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Position Vacancies WANTED: library school student interested in part-time employment in the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston. This position is offered as temporary employment. Approximately 10-12 hours of work per week is required, Monday through Friday only.The hourly wage is $7.20. DUTIES: assisting interlibrary loan/document delivery staff. Great opportunity to gain concrete experience with Pascal Delivers and the ILLiad software. IF INTERESTED, please call our interlibrary loan office at (843) 953-0004 or email Chris Nelson at nelsonc@cofc.edu mailto:nelsonc@cofc.edu > .

Hello, I'd like to welcome everyone, especially those in the Atlanta/Athens area, to join me and other SLIS students on a tour of the National Archives in Morrow(near Atlanta), GA, on Saturday, February 2nd at 2:30pm. We plan to meet in at the NA building at 2:15pm before the tour. If you are interested joining us, please send me an e-mail: patricklmclaughlin@gmail.com For more information and directions: http://www.archives.gov/southeast/public/ *We're also going to see the Atlanta Thrashers and Buffalo Sabres play the night before in Atlanta the night before (Friday). You are welcome to attend either or both of these events. -- Patrick McLaughlin patricklmclaughlin@gmail.com

The ERMD Student Award recognizes a student who is especially interested in pursuing a career as an information professional dealing with environment and resource management issues. A $1,000 award will be given to a student enrolled in an ALA accredited master's degree program. This award is meant to promote both current and future involvement in and commitment to the library and information science profession prior to, during, and after the master's program. To be considered for the award, a student must be an SLA member and write a 300-500 word essay describing his or her interest in the issues facing information professionals in the environment and natural resources fields. Essays should be labeled with the student's name, contact information, and educational institution. Deadline for receiving submissions is February 29, 2008. Please send submissions via email to Judy Bolstad at bolstad@library.berkeley.edu. The award will be presented at the ...

Call for Entries Thomas Cooper Library Student Book Collecting Award, 2008 Submission deadline: March 18, 2008. Entries are invited from students currently enrolled at the University of South Carolina for the Thomas Cooper Library Student Book Collecting Award, carrying a first prize of $250. This award was initiated by the Thomas Cooper Society in 1993, with sponsorship from the Columbia-based publishing house of Bruccoli Clark Layman, to encourage beginning book collectors. A list of previous winners and the topics of their collections is available at: www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/bookcoll/winners.html . The collection may be in any field or may emphasize some particular area of interest within a subject. Collections may illustrate a certain bibliographical feature such as edition, illustrations, typography, binding, &tc. Books and printed documents in all formats are acceptable for submission. Materials submitted by entrants must be owned and have...

Hello all, I have talked to a couple of you about seeing a real NHL game down in Atlanta . This Friday at 7:30 PM, the Buffalo Sabres are playing the Atlanta Thrashers in what should be a really good game. Tickets are 10 bucks and 7 to park. Patrick has confirmed that we can crash at his apartment, but he needs to know how many people are coming down. If you are still interested in this, please e-mail me immediately. We need to discuss travel times and plans and arrangements. Tentative time for leaving on Friday will be 3 PM and staying the night, coming back to Columbia sometime Saturday. Also, if you have not seen the Darjeeling Limited at the Nick, I suggest you do that. Tonight is the last showing. Adam Vorobok adverb@SC.RR.COM

Kate Boyd of USC Digital Libraries will speak about her profession Thursday, Feb. 28th at 6 pm. Refreshments will be served. Please join us for a very interesting lecture.

National Library Week will be Sunday, April 13th to Saturday, April 19th. For more information, please click here .

Jane Meyers, of the Lubuto Library Project , will be our speaker this year, April 2nd at 4 pm, in Business Administration 008. Lubuto builds libraries in Africa for street children, mainly HIV/AIDS orphans. Please join us for a wonderful lecture from a wonderful LIS-professional.

LISSA will have a field trip to the South Carolina General Assembly Legislative Council Legislative Library March 7th at 3 pm. The library is located on the State Capital Grounds, so we will meet in Davis College and walk over at 2:30 pm. Please join us. It should be a very interesting trip.

There will be a LISSA field trip to the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary Lineberger Memorial Library James R. Crumley Jr. Archives at 4pm, Friday, April 11th. The address for the archive is as follows: 4201 N. Main St; Columbia, SC 29203-3838 Please join us. It should be a very interesting trip.

