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April 21 , 2008
May 1, 2008 is the application deadline for summer internship and practicum applications. For more info, contact Karen Bell.
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.
Thanks to the hard work of SIRLS Associate Professor Dr. Martin Frické, graduate assistants Sara Hayden, Kaitlin Shaw and Sho Ikeda plus most of the SIRLS staff, work on the new web site is nearing completion. Once all material is transferred to the new site, the team will work on "theming" - selecting a set of consistent colors, logos and so on, in consultation with students faculty and staff - and navigation aids. The first phase is expected to be completed shortly after the end of the Spring semester at which time the home page will automatically load the new web site -- http://sirls.arizona.edu. SIRLS appreciates your patience while we have gone though this transition! The new website, based on the Drupal content management system, will offer far more flexibility and power than the current site once it's completed. In the meantime, if there is something you are having difficulties finding, let someone on staff know and we'll point you to the right place (or person).
On a related note, this newsletter will be re-designed over the summer to better fit the new website capabilities and design. If you have feedback on how the newsletter might serve your needs (or features you especially don't want to miss), let us know.
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Multnomah County Public Library Recruiting Visit Fall Internship Applications Due Knowledge River and Friends Pizza Lunch |
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Progressive Librarians Guild - Regular Meeting Regular Meeting - Special Libraries Association Regular Meeting - Library Student Organization (LSO) LSO Movie Night |
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Technology Training Panel Discussion Community Assessment - SABL/MLGSCA/PSRML sponsored event Living the Future 7 Conference |
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Red Ink Magazine, the nation’s only nonprofit, student-run American Indian publication, features SIRLS Knowledge River scholars Ally Krebs and Annie Smith in the upcoming Spring 2008 edition. As a follow-up to SIRLS assistant professor Dr. Bill Edgar’s upcoming journal article on Organizational Competencies: Clarifying the Construct, a working paper is available here. The Doctoral Students Association in the School of Library & Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has invited SIRLS associate professor Dr. Cheryl Malone to speak about her research on the history of public libraries. She will go there in September. 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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May 1 is the application deadline for summer internship and practicum applications. For more info, contact Karen Bell. |
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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. April 30, 2008 is the deadline to apply for the Dialog's Roger K. Summit Scholarship for library and information science students in North America. Interested students should start the process immediately: the deadline is and the process cannot be completed overnight! The $5,000 award will be presented at the SLA Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, June 15-18, 2008. The award is named in honor of Dr. Roger K. Summit, founder and chairman emeritus of Dialog, for his outstanding contributions to the field of information science. The application is available at http://gep.dialog.com/scholarship/application.shtml. For more information, please contact Allison Evatt at allison.evatt@thomson.com. 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: 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 1, 2008. The ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Scientific and Technical Information Systems is offering a $1,000 grant to a library and information science student, with an interest or background in chemistry or chemical engineering, to defray the cost of attending the 2008 ASIS&T annual meeting October 24-29, 2008, Columbus, Ohio. This money has been made available through a grant from Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society. More information. 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. |
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April 16, 2008 LSO and SLA Workshop 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 the SIRLS main office for reservations (email sirls@email.arizona.edu). |
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The National Park Service is interested in collaborating with library schools to create internships to help with cataloging their holdings and resources. Visit http://www.library.nps.gov/opportunities.htm for more information. Starting Thursday, April 10th, two large group study rooms in the Main IC may be reserved by UA students. Rooms A105 & A106 are in the glass "fishbowl" section of Tier 6 (South of the desk). Check the Group Study Room Web Page for policies and further information. 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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