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Saturday, June 21. 9:00 p.m. Ernest's house: 2129 Santee Ave. (in Five Points). Google map All night party. Live Band. Hot food. $3 cover. Doors open at eight. BYOB. Cornhole Tournament. $2 a person to enter. Awards to be given. We are having this party to raise money to attend the IFLA conference in Quebec, so please feel free to come by, eat too much, rock out, flirt, and generally make an ass out of yourself to help us get there.

The Fort Jackson Museum is looking for an intern for their library. For more information, contact Heather South at the Dept. of Archives and History at southh@scdah.state.sc.gov .

The South Carolina State Library is looking for an intern for Fall 2008 to work on a web site audit project for DISCUS. 135 contact hours - schedule TBD Location/work area TBD Can use visitor parking Use blogging software for journal of activities Curtis Rogers will handle overall paperwork/administrative activities Amy Duernberger will work directly with intern on learning objectives DISCUS Internship Objectives - Web site audit project 1. Review and update the previously completed audit of public library Web pages to check for effective and complete linking to all DISCUS provided databases. 2. Create and conduct an audit of institutions of higher education to check for effective and complete linking to all DISCUS provided databases. 3. Work with DISCUS staff to create an effective means of notifying and collaborating with libraries to enhance or make corrections in their linking to DISCUS databases. The overall goal of this project is to assist librar...

Media literacy expert Frank Baker will be giving a presentation this Saturday, May 17th, from 10:00-11:30 am at the Russell House. This presentation is part of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies showcase during Spring Reunion weekend. If you would like more information, please refer to the attached press release, or contact Elaine Taylor at etaylor@sc.edu. Please join us for this presentation Cheers, Erin Long Erin Long FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 24, 2008 SPRING REUNION EVENTS ABOUND AT USC Media Literacy Expert Frank Baker, Dean Charles Bierbauer to Present During the University of South Carolina’s Spring Reunion Weekend Frank Baker, award-winning media literacy educator and consultant, will be featured during the University of South Carolina ’s Spring Union Weekend, May 16-17, as part of a showcase for the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies. This free event is open to the public. Baker’s presentation,...

Next week is Children's Book Week! Enjoy! http://bookweekonline.com/index1.html Dr. Pat Feehan

Hello, I know that the semester has ended, but we need some help getting the Lubuto bibliographies done by Monday, May 12th. Volunteers may come and go as needed during the following times: -- Thursday : 3 pm until 9 pm FREE PIZZA around 6 pm -- Saturday : 10 am until 9 pm FREE PIZZA around 1 pm -- Sunday : 10 am until 9 pm FREE PIZZA around 1 pm The work that is left is not hard to do, it is just that it is time-consuming. If we had ten people work for two hours, we could finish up what was left fairly easily. Please help me and Virginia out. We can get it done by ourselves, but it will take us hours and hours to finish everything up on our own when ten people working would make life much, much easier. If you can stop by, please respond off-list to slis_lissa@yahoo.com so I know how much pizza to get each time. You can also just stop by. Thanks for your help and have a good night, Travis

Dear Friends and Colleagues, The SLIS keeps on having good news! I am very thrilled to make this announcement to you. Patrick McLaughlin has been chosen as one of the 2008-2009 NLM Postgraduate Fellows. The National Library of Medicine Associate Fellowship Program, one of the most prestigious LIS postgraduate programs, is a one-year postgraduate training fellowship at the NLM in Bethesda, Maryland, with an optional second year program component. The program is designed to provide a broad foundation in health sciences information services, and to prepare librarians for future leadership roles in health sciences libraries and in health services research (For more information see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/training/associate/index.html ). It is a great honor for an LIS student to be chosen as an NLM Fellow. Many of the NLM postgraduate fellows have become leaders in the fields of health sciences librarianship/health informatics. The competition this year was fierce. Twenty ...