William Kirkland, CEO of Collexis Inc, will lecture at this Colloquium this Thursday, March 27th at 6 pm in Davis Room 216. Collexis is the world leader in knowledge retrieval technology, so please join us for what will be a very interesting lecture.

Dwight McInvaill, of Georgetown Public Library, will present a lecture on his library's use of video games, which was one of the ten 2007 National Medal for Museum and Library Service Awards this Thursday, March 20th at 6 pm in Davis College Room 216. Please join us for what will be a wonderful lecture.

LISSA has a tour of the South Carolina State Supreme Court Library Friday, Feb. 15. The address is 1231 Gervais St.; Columbia, SC 29201. Please join us.

SCASL (the South Carolina Association of School Librarians) contacted us asking for volunteers Tuesday, March 11 to Wednesday, March 12. The conference will be held at the Columbia Convention Center. Tuesday, March 11 from 4pm-7pm for bag stuffing and general running around/helping at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center to prepare for conference, which starts the next day. If there are students who are registered for conference, they can volunteer to help Wednesday. If interested, please e-mail slis_lissa@yahoo.com or greenmarshall32@gmail.com ASAP.

South Carolina Book Festival Friday, Feb. 22nd to Sunday, Feb. 24th at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center ( 1101 Lincoln Street). For Volunteer FAQ's, please click here . For information on ways to volunteer at the Book Festival, please click here . For volunteer applications, please click here . Please volunteer. Of all the service projects we have during the school year, this one is the one that really touches people and that they remember. [P.S. To volunteer for the SCCCBL-related Book Festival event on the from 9 am to 1 pm Friday, Feb. 22nd, click here for more information.]

The South Carolina Center for Children's Books and Literacy (SCCCBL) is going to have a "kick-off" for children as part of the lead up to the SC Book Festival Friday, Feb. 22nd from 9 am to 1 pm at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center (1101 Lincoln Street; Columbia, SC 29201). Six volunteers will be needed, and more information will be posted when available. Please join us if you can. It should be a wonderful way to start off this year's Book Festival. To volunteer, contact slis_lissa@yahoo.com or marshallmgreen@yahoo.com ASAP. [P.S. To volunteer any other Book Festival event, click here for more information.]

David Goble, the Librarian of South Carolina, will give a lecture on the skills SLIS students need to meet professional challenges and about state libraries as career opportunities. Please join us for a wonderful opportunity. When: 1/31/2008 Time: 6:00pm Place: Davis College Room 216

To: All students who are currently enrolled in SLIS 701 who are interested in seeking certification in K-12 School Library Media and any other students who did not have an opportunity to attend a previous Orientation and Information Session about School Library Media Certification. There will be an important Orientation and Information Session about School Library Media Certification in Davis 209 from 12:30 pm to 3-4 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2008. Davis 209 is the large classroom located on the second floor of Davis building near the Greene Street entrance. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend. The School Library Media Orientation and Information will cover required courses, applications for certification, PRAXIS II testing, applications for and information about internships in school library media, initial certification, adding K-12 school library media certification to current certification, portfolio requirements, and sources for financial aid. There will be time for ...

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Internship Opportunity Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone Research Library Program: Yellowstone National Park is seeking a library intern. This position will be full-time (40 hours a week) but the schedule is negotiable. Located just outside Gardiner , Montana , The Yellowstone Research Library provides service to researchers, park personnel, the local community, and park visitors. Housed in a new building, the library is home to a rapidly growing special collection. This internship will allow the successful candidate to gain experience in almost every area of librarianship, however the main focus will be on cataloging and reference. Housing: Gardiner is a town of 800 people and summer housing in town is difficult to find. Housing in the park will be made available to the intern for a small monthly fee. An automobile is required for transportation to and from work. Qualifications: This internship position requires a student currently enrolled in an ...

To SLIS Students: The College of Mass Communications & Information Studies (CMCIS) Alumni Society invites you to sign-up for its Mentor Program that pairs alumni with current students. Now you can have your very own mentor to learn more about your particular field of study. A mentor can be a guide, coach, motivator and problem-solver all-in-one to help you grow personally and professionally. We are having a Speed Networking Event to match alumni and students for the Spring semester on Monday, February 4, and we'd love to see you there. If you cannot attend the Speed Networking Event but are still interested in having a mentor, please contact Amanda Stone at astone@statelibrary.sc.gov. Distance education students are also encouraged! Spring Mentor Match Event Who: Alumni and current students of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies who are interested in joining the Mentor Program sponsored by the CMCIS Alumni Society. ...

