LISSA

Hi all, It is my pleasure to announce our two new LISSA officers that will be serving in 2016-2017! Elections were not held for these positions this time as we only had one candidate for each officer position come forward during the nomination period.  Heather O'Brien has been appointed as LISSA President, and Jess Land has been appointed as LISSA Secretary. Congratulations and thanks to both of these ladies for volunteering their time and efforts to continue LISSA's endeavor in promoting the importance of libraries and professional development as well as serving our local community.        Heather (left) and Jess (right) About Heather: Heather is a second-year MLIS student with a focus on academic librarianship, and intends to pursue a Ph.D. in medieval studies after graduation in Spring 2017. She graduated magna cum laude from Newberry College in 2014, with majors in History and English, as a Bachman Honors Scholar in the top 8% ...

Mir Parvin, our VP, recently presented the ALISE conference in Boston, MA. Below, she recounts her experience and exhorts MLIS students to explore new opportunities made possible through such professional conferences. What is it all about? I started off 2016 with a visit to ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) conference in Boston, MA, from January 4 to January 9, 2016. My poster was selected as a work-in-progress contribution. This is my second poster in a professional conference but the first one as a primary author. My first poster was selected for SCLA conference in 2015, which won an award. My current poster has the title of “Techniques of Information Seeking Behavior and Personal Information Management (PIM) of University Students: A Pilot Study”.   The ALISE work-in-progress contributions are generally foundational in nature and will go through more developments. I attended this conference as a guest participant to my husband, Hassan Zamir...