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Wenlan and Wenzhi Wenlan: Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? Hi there! My name is Wenlan Cai (pronounced like “Tsai”). I am originally from Shenzhen, a big city in southern China that is very close to Hong Kong. I finished my undergraduate degree in China. But my major was not LIS or any other information science, it was finance! I grew up in a very happy and sweet family. I have a twin sister who looks very similar to me. But we have different styles. My sister is more girly and I am more sporty. So it is not hard to distinguish us. Oh! By the way, my sister is also in SLIS! What made you become interested in library science? To be honest, I got into this field accidentally. The University of South Carolina was not the first university I studied at in America. I studied Information Technology Management at the University of Texas at Dallas last year. That was my first time getting to know information science and I found it really interesting! So, you guys may a...

You probably haven’t even bothered to notice, but mildly attractive men are just about everywhere. It’s true. They’re shambling down the cereal aisle at the corner grocer. They’re fumbling around in their pockets for grubby quarters at the local Laundromat. Your sister knows a mildly attractive man and she likes him a lot, she really does, but it’s more like as a brother. Besides, she’s not at a point in her life where she’s looking for that sort of thing with, well, anyone really. Right now in America, a mildly attractive man is in his kitchen eating bread over the sink. One side is scarcely toasted – the other, which was charred to a crisp, is slathered in expired jam. Nobody should have to live like this. Someone needs to do something. Someone has. Again. The heroic males of the School of Library and Information Science have stood against the injustices foisted upon ineligible bachelors for seven consecutive years through the production of their Mildly Attractive Men of SL...

Hi everyone, LISSA is right in the middle of our September tours. Last Friday, our members were able to tour the Thomas Cooper and Ernest Hollings Libraries. The Thomas Cooper is undoubtedly familiar to all of our students, but we did get a quick look behind the scenes. Our newer members were also given a rundown of some of the special features and privileges that they may not have been aware of. The tour of Ernest Hollings took us behind the scenes of the South Carolina Political Collection, Digital Collection and Rare Books. Members were treated to memorabilia from South Carolina’s political movers and shakers and rare books and materials ranging from John J. Audubon paintings to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s personal ledger. Monday’s tours were equally exciting – at the South Caroliniana our members were treated to information that covered the scope of the library’s collection, its policies and its history. Some of the storied history of USC’s campus, particularly the Horseshoe, wa...

Hey everyone! Just wanted to keep you updated on some of the great tours we have planned for the month: We will be touring the Thomas Cooper Library at the University of South Carolina Columbia campus on Friday, September 13th at 3:30 where we will be meeting in the lobby. This tour will be followed by a social at Hunter Gatherer on Main St. We will also be touring the Coleman Karesh Law Library of the USC Law School on Monday, September 16th at 4pm. We will be meeting at the reference desk.  And our big tour of the month will be our trip to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State in Raleigh, NC. We will be taking a caravan of mini vans for the trip leaving bright and early from Davis to hit the road. We will be touring the Wilson Library as well as the School of Information and Library Science Library on the UNC campus. Our tours will be led by ILSSA members from the school and we will be getting lunch with them before we take a drive over ...

It's that time of year again! Time to order textbooks, sharpen pencils, and get ready for the school year ahead. This past Saturday SLIS held its fall orientation for all the new students getting ready to embark on the adventure of getting their MLIS degree. LISSA had the opportunity to present and talk about all the great events we have coming up this semester. After orientation we had our post-orientation social at Carolina Ale House in the Vista and the turn out was great! We are so excited to welcome so many new and wonderful members. Here is a picture of our great group: As for upcoming events, we have our first LISSA member meeting of the semester Monday September 9th at 5:30 in Davis 112. If you are unable to make it we will be streaming it live. Here's to a great semester!