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We are pleased to announce a call for participation for the 5th ALA Forum on Education: Service Learning and Citizen Engagement to be held on Friday, June 27, 2008 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm during the upcoming ALA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. Masters Level students who have participated in a service learning project or who have designed a yet to be completed service learning project are encouraged to submit a proposal. The 5th ALA Forum on Education will feature a researchpooloza format followed by a traditional poster session. During the researchpalooza you will address the audience from a podium and present your service learning project in 90 seconds or less with the aid of one PowerPoint slide to an audience of 150 ALA members. Following the researchpalooza presenters will be asked to participate in a poster session where attendees will be able to ask questions and further discuss service learning projects. The researchpalooza format was a great success at MidWinter 2008 an...

The March 2008 issue of First Monday (volume 13, number 3) is now available at http://journals.uic.edu/fm/ ------- Table of Contents Volume 13, Number 3 - 3 March 2008 Special issue: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 edited by Michael Zimmer Preface: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 by Michael Zimmer http://journals.uic.edu/fm/article/view/2137/1943 ------- Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0 by Trebor Scholz http://journals.uic.edu/fm/article/view/2138/1945 ------- Web 2.0 : An argument against convergence by Matthew Allen http://journals.uic.edu/fm/article/view/2139/1946 ------- Interactivity is Evil! A critical investigation of Web 2.0 by Kylie Jarrett http://journals.uic.edu/fm/article/view/2140/1947 ------- Loser Generated Content: From Participation to Exploitation by Søren Mørk Petersen http://journals.uic.edu/fm/article/view/2141/1948 ------- The Externalities of Search 2.0: The Emerging Privacy Threats when the Drive for the Perfect Search Engine meets Web 2.0 by Michael ...

This travel grant is a great opportunity for anyone with an interest in Science Librarianship to attend the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. I was able to go to the 2006 meeting in Austin thanks to this grant and it was a fantastic experience - wonderful people and interesting sessions. If you have an interest or background in chemistry I would strongly encourage you to apply for this award. Andrea M. Wright, M.L.I.S. American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Announces Student Grant The ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Scientific and Technical Information Systems is offering a $1,000 grant to a library and information science student, with an interest or background in chemistry or chemical engineering, to defray the cost of attending the 2008 ASIS&T annual meeting. This money has been made available through a grant from Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical So...

For those that attended Dr. Iyer's presentation today, here is the link to the Google Image Labeler , and here is a link to presentation on Human Computation -- it involves some cool concepts and potential applications. (Here are the links in case the hyperlinks don't process: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143 and http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ ) Cheers, Matt Landau

Walter Wick, photographer of Scholastic's highly acclaimed I Spy series, will be the featured guest for the 22nd annual A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen-A Celebration of Stories on April 18-19 at the Richland County Public Library. Wick is the author and photographic illustrator of "A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder;" "Walter Wick's Optical Tricks;" and "Can You See What I See?: Picture Puzzles to Search and Solve," which debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in 2002. He has also provided photographs for more than 300 book and magazine covers, including Newsweek, Discover and Psychology Today. A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen is sponsored by RCPL and the USC School of Library and Information Science. The two-day festival features a lecture by Wick at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 18, and Storytelling for Families, featuring regional and local storytellers, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 19. Both events, wh...

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