The first LISSA Field Trip of the semester will be at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital's Josey Health Science Library Friday, January 25th at 3 pm. If you would like to carpool, please be at Davis College by 2:15pm Friday. You can also join us there at 3 pm. Please join us for a very interesting tour. Location: Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital Josey Health Science Library -- 5 Richland Medical Park, Columbia, SC 29203-6897 Date: 1/25/08 Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Please help the Lubuto Library Project meet a $20,000 matching pledge challenge! Many of you gave very generously in response to our year-end appeal, but now there is an opportunity for Lubuto to receive a 100% match of your donor dollars! The $40,000 we will raise will allow us to begin construction of the next Lubuto Library. To help us meet the 6-week challenge goal, visit www.Lubuto.org and click "donate now" or mail a check to: Lubuto Library Project, Inc. 5505 Connecticut Ave., NW, #368 Washington , DC 20015-2601 U.S.A. Lubuto will be featured in a story on Washington DC’s channel 5 news this Friday, January 18. For live streaming during the 8am and 11am newscasts, or to view the program afterward, go to www.myFoxDC.com . Jane Kinney Meyers, President Lubuto Library Project, Inc. Bringing enlightenment and hope to Africa 's most vulnerable children

Hi everyone, The ALA has announced the Youth Media awards for 2008, the results can be seen here: http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2008/january2008/announce08.htm One of my favorite authors, Mo Willems , is one of the winners! I hope everyone is having a great first week, Zack -- Zachary D. Moore

Greetings, SLIS students! In years past, USC library students have assisted the SC Association of Public Library Adminstrators in our lobbying efforts at our annual SC Library Legislative Days. As a result of everyone working very hard, state aid for public libraries is finally back above the level that it was when the state sustained repeated budget cuts in the 90's. The help we received from volunteers helped make that possible, and we thank you for your support. This year we are doing something a little bit different. We think it will be fun and exciting, and we need volunteers once again. We will be bringing public library supporters to the State House on Thursday, January 31st for the first ever Public Library Appreciation Day (PLAD). H.4397 , a concurrent resolution officially recognizing the value of public libraries in SC, has passed in both the House and Senate, and we will be holding a press conference to publicize that event as well as thank our legislators f...

Richland County Public Library Volunteer Opportunities Let’s Speak English Join us for our Let’s Speak English program. This special program is designed to help international adults in our community practice speaking English. International adults will be able to practice their needed English skills in a comfortable environment by conversing with local adult volunteers. Volunteers needed from January 16-April 16, 2008 at the Main Library on Wednesday mornings from 10-11 a.m. Patron Desk Patron Assistants are needed to greet and provide assistance to library visitors and patrons on Thursday afternoons 1:30-4:30, alternate Saturdays from 9-12 and alternate Sunday afternoons from 3-6 p.m. As a RCPL volunteer you are able to: acquire new skills and gain recognized work experience expand your social horizons serve in your own community keep up with the latest books help, and be appreciated for it contribute to the success ...

Internship Announcement APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 22, 2008 The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of one internship position available from late May through the end of August 2008 to last no more than ten weeks (dates are negotiable). Located in Athens, Ga., the Digital Library (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/) works together with Georgia's libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of cultural heritage to provide access to the cultural and historical resources of the state of Georgia. This primary mission is accomplished through the ongoing development, maintenance, and preservation of digital collections and online digital library resources. These may include materials such as original manuscripts, typescripts, books, photographs, maps, sheet music, posters and broadsides, newspapers, primary source materials on microfilm, audio, video, and other formats. The internship position will be ava...

Children’s Room Substitute Richland County Public Library · Excellent part-time job opportunity for SLIS students · Gain experience in children’s services while working an on-call, flexible schedule · Close to USC campus Job title: Children’s Room Substitute Location: Children’s Room, Main Library, RCPL, 1431 Assembly St., Columbia, SC 29201 Salary: $10.32 per hour Hours: Part-time, on-call position with varying and flexible hours. The RCPL Children’s Room is open Monday-Thursday 9-9, Friday and Saturday 9-6, and Sunday 2-6. Substitutes work a flexible schedule (on-call) during any of these hours, dependent upon library scheduling needs. Job duties include: Assist library patrons in finding and using library materials effectively with the use of appropriate tools, such as automated library system and bibliographic tools. Successfully complete and effectively apply limited training in the job, both initially and with periodic up...

