King County Library System Lunch and Interviews  
Date               Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Time                12:00 pm – 1:00 pm USMST
Where            SIRLS Multipurpose Room
Notes             Free lunch and presentation by the King County Library System from Washington State. The library is seeking qualified applicants for the Librarian 1 - Public Services employment pool and will interview interested SIRLS students Ap 8-9, 2008. All students are invited to lunch; students interested in interviewing should review the job posting at www.kcls.org and complete an application prior to your scheduled interview. Contact Susan Hang, at 425-369-3224 or email shang@kcls.org if you are interested in signing up for an interview, or for more information.

Knowledge River and Friends Pizza Lunch  
Date               Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Time                12:00 pm – 1:30 pm USMST
Where            SIRLS Multipurpose Room
Notes             Come and socialize with fellow friends, colleagues, and professionals over lunch and get an update on the Knowledge River Program! Please RSVP to Paula Maez at pmaez@email.arizona.edu

SIRLS Research Brownbag Lecture  
Date               Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Time                12:00 pm – 1:30 pm USMST
Where            SIRLS Multipurpose Room
Event Type     Academic Event
Presenter     Suzanne Weisband (Arizona, Management Information Systems)
Event Title   Challenges for Leading at a Distance
Abstract       Technological advances and changes in the global economy are motivating and enabling an increasing geographic distribution of work. Many leaders today communicate regularly with individuals, with their team members, and with larger organizational units at a distance. Distant leaders lead military missions from remote locations, use videoconferencing to learn about breaking news, resolve conflicts without compensation or authority to do so, manage local and remote teams, and oversee online communities. Leadership is no longer the sole responsibility of the CEO or vice president; it can be found at every level of an organization. It becomes a special challenge, then, to understand how shifts to distributed forms of work are changing the nature of leadership. When leaders have direct access to information and to the people with whom they collaborate, it will change the way they interact with others and what they talk about. When leaders come to rely on and use sophisticated computer technologies, there will be a greater reliance on the infrastructure supporting the work and the technology. When collaboration involves hundreds of researchers, engineers, programmers, and software developers, the world of work shifts to a very different perspective on how to lead and work together. For this talk, I offer a new perspective on leadership at a distance, with a focus on leadership emergence, technical expertise, and new authority structures in large-scale collaborations. The goal is to present new challenges facing leaders in this flatter, global, highly interconnected, world of work, and to suggest new ways of working at a distance.
Notes             The SIRLS faculty cordially invites students and anyone else interested to attend.

AIS Colloquia - Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group v. Canada: Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Land Property Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System  
Date               Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time                12:00 pm – 12:50 pm USMST
Where            University of Arizona, Harvill 313
Notes             Presenter: Robert Williams. Co-sponsored by American Indian Studies and SIRLS.

Save the Date - Special SIRLS Event  
Date               Thursday, April 17, 2008
Time                5:00 pm – 7:00 pm USMST
Where            TBD
Notes             Several public librarians from Phoenix will offer a presentation to SIRLS students on Thurs, April 17th on careers within the Phoenix Public Library system. It will take place in the early evening (5-7pm or so). More info to come.

Progressive Librarians Guild - Regular Meeting  
Date               Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Time                5:15 pm – 6:15 pm USMST
Where            SIRLS Multipurpose Room
Notes             Regular meeting of the Progressive Librarians Guild
More               http://plg-sirls.pbwiki.com/

Progressive Librarians Guild Social  
Date               Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Time                10:00 am – 12:00 pm USMST
Where            TBA, see notes
Notes             The Progressive Librarians Guild is having an evening of fun on Wednesday, 9 April 2008. We have narrowed our location to 3 venues (Bison Witches, Old Chicago, and The Surly Wench) and we would love your input for the final decision!Please go to the following link to vote: plg-sirls.pbwiki.com…. The survey will close on Friday, 4 April. Once we get the results we’ll send out a full invite to the event…All are welcome!

Résumé Workshop for SIRLS Students  
Date               Friday, April 11, 2008
Time                2:00 pm – 4:00 pm USMST
Where            UA Main Library, Room A313,
Notes             Kick off National Library Week by getting better prepared for your library career! Reflecting the theme of ALA’s National Library Week for 2008 – “Join the circle of knowledge @ your library®” – workshop participants will meet in small groups with librarians who work in different types of libraries. You’ll get feedback on your résumé, hear job-searching advice, and share your own tips! For planning purposes, registration is required by March 31. Complete the form at the link listed below to register for the workshop. Sponsored by Mary Feeney, UA Librarian for LIS, and the Library Student Organization (LSO)
More               https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ZEOm0bomRxQK13zazyjtYA_3d_3d

Regular Meeting - Library Student Organization (LSO)  
Date               Friday, April 11, 2008
Time                6:00 pm – 7:00 pm USMST
Where            University of Arizona Library Room 105
Notes             Agenda TBA. For more information including virtual attendance or for other questions, contact Michelle Martin at mlmart1@email.arizona.edu

LSO Social Event  
Date               Saturday, April 12, 2008
Time                5:30 pm – 7:30 pm USMST
Where            RSVP for Directions
Notes             Join us this Saturday evening at 5:30pm for pizza, s'mores, and other good food! Marcia Tiede has been kind enough to offer her back yard and fire pit for us to hang out. She will have a couple of pizzas and the makings for s'mores. The rest of us need to bring drinks, ice, salads, and other food. RSVP to Forrest Tate, LSO Social Activities Coordinator,
520-850-1289, fotate@email.arizona.edu

