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[Posted on behalf of Dr. Feili Tu] This is a good course for those who are interested in pursuing health science librarianship as a career. Feili Tu, Ph.D. HPEB 711 APPLIED HEALTH COMMUNICATION Spring 2008 Tuesdays 2:30-5:15 pm Health Sciences Building Room 105 Course topics will include: Risk and Crisis communication Role of media and Internet in health communication Social marketing of health Media advocacy for policy change Influence of health literacy in public health practice Culturally responsive health communication Please contact Dr. Friedman in HPEB for more information: 803.777.9933; dfriedma@gwm.sc.edu

Chapter Meeting Friday, November 9, 2007 The December meeting of the SC Special Libraries Association will take place on Friday, November 9 at the Columbia Museum of Art in downtown Columbia , SC. Our host will be Libby Coyner, Librarian, Columbia Museum of Art. Our speaker will be Amy Duernberger, Discus Project Director, the South Carolina State Library. Lunch will be catered by the Congaree Grill. Those who prefer a vegetarian meal may contact Anne Orange at 803-777-7994 or aorange@sc.edu. Program Amy Duernberger, the Director of the DISCUS program - South Carolina's Virtual Library, will provide an overview of the various structures, characteristics, services and intended audiences of statewide virtual libraries. She will also lead a panel discussion of the various issues that face libraries in today...

Pictures of Dr. Tu's presentation for the second LISSA / ASIS&T Colloquium are now available and can be found by clicking here .

Pictures from the LISSA Field Trip to the South Carolina State Library are now available and can be found by clicking here .

Newly designed Web site provides one stop for cultural arts What’s going on in the arts at the University of South Carolina? The Arts Institute’s newly expanded Web site – http://artsinstitute.sc.edu/index.html -- offers arts enthusiasts a comprehensive resource for events, news and opportunities at the university. Executive director Kwame Dawes said the Web site provides a central location for university students, faculty and staff and the public to find arts information. “There is more happening in the arts every day at Carolina than ever before,” Dawes said. “We wanted to create a Web site that centralizes arts information in a way that would make it easier for members of the university community and everyone else who enjoys the arts at Carolina to discover the arts events they want to attend, as well as opportunities for auditions, contests and grants across all the arts disciplines on campus.” Web site features include the following: # “Arts Calendar” -- a month-by-mont...

Would you like to volunteer for an organization that links your career interest and love of reading and information. Would you like to represent Columbia’s nationally recognized public library? If so, please contact me about a volunteer position at the Richland County Public Library. It only requires a commitment of approximately 3 hours per week. We have a volunteer opportunity in Acquisitions/Collection Management, a department that directs the activities required for a collection of over 1.1 million books and nearly 85,000 nonprint resources. Acquisitions/Collection Management Volunteer, Main Library, 2-3 hours per week , once or twice weekly during 9-5:30 hours M-Friday * Routine filing and other clerical duties * Data entry * Assist with record maintenance of library materials * Perform other duties or special projects as needed As a RCPL volunteer you are able to: · acquire new skills and gain recognized work experi...

There are spaces for kids ages 9-12 in the Animation Workshop - if you know of any who would like to participate please get in touch. Thanks. The College of Mass Communications and Information Studies is holding and animation workshop with animation guru Joe Summerhays during Children's Book Week. The workshop will bring together elementary and home-schooled students, students in both schools of the CMCIS to develop unique story-telling techniques with stop-motion animation. Summerhays visited the college last spring during I-Comm Week and presented ways that animation is being used throughout the world to give new angles to storytelling and new media. WHERE: In The Frank Mcguire Room next to the Coliseum. TIME: 9 am - 4 pm Nov. 13-14 COST: Free - Lunch provided Here are a few examples of what's been done in other workshops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZS3M9nkMhU http://qt.imediauk.org/BECTA/CREATIVEDV2004/Speccy4eyes_30...

National Gallery of Art Summer Internship Program Since 1964 the National Gallery of Art has offered professional museum training to candidates from all backgrounds through a variety of internship programs. Nine-week summer internships provide opportunities to work on projects directed by a Gallery curator or department head. Biweekly museum seminars introduce interns to the broad spectrum of museum work, and to Gallery staff, departments, programs, and functions. There is one internship opening in the Gallery Archives Department. The intern will work directly with materials relating to the history of the National Gallery of Art, including files, photographs, and architectural drawings for the museum's buildings. He or she will organize, preserve, and describe a group of documents and undertake related digital imaging and database development for them. The intern will be introduced to archival principles and the work of museum archives as well as practical issues associated...