The 797D Health Information Retrieval in Electronic Environments, called J797D, is offered in the Spring 2008 semester. Here is an overview of the course: This elective course is designed for students who wish to develop comprehensive electronic health-related information-searching and -seeking skills. This course is a survey of electronic information resources in the health sciences, including discussion of relevant controlled vocabularies and their use in formulating and executing search strategies. The ultimate goals are to: 1) prepare the students in the School of Library and Information Science’s Master’s program to be expert online searchers in the provision of health information services in both physical information settings and in a virtual environment, including the Internet, and 2) assist doctoral and master’s students in health-related programs in the development of critical thinking and analytical skills in health-information ...

Students, For information about the Career Center and their recruitment fairs, please go to this URL http://www.sc.edu/career/ Clicking on the Education Recruitment icon will allow you to see a List of schools/school districts that are already registered to attend. The list is short at this point because recruiters typically wait until the last minute to register. In order to see more details about the types of teachers the districts are seeking, the students will need to register in JobMate, and anyone who needs help with this can contact me. JobMate is free for students. Carol

The USC School of Medicine Library is hiring a Graduate Assistant for the Access Services Department. Details are available at http://uscm.med.sc.edu/ga.htm . The 10 hours per week position pays $8.50 per hour and includes a $750 per semester tuition supplement. The GA must be able to work Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Please send your resume to Briget Livingston at blivingston@med.sc.edu to apply. The views expressed here represent the views of individual list members and do not necessarily reflect the views of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina.

Hi archives students, The South Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board is seeking a student assistant. Job responsibilities will include compiling an online directory, developing communications in the archival community (web, e-mail and surface mail addresses, etc.), and possibly securing publicity on soon to be awarded Board grants to repositories and local governments, and, as needed, in the more mundane help of copying, etc. The position would begin in mid-to-late January and run through the Spring 2008 semester, with the possibility that I may have funding through the end of 2008. 20 hours per week, $10-12 per hour. If you are interested, contact Roy Tryon at tryon@scdah.state.sc or 803.896.6120. Best, Jennifer

The Reference Services Librarian provides reference assistance to a diverse community of Library patrons utilizing print and electronic resources. The successful candidate will possess a Master's degree in Library Science or related field, a positive attitude, and strong customer relations skills. Further information and application available at www.midnet.sc.edu/sumtercls Contact Robert Harden @ hardenr@infoave.net or 803-773-7273.

Hello New SLIS Students, We are looking forward to meeting you on Saturday, January 12 on the Columbia Campus for the School of Library and Information Science Orientation. Earlier this month notices about the Orientation were mailed to all new students. This meeting is MANDATORY for incoming students; if you have a personal reason for not attending, such as family emergency, etc. please contact the Student Services Office at 1-800-304-3153, or 1-803-777-3887, or by email at carolbwilliams@sc.edu or lindseynewman@sc.edu. We will begin at 10:00 am in Room 107 at Currell College. Parking can be found at meters on nearby streets as well as in the lower level of the Pendleton Street Garage. Currell College is located on Greene Street, across from the Russell House student Center and next to Davis College on Greene Street. If you want to get online driving directions, just enter our address (Davis College) at 1501 Greene St...

DIGITAL LIBRARY SCANNING ASSISTANT NEEDED at the Special Collections Department of the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston. Part-time Digital Library assistant is needed for 20 hours a week, starting in January, to assist in scanning rare library materials. Hours are flexible between 9am and 4:30pm, Monday-Friday. A minimum year commitment and an inclination to be detail-oriented is preferred. All serious inquiries please contact John White at (843)953-6810 or WhiteJ@CofC.edu. The views expressed here represent the views of individual list members and do not necessarily reflect the views of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina.

The School of Library and Information Science is seeking three graduate students who are interested in a Graduate Assistantship for the Spring 2008 semester. Two positions are available with a faculty member, and one position is available in a campus office. The faculty assignments requires 10 hours of work per week, and the office assignment requires 20 hours of work per week. Student assistants with 10 hour assistantship earn a stipend of $1500 per semester and a $1500 tuition supplement; student assistants with a 20 hour assistantship earn a stipend of $3000 per semester and a $1500 tuition supplement. Both of these positions offer excellent learning and work experiences. If you are interested, please contact the SLIS Director's Office at 777-3858 or by email at delton@gwm.sc.edu. Carolyn A. Delton Office of the Director School of Library & Information Science College of Mass Communications & Information Studies University ...

