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The Next Graduate Student Association Meeting Will Be Tuesday, March 4th at 5:30 in Davis College Room 112. Please join us if you can. Light refreshments will be served.

Hello, This is Travis. I am very excited by the field trip in Atlanta today and all the buzz that has been generated. Just in case it helps, I wanted to give a reminder that the LISSA Forum has a section called "Regional Boards." These message boards are designed to make it easier for folks who aren't in Columbia to get in touch with each other more easily. Also, let us know what else we can do to help you get in touch. Just e-mail us at slis_lissa@yahoo.com Have a great time today, Travis Ferrell LISSA President

Distance students need hours of happiness, too. I'd like to see and interact more with students, and visit more library environments. So I'm going to look forward to monthly (?) Lunch & a Library meet and greet and seek sessions. Feel free to e-mail suggestions to lagrees@bellsouth.net If you're in Atlanta, come out to The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum this Friday, February 29 to share ideas and catch the last day of the exhibit Wood, Paper, Ink: Japanese and Chinese Woodblocks. http://ipst.gatech.edu/amp/index.html Please e-mail me if you're interested. [Posted on behalf of Sara in Atlanta]

Early Student Registration for the ALA Conference in Anaheim this summer ends Friday, March 7th. The 2008 Annual Conference will be held in Anaheim, CA, from June 26–July 2, 2008. Committee and business meetings take place June 28-July 1, 2008, and Council Meetings run to July 2. Education programs take place primariliy June 28-30, 2008. The exhibits will be held June 28-July 1, 2008, at the Anaheim Convention Center , located at 800 West Katella Avenue in Anaheim. Programs and Meetings will take place in the Convention Center and hotels nearby. Performer Diahann Carroll has recently been confirmed as the Closing Session Speaker. The Closing Session will take place on Tuesday, July 1, from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (note the new time!) at the Anaheim Convention Center. The Auditorium Speaker Series continues to expand. The most recent speaker added to the series is author Dean Koontz , who will be speaking Monday, June 30, at 1:30 pm in the Anaheim Convention Center. He joins an ecl...

LISSA Conference Funding is still available, and the big national conferences are upcoming this summer. Attending a LIS conference is a wonderful experience, and this funding is our way to help you have this experience. Conference funding is available to any current SLIS students with priority given to LISSA members. Funding is available to all students. Everyone, particularly distance education students, are welcome to apply. For more information about conference funding, please read the LISSA Conference Funding Guidelines [Please note:Don't worry about deadlines on the above form. We still have funding available so we are extending deadlines, but we do need to know ASAP. Also, we cannot give money if you contact us after you have attended a conference.] In order to be considered for conference funding, you must submit a Request for Conference Funds to a LISSA officer or to Dr. Tu, the LISSA faculty advisor. You will be notified about your application after it has been pro...

Hey everybody! I know you have been anxiously waiting for the weekly Happy Hour/SLIS activity e-mail, so here it is with no delay! MOVIE NIGHT!!! Friday, February 29th, 7:00 PM Grant Keyes has ever so graciously allowed us to use his place as a gathering since my place is in a current state of disaster. (You can e-mail him at grantdavidkeyes@hotmail.com if you need directions) Bring a movie and/or snacks! We'll decide what movie to watch at 7:05 sharp! So come early and celebrate the Leap Year with us! Adam

Hello fellow students, As you know, we have many faculty candidates visiting SLIS over the next month or so. During these visits, each candidate has lunch with SLIS students. This is a chance not only for the candidate to learn more about SLIS, but also for students to learn more about the candidate. Student input about candidates is very important in the hiring process, so please attend these lunches and give your feedback. Here are the next two student lunches with candidates: Thursday, February 28th @ Noon Davis College Room 112 Robin Moeller Monday, March 3rd @ Noon Davis College Room 112 Hemalata Iyer Candidate resumes are available for viewing in Davis College, Room 113. I hope to see many of you at the next student lunch! -- Patrick McLaughlin

The SLIS Student Services blog has been re-vamped. New postings will be added almost daily about everything and anything students need to know about graduation, assistantships , and other Student Services information. To view the blog, just click here.