LISSA & ASIS&T will hold a Student Colloquium Monday, Nov. 19th from Noon to 1 pm in Davis College, Rm 110. The purpose of the Student Colloquium is to encourage and showcase research in SLIS and to give students the opportunity to become more comfortable with presenting professionally. Travis Ferrell, LISSA President, and Patrick McLaughlin, LISSA Vice-President, will both present. Please feel free to bring a bag lunch. Cookies and coffee will provided. Hope to see you there.

The Fall 2007 LISSA Election is now open for voting. SLIS students can vote right now by clicking on the following link: http://CTLSilhouette.wsu.edu/surveys/ZS70192 Voting for the Election will be open from Friday, October 26 until its closes Wednesday, October 31 . Please contact me at danmeola@gmail.com with any comments or questions. Best of luck to all of the candidates, Dan Meola LISSA Election Commissioner danmeola@gmail.com

The next LISSA meeting will be Tuesday, Nov. 27th at 4:00 pm in Davis College. Light refreshments will be served. All our welcome. Hope to see you there.

The SC/MLA (Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association) is having a conference in Charleston from Nov. 12th - Nov. 16th, and they have been kind enough to extend a special invitation to SLIS students. The whole conference can be attended for $50 for a limited number of students, plus one CE (Continuing Education) course, which is a fantastic deal because the CE sessions are quite expensive. If you are interested, here is what you need to do: 1. Visit their website at http://scmla.library.musc.edu/ and choose what you want to do. This includes C.E and even social stuff. (Please note, however, that space on the Tour of Homes is limited and for this event not everyone can be accommodated.) 2. Send you name, e-mail, and events you are interested in to our Co-Social Chair, Mary Anne Hamilton, at this address: mhamblen1@earthlink.net 3. We will forward your information to SC/MLA. 4. When it is conference time, simply go to the Meeting Registration desk on the Ho...

Below is an e-mail sent to LISSA about the Saint John Preschool Library Project. Although LISSA will officially help starting next semester, we are currently committed to other service projects so that we cannot promise to do anything until then. We did want to get the word out to anyone who, looking for a volunteer opportunity, would like to help this semester. Thanks and have a nice day, Travis Greetings, I am Tondaleya Jackson and I was appointed to serve as Chairman of the Saint John Preschool Library Project. I am reaching out to the USC Library and Information Science Student Association for assistance. Ms. Carolyn Delton indicated that a need such as ours is within the realm of volunteer services you provide. Additional details are below. The Preschool has been in existence for decades. Currently there are 109 children ages 3-5 enrolled. The school has a room which is considered a library. There are a multitude of books and other educational materials, but it lacks...

International Education Week is being observed around the United States Nov. 12-16. International Student Services will be providing students, faculty, and staff members the opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange through a variety of events. On November 12th, Ten Thousand Villages will be on the second floor of the Russell House from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ten Thousand Villages works with more than 100 artisan groups in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, which represent many of the same countries of origin as international students at Carolina. They will be selling items from around the world for fair trade. Ten percent of the profits from sales will go to the International Student Scholarship Fund. International student organizations on campus will provide arts, crafts, and cultural experiences for entertainment. On Tuesday the first Around the World Trivia Night will take place in the Russell House ballroom. This event...

Talking Books, at the South Carolina State Library, provides library services for the visually impared patrons, and they are looking for some volunteers. As they were kind enough to give us a tour of the Talking Books, we are posting volunteer information on LISSA 2.0 Here's a link to the volunteer section of the Talking Books website. The volunteer application is also on the website. http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/volunteer-opportunities.html Their recording program is where they have the greatest need for volunteers. These volunteers will help record and produce recorded books and magazines for our handicapped patrons. All volunteers working with the recording program receive training on how to use specialized digital recording software. Volunteer Narrators record books and magazines about South Carolina or written by South Carolinians. Narrators must have an acceptable reading style, have a pleasant voice and pass an audition. Volunteer Monitors operate the rec...

