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This is a message for the Distance Ed students. The LISSA Forum has several state-specific message boards to allow discussion with fellow students in your area. A lot of people have told us it can be a little lonely out there, and we are hoping that the Forum will hope build connections among distance ed students in specific states and just connect everyone in the program across the board. Carol Price is attempting to start a Virginia cohort on the Forum, and we know from various e-mails that other students are interested in doing the same. You can find Carol's message here Below is a list of each state's message board with a link attached: Georgia Maine North Carolina South Carolina Virginia West Virginia The Forum does take about three seconds to go from one page to another after a click, but we are working on that. Please visit and post. We are very excited about the opportunity to serve and connect distance ed students this provides. Have a nice day, Travis

LISSA is now on Facebook. If you are on Facebook and would like to join us, the more the merrier. Just click on the link to get to the LISSA page.

The Lubuto Library Project is a non-profit organization that builds libraries in African, mainly for street children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. LISSA has been working with the Lubuto Library Project for the past year; and Jane Meyers, the president, sent me their latest newsletter recently. Also, I just learned that Lubuto has a Facebook account, which you can reach by clicking here . Jane is currently in Zambia, and we wish her the best. I encourage you to learn more about Lubuto. They are currently working on a database to manage donation requests made and received. If databases are your cup of tea and you would like to get involved, please feel free to contact Lubuto (you can reach their contact page with all relevant information by clicking here ). Please feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested in it as well. LISSA will be volunteering with Lubuto again as soon as Jane gets back from Zambia. Have a nice day, Travis

Hello, This is Travis. I was recently contacted by Anne Fleming, from ILSSA (Information and Library Science Student Association) at the School of Information and Library Science and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She gave us a friendly hello and told us about her organization's publication: The Galley . I have sent her an e-mail with the most recent SLISten Up! in turn. It was very interesting, and I thought I would share it on the blog. Thanks ILSSA. P.S. Anne also sent a link to a publication at McGill University

This is Travis. LISSA is working with Drusilla Carter to help a school in Haiti . We have worked to help produce a card catalog for the school's library, but it has been requested that we help the children at the school with a few necessities. For the next school year, LISSA will have a collection box in Davis Room 110. I will periodically drop off requested items to Drusilla or she will pick them up when she is in town.. Here is what has been requested: Boys Underwear (new) -- all sizes Socks (new) -- all sizes Blue Ink Pins Scarfs or Bandannas Hair Ribbons (or any hair pins, ornaments) Matchbox cars The box in 110 will be under the table to the left as you walk in the room. It has a been clearly labeled. These kids haven't had too many breaks in life. If sometime from now to the next school year you can drop some of these items off, it would be very much appreciated. When I first put this message out on the listservs this summer, a number of distance ed students asked me if t...

Here are the photos from the LISSA/ASIS&T Social 09/21/07 . Enjoy.

Sunday, Oct. 21st, LISSA will be volunteering at the South Carolina Center For Children's Books and Literacy (SCCCBL) from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm. This will be our second visit of the year, and it is a wonderful library to help out. Please e-mail LISSA at slis_lissa@yahoo.com if you are interested. Have a nice day, Travis

SLIS Volunteers are needed to help man the South Carolina Library Association Conference in Columbia from Oct. 31st to Nov. 2nd at the Raddison Hotel, Bush River Road. Volunteers man a desk for at least two hours and get to attend the Conference for free. Here are the times available for volunteers: Wednesday (10/31) 8 am to 9am 9 am to 10 am 10 am to 11 am 11am to Noon Noon to 1 pm 1 pm to 2 pm 2 pm to 3 pm 4 pm to 5pm Thursday (11/1) 8 am to 9am 9 am to 10 am 10 am to 11 am 11am to Noon Noon to 1 pm Closed 1 pm to 2 pm 2 pm to 3 pm 4 pm to 5pm Friday (11/2) 8 am to 9am 9 am to 10 am 10 am to 11 am Desk closed at 11 am Please e-mail LISSA at slis_lissa@yahoo.com if you are interested. Hope to see you there.

We want to thank Dr. Sam for being our first presenter in the Faculty Colloquium. Thanks also to everyone who attended in person and those who attended on line. It was a great success.