Hello everyone! There will be a SLIS Colloquium on Thursday, February 28th, at 6:00pm in Davis College , Room 216. Kate Boyd, the Digital Collections Librarian for the University Libraries at USC, will be talking about digital librarianship. There will be pizza and soda served. The colloquium will also be broadcast via Adobe Connect. The URL is: http://breeze.sc.edu/boydcolloquium/ Hope to see you all there in person or online next Thursday!

Medical Librarian This full time position is a shared position between Foothills Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and Northeast Georgia Health System, Inc. Foothills AHEC partners with local communities and educators to increase the supply, education, and distribution of health care professionals throughout the 31 northeast Georgia county service area. Please visit our web site for additional information: www.foothillsahec.org Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to improving the health and quality of life for the people of northeast Georgia . The hospital system is composed of a 418-bed inpatient, 285-bed skilled nursing system serving over 20 counties. For more information on services please visit our web site at http://www.nghs.com . The Medical Librarian will be responsible for development and coordination of medical information services for the AHEC health care practitioners and students training in our region. Ot...

McKissick Museum Friday, February 22, 2008, from 5:30 until 7:30 PM Join us at McKissick Museum on Friday, February 22th, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., for a public gallery talk for our newest exhibit Grandeur Saved: Photographs of the Aiken-Rhett House by Michael Eastman. Jill Koverman, Curator for Collections at McKissick and John Sherrer, Director of Collections and Interpretation for Historic Columbia Foundation will discuss the role of photography and preservation in South Carolina . Light refreshments will be served. The Aiken-Rhett House stands as one of the most significant, intact antebellum, urban residences in the South. Its elaborate stables, kitchen house and slave quarters have not been significantly altered for residential use. The house is listed on the National Register for Historic Places and is being conserved as part of a *Save America*s Treasures* grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and ...

Posted on behalf of Anne Orange, SC/SLA President: The Special Libraries Association ( http://www.sla.org ) plans to enhance its services for information professionals who have graduated in the last five years. We're conducting a survey to gather input from new graduates and current students. Please help us by telling us what subject areas interest you, how you prefer to receive professional information, and how you see SLA as a partner in your career development. There are 11 questions. You can respond in under 10 minutes. Click here to get started: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s .aspx?sm=KSXG_2bpPojuVogVu1G6PO rQ_3d_3d SLA First Five Years Task Force Chairs Gayle Gossen and Christina de Castell

Event : Next LISSA Meeting Date: Tuesday, Feb. 26th Time : 4:00 pm Location : Davis College Room 112 Refreshments will be served Please join us for the next LISSA meeting. We will discuss the upcoming ALA and IFLA conferences this summer, as well as other up-coming events this semester.

Event : USC Lubuto Library Project Meeting Date : Wednesday, March 5th Time : 8:30 pm Location : Davis 112 Refreshments will be served The USC Lubuto Library Project will have its next meeting Wednesday, 5th at 8:30 pm in Davis College. They will discuss fundraising efforts to will raise money for Lubuto, which builds libraries in Africa for street children, the majority of whom are orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Please join us.

Hello All: The Archival Students Guild will hold its first meeting of the Spring Semester on Wednesday, February 27th at 5:00 p.m. in Davis 112 . Georgette Mayo, archivist at the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center and current Director of the South Carolina Archival Association (SCAA), will be speaking to the guild regarding the upcoming SCAA conference. Georgette is a graduate of the dual degree program at USC and was an original co-founder and member of the Archival Students Guild. T he event is free and open to everyone. If you have any questions or would like more information, please feel free to email me, off list, at thomps34@mailbox.sc.edu . Thanks! -Santi ASG is the student group dedicated to discussing and exploring issues pertaining to the archival profession. The group is open to USC students and there are no fees or requirements to join. For more information, see the outdated group website: http://students.libsci.sc.edu/asg/welcome.ht...