Award winning author Jacqueline Woodson will be visiting Columbia on Friday, November 30, 2007. Her visit is sponsored by the University of South Carolina ’s Department of English, the South Carolina Center for Children’s Books and Literacy, the University Libraries, and the Thomas Cooper Society. Ms. Woodson is the author of over 40 books for children and teens including the award winners: Locomotion, Coming on Home Soon, Hush, The Other Side, and Miracle’s Boys. To learn more about her, see her website http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/ Ms. Woodson will address Columbia metro area middle and high school students at 10 a.m. in the Creighton Middle School Auditorium. At 2:30 p.m., she will meet with a group of twenty five writers and students of creative writing in the Graniteville Room of the Thomas Cooper Library. Advance registration is required. To register call: 777-8154 or email tclrarebooks@sc.edu A reception and book signing sponsored by the T...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Matt Landau, co-chair American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science Davis College Columbia , SC 29208 E-mail: mattlandau@yahoo.com Library and Information Science Fall Colloquium Continues; Professor Will Discuss Virtual Reference Services and School’s Recent Honor COLUMBIA , S.C. , October 19, 2007 – The second of three lectures as part of the Fall Faculty Colloquium at the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science (USC-SLIS) will take place Thursday, October 25, at 6 p.m. in room 216 of Davis College . The subject of the presentation by Dr. Feili Tu, assistant professor at the school, will be Virtual Worlds and Reference Services. Dr. Tu, whose academic background is in reference and information services, will address the delivery of virtual reference services via the World Wide Web and thr...

Library opens exhibit on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood A new exhibit that details writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s endeavors in the movies and the motion picture industry is on display at the University of South Carolina’s Thomas Cooper Library through Dec. 31. The exhibit, “Fitzgerald and Hollywood,” draws from two university collections: the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Warner Bros./Turner Entertainment F. Scott Fitzgerald Screenplay Collection. The exhibit is free and open to the public from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Visitors also can view an exhibit about Scottie Fitzgerald, daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, on display in the mezzanine’s Graniteville Room. Throughout his career, Fitzgerald was involved in movies. In the early 1920s, Fitzgerald earned a significant portion of his income from silent movies made from his short stories. In the latter part of the decade, and again in the early 1930s, he traveled to Ho...

Teen Read Week TM 2007 will be held October 14 - 20th . The theme will be LOL@ your library®.

[The following is posted on behalf of Dr. Sam] Please let me [Dr. Sam] know if you are interested in working with this office to develop online training modules. [Her e-mail is as follows: shasting@gwm.sc.edu ] Dr. Sam >>> Mina Antley 10/16/2007 2:07:12 PM >>> Hi Dr. Hastings: I enjoyed meeting you by phone yesterday. As we discussed, the Professional Development Office offers training to USC employees in the University's internal operating procedures, such as purchasing, travel, or budget development. Descriptions of these classes are posted on our website at http://hr.sc.edu/profdevp/subject.html under Administrative Services . We would like to offer some of these classes online to allow faculty and staff to take classes at a time that is most convenient to their schedule. If you have a student who would enjoy this type work and has the aptitude to help us convert classroom instruction to e-learning, please let him/her know...

Hello, This is Travis. I checked this out, and this is a free service the university offers to all students, whether you are in Columbia or a distance ed student. Below is the e-mail USC sent out: Dear student, Welcome back from Fall Break! As a reminder ... Did you know that you have access to more than 3 million songs that you can download for FREE to your PC? Ruckus offers this service to all University of South Carolina students. More than 7,000 students at Carolina have already signed up for this great service! For more information and registration information, please visit http://www.sc.edu/mediadownloading . Students with Macintosh operating systems have the ability to listen to streaming video on the Ruckus website but the player required for downloading music is only available on the Windows operating system. Know the facts about legal downloading! Don't share copyrighted material. If you never install a peer-to-peer program, you will dramatically reduce the ...

Here are the photos from Dr. Sam Hastings' Presentation on 09/27/07 . Hope you enjoy.

The Public History Program is hosting an open Grant Writing Workshop Tuesday, Oct. 23rd from 7:00 pm to 8:00pm. The location will be in Gambrell Hall Room 129. Hope to see you there.

We want to thank Dr. Sam for inviting students to SLIS "Night At The Fair." Everyone had a lot fun, and it was very just very thoughtful of her.