This year the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies is celebrating: National Children’s ANIMATED Book Week On November 13 and 14 2007 a two-day animation seminar will be offered with kids and adults working together to tell amazing stories and learning animation principles. The seminar will be conducted by JOE SUMMERHAYS. The program will draw together elementary school students, students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and the School of Library and Information Science to develop story-telling automation techniques. Joe Summerhays visited the campus last year during I-Comm Week and made a presentation to the visual communications students. Here are some URLS to look at to get an idea of what we will be doing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZS3M9nkMhU http://qt.imediauk.org/BECTA/CREATIVEDV2004/Speccy4eyes_300.mov http://www.animationforeducation.co.uk/home_index.htm The two-day seminar will be ...

LISSA is looking for SLIS students to run for office in the Fall 2007 LISSA election that will be held this October. Not only is being an officer in LISSA a great way to get more involved in leadership roles at SLIS, but it looks great on a resume. Please consider running for one of the following open positions: President, Vice President, and Treasurer (scroll to the bottom of this message to view the roles and responsibilities of each position). If you are interested in running for any of the positions, please e-mail me at danmeola@gmail.com with a brief bio (including your name, a little bit about yourself, your area of interest at SLIS, and why you want to be President or VP or Treasurer). We will accept names until October 24th. Online voting will be held from October 26th to October 31st. Thanks, Dan Meola LISSA Election Commissioner danmeola@gmail.com A) The president shall preside at all LISSA functions, head the Executive Committee, and have the authority to appoint ...

Greeting, I thought it would be a good idea to go over the ground rules for this list. Usc-slis is the list for announcements (everything that appears on slisinfo) and also for discussion of issues, concerns and miscellaneous things like selling books, etc.. All messages should be signed - first name - last name. You can easily create a signature file in your mail account. All messages should be polite and civil. You don't have to agree with someone but you must express yourself in a professional manner. Thanks for your cooperation. Posted by LISSA on behalf of Elizabeth Qunell(equnell@GWM.SC.EDU)

Matthew Kirschenbaum will give a free lecture October 5th, at 3 p.m. in Gambrell Hall, Room 151 entitled. "The Remaking of Reading: Digital Humanities in the 21st Century." There will also be an informal discussion in the morning at 11 am on the topic in the English Department Lounge on the same date. It should be interesting. Hope to see you there.

Temporary, Part-Time (16-20 hrs per week for 6 weeks) Job Location: The State Newspaper Library, 1401 Shop Road, Columbia Work Days and Hours: Negotiable Pay: $8 per hour Job Requirements: 1. Type 45 wpm 2. Able to work with minimal supervision 3. Familiar with database creation and use Description of Duties: 1. Learn how to use portions of the xtPDF extraction program and the SAVE newspaper library system. 2. Access and verify that the complete text of The State newspaper is available in the online database. 3. Make corrections to the database where necessary. 4. Report problems with the database to the newspaper librarian. 5. Other duties as needed. If interested, contact Lee Hemphill: Newsroom Library The State P.O. Box 1333 Columbia, S.C. 29202 Telephone (803) 771-8438 Fax (803) 771-8430 lhemphill@thestate.com

Hello SLIS list, This is a reminder that Dr. Sam will be speaking this Thursday, the 27th, at 6PM in Davis 216. Her talk is titled, 3-D Image Retrieval: What do we do with the Z axis? This, and the upcoming colloquia are opportunities to deepen one's understanding of information science and to engage in a community of knowledge sharing, as well as a chance to eat pizza with your peers. Please consider attending.

BLINC (Business Librarianship in North Carolina) invites you to join us for a hands-on preconference called "Demystifying Business Reference". Whether you're a new public service person facing business questions, someone wanting to update your business skills, or a new business librarian, this BLINC preconference will help you learn the important concepts, research strategies, and print and online resources. Participants will learn about four main topics: 1. Companies 2. Investments 3. Industries 4. Consumer Marketing Time: Tuesday, Oct. 16, from 8:30am-4:00pm. Place: in a computer classroom in the Hickory Metro Higher Ed Center, not far from the convention center. (Directions: http://www.hmhec.org/directions_to_HMHEC.asp ) Cost: 50$ for NCLA members, and $60 for non-members. Folks can sign up through the conference registration form: ( http://www.nclaonline.org/conference/2007/forms/registration2007.pdf ). Lunches: courtesy of Morningstar! Fo...

