LISSA

Hello everyone, Voting for new LISSA officers is now open. All four positions (President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary) are open. In order to cast your vote, visit the following URL: http://CTLSilhouette.wsu.edu/surveys/ZS77144 Voting will end at 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 11th. If you have any questions, please send me an e-mail at the address listed below. -- Patrick McLaughlin LISSA Election Commissioner patricklmclaughlin@gmail.com

LISmeetup.pdf Hello, Georgia SLIS students. I thought that I would pass along the invitation to a Library School Student Meet-Up for new librarians, current students, and prospective students who are from Georgia . The event is free and will be held at the Mechanicsville Branch of the Atlanta Fulton Public Library on Saturday, April 12th, from 3:30-5:30 pm. You can RSVP or request information regarding future meetings through this link: http://www.library.gsu.edu/gla/libschool.asp . I have also attached the flyer for the event to this email. I hope to see many fellow Georgia SLISers at the event! Elizabeth Ann Blake

Please join your SLISmates for an Atlanta Library & Lunch outing to the Jimmy Carter Library on Friday, April 25, 2008. The Library's Supervisory Archivist, Mr. David Stanhope, will tour us through the Presidential library and inform us of their Archival program that's available for volunteer and internship opportunities. We'll receive an introduction to receiving and processing collections, and conservation methods in place, so be sure to bring your questions! The Library is typically only open to researchers and school group tours so this is a good chance to see the archival collection out of personal/professional curiosity. We'll meet outside the Library at 10:15 am. There is not a charge to tour the library, but if you'd like to go through the museum, there is an admission fee of $6 for students with IDs. The Jimmy Carter Library is located within the Carter Center, off Freedom Parkway in Midtow Atlanta. http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov...

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT NEEDED at Thomas Cooper Library Part-time Digital Library assistant is needed for 20 hours a week, starting in May, for a minimum of 8 months, to assist in web design and scanning rare library materials. Experience with PhotoShop, Excel and HTML required and an inclination to be detail-oriented preferred. Hours are flexible between 9am and 5pm, Monday-Friday. Serious inquiries please contact Kate Boyd at 777-2249 or boydkf@gwm.sc.edu. The views expressed here represent the views of individual list members and do not necessarily reflect the views of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina.

Here are the pictures from the Spring Colloquium 03/17/08. Thanks Manju and Santi for presenting.

Here are the pictures from Dwight McInvaill's SLIS Colloquium lecture March 20th. Thanks to Mr. McInvaill for presenting.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE ARLIS/NA-VRA SUMMER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR VISUAL RESOURCES AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT, OFFERED IN JULY 2008. The Art Libraries Society/North America (ARLIS/NA) and the Visual Resources Association (VRA) are pleased to announce that registration for the fifth Summer Educational Institute (SEI) for Visual Resources and Image Management is now in progress. The 2008 Summer Educational Institute will be held at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA , from July 7 through July 13, 2008. It is an intensive 5-day workshop intended to provide instruction in visual resources and image collection management. ARLIS/NA and VRA have developed a special curriculum to provide intensive training in these areas--training that is often not found in library and information science degree programs. The Summer Educational Institute will be relevant for beginning visual resources professionals as well as experienced professionals requiring new skills and knowledge. In...