The University of South Carolina has acquired a first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” (London, 1773) , the first book published by an African-American author, and has made the book available on the Web. Acquired by the department of rare books and special collections in Thomas Cooper Library , the book is the first copy of Wheatley’s “Poems” on record for any library in South Carolina. The university’s library is the first to make a fully searchable digital copy of the first edition available online for use by students in grades 6 – 12 and college. It is available at the Web site: www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/wheatley/wheatleyp.html

USC's Thomas Cooper Library has launched an exhibit on Scottie Fitzgerald and her role in preserving and protecting her parents’ legacy. The exhibit, “Scottie Fitzgerald and the Stewardship of Literary Memory,” is on display now through Dec. 31 in the Graniteville Room of Thomas Cooper Library. It is free and open to the public from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. It should be of great interest to anyone who would like to learn more about archives or literary stewardship.

Here is the program for the 2007 SCLA Conference . I hope it helps you plan a successful conference.

USC Fall Festival of Writers 2007 October 18 - November 6, 2007 All events free and open to the public. Schedule of Events Thursday, Oct 18th: 6:00 pm Reading, Q&A , and Book Signing with Bobbie Ann Mason -- Law School Auditorium Tuesday, Oct 23rd: 6:00 pm Reading, Q&A , and Book Signing with Galway Kinnell -- Law School Auditorium Tuesday, Oct 30th: 6:00 pm Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing with James Barilla -- Law School Auditorium ...

A big thank you to Stewart Baker for the new job database on the LISSA website. I know that it will be very helpful.

The new edition of SLISten UP! is now available. Thanks Gene for doing a great job.

Here is the website to find out more about student tickets for USC Athletic Events . (This is where you should go for more detailed information.) A lot of folks have asked, so we thought we would add the info to the blog. Below is a brief summary of tickets and such: Football Student tickets for football are distributed at the Russell House at 1400 Greene Street, across the street and one block to the right of Davis College. Mon. Oct 29 (7am-4pm) Tues. Oct 30 Wed. Oct 31 Mon. Nov. 12 (7am-4pm) Tues. Nov 13 Wed. Nov 14 ALL OTHER SPORTS Students are admitted to all games upon the presentation of their Carolina Card at the gates of the respective venues. There is specific information for Men's Basketball and Baseball on this website, but it is dated at this time. (Sorry that I don't know the sporting seasons. I'm not a good Southern on that count.) For more information on the different athletics, go to the website above and click on the "Sports" and "Schedules...

Congratulations Natalie Pulley on being selected as a NLM/MLA Spectrum Scholar! One two people in North America recieved the award this year and we are lucky enough to have one here at USC. I just found out today and wanted to share the good news with everyone. The link below is to MLA's formal annoucement of the winners. http://www.mlanet.org/newsroom/2007/oct07.html?focus_20071004 Congrats Natalie, keep up the good work! Manju [Posted on behalf of Manju Tanwar]

Hello All: On Friday, October 19th, ASG will be assisting the South Caroliniana Library in a service project. The Caroliniana has recently acquired the remains of a defunct photographic development company in Columbia and needs some extra people to help do some on-site re-housing and transporting. The project will require you to dedicate several hours. I am emailing to find out: 1. Who is interested in participating 2. What times on Friday work best for people. I know many of us work on Fridays, but if we plan ahead we may all be able to make up a few hours on other days during the week and feel good about ourselves for helping an institution in need :) Email me back, off-list at thomps34@mailbox.sc.edu if you are interested or have any questions. Once I get a good idea of a time and the number of people, I will email the listserv with complete information. Thanks! -Santi Thompson

Join the weekend staff of the Historic Columbia Foundation, located just a few blocks from campus! You will get to lead tours of three 19th century house museums, including the Robert Mills House, designed by our first federal architect; the Hampton-Preston Mansion , owned by Wade Hampton; and the Mann-Simons Cottage, home to a freed slave and her family. You will also be responsible for opening and closing the houses and working in the museum shop. Visitors to the properties come from all over the United States as well as from many foreign countries. You will work an average of one to two days per month, on the dates that best suit your schedule. Saturday hours are 9:30 am to 4:00 pm, and Sunday hours are 12:30 to 5:00 pm. Our current staff includes several of your fellow USC students in addition to some recent graduates. This position is a fun, unique job and a great resume builder. Please call Sarah VanderWood at 252-1770 ext. 32 or e-mail her at svanderwood@historiccolum...