[Posted From an e-mail to the listservs by Stewart Baker, USC SLIS student] I was looking around at some lists of library blogs today, and I found the following nifty search engine/tool. http://www.liszen.com "Search 700+ Library Blogs" A brief description is available on the author's wiki: http://libraryzen.com/wiki/index.php?title=LISZEN_Project A lot of you may already know about this, since it's apparently been around almost a year (I really should learn to read the dates on blog posts when I look at them...), but if not it seems like a neat tool to browse through what other people are saying in the wacky woild of library 2.0. Of course, this is also a great way for those of us LIS students who have library-related blogs to get our names out there, at least a little bit.

[This is a copy of an e-mail sent out by Constance B. Schulz in the History Department on the Archival Students Guild website.] Dear Archives Students - I know most of you are concentrating on archival volunteering, but in case any of you are also thinking about careers in museums, and are interested in the difference between collections management of objects and of documents, one of the Public History students in the Museum track has sent out the following inquiry: (respond directly to her) Message: Hey Everyone -- My name is Jan Levinson and I am in my second year of the Public History program here at USC. I am in the early stages of setting up a new volunteer organization which would work to benefit museums in the Columbia area. After reading the below information, please email me at JLLevinson@gmail.com if you would be interested in participating in this volunteer group. Keep in mind our first project would likely happen in early Spring of 2008. This would be a volun...

Friday, October 19, 2007, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Learn the Basics of the Art and Technique of Storytelling Instructor: Pat Feehan, School of Library and Information Science, USC Before the workshop immerse yourself in the world of 398 and 398.2 and explore the myriad of story collections. Bring your favorites with you on October 19. You'll be glad you did. Registration Fee: $75.00 Location: Davis College , Room 112, USC Columbia Campus Students can attend half-price! Dr. Pat Feehan Associate Professor

Here are photos for the 2007 Pimp My Bookcart Competition . (The competition is to decorate, or "pimp," a bookcart with a theme. Our theme is "Damsel In Distress." If LISSA wins, we will receive and then donate a bookcart to a library in need.

The EdTech Conference will be in Myrtle Beach, Oct. 24th to Oct. 26th. For more information, please click on the link.

SC/MLA (the Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association) will have its 2007 Annual Meeting, entitled " Designing Our Future ," Nov. 12th to Nov. 16th in Charleston. Please click on the link for more information.

South Carolina Book Festival Is February 22-24, 2008 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, 1101 Lincoln Street Downtown in the Vista, just a few blocks from the State House. For more information, please click on the link.

Just a reminder, the LISSA Wiki is here to help you post and share information about jobs, scholarships, listservs, calls for papers, or anything else about the profession that you feel your fellow students would benifit from knowing. The Wiki was created as a tool for sharing professional development resources. You are encouraged to post any resources that you come across that you think might benefit LISSA members. If you prefer, you can send your resources to the library, and we'll post them for you. Just send them in an email to slis_lissa@yahoo.com . Please feel free to let us know if you think we should start a fresh page on a new subject. Or go ahead and start one yourself! To log in, use "lissa" as the password.

The South Carolina State Library Board invited LISSA to send a representative to its meeting Wednesday, September 19th at 10:30. This is an invitation that the Board has been kind enough to extend for the last year, and the LISSA member attending has always learned something. We would like to say thank you to David Goble, the Librarian of South Carolina, for kindly inviting us back.

LISSA Field Trip to the South Carolina Department of Archives and History Friday, Nov. 16th at 3:00 pm No fee to attend, just please e-mail slis_lissa@yahoo.com if you want to attend so we can tell our hosts how many people to expect. More information will be available as the date approaches.

Thursday, November 15th at 6pm, Career Services will do another Breeze Presentation about the services they provide both locally and to distance ed students. This was a big hit last year, and we are very glad Anne Orange has agreed to come back and do this program again. More information will be forthcoming the closer we get to the date. Also, for students currently looking for jobs, please send any questions that prospective employers asked you to slis_lissa@yahoo.com Career Services is looking to update its list of questions LIS students get asked when they go looking for a job. It is a good way to help the folks who come after us.

South Carolina Archival Association Conference is Tuesday Oct. 16th at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History . Please click on the link for more information.

The Next LISSA Meeting Is Tuesday, October the 23rd at 4:15 in Davis College. Hope to see you there.

The Graduate Student Association invites you to the first annual Graduate Student Services Fair, September 20th, 2007. The fair will be at the Russell House on the 2nd floor lobby from 10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Attendees include: The African-American Professors Program, Russell House Bookstore, Library Services, The Center for Teaching Excellence and others. Come meet your GSA officers and learn about the GSA agenda for 2007 -2008.