Talking Book Services Library Announces Student Art Gallery Columbia , SC - Visually impaired/blind K-12 students from across the state will soon have their artwork on display at the South Carolina State Library's Talking Book Services Library. According to Pamela Davenport , "The idea to display student artwork was a result of conversations with the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind and will promote and educate the public about artwork of blind and visually impaired students in South Carolina ." The artwork on display will include wall hangings and sculpture. The gallery's aim is to promote and provide access to art for visually impaired/blind people. Touching the artwork will be encouraged to sighted as well as visually impaired visitors. The public is invited to a ribbon cutting and reception to open the gallery on Wednesday, March 12, from 10:30am to noon at 1430 Senate Street, Columbia , SC. ...

Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Study 2008 Deadline: 21 March 2008 This award is for graduate students who have demonstrated achievement in their graduate studies while a student at this University. Four awards will be made. Nominations are made by individual graduate programs. 2008 Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Study announcement: http://www.gradschool.sc.edu/doclibrary/documents/GSD.2008.DeansAwardforExcellence.pdf ********************* USC Education Foundation Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 2008 Deadline: 21 March 2008 Graduate programs are invited to submit nominations for the USC EDUCATION FOUNDATION Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, to be given to a graduate teaching or instructional assistant. The award will be made on the basis of outstanding performance in teaching. Two awards will be made, one for a teaching/instructional assistant in humanities, social sciences, educ...

Graduate Student Day (Wednesday, April 2, 2008) Graduate Student Day is held annually in the Russell House on the first Wednesday in April and traditionally consists of a presentation and poster competition, and an awards ceremony. This year's Graduate Student Day will also include selected creative exhibitions and performances, with some of these being presented in the Russell House Theater on Tuesday evening, 1 April 2008. *** Research Presentation and Poster Competition (nomination deadline: March 14, 2008) The Presentation and Poster Competition is designed to provide graduate students an opportunity to share their research and contributions with the university and larger community. Entries in this category should be research presentations or posters written and designed in a way so as to be understandable to a generalist. For example, if your research is in the sciences, then it should be understandable to any scientist (and not ...

Winter 2008 SLA Meeting February 29, 2008 The next meeting of the SC/SLA Chapter will be held at Ft. Jackson on Feb. 29. Below is the agenda for the day: 10:00-10:30 Registration with coffee and goodies 10:30-12:00 Program presentation by Dr. Samantha Hastings, Director, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina. Dr. Hastings will discuss her research work and recent developments at the School of Library and Information Science. 12:00-1:00: Lunch at the Golf Club at Ft. Jackson. Wide variety of soups, sandwiches, salads, etc. available. Pay at the restaurant (prices range $4-7). 1:00-1:30 Brief chapter business meeting 1:30-3:00: Tours of special libraries at Ft. Jackson: Chaplains Training Program Library; SSI (Training) Library; Lee Post Library. Registration Fee: $5.00 for members; $8.00 for non-members; students free. Pay at meeting. Please pre-register by Feb. 27 by e-mailing directly to: bobwill@sc.edu

The Graduate School is pleased to announce a greatly expanded list of Trustee Fellowships for 2008. The following awards will be made to graduate students who exhibit excellence in graduate study, research, and scholarship. Each program may nominate up to two students for these awards, and these nominees must be ranked. All nominees will be considered for all appropriate fellowships. Nomination must be made through the Graduate Director. George M. Reeves Fellowship ($750) Awarded to a graduate student pursuing either a master's or doctoral degree. Dera D. Parkinson Fellowship ($1000) Awarded to a graduate student pursuing either a master's or doctoral degree. C. C. Royal Fellowship ($2,500) Awarded to a graduate student pursuing either a master's or doctoral degree. Charles Coker Fellowship ($3,500/2 awards) Awarded to a graduate student pursuing either a master's or doctoral degree. Rhude M. Patterson Fellowship ($2,500/4 awards) Awarded to female graduate students in...

ALA's Library Research Round Table will host the Graduate Student Research Forum at the 2008 American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, CA. Masters and doctoral students are encouraged to submit presentation proposals. Presentations should be based on original research, eithe completed or in process, and should not have been published prior to the conference. All submissions will be evaluated by a panel of referees, who will select three papers for presentation at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. LRRT will reimburse each speaker for up to $500 in travel expenses. Each presentation will be limited to 15 minutes, with additional time for questions and discussion. Final papers of approximately 20 pages are appropriate. The submission should include: 1. A cover page with the author's name, title of the paper, and author's contact information, including e-mail address. 2. A separate page that includes ...