Welcome to SLIS J706!! The syllabus is now available on the web at - http://www.libsci.sc.edu/chrisb/706.htm You can access the first things you need to do from the Assignments area of the Syllabus. The Blackboard site for the class is not ready yet, but will be set to go later this week. I will post another message to this list when the Blackboard site is ready. After that, course announcements will be made within Blackboard. I know that the syllabus will not answer all of the questions and concerns you have about the course. Later this week, a complete course introduction will be available in Blackboard. Chris Billinsky Chris Billinsky School of Library & Information Science, Davis College University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 EMAIL FOR SLIS706: cbillin706@yahoo.com WEB: http://www.libsci.sc.edu/chrisb/

2 DIGITAL COLLECTIONS ASSISTANTS NEEDED at Thomas Cooper Library 1. Part-time Digital Library assistant is needed for 20 hours a week each, starting in January, for a minimum of 8 months, to assist in web design, metadata creation, and scanning rare library materials. Experience with PhotoShop, Excel and HTML required and an inclination to be detail-oriented preferred. 2. Seeking a creative person for 20 hours a week, starting in January, to assist in creating web pages for digital library collections.Minimum skills needed are HTML, Photoshop, and web design. Additional experience with javascript or other web programming languages and Dreamweaver is preferred. Job may require other miscellaneous digital library duties. For examples see http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/ . Hours are flexible between 9am and 5pm, Monday-Friday. Serious inquiries please contact Kate Boyd at 777-2249 or boydkf@gwm.sc.edu. Interviewing will occur at the beginning of January.

DEAF CULTURE LINKING WITH LIBRARIES To help meet our mission to promote deaf culture, books and literacy through library programs and exhibits, the National Literary Society of the Deaf (NLSD) will have an exhibit (Table #233) during the annual business meeting of the American Library Association, January 11 - 16, 2008. www.ala.org. The meeting will be held in Philadelphia, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center (1101 Arch Street). Exhibits hours are Friday, January 11 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm); Saturday, January 12 and Sunday, January 13 (9:00 am to 5:00pm) and Monday, January 14 (9:00 am to 2:00 pm) Jim Mallard is the new NLSD Exhibit Coordinator and he will be assisted by Amy Bopp, President of Library Friends Section of the National Association of the Deaf and Newby Ely, a member of Deaf History International. The exhibit theme will be GOT DEAF CULTURE @ YOUR LIBRARY? ASK A LIBRARIAN!. This is a new series for 2008-2010 in which purpose is to ...

The Columbia Area Medical Librarians Association invites you to attend a special presentation Impacting African Health in a Small Medical Library Jane Bridges, ML, AHIP Mercer University Clinical Campus Librarian Health Sciences Library Memorial University Medical Center Savannah, Georgia Friday, January 11, 2008 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. School of Medicine Library University of South Carolina Ms. Bridges will report on her experience of organizing a hospital library collection in a mission hospital in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Ms. Bridges received her library degree at the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science. She has held positions with South Carolina AHEC at MUSC in Charleston; Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, SC; Methodist Hospitals of Memphis, TN. She is a distinguished member of the Medical Library Association’s Academy of Health Information Professionals. In 2005, Ms. Bridges was the first hospital librarian chos...

[Posted on behalf of Linda Martin] Hi Everybody, I'm sending this out to you all in hopes that you might know of someone who is willing and able to work around 20 hours per week ($10 per hour) to assist with maintaining the law library at Nelson Mullins. The job entails updating looseleaf materials, filing pocket parts and shelving. The hours are very flexible, requiring some during 8 am - 6 pm for direction from the library staff. Let me hear, Linda Martin lmartin1947@yahoo.com

WANTED : library school student interested in part-time employment in the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston. This position is offered as temporary employment. Approximately 15 hours of work per week is required, Monday through Friday only.The hourly wage is $7.20. DUTIES : assisting interlibrary loan/document delivery staff with packing and delivery of materials. Great opportunity to gain concrete experience with Pascal Delivers and the ILLiad software. IF INTERESTED , please call our interlibrary loan office at (843) 953-0004 or email Chris Nelson at nelsonc@cofc.edu .