Don’t forget the Vormelker-Thomas SLA Student Stipend Deadline is Today (4/16)!
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Don’t forget the Vormelker-Thomas SLA Student Stipend Deadline is Today (4/16)!
Don’t forget the Vormelker-Thomas SLA Student Stipend Deadline is Today (4/16)!
Hey LIS graduate students and recent grads interested in news librarianship: want $1500 to help fund your first trip to the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference? Members of the Vormelker-Thomas Student Stipend Award Committee eagerly await your applications! Complete application instructions are at: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/about/vormelker2008.htm.
Selection Criteria:
Applicants must be members of the Special Libraries Association when they […]
Talking in the SLIS Commons before then about things to do with library degrees.
As you might imagine, Amy Disch, fearless Webmaster for the Special Libraries Association News Division, is hard at work posting News Division sessions on the News Division Web site.
Thanks, Amy!
I did not present at SLA this year.
My credit card company flagged my recent Special Libraries Association membership renewal and conference registration costs as suspicious activity because they didn’t believe such an organization existed. I had to call them and authorize the purchases so they would go through. It cracked me up.
I’m glad my credit card company is being careful, but, really, […]
I’ve claimed before that fame and fortune can belong to an aspiring news librarian currently studying or recently graduated from a program in library and information science simply by applying for the Vormelker-Thomas Student Award sponsored by the Special Libraries Association News Division and ProQuest. The stipend offers about $1500 to a first-time Special Libraries […]
Newseum, the interactive museum of news, will open this fall in Washington, D.C. The Newseum, a 250,000 square foot museum of news, will offer visitors five centuries of news history with up to the second
technology abd hands-on exhibits, according to their website.
http://www.newseum.org/index.aspx
There’s one section on the front pages of newspapers from around the world.
link […]
When I saw this Pew Internet report about how people use the Internet to find science news in Garrett’s weekly e-mail, I knew I had to flag it. The majority of the time I spend on one single task is working on a Web site about research at the university. We’re always thinking about how […]
“Newspaper librarians are now more involved in online research and training than archiving, writes Richard Nelsson, looking how the role at the Guardian has evolved from filing cuttings to direct support
for journalists filing stories.”
http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C6AB98A3-364D-4F24-8051-21CF640202C1/0/Nelsson.pdf
This was mentioned on Peter Scott’s Library Blog a few weeks ago, but I haven’t had the time
to post it.
http://xrefer.blogspot.com/
So, yeah, so a lot of us collide with the end of the year like it’s a brick wall of all the things we meant to do this year and find ourselves pushing into the next year. So we ponder time management this time of year. I crossed some major things off my list of […]