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Hello all, Next week is national library week. On April 9th ALA posted a series of events that will be taking place in Second Life. http://www.ala.org/ala/pressreleases2008/april2008/secondlife.cfm Ron

Dear USC Archivists - don't know if any of you are interested in going to Montana, but this is an interesting 1-year position. Connie Constance B. Schulz MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVES Position Number: 51730075 Position Title: PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVIST Location: HELENA, MT Job Status: Full Time Temporary Salary: $29,093.00 to $32,617.00 Additional Salary Info: This position is funded for 1 year (12 months). May continue if future funding becomes available. Duties : The Photograph Archivist works to ensure that negatives, prints, slides, and other historical photographic images are collected, preserved, and made available for current and future patrons. The Photograph Archivist reviews and assesses donated materials to determine their condition and historical value. Applies archival management theories and methods in determining how collections or images should be cataloged. This includes the physical preparation...

This job is in New Jersey - but looks like a good job for the right person. Many of you wouldn't have the five years of requested experience - but a number of you might, and you can certainly count your assistantship experience here. Connie Archivist - IEEE (Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.) Archivist IEEE is the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of technology. Our core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. Our 1000-member staff serves 375,000+ members in 160 countries. Among the career disciplines on our staff are publishing and product management, intellectual property sales, marketing and communications, information technology and business administration, government relations and human resources, educational activities and technical standards, and membership development and support. Through the dedication of our members, we’re proud to be the w...

Hello, We have invited three candidates for this position to campus in April. The Search Committee would very much like to have your input as we move forward in filling the important Augusta Baker Endowed Chair in Childhood Literacy. Please mark your calendars for Tuesday April 22 2:00 - 3:30 Dr. Jeanne Cobb will make a presentation in Room 209 Davis College. This will be followed by a reception from 3:30 - 4:30. This will be a good opportunity to get to know Dr. Cobb. On Friday April 25 , Dr. Nancy Tolson will give a presentation at 2:30 - 4:00 following by a reception from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. And on Tuesday April 29 , Dr. Dianne Johnson will give a presentation from 2:00 - 3:30 .m. Both Dr. Tolson and Dr. Johnson will also present in Davis Room 209. Please join us. Pat

Contact pfeehan@gwm.sc.edu if interested. Dr. Pat Feehan I am looking for an intern or someone who wants to do an independent study. As you know the last intern we had here from USC was fantastic and has recently been selected as the children’s librarian at a great branch of the system. My new role as Communications Coordinator is part of the Dallas Arts Learning Initiative, a multi-organizational partnership to bring arts and arts education to Dallas citizens in all the places and ways they learn. As arts and literacy have a direct positive correlations, the Dallas Public Library launched Every Child Ready to Read @ Dallas. http://dallaslibrary.org/ecrr/ecrr.htm Together with our partners organizations we are conducting workshops (based on the PLA ECRR program) at libraries, recreation centers, agencies, and cultural centers among others throughout the city. We have already trained nearly 100 facilitators to conduct the workshops and are working to reach 10,000 by the end of ...

To Whom It May Concern: My name is Mark Sgambettera and I am a student at Queens College GSLIS. I would appreciate it very much if you could post this call of proposal on your academic listserv. I am looking for panel participants from among GSLIS students or recent graduates. Thank you for your consideration. Mark Sgambettera Call for proposal: Digital Reference Services: Reconfiguring Library and Archival Instruction on the World Wide Web Conference and date: Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference, Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, July 9, 2008 I am looking for panel participants who are interested in digital reference services in libraries and archives, and who are either advanced students or recent graduates of an MLS program. The panel will concentrate on interactive, self-guided reference services that provide library or archival instruction to users through a repository Web portal. This panel will demonstrate design trends in digital re...

On April 18 and 19 2008, the 22nd annual A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen: A Celebration of STories will take place with special guest Walter Wick, photographer of Scholastic's highly acclaimed I Spy series. Friday April 18 - there will be Storytelling for Fourth Graders on the grounds of the Robert Mills House. This usually begins around 9:30 a.m. Friday April 18 7 p.m. The Augusta Baker Lecture will feature Walter Wick. a reception, booksale and autographing will follow in the Bostick Auditorium of RCPL's Main Library. Saturday April 19 11-2 Storytelling for Families will take place on Hampton St. next to the Main Library. *---------------------------------------------------------- On April 26 and 27, 2008 - The Storytelling Festival of CArolina will take place in Historic Laurinburg, NC with nationally known storytellers Len Cabral, Donald Davis, Diane Ferlatte, and Jay O'Callahan. Register online at www.sfoc.info Enjoy! ...