Hello All: The Archival Students Guild, a student group dedicated to all things archives, will host its first meeting of the Fall 2007 semester on Tuesday, September 25th at 6:30 p.m. in Davis 216. We will be electing officers for the year, discussing possible upcoming events, and welcoming all the new members. One lucky person will also leave with the highly sought after (yet rarely attained) "Archivists Make It Last Longer" bumper sticker. Everyone is welcome to attend. There are no membership fees or no real requirements to join - only an interest in archives. Hope to see you all there! -- Copied from a listserv posting by Santi Thompson

October Is American Archives Month. Please click on the link for more information.

Photos from the LISSA Field Trip to the South Carolina Center For Children's Books & Literacy

Banned Books Week 2006 is from Saturday, Sept. 29 th to Saturday Oct. 6 th . Intellectual Freedom (I prefer to say the Freedom to Learn or the Freedom to Read) is a big issue these days, right up there with privacy and the Patriot Act. We thought that this might be a topic SLIS students would like to discuss in detail, to share their ideas and opinions. That is why we are trying an experiment on the LISSA Forum . If you haven't tried the forum yet, it is a series of message boards divided into different groups by topic. (To post to the Forum, you register like when you sign up for an e-mail service like hotmail or g-mail, so it is very easy to use. To just read, you can stay automatically logged in as a guest.) On the Forum, under the " General Discussion Tread ," we have started a posting for the "Freedom to Read." Please post your thoughts on Intellectual Freedom / The Freedom to Read here. This is an experiment to see how well the LISSA Forum works as a m...

DON'T MISS THE DEADLINE! Publishing grant for librarians is available The Women's National Book Association sponsors the WNBA Eastman Grant, which is available for librarians who are interested in learning about the relationship between the library and publishing professions. The WNBA offers a grant of up to $750 for a librarian to take a course or participate in an institute devoted to aspects of publishing as a profession. The grant may also provide reimbursement for such study completed within the past year. The grant honors Ann Heidbreder Eastman, who was an active and prominent member of both the WNBA and the American Library Association (ALA). The grant represents Ann's commitment to education about publishing as well as her support for communication between librarians and publishers. Librarians holding a master's degree in library science or its equivalent and having at least two years of post-master's work experience in a library may apply....

LISSA Volunteers at the South Carolina Center for Children's Books and Literacy's First Annual Literacy Leader Awards 08/13/07

Folks, If you have any class-, internship-, and/or work-related projects, and the topics of your projects are related to the conference themes, don't miss this opportunity. You could partner with your peers or professors or * Have fun, Feili Tu, Ph.D. Electronic Resources & Libraries 2008 March 18-21, 2008 Atlanta, GA Call for Proposals http://www.electroniclibrarian.org/ocs/index.php/erl/2008

Applications are now being accepted for the 2008 MLA Scholarship, which provides up to $5000.00 to a library school student interested in a career in health sciences libraries. For further information contact Lisa McGuire at lmcguire@umn.edu. Applications are available online at: http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/grants/schol_app_20050712.pdf

BRASS Thompson Financial Student Travel Award The BRASS Thompson Financial Student Travel Award would like to encourage library school student’s to apply for this year’s award to travel to the American Libraries Association’s annual conference, which will be held in Anaheim, CA June 26-July 2, 2008. Applicants must meet the following criteria: · The recipient shall have a demonstrated interest in pursuing a career as a business reference librarian and the potential to be a leader in the profession. This may be demonstrated by: course work, internship, practicum, jobs, special projects, publications and related activities. · The recipient should be a student in an ALA accredited library school. · The recipient has not been awarded a previous or concurrent ALA sponsored travel award. · Student must be willing to participate in BRASS activities at the ALA Conference for which the award has been made and write a short statement following the conference on hi...

Let's Speak English , the Richland County Public Library's program that facilitates conversation among international adults and local adult volunteers, is now being held at seven library locations in Columbia, SC. If interested, please click on the link above

LISSA Bake Sale 2006 Photos

December '06 Graduation Reception Photos

Making a card catalog for a Haitian Library Photos

LISSA Social Spring 2006 Photos

LISSA & ASIS&T Faculty Colloquium! Dr. Samantha Hastings 09/27/07 Dr. Feili Tu 10/25/07 Dr. Anne Marie Perrault 11/08/07 This Fall, LISSA & ASIS&T are hosting a faculty colloquium in Davis College , Room 216 at 5:30 pm. Dr. Hastings, Tu, and Perrault have very graciously agreed to informally present personal research to SLIS students. The idea is for students to gain a better understanding of the profession, of research, and of how to do presentations. We all hope to learn and have a little fun. Please join us if you can.

