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I just wanted to pass along this TedTalks (which I happen to be addicted to!) from Jay Walker , speaking about the Library of Human Imagination. He talks about some different items in the museum (some space stuff, a big bible, you know) and then shows photos of the inside of the museum.... and wow! This is definitely something worth watching... and it is not that long anyways! -Meredith

If you missed the September colloquium, then you missed an awesome opportunity to hear techniques for getting your (future) archive or library catalog extra internet attention. In the past few years, Brian Cuthrell has been working to bring more attention to USC's awesome South Caroliniana library. Perhaps his biggest suggestion is to piggy-back on a larger/related collection. He showed examples from the South Caroliniana catalog of links to fellow academic archives (Duke University) and local resources (Lowcountry Digital Library). Brian explained how these links create a greater web experience for patrons and… it just makes logical sense to create a link between two university catalogs if each has a document related to a specific South Carolina army base, for example. I personally think this also means that archiving is just one big happy family! :) Brian also made the following practical suggestions when cataloguing digital artifacts: *Identify as much about the item as pos...

Ah the start of the school year... classes are beginning to pick up... the cool breeze is visiting us every so often. This means that a new academic year is up and running... and LISSA is too! We have a lot of exciting things happening this year. I believe that I can speak for all the officers when I say- We want LISSA to provide fun opportunities to enrich your LIS program! We are adding lots of volunteering days as well as professional development events. Anywho, here is what we discussed in the first meeting.... time to start getting involved: VOLUNTEERING There is a great volunteer opportunity to work with the Cure4Kids website. Dorothy Mays, from St. Jude's hospital, needs people to classify seminars. Dorothy is calling for volunteers to help with her classification project of the special topic seminars on the Cure4Kids website. Not only will you be gaining classification experience, you will also be helping out a very good organization! We will send out a follow...