Now Sold Out: All Mildly Attractive Men of SLIS calendars are now gone. Thank you to all who bought copies. It has helped us raise approximately $1,200.00, which will be used to send students to the IFLA Conference in Quebec this August.

The Mildly Attractive Men of SLIS Calendar is now part of the collection at the South Caroliniana Library Click here to see our record in the USC Catalog. To see the MARC record, click here . All the students involved would like to thank the South Caroliniana for thinking our calendar is worth adding to their collection. We would also like to thank all the participants and especially Grant David Keyes, Matt Landau, and Patrick McLaughlin for their hard work in conceptualizing and realizing the calendar. We have raised approximately $1,200.00 toward our goal of sending students to the IFLA conference in Quebec this August via the calendar.

To Our May 2008 Applicants for Graduation: We have received 110 applications for May graduation. Your applications have been copied, and the originals have been forwarded (on Feb 4 th) to the Graduate School for review. After the Graduate School receives and reviews them, they will forward the applications to the Registrar’s Office for processing. After their review, the Registrar’s Office will post receipt on VIP. This usually takes several weeks to complete; please keep checking. The Student Services Office simply does not have the time to confirm receipt of graduation applications and adjustment forms for each of you; we will contact you when, or if, we need further forms or materials from you. We review each application for any errors, or required adjustment forms before we send them to the Graduate School or, if we find errors during our review in March-April, we will contact you. It is not too late during our reviews to adjust any errors. Final clearance is completed when all gra...

Hockey Night Friday and Other Ideas Hey everybody! There have been some more discussions of other ideas for our SLIS get-togethers. Expect some baseball and soccer games in the future (though somebody better tell me where to find their schedules because I do not follow them). Also, I really want to try and do that board game night again (last time did not work out). What I think is the coolest idea that was spoken last Friday night was the idea of making a bunch of short films, say (3-4 minutes each give or take). The uniting theme for the films is that each film would be set to music like a favorite song or noise experiment (think a mixed tape but with moving pictures). Then when we get them all done, maybe we could get together somewhere and watch them. If you are interested in this film idea, please send me an email at adverb@sc.rr.com as soon as possible. I am thinking about holding a meeting next week to start planning this out better beca...

The School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce its international summer seminars for 2008. Registration is now open to anyone interested in being part of the summer seminars in Prague, Czech Republic or Oxford, England. These international summer seminars can either be taken for academic credit or on a non-credit basis. http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/oxford.html Oxford, England Libraries and Librarianship: Past, Present and Future SILS has partnered with Oxford University and its Department of Continuing Education to offer the opportunity to study libraries and librarianship in Great Britain at the world-renowned Bodleian Library from May 11 - May 24, 2008. Tours of many of the Oxford College libraries, the Oxford University Press, the Bodleian Library, and the British Library are included. Visit http://sils.unc.edu/programs/international/oxford.html for more info...

The William Davis Melton Graduate Assistantship at the University of South Carolina Archives is available in the fall of 2008 for a Library, Public History, or History graduate student. The Melton Assistantship involves a wide variety of duties, including reference, filling copy orders, processing of collections, digitization of collection materials, and assisting in the research and production of exhibits relating to University and South Carolina history. You must be able to lift boxes weighing 30-40 lbs. The majority of the collections are 20th century and include visual materials, correspondence, and publications. Send vita and cover letter to: Elizabeth West South Caroliniana Library University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 or email to uscarchives@sc.edu

LISSA is looking for SLIS students to run for office in the Spring 2008 LISSA election that will be held next month. 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, Secretary, and Treasurer (see attachment for the roles and responsibilities of each position). If you are interested in running for any of the positions, please e-mail me at patricklmclaughlin@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, Vice President, Secretary, or Treasurer). We will accept names until March 6th. Online voting will be held from March 7th to March 14th. Thanks, -- Patrick McLaughlin patricklmclaughlin@gmail.com LISSA Officer Duties (Quotations are from the Constitution) President “The President ...

Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasting Dr. Lara Lomicka Anderson and Dr. Lara Ducate , University of South Carolina Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. Close/Hipp Building (Moore School of Business), Room 204 Description This seminar will introduce the basics of blogs, wikis, and podcasting, and their potential uses in and out of the classroom. Examples of projects and assessment rubrics will be discussed. View and Evaluate This Colloquium Viewing requires Windows Media Player 9 or 10. Download it free here [ Note: Click on “Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasting ½ hour before this event starts and click on “View Live” under the “View and Evaluate This Colloquium” section of the webpage that comes up. The link on this site will not be activated until ½ hour before the program starts, so I cannot post it to the LISSA blog) About the Presenters Lara Lomicka Anderson is an Associate Professor of French at the University of South Carolina. She participants in an award-winni...

Graduate Student Day (Wednesday, April 2, 2008) Graduate Student Day is held annually in the Russell House on the first Wednesday in April and traditionally consists of a presentation and poster competition, and an awards ceremony. This year's Graduate Student Day will also include selected creative exhibitions and performances, with some of these being presented in the Russell House Theater on Tuesday evening, 1 April 2008. Research Presentation and Poster Competition The Presentation and Poster Competition is designed to provide graduate students an opportunity to share their research and contributions with the university and larger community. Winners of the Presentation and Poster Competition are announced during the Awards Ceremony. Graduate students who wish to be nominated for this competition should speak with their advisor and graduate director to obtain department/program details about how to participate be nominated from their unit. Some departments hold...

The picture from the LISSA Service Day at the Harriett Hancock Community Center last Sunday, Feb. 10th. We helped organize the Center's library. Thanks to all who helped out. To view the picture, just click here .

Faculty Candidate Presentations and Lunches : Hello, Next week, SLIS will have host two faculty candidates. They will lecture and be available afterward for lunchtime discussions. The dates and times are below: Renate Chancellor Feb. 21st 12:30 to 1:30 in Davis 112 Kendra Albright Feb. 22nd 10 to 11 in Davis 112. Please join us. This is your most direct opportunity to influence and shape your learning experience at SLIS. Also, it is always interesting and a lot of fun.

The International Relations Committee of the American Library Association is seeking your help in establishing relationships between students in your program and students in library programs across the globe. IRC has subcommittees representing regions of the world (Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Eurasia and Central Asia, Europe, Americas , and Near East and South Asia ). Names of the chairs and membership of these committees can be found at www.ala.org . [ You can just click here ] If you would be willing to help use find students who would be willing to establish communication with students in other countries, we would appreciate your help. IFLA is publishing a directory of international library and information science education programs later this year, so we should have contact information for you. Students who do participate in this project may be able to meet their counterparts because IFLA this year will be in Quebec City . This venue will b...

This is a great opportunity for recent graduates, soon-to-be graduates, and in-school-job-hunters to have their resume reviewed and critiqued by an established library professional. Individuals can participate via e-mail or in person at Midwinter or Annual. I have personally participated in this program and found it to be very beneficial. Check out this link for details: http://www.ala.org/ala/nmrt/comm/ResumeReview.htm .

New Members Round Table (NMRT) Committees Committees are a great way to network, particularly if you are financially unable to attend conferences. Information about the various NMRT committees can be found here: http://www.ala.org/ala/nmrt/comm/committees.htm or at our in-progress wiki: http://wikis.ala.org/nmrt/index.php/Section_4:_Committees . (I noticed that the Handbook Committee isn’t listed on the NMRT website for some reason, but the description is on the wiki.) The volunteer form is located here: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/ALA/nmrt/roster.html . NMRT’s official website is located at: http://www.ala.org/ala/nmrt/nmrt.htm .

Dear LIS Student: We understand school is your main focus right now, but as a future librarian or information science professional, it's never too early to start planning your career. Get a head start on that career by becoming an active member of a professional association like the American Library Association (ALA)! If you feel a little intimidated about working with long-time librarians, or are not sure where to start, consider joining the New Members Round Table (NMRT), one of several ALA Round Tables. NMRT membership is open to any member of the American Library Association who has been an ALA member for ten or fewer years. NMRT is a gateway to the profession and offers opportunities for you to develop leadership skills, build working relationships with colleagues, and learn about the profession as a whole. As an NMRT member, I cannot emphasize enough how beneficial NMRT membership has been to me. As an NMRT member, we encourage you to take advantage of a number of ser...