LISSA will have a field trip to the South Carolina State Library Friday, October 19 at 3:00. The State Library has two buildings. We will meet at the 1500 Senate St. building (the one with the lions in front.). We will have a tour of the of both buildings, including a tour of the Talking Books Services department (which coordinates services for blind users in the South Carolina). It should be a lot of fun. Please join us if you can. For more information, please contact LISSA at slis_lissa@yahoo.com

[The Following Is Posted On Behalf Of Jennifer Marshall] Please note the following workshop on "Building Sustainable Digital Collections" which is being sponsored by the Society of Georgia Archivists. I hope that some of you might be able to attend it. Best, Dr. Jennifer A. Marshall >>> "Christine de Catanzaro" 10/2/2007 10:27 AM >>> Dear Jennifer, Hello! I'm writing on behalf of the Society of Georgia Archivists, in my capacity as SGA Education Committee Chair, to let you and your students know about our upcoming workshop, "Building Sustainable Digital Collections," which will be held in Columbus GA on Wednesday, November 7, 2007. I'm attaching the information sheet and registration form. Information and registration is also available online at http://www.soga.org/ce/preconference.pdf . Any students are welcome to attend this workshop. Could you please circulate the attached announcement to them? And of course South Carolina fo...

LISSA would like to thank the following volunteers who served at the Read and Romp Sunday Oct. 7th: Allison Christine Read Martha Brown Kim Odeon Manju Tanwar Marshall Green Margaret Hawes [If we have left anyone off by accident because we didn't see you there (there were a lot of folks that day and several hundred children keep you mighty busy), please let us know and we will add you to the list.] You can see pictures by clicking here

LISSA will have a Haiti Service Project Day on Nov. 24th in Davis College in the Graduate Computer Lab. We will working on a card catalog for a school in Haiti that has library materials but has no catolog system. They can't afford an electronic, so a card catalog is the best answer for them. It is fun and easy. LISSA will have coffee and cookies, so please do come. (But in the hall, we can't have food in the lab.) It is an easy way to do a little good and work with something most of us never thought we would have a chance to work with ever. Drusilla Carter brings very easy instructions and both she and I can answer any questions. If possible, please e-mail in advance at slis_lissa@yahoo.com. You can just show up though if you care not certain if you can come. Also, if anyone would like to bring donations for our materials drive for the school, the box is in the Davis College Computer Lab under the table to the left. Here is what has been requested: Boys Underwear (new) -- all ...

Hi Everyone, LISSA and Dr. Sam would like to invite everyone out this Friday evening (Oct. 12) to the South Carolina State Fair. We will meet at the front gate at 6pm and Dr. Sam has offered to pay the entry fees for the first 10 SLIS students to show up by 6:15 (yay Dr. Sam!). The Fair web site can be found here: http://www.scstatefair.org/ If you have any questions feel free to contact me off list at zacharyd.moore@gmail.com Also, if there are any late comers you can call me on my cell if you are having trouble finding us. My number is 512.554.2222. We hope to see everyone there! Zack Moore

Applications are now being accepted for the "First Step Award--Wiley Professional Development Grant," a cash award that is applicable toward travel costs for the upcoming ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, June 27-July 1st, 2008. PURPOSE: The purpose of the $1500 grant, donated by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is to provide librarians new to the serials field with the opportunity to broaden their perspectives and to encourage professional development in the American Library Association Conferences and participation in ALA/ALCTS Continuing Resources Section activities. ELIGIBILITY: All ALA members with five or fewer years? professional experience in the serials field and who have not previously attended an ALA Annual Conference are eligible. Cash awards are applicable toward round trip transportation, lodging, registration fees, etc. Eligible applicants who have previously applied, but were not selected, may re-apply. APPLICATION PROCESS: Completed applications shal...