Hi All, If any of you are interested in Zora Neale Hurston 's Their Eyes Were Watching God , look to the Charleston County Library's page www.ccpl.org for great programs. If you are interested in helping out in any way with the project, or even getting your feet wet in Readers Advisory services by doing a book discussion circle, PLEASE contact me at odomk@ccpl.org ASAP. We are a great community of readers...including You! These programs, collectively called the BIG READ, are a result of grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the establishment of community connections. I look forward to hearing from you. -Kim Odom A posting on the LISSA Forum has just been put up about this event in the South Carolina board. In the future, this sort of event will just be posted by individuals on the forum based on the state it is taking place in. This blog posting is just to get the word out, and to give everyone the opportunity to understand how the forum can be ...

Thanks to Stewart Baker, the LISSA Forum is now up and running. This is something we have wanted for a long time, because it is our hope that it will offer distance ed students the opportunity to organize better outside of Columbia and to have more ownership of what goes on in LISSA overall. The Forum is essentially a number of message boards. Topics are arranged into main categories . The two I want to talk quickly are " SLIS Boards" and "Regional Boards." " SLIS Boards" allows students to discuss topics specific to the branch of LIS they are interested in, such as "Academic Libraries," "Medical Libraries," etc. "Regional Boards" has threads that are specific to the state various SLIS students are in. There are "Georgia" and "West Virginia" threads for example. This is to allow students in those states a centralized place to discuss classes, LIS topics of interest, or just meet one another so that y...

Just a reminder, LISSA & ASIS&T have a weekly happy hour Fridays at 6:30. The location changes each week, but the day and time are the same. The location of the bar will be posted to the listservs the day before. Hope you can join us.

LISSA will have a social / service event Saturday, September 22nd in Davis College. We will doing Pimp My Bookcart , a competition put on by the Unshelved comic strip. A bookcart is "pimped," like Pimp My Ride on MTV. Winners get a free library book cart. If LISSA wins, we will donate the cart to a library that really needs one. It should be a good time by all. If you have any ideas for how we should pimp our bookcart, please post them to the LISSA forum . (You may need to sign in after clicking on this link. Afterwards, search under LISSA Annoucements and under that respond to "Volunteers Needed for Pimp My Bookcart Saturday, September 22nd in Davis College") That is how we will decide how we are going to pimp it up.

Volunteers are needed for the South Carolina Library Association ( SCLA ) Conference in Columbia from Oct. 31st to Nov. 2 nd . Volunteers attend free on the day they volunteer. More information will be available soon. It is a great opportunity to get involved and learn more about the profession. If you are interested, please contact LISSA at the following address if you are interested: slis_lissa@yahoo.com

Read and Romp will be Sunday, Oct. 7 th from 1:00 pm to 4:00pm. For those of you who weren't here this time last year, the Read and Romp is large children's literacy event held at the South Carolina State Museum. Funds raised go to Reach Out and Read , a wonderful literacy initiative for disadvantaged kids. (Please click on the link above for more information.) It is also a lot of fun. Each both at the Read and Romp is specific to a particular children's book. I was Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk last year, and I also apparently draw a mean Olivia the Pig in a pinch, which isn't too bad for a student on the archive track. Everything that you are asked to do is very straightforward and they answer any questions you might have. Also, this year SCCCBL (the South Carolina Center for Children's Books and Literacy) will have a booth, so we really do want to have a strong SLIS presence. Volunteers will be needed all day, from 8 in the morning till 1pm for set up and...

Volunteers are needed Thursday, September 13 th from 4:30 to 7:30 to usher for an event at the South Carolina Center for Children's Books and Literacy ( SCCCBL ), located in the South Carolina State Library. They are being kind enough to give LISSA a free tour of SCCCBL the next day on the 14 th , so if you would like to do some LIS -specific volunteering, please contact LISSA at the following address: slis_lissa@yahoo.com

LISSA wants to thank Stewart Baker for all his help on the LISSA forum, which is know up and running. He did a great job.

The next LISSA Meeting will in Thursday , Sept. 20 th at 4:00pm in Davis Room 112. If you are interested, there are many opportunities to get involved ; or you can just come to meet some fellow SLIS students. Light refreshments will be served.