Pictures for the LISSA Field Trip to the National Archives in Atlanta are now available. Just click here .

Photos are now available for David Goble, Librarian of South Carolina, and his SLIS Colloquium January 29, 2008. Just click here . Thank you very much Mr. Goble.

Hello everyone, This is Matt and Travis. We need your input on LISSA's Vision Statement. The vision statement will define what LISSA strives to achieve, no matter how far off a goal that might be. For example, Travis would like LISSA to send at least five students to a different national LIS-conference every year. Please offer any ideas of your own that could enrich the student experience. Matt has been developing a wiki for his internship and hopes that we can all meet at this URL: http://129.252.169.180/mediawiki-1.11.1/index.php/LISSA_Vision_Statement , to collaboratively construct this vision statement. This page is a safe place to make mistakes because we have infinite undo capability. And it is a place to effectively express your voice while listening to the voices of others. Of course, ideas can be sent directly to Travis at slis_lissa@yahoo.com, though the community will benefit more if these ideas are published on the wiki. Matt is offering help in using this wiki v...

LISSA Service Project: Helping Mend Latino/a Children's Books Date: March 1st Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Location:Parent Information & Resource Center 416 Black Avenue Lexington, SC 29072 LISSA has a service project March 1st helping mend Latino/a Children's Books for the Parent Information & Resource Center.Please come if you can. It isn't hard work, but the more people we have the more good we can get done. You don't have to stay the whole time, but please RSVP if you can so that we know when to expect you.

USC branch of the Lubuto Library Project (USC Lubuto) is having a bake sale on February 14th. All proceeds raised will go to the Lubuto Library Project , which builds libraries in Africa for street children, mainly HIV/AIDS orphans. Just so there is no confusion, the USC Lubuto is a separate group from SLIS and LISSA. Mostly, its members are undergrads, but it is also open to all students on campus. Its mission is to raise money to contribute to Lubuto's efforts. LISSA has an ongoing bibliographic research project for Lubuto and Jane Meyers, the president of the Lubuto Library Project, is going to be the LISSA Symposium Speaker Wednesday, April 2nd at 4:00 pm. LISSA will also offer support to USC Lubuto (such as donating baked goodies for bake sales). If you would like to donate baked goods, please bring them by Davis College Wednesday, Feb. 13th and leave them in the refrigerator downstairs. LISSA will make sure it gets to USC Lubuto. Thanks for your help!

Don't Miss The Southern Writers Series The Friends of RCPL and the USC Institute for Southern Studies are sponsoring a Southern Writers Series at the Main Library. The series of book discussions and signings, which are free and open to the public, will all being at 6 pm John Holman, Wednesday, February 20 John Kessel, Monday, March 5 Dorothy Allison, Monday, March 31 Jill McCorkle, Tuesday, April 8 John Hakes, Wednesday, April 23 Questions? Call 929-3475 RCPL Main Branch, 1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29201

Position available: Spartanburg Day School Full time Librarian\Media Specialist for established, independent school 500 Students grade 4K-12th grade Located in Spartanburg , SC (upstate, near Greenville ) Warm, family-oriented enviroment Authorized IB World School For more information about the school: www.spartanburgdayschool.org For more information about the position or to send resume and schedule an interview: May Kay Deese mary.deese@sdsgriffin.org (864) 579-8633

[Posted on behalf of Adam Vorobok] Hey all, Thanks to the Georgia students for coming out to the National Archives and to Patrick for the kicking hockey tickets. To the South Carolina students, come out Friday night 7pm to the Whig. Let's see if we can control the jukebox all night. Adam

Webinar Tuesday February 12 at 2 PM Eastern EASI will present an interactive, live Webinar on how to take a PowerPoint presentation and put it on the Web for maximum accessibility for everyone including students, staff, faculty and others with various disabilities. The Web page output provided in the PowerPoint menu causes a number of problems for this audience when the content is uploaded to the Web. The February 12 Webinar will look at 2 inexpensive tools that greatly facilitate this process. Most of the time will be devoted to a presentation on LecShare and demonstrating how its wizard will walk a non-technical person through the few steps that are required to provide a high quality product. You can read more about this Webinar and register for it at http://easi.cc/clinic.htm Registering will both save a seat in the Webinar room and will later get you a link to the recording of this presentation. Norman Coombs CEO EASI http://easi.cc Check out EASI New Synchronous Clinics: http://e...