Professor Dinah Johnson has a new children's book out called, Hair Dance . Here are some Columbia events going on around the area to celebrate her new book! HAIR DANCE! A Series of Events Celebrating African-American Hair Culture Through Literature, Film, Music, and Scholarship Friday, Nov. 2, 2007 7pm, Columbia Museum of Art Talk by Dr. Noliwe Rooks, Associate Director of African American Studies, Princeton University and author of Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women and numerous other books Sunday, Nov. 4 3pm, Richland County Public Library A viewing of “Two Dollars and a Dream,” the story of legendary self-made millionaire and hair care pioneer Madam C.J. Walker produced by the MacArthur Foundation Fellow Stanley Nelson. Discussion to follow. Friday, Nov. 9 7pm, Gambrell Auditorium Meet award-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson at a viewing of “Two Dollars and a Dream,” his documentary on Madame C.J. Wal...

Here are the photos of Volunteering at the 2007 Read & Romp at the State Museum (with both Reach Out and Read and SCCCBL). Thanks to everyone who volunteered, and to SCCCBL and Reach Out & Read for letting us come.

Andrea Wright, a SLIS student who will graduate it December, is the winner of the 2007 Lucille M. Wert Scholarship from the Division of Chemical Information ( CINF ) of the American Chemical Society ( ACS ). The Scholarship is "[d] esigned to help persons with an interest in the fields of Chemistry and Information to pursue graduate study in Library, Information, or Computer Science" and consists of a $1500 honorarium. Andrea also received a $1,000 travel stipend to receive her award at the ACS National Meeting in Boston this past August. We would like to congratulate Andrea and wish her the best of continued success in the future. [More information on the award can be located at http://www.acscinf.org/ by clicking on "Awards" then "Lucille M. Wert Student Scholarship." ]

The following are Volunteer Opportunities at Richland County Public Library . Please click on the links for more information. Where no link is available, please contact Cathy Dolan, whose contact information is at the bottom of this posting. Oral History Interviewer : Main Branch O ur Main Library Local History Room will be conducting oral interviews with residents of Columbia for a historical perspective on Columbia, Richland County and/or the Richland County Public Library. The volunteers will assist the Information Services Librarians in conducting the interviews and may assist with the preparation of interview materials. Volunteers should have an outgoing and pleasant personality with excellent communication skills. They should be able to follow directions and be responsive and provide appropriate direction during interview session. Knowledge of the history of Columbia or the Midlands area is high preferred. Training specific to the position will be provided. Let’s Speak Eng...

Friday, November 9, venue to be decided but somewhere in the Columbia area. The topic will be Virtual Libraries. For more information, please contact Matt Landau at mattlandau@yahoo.com

A Town Hall meeting featuring Dean Bierbauer and Dr . Hastings on Thu, Nov 29, 5pm - 8pm in Davis College Room 209. All SLIS students are welcome.

Please check out the LISSA Wiki . Here are some of the things you can find information on now: Calls For Papers Jobs Scholarships USC Fellowships and Awards Available Via The Graduate School Grants Listservs Workshops Hope this is helpful. P.S. If you are asked for a password, it is "lissa"

Application for Graduate School Travel Grants [Please note, this is not money made available by LISSA. This these funds are made available via the Graduate School. Funding is given out to students who wish to present at conferences.All students, distance ed or Columbia-based, may apply.] The Graduate School encourages student presentation of research at professional meetings by offering grants to degree-seeking graduate students. These are meant to supplement what has been committed by the unit to support the student’s travel. Amounts And Restrictions: 1. Grant funds are available only to support student participation in professional meetings (i.e., presenting a research paper or poster). These funds cannot be used to support field or library research or simple attendance at a professional meeting. 2. Travel Grants are available only to supplement (and ordinarily match) funds committed by the unit. 3. Travel Grant applications cannot be made to support travel already started or comp...

The Graduate Student Association (GSA) has asked LISSA, ASIS&T, and all the other graduate level student associations at USC to compile a list of issues that are of concern to graduate students. GSA would like to know what is on people's minds so that they know who best to serve the grad students and what our priorities are. Everyone enrolled at a graduate program at USC is automatically a member of GSA, so they consider it their job to represent all of us, whether we are Columbia students or Distance Education students. Everyone in SLIS is entitled and invited to share their concerns and feelings. If there is something that you feel is a graduate student issue that isn't necessary a LIS-issue but a USC-wide issue, this is your opportunity to share. A thread has been started on the LISSA Forum on which you can post, and this can be reached by clicking here.