Future Librarians and Information Professionals
ARLIS, the Alaska Resources Library & Information Services, has been offered some short-term funding to hire students this summer.
If you (or anyone you know) would like some paid work experience in a library between now and September 30, and you are 16 or older, enrolled as a student at least 1/2 time for fall 2010, and have a GPA of 2.0 or higher, please contact Leslie Champeny at 786-7663 or email your resume to leslie@arlis.org by this Friday, June 18.
Maybe you all have seen this before, but maybe not.
Some UW MLIS students and iSchool faculty doing a parody of Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face”.
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/librarians-go-gaga/20od3cdt
I’m not sure why I didn’t know about Library Student Journal before last week – produced by and for library students and practitioners! At this point it is only published once a year but since it is an open access journal all articles (since 2006) are available on the website. Also, it looks like a recruitment is currently under way for the editorial staff. Any interested contributors to the journal can check out the various position descriptions on the LSJ Editor’s Blog.
The FLIP meeting planning has fallen by the wayside since about March (guilty as charged!) but many folks seem to be interested in starting up again. How about sometime in July? For now, pencil in Noon on Friday, July 16 at the Consortium Library. Feel free to comment if you want to suggest a different time/date/place. Or propose ideas for discussion topics please!
Thought this might be of interest based on several recent conversations I’ve had:
Another link to an article from a professor in my MLIS program from Inside HigherEd.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/10/libraries
It expands on the Kindle article posted earlier and discusses the economics of print and digital library collections along with the challenges faced in making the conversion to digital.
I was just reading the reviews for a new book that might make a good choice for the next book club selection:
This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
by Marilyn Johnson
And just a reminder: We will be discussing our first book selection – “Everything is Miscellaneous” – at the next FLIP meeting on February 19.
Kato Ha’unga, a UAA student here in Anchorage, is in the process of saving books for a new library in Tonga.
Here is her story: UAA student helps Tonga gain a library (from the Anchorage Daily News).
I’m currently enrolled in a Reader’s Advisory class, and thought it would be fun to repeat one of our discussion exercises here. Our professor set up a thread where we can come clean and voluntarily admit to the books that we feel guilty for never reading.
You would be surprised how many people have never read Orwell’s “1984”, the number of English Lit majors that struggle with Jane Austen, and all the children’s librarians out there who have somehow steered clear of anything “Harry Potter”. I sheepishly posted that I have never managed to get through anything by Dickens, which started an avalanche of agreement . Glad to know I’m not the only one!
What about you: what haven’t you read that makes you feel just a little bit guilty? Chances are that someone else will sympathize with you completely. Post in comments and free yourself now!