[Posted on behalf of Dr. Naidoo.] Colleagues- Attached is an announcement regarding a new program associated with the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival at the University of Southern Mississippi , home of the deGrummond Children's Literature Collection. Please circulate it to students who may be interested. The DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS MARCH 1st, 2008. I am also sending it to ChildLit, so please forgive duplicate postings. Catharine Catharine Bomhold, PhD Assistant Professor and Director, Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival School of Library and Information Science The University of Southern Mississippi childrensbookfestival.org Mailing address and phone: 118 College Drive, Box 5146 Hattiesburg, MS 39406 Voice: (601) 266-6807 Fax: (601) 266-5774

[Posted on behalf of Dr. Naidoo.] Join us for the First Annual Celebration of Latino Children's Literature: http://www.libsci.sc.edu/latinoconf/index.htm

[Posted on behalf of Adam Vorobok] And the mass exposure continues! Check it out: http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/blog/ Adam

[Posted on behalf of Connie Schulz) Santi Thompson has just sent me word that the National Council on Public History has notified him that he has been awarded the NCPH Prize, and accompanying travel award of $500 to attend the meeting and receive the award, for the "Best Student Project" in Public History in 2007. Santi won the award for his internship project, “The LGBTQ Archive at the South Caroliniana Library,” a multi-faceted approach to documenting the Gay and Lesbian community in Columbia and starting a Gay and Lesbian archive of collections at the SCL. Santi worked with Nick Merriwether on this project. As far as I know or remember, this is the first time ever that an archival project has been given this award. it is also the third time since 2000 that the major national organization in the field has recognized a USC student with the award. Santi is completing his third year in the Joint MA/MLIS degree program, and expects to graduate in May of 2008. Co...

LISSA will have a Haiti Library Project Day Sunday, March 30th starting at 10 am in the Davis College Computer Lab. We will work on a card catalog for a school library in Haiti that cannot afford an electronic infrastructure. We will also accept the following items for the children at the school: * Boys Underwear (new) -- all sizes * Socks (new) -- all sizes * Blue Ink Pins * Scarfs or Bandannas * Hair Ribbons (or any hair pins, ornaments) * Matchbox cars You can drop off this items the day of the service project or anytime between now and then, whether or not you can attend March 30th. There is a box in Davis Room 110 that will be under the table to the left as you walk in the room. It has a been clearly labeled. You can drop off items continuing through the end of this school year. For more information about donations (including donating money), please click here .

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...

From the Graduate Student Association: Dear USC Graduate Student: We need your help! The Graduate Student Association would like to get your feedback on a number of issues affecting you and your family. Please fill out the survey regarding your assistantship, sources of income, monthly bills, and satisfaction with your program. This information will be used as part of a presentation on recommendations to the administration about how to improve the graduate student's quality of life and how to attract top students to the University of South Carolina. This survey is extremely important for any of these efforts, so please take a few minutes to complete it. Your individual responses will be kept confidential, and if you have any questions or concerns please contact the GSA at 777-2477 or email curtisrt@gmail.com . Please complete this survey no later than Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 5pm. The link to complete the survey is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s .aspx?sm=tgEwCATt_2b...

LISSA will have a Service Project at the Harriet Hancock Community Center ( 1108 Woodrow Street , Columbia , SC 29205 ) Sunday, Feb. 10th from 10 am to 4 pm. We will help organize the the Community Center's library, and there will be FREE PIZZA! Volunteers do not have to stay the whole time, and may start at any time during the day. Please e-mail by Saturday, Feb. 10th to let us know that you are coming about the time you expect to arrive.