the award is $3,000. In 2009-2010, the Louise A. Stephens Memorial Scholarship will be awarded from an endowment established by the Arizona Library Association. This scholarship will be given annually in perpetuity. AzLA is currently developing plans for fundraising to bolster the endowment. May 15 is the deadline to apply for 2008-2009, so take a look at the details and download the application form.

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