LSO/Alum Special Event - Networking Tea  
Date               Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Time                3:00 pm – 5:00 pm USMST
Where            Home of Leslie Kent Kunkel
Notes             Meet alumni who are working in a variety of library & information resources jobs. Get career advice, have a teacake, make some new friends who might help you get a job! RSVP required, to respond and for directions, contact Meg Timour Beer, mtimour@email.arizona.edu

LSO and SLA Interview Workshop  
Date               Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time                5:00 pm – 6:30 pm USMST
Where            SIRLS Multipurpose Room
Notes             Co-sponsored by LSO and SLA (Special Libraries Association)
Sandy Kramer, librarian for the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, presents Interviewing for Library Positions: Professional Tips & Techniques for Successful Interviews
Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Time: 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Location: SIRLS Multi-purpose Room
Please see the attached flyer!
Registration Deadline: Monday, 14 April 2008
Register at www.surveymonkey.com…
More               http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hyMAuzxRAcfpQrnRilkn4Q_3d_3d

April 15, 2008 is the deadline for student category submissions in the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Call for Papers for its annual competition. The objectives of the contest are threefold: 1) to promote scholarship among practicing law librarians and in areas of interest to the profession; 2) to provide a creative outlet for law librarians and a forum for their scholarly activities; and 3) to recognize the scholarly efforts of established members, new members, and potential members of AALL. For details, visit http://www.aallnet.org/about/award_call_for_papers.asp.

April 16, 2008 is the deadline to apply for the News Division of the Special Libraries Association Vormelker-Thomas Student Award, co-sponsored by the News Division and ProQuest, which provides a $1,500 stipend to assist students attending their first Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. The 2008 Annual Conference will be June 15-18, 2008 in Seattle, Washington. Read the details to apply.

May 8, 2008 is the deadline to apply for the University of Southern Mississippi British Studies Program LIS 580/587, British Libraries and Information Centers, in summer 2008. Spend four weeks at Kings College in London and at the University of Edinburgh and earn 6 hours of graduate LIS credit. Students will experience on-site lectures by British librarians, archivists, and curators and have time to research approved topics on their own for required writing assignments and historical research paper. For further information and application, see the Southern Miss British Studies Website:
http://www.usm.edu/internationaledu/ip_1/britain_bsp_applicationinfo.htm

May 15, 2008 is the deadline to apply for the 2008-2009 Louise A. Stephens Memorial Scholarship, open only to SIRLS students. This year, the award is $3,000, so take a look at the details and download the application form.

June 15, 2008 is the deadline to apply for the student papers issue of DttP (Documents to the People), which is designed to showcase the talents and interests of current library school students. Papers should focus on substantive issues in government information at all levels of government (local, state, federal, international) librarianship. Style guidelines are available. DttP is a professional journal. Class papers which do not conform to editorial guidelines should be reformatted to receive consideration. Papers must be nominated and forwarded by a faculty member.

April 4, 2008 - SIRLS Brown Bag Research Lecture
Xiaolong Zhang (Penn State, Information Sciences and Technology) - Multiscale Information Visualization to Support Information Retrieval and Knowledge Exploration
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Abstract: The rapidly growing information world poses new problems for people to interact with information resources effectively. One of challenges is to understand, access, and manage information with structures. This challenge is partially related to the limited cognitive resources of human beings, in terms of memory and attention, and partially due to the lack of information structures to guide information retrieval and sense-making. To help people deal with this issue, I am interested in using advanced visualization tools to improve the understanding of information, associated structures, and visually-guided user navigation in large information space. In this talk, I will discuss my current research projects on multiscale visualization of complicated (e.g., multi-dimensional data, social network data, and geo-spatial information) and sensemaking of research literature. I will also discuss a project on using process visualization to support common ground building in collaborative decision-making.

Visit the podcast page to review audio lectures and other available recordings. Subscribe via iTunes or your favorite RSS reader. Most brown bag research lectures, some student events and SIRLS events such as graduation are presented in audio or video format. 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. SIRLS is also on iTunes U this year. Find out more at http://podcasting.arizona.edu/UA_on_itunesU.htm.

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 Mariel Watt in the SIRLS main office for reservations (email sirls@email.arizona.edu).

Border Book Drive February 29th - April 30th. Children's Spanish and Bilingual Books-New or Gently Used Books Please-Books will be donated to Primaria Felix Soria, an elementary school in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora. This is a border town with San Luis, AZ. Primaria Felix Soria is in need of children's bilingual and Spanish books for grades 1st-6th. REFORMA Tucson is a chapter of the national organization and is a 501c(3) organization. Tax ID #52-1520913. Donating Options:Donation Drop-Off Site on University of Arizona Campus: School of Information Resources & Library Science http://iiewww.ccit.arizona.edu/uamap/staticLarge/74.html; Donation Drop-Off Sites at Pima County Public Library Branches http://www.library.pima.gov/locations/. Money Donation: Make Checks Payable to REFORMA Tucson with Border Book Drive in the memo line http://www.reformatucson.org/news/. Visit our Amazon Wish list to buy books and have them shipped: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/12YSXPDGFG6FA/ Contact: Elizabeth Soltero, the Chair of the Border Book Drive at elizabeth.soltero@pima.gov

Need additional financial assistance? The 2008 Financial Assistance for Library and Information Studies Directory is an annual directory of awards from state library agencies, national and state library associations, local libraries, academic institutions and foundations that give some form of financial assistance for undergraduate and/or graduate education programs in library and information studies. The directory is available online.

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