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Upcoming events, news, and other information for the week of
May 5 , 2008
Save May 4 from 5pm to 9pm for the traditional LSO/SIRLS end of semester potluck party! Students, faculty, staff, alums and their guests are all invited. See below for details on what to bring, and RSVP to fotate@email.arizona.edu to receive the address and directions.
May 15 is the deadline to apply for the Louise A. Stephens Memorial Scholarship. In the inaugural year of the scholarship (2008-2009), the award is $3,000. See below for application details.
Save May 16 from 10am to noon for the SIRLS Graduation Celebration! We'll be holding it indoors this year for the first time, at the Eddie Lynch Pavilion on the north side of the McKale center. See below for additional details.
The video podcast of the 2008 ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture featuring Paul Duguid, Open or Closed: A contemporary or a perennial debate? (March 6, 2008), is now available in streaming video format from SIRLS or on the Social and Behavioral Sciences channel of UofA iTunes.
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LSO/SIRLS End of Semester Potluck Party ROUNDTABLE LUNCH - Christopher Doty, University of Oregon Knowledge River Luncheon Louise A. Stephens Memorial Scholarship Deadline SIRLS Graduation Celebration |
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Progressive Librarians Guild - Regular Meeting Regular Meeting - Library Student Organization (LSO) PLG Fundraising Event |
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The College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Graduation Commencement University of Arizona Graduation Commencement |
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Spring Semester Last day of classes and laboratory sessions Spring Semester Final examinations begin Louise A. Stephens Memorial Scholarship Deadline Summer Pre-Session Classes begin |
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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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2008 Samual Lazerow Memorial Lecture (quicktime streaming video) Paul Duguid presents Open or Closed: A contemporary or a perennial debate? (March 6, 2008) Play or Download Program Description: Web 2.0 would seem to represent an emancipatory move to oppose the old closed or bounded system of technologies, forms, and institutions (the web page, the encyclopedia, the firm) with a more democratic open one (the wiki, wikipedia, wikinomics). Despite the hype, there is a great deal of truth and hope in such claims. A glance at the past suggests, however, that such struggles are not entirely new, nor, as some would have it, entirely the function of new technologies. By looking at earlier struggles over open or closed, we can not only understand the current trajectory better, but also understand why it sometimes happens that technologies, forms, and institutions that were once triumphantly forced open in hard-fought battles nonetheless closed again. [Note: the video will play after a short delay while the first part of the file loads] 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 Ghana Library Project packing party will take place on Sunday May 4th from 1-6pm. Food will be provided. Meet in the Great Room of Pima Lodge Dorm(1st and Highland). Please come and help for however long you can. Let's end this semester with a bang and get these books packed.There is still time to donate money to help ship the books over to Ghana. visit the site. 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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